CITYterm Bridges Summer 2013

BRIDGES: Celebrating 1,000 Alumni

INSIDE: Alumni Profiles • Donor Report • New York City’s Food Systems Project • Class Notes

STAFF AND FACULTY CITYterm Erica Chapman, F’99 Director David Dunbar Academic Dean & Co-Founder

Lisa Doi Program Coordinator Ladane du Boulay French Faculty John Hall Enrollment & Advancement Coordinator Jason Hult, F’00 Urban Core Faculty Jennifer Hughes Spanish Faculty Erik Johnke Urban Core Faculty & Math, Language, Science Coordinator Laura Pickel Math Faculty Finance Coordinator, Registrar Eder J. Williams McKnight Urban Core Faculty

Table of Contents

Darren Wood Urban Core Faculty

The Masters School

Letter from Erica Chapman, Director....................................... 1

Maureen Fonseca, Ph.D. Head of School

Letter from David Dunbar, Academic Dean & Co-Founder...... 2

Adriana Botero Associate Head of School

Alumni Profiles........................................................................ 3 Annual Donor Report............................................................. 14 Curricular Updates................................................................. 16 Class Notes........................................................................... 20

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Dear Friends of CITYterm, When I hear stories about CITYterm’s “early years,” I’m awestruck.

Buoyed by a good idea and a lot of energy, the founding faculty and students came together during the 1996-1997 school year and laid the groundwork for the rest of us. Students and faculty worked together to co-construct the curriculum and to create the underpinnings of the culture we have today. These were the first students to sound their barbaric yawp on the Brooklyn Bridge, to make the trek up the hill, to create strategies for development based on CITYterm’s special brand of narrative comments and more. As I understand it, the experiments were not always successful. I’ve heard epic stories of the faculty and students meeting late into the night to over-haul curriculum that sounded good in August, but wasn’t working in October! When I have the opportunity to speak with pioneering CITYtermers. I’m amazed by how clearly they remember their experience, nearly twenty years later.

Early CITYtermers inculcated the spirit of intellectual curiosity, community-minded collaboration and innovation that still permeate CITYterm today. And, as a result, CITYterm continues to explore the limits of what it means to be an experience-based program that uses New York City as its text.

Each semester we design new assignments and modify existing ones, we travel to new areas of the city, incorporate new writers/artists/ historians/activists into our authorship series, and we reconsider the best ways to build a supportive community that challenges us individually and collectively.

Letter from Erica Chapman, Director

At Closing Ceremony this past May, the thirty-fourth semester of CITYtermers graduated and became alumni. It was a big moment for CITYterm, as Spring 2013’s thirty-one students bring our alumni count to over 1,000. In this special edition of Bridges, we celebrate the first 1,000 CITYtermers and the generous donors that help ensure there will be thousands more. I hope you enjoy reading this special edition of Bridges. In addition to class notes and alumni profiles, this magazine includes an article on one of the newest parts of our curriculum, a project that explores New York City’s food systems (penned by current faculty member and Fall ’00 alum Jason Hult). In keeping with the ethos of the “early years,” this is a project that has been redesigned over the past several semesters. As a balance to the newness of this food systems project, we have also included a comprehensive map of Neighborhood Study locations; sixty-six groups have presented on thirty-five diverse neighborhoods over the years.

Thank you for reading and for being part of the CITYterm community. I’m grateful to count myself in the first thousand alumni and to have had the opportunity over the years to connect with so many alumni, parents and faculty members. As you will see, it’s an incredible group of talented people, committed to doing fantastic things in the world.

All my best,

Erica Chapman, F’99 Director, CITYterm at The Masters School

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When we first started CITYterm in the fall of 1996, we had a general idea of what we were trying to do. Our hypothesis was that there was a level of learning that went beyond what was happening in most high schools. At the time we called it “experience-based” learning. Interestingly, at roughly the same time a group of researchers in Sweden were conducting studies that exposed different kinds of learning as either “surface,” “strategic,” or “deep.” Deep learning was learning that promoted understanding and application for life. In truth, “deep learning” is what we are doing at CITYterm.

