Alumni News
Thanks to all the alums who responded to our request for info.
Rebecca Kanthor '01 spent a year with the (Quaker) QUEST program at Seattle Youth Garden Works.She moved to Hangzhou (China) in the fall of 2002 and worked as an editor for In Touch Zhejiang Magazine.She is now writing freelance and studying Chinese.
Sara Wolcott '03 is living in Berkeley (CA) and working as a freelance writer, covering news stories for KPFA radio, and working for the Quaker think-tank Quaker Institute for the Future.In her capacity as a member of the Section of the Americas of the World Network of Friends she recently traveled to Guatemala.
Geoff Neimark '97 went to Israel after graduation and studied Jewish topics. He then attended medical school at SUNY and graduated in 2002.Geoff is currently Chief Resident in Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania.
Addie Lewis '00 worked for Hillel at MIT after graduation, and completed a joint masters in Near Eastern Judaic Studies and Jewish Communal Service at Brandeis. She moved back to Philadelphia in 2004 and was recently named director of her department at the Renaissance Group of the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia.
After working as an administrative assistant, office manager, and reference librarian, Djung Tran '98 worked in medical publishing at Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, where she was an editorial assistant and developmental editor, and at F.A. Davis Company, where she was the nursing editorial coordinator. She then entered Temple University Law School and graduated in '05.Djung now works in family law for the Bucks County nonprofit organization "A Woman's Place," which provides free services to victims and survivors of domestic violence.
Melissa Rosenzweig '01 worked in Boston for two years for an architecture firm, and then moved to Chicago and completed a masters in social sciences at the University of Chicago.She is now a grad student in the Anthropology Department at Chicago, where she studies Near Eastern archaeology.She is looking forward to excavating in Israel and Turkey this summer.
Alexis Covey-Brandt '01 taught second grade for a year and then worked on the congressional campaigns of Mark Shriver and Kathleen Kennedy Townsend.She is now a special assistant in the Washington DC leadership office of Representative Steny Hoyer.Alexis would be delighted to speak to anyone interested in politics and government.
Jennifer Gibson '05 is watching the market go up and down as a proprietary trader at Geneva Trading in Chicago, where she trades electronically traded commodity futures.
Glenna Lee '02 is a graduate student at the Jewish Theological Seminary, where she will graduate in May 2006.She got married in 2004 and she in her husband live in NYC. Glenna plans to continue working in Jewish education after completing her degree.
Amy McDowell Perry '00 lives in Portland with her husband of four years Matthew Perry and her one year old son Samuel.She also works full time as an RN on the cardiac floor of Legacy Good Samaritan Hospital.
Kate Brash '96 worked for several legal services including Earthjustice, a nonprofit law firm that works on conservation issues.She then worked as a writer and editor in NY before returning to graduate school.Kate finished a masters of public administration in environmental science and policy in 2004.She is now the manager of a project on climate change policy at the Early Institute, Columbia's inter-disciplinary initiative on sustainable development.
Angelina Conti '05 is a freelance writer in Philadelphia and works at a small independent publishing house
Luba Falk Feigenberg '98 spent a few years doing non-profit and direct service work before getting a masters of education in Risk and Prevention from Harvard. She is currently enrolled in a doctoral program in Human Development and Psychology at Harvard.She is studying how context influences the way children and adolescents develop an awareness of social relationships, and she also counsels in a Boston public school.
Melicia Escobar '00 worked for three years at a maternal and child health care center for latino immigrants in Washington, DC.After graduating from Georgetown U with a Bachelors of Science in Nursing, she assisted a Georgetown professor who studied the relationship between poor decision making and chronic anxiety in teens.She is currently in a Masters of Science in Nursing program at the U of PA, where she will obtain a dual degree in Women's Health and Midwifery.She works part time at the women's health clinic in Philadelphia and is a board member for the National Clearinghouse for the Defense of Battered Women.
Thanks to Hurricane Katrina, Kristy Waldron '02 is living in a FEMA trailer in her driveway while her condo is gutted and redone.Kristy is hoping to be back in her home in the fall, just in time to finish her last year at Tulane Law School. This summer Kristy is working at the Georgia Capital Defender.She hopes to work in the Georgia DA's office after graduation.
Ginger Stevens '03 has been working as an educator at Wave Hill, a public garden in the Bronx, where she teaches environmental science classes. Her primary focus is plant-based programming for special needs students.She has recently been accepted at Bank Street, where she will take a degree in General and Special Education for grades 1-6.
Dan Gilman '00 received his MA in 2005 from the University of Texas at Austin with a concentration in Folklore and Public Culture.He is currently in the Ph.D program at UT-Austin, with research interests in nationalism and postcolonial modernity, gendered citizenship, popular culture, and critical historiography.Dan's geographic focus is on Egypt and the Middle East.
