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- ↑ Carlos Hernandez, INTERVIEW: Rose Ganguzza – The godmother of New York independent film, Herald de Paris, October 13th 2013
- ↑ The Big Apple of Her Eye, FDU Magazine Online, Summer 2003
- ↑ Alumni profile on the Fairleigh Dickinson University's website.