In our first year, we decided we would meet with people in New York City who might help us understand the idea of deep, experience-based learning. So, we met with former Mayors Ed Koch and David Dinkins in their offices. We went to the Angelica Theater for a preview screening of artist/director Julian Schnabel’s new film, Basquiat, and then we walked to his 5th floor studio in Chelsea and had a seminar with him about the film.

A Letter from David Dunbar

Ultimately, however, we discovered something far more significant; we learned that deep learning occurred when you put students in situations where they were the authors of their own learning. It was fine to meet Koch, Dinkins and Schnabel but we also needed to design environments where students could create their own visions. The story of the last eighteen years at CITYterm has been one of identifying and practicing the precise cognitive skills that are necessary in order to make deep learning happen. It is an exploration that will go on for decades to come. It is not as if we, as a faculty, knew what we were doing exactly, but we did have an idea that turned out to be on the fore-front of much of the educational change being talked about today.

I often talk with people who were in that first year of CITYterm to see what they are authoring these days. Here is some of what they are doing: •

Adrienne Campell-Holt runs her own theater company, Colt Coeur, in New York City where she spends a lot of time working with all sorts of artists-- writers, actors, designers. She writes: “My job is to find the common language between everyone, and hatch and nurture a vision for each project, through every stage of the process.” (Note: Read more on page 8)

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Mia Feldman is the Vice President and East Coast Ambassador for the 10,000 Small Business program, in the Goldman Sachs Foundation. She writes: “I graduated this June from Princeton with a Master in Public Affairs but I began my career ten years ago as a loan consultant at Accion (a micro-lending foundation geared toward immigrants) in New York City. Since then I have worked in impact investing at J.P. Morgan and I am now an Accion East board member.“

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David Jacoby is the Chief Operating Officer of Wellness Services for Health Advocate, which recently purchased the start-up he was involved in for 10 years (WellCall). He writes: “Companies hire us as a free benefit for their employees to do, well, what the health insurance companies really should be focusing on, but aren’t (!).”

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Lexi Beach is the owner of the Astoria Bookshop, an independent bookstore in Queens. She writes: “I wrote the business plan, scoped out real estate, built a presence online and in the neighborhood. I selected books to stock.” (Note: Read more on page 13.)

• Donari Copperidge “works for the Boeing Company in Seattle as a Manufacturing Engineer on the 787 airplane program. Working on new and innovative technologies and solutions has always been an interest of mine so my current workgroup finds emergent solutions for several manufacturing scenarios.”

Each of these CITYterm pioneers has created the conditions where they can practice their own versions of authorship.

CITYterm is about learning with greater precision how to be the author of your own learning; it always has been. And sometimes that is not about knowing exactly what you are doing, but about having a good idea and attracting a group of people who know that some kinds of learning can be truly transformational.

Keep the Faith,

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Alumni Profile September 2012 JULIET KNUTH CITYterm, Fall 2007 Hotchkiss School, 2009 Pratt Institute, 2013 Juliet Knuth’s first solo art show, Yummy, opened in the Fall of 2012 in Bed Stuy, Brooklyn.

Following my semester at CITYterm in Fall of 2007 and graduating from the Hotchkiss School in 2009, I decided to return to the city, for which my love has never faded. I enrolled as a painting major at Pratt Institute of Brooklyn where I graduated this past May. Since living in the city I have sung in open mics, traveled to several new states, become a martial arts student in both Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and Muy Thai Kickboxing, picked up the hobby of hula hooping, and befriended more fascinating artists than I could ever have dreamt of meeting back home. But while attending art school and meeting the people here has certainly been a huge inspiration, nothing about living in New York has influenced my artwork more than my unglamorous job title as a waitress in the city’s restaurant industry. In order to afford school, I spent more hours a week taking people’s orders, running their food and drinks and watching them eat than I spent in class or in my studio. It is no surprise then, that the subject of food and people’s relationship to it has sparked my most recent series of oil paintings: all portraits of women involving food.