Abigail Baim-Lance '01 worked in NYC at the NY Department of Health AIDS Institute on a "best practices" manual for hospitals conducting HIV volunteer counseling and testing of pregnant women. She then traveled to Brussels, Belgium and South Africa, where she interned with the Fogarty AIDS Training Programme. Abigail also worked in the policy department of a drug treatment facility in Chicago for a year before entering a PhD program in anthropology at Johns Hopkins University in 2003.Abby plans to conduct dissertation fieldwork in South Africa around 'home based community care giving' for people with HIV/AIDS in Kwazulu Natal in 2007-09.
After two years working for a large firm, Tamar Aydin Donikyan '00 went to the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and graduated in 2005.Tamar now practices in Long Island, NY, for Moomjian & Waite, LLP.She works in the areas of corporate and securities law, including finance, private equity, mergers and acquisitions, securities regulation and corporate governance.
Leigh James '03 moved to Nicosia, Cyprus and worked as an Intern at the American International School of Cyprus, where she (mostly) taught 2nd grade and coached soccer, field hockey and basketball.She also ran her first marathon. Leigh next worked at a family learning center in New Orleans (sadly, this center and homes in the area were destroyed by Katrina), and then moved to Barcelona. She got her TESOL certification and taught English.Currently Leigh works in San Francisco for The St. Anthony Foundation, teaching GED courses, literacy classes and ESL classes.In May she'll participate in a triathalon to raise money for cancer research.
Katie Bailey '04 moved to Oakland CA with a group of other HC alums. She interned for six months at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Now living closer to Berkeley, Katie works for A Better Chance, a non-profit educational services organization that recruits students of color to apply to private day and boarding schools.
Julie Kleinman '04 teaches English to North African immigrants in a Parisian suburb. She is completing her Masters degree in at the Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences socials, where she is conducting research on interactions between Franco-Magrebin young women and the French state.
Darla Barrow '98 worked for five years in the corporate legal world in New York after graduation, first as a legal assistant and then as a Mergers and Acquisitions Business Analyst.She completed her MBA in 2005 at the University of Arizona and joined Intel as a Senior Strategic Financial Analyst, where she provides forecasts for Intel concerning how to allocate resources, manage risk, and keep competitive in the computer chip market.
Molly Baade, BMC '05, backpacked across India after graduation. She is currently working at a veterinary clinic and a sporting goods store and plans to move to China to be in Beijing during the 2008 Olympics.
Noor Ali '05 returned to Texas after graduation and has been working there. He plans to attend law school, and is contemplating a move back to the East Coast.
Priya Amar ’07 is working at a strategic environmental consulting company as a research associate and has written a science article on the relationship between ozone and climate change.
Paula Max-Wright ‘03 graduated from the University of Maryland School of Medicine and is currently completing her residency at the University of Maryland Medical Center. She is living with her husband in Baltimore in their new home.
Congratulations to Izzy Rhoads ’07 on her publication that just came out based on her thesis research. You can see it at http://insideindonesia.org/edit89/ii89_p21_rhoads.html.
Good luck to Shana Slutsky ‘07 as she starts her work with Canon Communications in Hollywood.
Austin Bailey ’06 spent last year working in Thailand for an environmental education organization before starting his own business, International Medical Resources, www.medinfoonline.com, based in California and Bangkok. He is planning on applying to the foreign service, He lives in Portland and is continuing to study for his pilot’s license, taking Arabic classes and endurance training, and working as a SAAB mechanic.
Amy Pennington ’07 and Anna Marschalk-Burns ’07 setup the creation of the Juarez Women's Scholarship Fund to further the education and economic empowerment of young women in low-income communities in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. Check out the coverage on the Haverford News Site.
HC alums who majored in Anthro at BMC:
Anne Suskind '01 is graduating from Albany Medical College in May 2006.She with then begin a residency in Urological Surgery at the University of Connecticut.
Andrew Goldsmith '95 is currently an Institutional Relationship Manager at a private asset management firm in NYC.
Thomas Sichi '96 taught Physical and Biological Anthropology at a high school in Santa Barbara, and then attended the USC Keck School of Medicine where he completed a masters in public health, focusing on Biostatistics and Infectious Disease Epidemiology.Thomas is now studying osteopathic medicine at Touro University.
Veronica Parker '00 started a career in advertising after she left Haverford. She has worked as an Account Executive for clients including M&M's, Kraft/Nabisco and Dove ice cream. In 2006 she took up her present position with McGarry Bowen as account supervisor on Reebok, where she is developing Reebok's international advertising.