Food and eating are of particular fascination to me because the impressions eating can give a viewer are incredibly varied. The act of consuming something can be all at once primitive and sophisticated, sexual and repulsive, appetizing and nauseating. Throw a beautiful woman into the mix (most of whom, in this case, are fellow women who work in the industry with me) and immediately the works become fraught with bizarre and sexual associations. The paintings in my current series depict friends eating and drinking anything from pop tarts, to chicken wings, to avocados, pizza and tea.

This current series is now in my first solo show, “Yummy,” hanging quite appropriately at Bed Stuy’s Project Parlor, one of my favorite bars in the neighborhood. It is located at 742 Myrtle Avenue, blocks away from my own apartment, and is frequented by the very same people I have depicted in these paintings, including bartender and Pratt MFA Printmaker Leah Matthews, who’s 8 foot portrait holding a tray of cupcakes stands right next to the entrance of the establishment.

The shows opening reception last September was a night of music, drinks, friends and fun, and garnered a great response from local viewers.

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Alumni Profile October 2012 KATHLEEN ADAMS CITYterm, Spring 2005 Hathaway Brown, 2008 Fordham University, 2010 Masters in Urban Studies, Fordham University, 2012

Kathleen Adams, co-founder of Momma’s Hip Hop Kitchen, combined her passions by forming an organization that empowers women of color to express themselves through art.

My name is Kathleen Adams and I was part of S’05 at CITYerm. I am also the co-founder of Momma’s Hip Hop Kitchen (MHHK). Momma’s Hip Hop Kitchen (MHHK) is a multifaceted hip hop event designed to showcase women artists, especially women of color. MHHK serves as a social justice community-organizing platform that educates and empowers women of color on issues that impact their lives, including HIV/ AIDS and reproductive justice. Our mission is to create a dynamic, interactive exchange and safe space for all women of color to express themselves through their art.

I co-founded MHHK while I was a sophomore in college at Fordham University. At that time, I became very frustrated with the way that women of color were being portrayed in mainstream media. I was always very active as an AIDS activist and in the Reproductive Justice field and also had a love for hip hop. My business partner, Lah Tere, was also very passionate and we thought we would join forces and create a one time community event to increase awareness of HIV/AIDS in communities of color in New York City. We use hip hop as a vehicle to spread our message and reclaim space for women in the field of hip hop and the arts.

Our first event was in February 2008. We had over 500 people attend (we thought only 75 people were going to attend originally!). From 2009 until today we’ve been at the Hostos Center for Arts & Culture in the Bronx where we have been able to achieve attendance levels of over 1,000 people every year. We are going into our 6th year, and we have conducted many college tours and workshops, and were even featured in an episode of MTV’s MADE.

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Kathleen Adams (left) with a Momma’s Hip Hop Kitchen associate.

Alumni Profile November 2012

SARA LOW CITYterm, Fall 2007 Blake School, 2009 Skidmore College, 2013

Sara Low, a recent graduate of Skidmore College, spent her summer on an archaeological dig in New Mexico.

Through the collaboration of Mercyhurst’s Archaeological Institute and Southern Methodist University, the Taos Collaborative Archaeology Program offers an in-depth and extensive introduction to archaeological field methods and research in northern New Mexico. For six weeks we excavated an apparent Valdez Phase (ca. A.D. 900-1190) Pueblan pithouse, working in a professional environment and under demanding conditions common to archaeology. We lived in two person tents, excavated from 7am to 5pm, Monday through Saturday, had opportunities to visit other archaeological sites such as Bandelier National Monument, and participate in community projects like the re-plastering of San Francisco de Asis Church. By the end of my time in Taos, I felt I had gained an incredibly valuable education in archaeology, which I would not have been able to find anywhere else.

After finishing my senior year as an anthropology major at Skidmore College I will most definitely continue my work in the field.

Right: Sara Low with colleagues in New Mexico.

Below: Sara’s CITYterm cohort at Coney Island, Fall 2007

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Alumni Profile December 2012 MOLLY NUSSBAUM CITYterm, Fall 2005 Haddonfield Memorial High School, 2007 New York University, 2011 Masters in Urban Studies, Fordham University, 2012

Molly Nussbaum, film maker extraordinaire, takes New York City by storm.

I never really left the city after CITYterm. I came back to New York to go to film school at NYU and stayed on after graduating to work: first, for an independent film distributor, and then as the script coordinator for the TV show “The Americans,” which premiered on FX in January 2013.

Engrossing myself in the city’s incredibly dynamic (and rapidly changing) film and television industry has afforded me some exceptional experiences: from live story slams with The Moth, to producing a commercial for Porsche, to hanging out with Grover and Elmo on Sesame Street. I’ve been been having a great time.

I got to combine my love of the city with my love of filmmaking while working for distributor Zeitgeist Films as they acquired “Koch,” a new documentary by Neil Barsky about storied mayor Ed Koch, (which opened in February 2013). I’ve also been attempting to possess an entrepreneurial spirit by co-founding a small commercial production company this year. I hope to have the chance to explore Montreal with a new film in the spring, but until then I’ll be making TV here in New York. No matter what project it is, I try to maintain the CITYterm spirit of seeking out what I didn’t even know I didn’t even know.

That, and yawping barbarically at every turn.

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Above: Molly and Grover on a film shoot at Sesame Street.

Right: Molly carves a pumpkin during her CITYterm semester.

Alumni Profile January 2013 BRANDON CASTILLO CITYterm, Spring 1999 St. Mark’s School of Texas, 2000 Pitzer College, 2004

Brandon Castillo uses lessons from CITYterm to run an outdoor market that promotes local businesses and artists, as well as helping Dallas become a “World Class City.”

I was born in Brooklyn but raised in North Texas. Even though I don’t remember much about living in New York City as a baby, I knew I had to get out of the suburbs as soon as possible and get back to my birthplace. CITYterm ignited my passion for cities, exposing me to a life independent of cars, surrounded by people, and adventure waiting around every corner. I took this energy to Spain after graduating college in order to learn city life in a foreign place.

After teaching English in Madrid for a few years, I came back to Dallas inspired to bring everything I’d learned living abroad back to my hometown.

Left: Brandon surveys the scene at Deep Ellum’s Outdoor Market

It puzzled me that Dallas didn’t have frequent outdoor events like New York or Madrid, despite having great weather! Three years ago, I started the Deep Ellum Outdoor Market in one of Dallas’ most historic, yet neglected, neighborhoods. My two goals for the Market are to promote local businesses and artists and promote a pedestrian friendly environment. The first Deep Ellum Market was located under a covered parking lot behind a restaurant, and now we shut down a block of Main Street to make room for all the vendors. If you’re in Dallas and want to try the latest food trucks, hear good local music, and shop for unique stuff, come to the Deep Ellum Outdoor Market on the third Saturday of the month!

In 2013, the Market expanded to different areas of the city, including the Design District, Downtown, and Lower Greenville. We are also planning a launch of a “bodega” style store in Deep Ellum, an atypical business model here in Dallas-Fort Worth, but one that certainly works in other cities.

Dallas is a city that considers itself cosmopolitan, yet stubbornly calls itself Texan at the same time. While the Lone Star shines brightly here in the Metroplex, certain things have to change if Dallas indeed aspires to be a “World Class City.” I am lucky to have had the opportunity to live in some of the world’s greatest cities. I only hope to provide my hometown with elements of these great places.

More information is available at www.deepellummarket.com.

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Alumni Profile February 2013

ADRIENNE CAMPBELL-HOLT CITYterm, Spring 1997 Boston Latin School, 1998 Barnard College, 2002

Adrienne Campbell-Holt explores her journey from a childhood in rural Vermont and inner-city Boston, to being the Artistic Director of Colt Coeur, a NY-based theater company.

I grew up in rural Vermont and inner-city Boston as the offspring of community organizers/educators who didn’t believe in television, conventional dolls or too much furniture. Rather than experiencing these conditions as limitations, my sister and I hung a shower curtain in the living room and regularly put on multi-part plays and dance performances. Moving from a dairy farm community in Vermont, to a predominantly Puerto Rican, Dominican, Haitian and Vietnamese neighborhood in Dorchester encouraged my curiosity about distinct voices and modes of storytelling. My current work as a theater director feels like a natural extension and continuing exploration of my childhood curiosity.

The past decade has seen me pursuing a seemingly disparate set of professional pursuits. Fortunately, in a profession where your entire ‘expertise’ is founded in life experience and observation, this background of adventures has been a resource.

After doing my Urban Studies thesis on DUMBO (a neighborhood in Brooklyn) I started an organization called Nest that took over temporarily idle warehouse spaces for artistic programming. I ran a weekly arts-oriented flea market called the DUMBO Bazaar that had food and live music…and a 70,000 SF warehouse space with ten of my favorite dance and theater companies in residence (rent-free), plus a cinema, gallery and bar. I was working in the city as an actress, interning with Liz LeCompte at the Wooster Group, and making my own experimental performance work in my studio.

When I started to feel a little stuck, like I was spending too much time focused on work that wasn’t helping me grow as a person, I decided it was time to shift my energies.

I moved to LA and continued performing but also began to focus my attentions more significantly on writing and directing. I wrote and directed several plays as well as a short film and several video projects.

After three years I knew I needed to push myself again. I returned to the east coast and spent several summers at the Williamstown Theater Festival and assisting my directing heroes on shows including Peter and the Starcatcher, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson and Chekhov’s The Three Sisters.

Over the past three years Colt Coeur, a theater company I founded, has produced three criticallyacclaimed world-premieres. One of the lines from our mission statement: “We make theater that is imbued with the urgency and intensity of the present—theater that responds to and engages with the world in which we live with compassion, humor, ferocity, and an abiding, unapologetic sense of wonder,” could be a description of the feeling I found as a 16 year-old at CITYterm.

As a freelance director I’ve had the privilege of getting to work all over the country and every time I’m working on a new show, in a new city, I feel like a CITYterm student all over again.I endeavor to understand the ‘logic’ of the city—I always try to take public transportation to unknown destinations and spend my down-time walking around, sitting in coffee shops, and eavesdropping on strangers’ conversation a la the“18-inches” assignment. More than anything making theater is about empathy and communication—and nowhere did I have the opportunity to hone these skills more than CITYterm.

For more information on Colt Coeur visit http://coltcoeur.tumblr.com

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Top: Adrienne in the Spring of 1997.

Bottom: Adrienne today.

FRANCES DENNY CITYterm, Spring 2002 Concord Academy, 2003 New York University, Gallatin School of Individualized Study, 2007 Masters of Fine Arts, Rhode Island School of Design, 2014 (expected)

Alumni Profile March 2013

Frances Denny discusses starting Scrapped, a magazine showcasing new and emerging art.

After CITYterm, I graduated from Concord Academy (in ’03) and left Massachusetts for New York City to begin college at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at NYU. I credit CITYterm for making that transition a smooth one—I felt like I knew New York already and was absolutely thrilled to be returning.

At Gallatin, I tailored my academic concentration to focus on “Representations of Women in Art History and Literature” and took as many photography classes as I could. The classes I took in philosophy, comparative literature, and art history at NYU still very much inform my current photographic work.

I remained in NYC after graduating and pursued work as a freelance photographer (a dream that first began when I made a photo collage for my Brooklyn Bridge Project at CITYterm!). I worked in art galleries, as an assistant to other photographers, and made my own photo work for several years before enrolling in school for a year at the International Center for Photography (ICP). At ICP, I made some important connections as well as some wonderful friends—other photographers keenly interested in our place in the art world. Two summers ago, four of those friends and I were sitting around a barbeque in Brooklyn and came up with an idea to launch a magazine. We envisioned a magazine that would exist both in print and online and would creatively showcase work made by established and emerging artists working in all media, all over the world. So became Scrapped.

In August 2012, after a year of research, design, and curation, my partners and I launched Scrapped. What I love most about the magazine is its creative, irreverent approach to showcasing art work—we don’t publish a lot of opaque “art speak,” but rather focus on bringing interesting new work to the table. Scrapped is published semi-annually, according to a theme. Our first theme was “Hit It,” a unrestricted look at desire and ambition, and our second theme is “Future Dinosaur,” an exploration of nostalgia and obsolescence. I am grateful to collaborate on such a fulfilling project with my partners, whose opinions I implicitly trust even when we disagree on something. In January, Scrapped concluded a successful Kickstarter campaign to raise funds to publish Issue II and to re-design our website: we actually raised $14,500—well past our goal of $9,500. My partners and I are excited about our prospects for the future and are hard at work on Issue II: Future Dinosaur.

Top: Frances with Scrapped colleagues. Bottom: Denny in the Spring of 2002.

I began graduate school at The Rhode Island School of Design last fall, where I am pursuing my MFA in Photography while I also work on Scrapped. RISD is proving to be an incubator where I can focus intensively on my own work as an artist. I plan to move back to New York City and will continue to balance my life as a creator and a curator there.

For updates on Frances Denny’s work, calls for submission, and details about our NYC issue launch parties, please visit www.scrappedmag.com, Like us on Facebook (facebook.com/scrappedmag), and follow us on Twitter (@ScrappedMag).

To view my personal work, please visit my website: www.francesfdenny.com.

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Alumni Profile April 2013 ANDY FREEDMAN

CITYterm, Spring 1997 Belmont Hill School, 1998 Emory University, 2001 Masters in Business Administration, University of Wisconsin — Madison, 2006

Andy Freedman reflects on how CITYterm impacted his career, from Dunkin Donuts to Visa to the tech start up, LevelUp. Since leaving CITYterm in the Spring of 1997, my experiences have led me all over the country-- all of them impacted by the time I spent learning at CITYterm. I have always been interested in story telling, an interest that developed during my semester in the city. I remember vividly working on my Neighborhood Study Project (Union Square), hearing Danny Meyer talk about the New York City restaurant business, and meeting the organizers of the Union Square Green Market and their challenge of supporting local farmers in the city - stories I retell to this day.

After graduating from Emory University, I began my career in brand marketing with Dunkin Donuts. It felt like the natural fit to channel my interest in understanding consumer behavior and business (and my love of baked goods was an added bonus!). The decision to go into marketing has truly paid off and led me all over the country to work with a broad range of well known brands. Had you told me as a high-school senior that I would meet my wife while living in Minneapolis, MN working at General Mills developing new products for Fruit Roll-Ups and Fiber One, I would have laughed. Or if I had known that one day my job requirements would include going to the Super Bowl while working at Visa, I wouldn’t have believed it. And best of all, had I known that 15 years after graduating from CITYterm I would be working for a 23-year old college dropout pioneering the world of mobile payments at LevelUp -- well, that would have blown my mind.

Throughout my career, a thirst for knowledge and a passion for finding new stories to tell (a passion that started at CITYterm) has opened me up to so many new opportunities.

While I don’t know exactly what the future holds, I know that I will never again be able to walk across the Brooklyn Bridge without wanting to let out a barbaric yawp -- another story I’m grateful to tell.

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Andy Freedman at the Superbowl.

Alumni Profile May 2013 CHARLOTTE COWLES CITYterm, Fall 2001 Miss Porter’s School, 2003 Columbia College, 2007 Charlotte Cowles, a senior editor at New York Magazine, talks about how CITYterm has continued to influence her more than a decade later.

I always knew I wanted to work as a writer, but during CITYterm that was pretty far from my mind. Probably the most defining thing about my semester was 9/11, even though we didn’t go into the city that day.

We were supposed to go to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, but instead we were given the afternoon off to process what had happened and take turns calling our parents on the landline, since none of our cell phones worked. I remember taking a long nap, and feeling very clear-headed when I woke up.

I haven’t really left New York since then. I somehow convinced my parents, who live about two hours away in Connecticut, to let my wide-eyed 17-yearold self do an internship at a magazine here during the summer between my junior and senior year of high school, and then I went to Columbia for college. Sometimes I look back on my desperation to return to New York after CITYterm and wonder why I felt so strongly about it. I was just so excited to live in a place that felt so boundless.

I wasn’t really organized enough during college to plan how I would make a career out of writing, but I did a few internships at various magazines and wound up getting a job at a small newspaper called the New York Sun after I graduated. It was a great first job, even though I probably wasn’t very good at it. Then the paper folded when the recession hit in 2008, and I got hired as an editor for a startup website. I hated the work, which was mostly just copywriting, but it allowed me plenty of time to freelance. A lot of my former co-workers from the Sun had connections at New York Magazine, so I started getting very lowly assignments from them and eventually worked my way up to a staff position. That was two and a half years ago, and now I’m a senior editor here.

Editorial jobs vary hugely. My position entails tons of writing every day for New York Magazine’s website, which I really love. The web is an exciting and terrifying platform for writers — everything happens so fast, and there’s so much feedback all the time. It’s been a tremendous learning experience, and requires imagination, humility, and a sense of humor, which are all things I learned a lot about at CITYterm. You have to be willing to walk up to strangers, smile, and ask questions, and then not feel defeated if they don’t respond. You also have to be endlessly curious.

I still consider my time at CITYterm as the foundation for my life here today. It gave me a great template for learning how to explore this extraordinary place. Also, because I was here during 9/11, I feel a certain loyalty to the city -- that was a time of tremendous kindness between New Yorkers, and I’ve never forgotten how welcome I felt here. I’ve put down many more roots here since then, but it’s only the tip of the iceberg, and I love living and working in a setting that’s constantly bursting with new things to explore.

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Alumni Profile June 2012

ZANNY ALTER CITYterm, Fall 2003 Cambridge Rindge and Latin, 2005 Bryn Mawr, 2009 Harvard Graduate School of Education, 2013

Zanny Alter uses her CiTYterm skills to question the world around her and transform public education.

It is safe to say CITYterm changed the course of my life. It sparked my lifelong commitment to transformative education. It is where I really began to delve into education, and truly took the reigns.

I wrote my “Dozen Decisions” paper about the intersection of identity, race, and class in education during the Ocean Hill Brownsville teachers strike of 1968. It brought up themes and questions I have never stopped being intrigued by and exploring in every aspect of my life since then. After leaving CITYterm I continued on my “hunt” through and about education by cutting gym class in high school to go to the public library and read books by Freire, Dewey, and Sizer. Thanks in large part to skills I honed at CITYterm, I was drawing on the ideas in the texts I read to help me make sense and meaning of the race and class based inequities I saw in the school I was attending. Moving beyond “making meaning,” my personal charge in college was about making change. I went to Bryn Mawr College where I majored in Sociology and Education. I spent every semester in college doing one or more meaningful things in Philadelphia schools working directly with young people.

My senior year in college I began qualitative research at the Parkway West High School in West Philadelphia. I worked closely with seniors who had a more incisive and sophisticated understanding of the social structure and inequality than many of my college-aged peers. My students were not only thoughtful and smart, they were hilarious and fun too. I loved working at Parkway West and could not imagine leaving. I was fortunate enough that I did not have to. After graduating, Bryn Mawr College and Parkway West created a joint-position for me to develop and strengthen the partnership I had forged between the two schools. This meant that my full time job was what I loved: “hanging out with kids.” I was creating field placements for dozens of college students to work at Parkway West as part of their college courses, learning to do oral histories in community alongside my high school students, and creating a mural to celebrate the contributions of educators and women in the community.

I knew I needed a stronger skill-set to make the kind of systemic and individual change I am determined to make in education. This meant enrolling in the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Last year I received my Masters in Education, specializing in “Prevention Science and Practice,” a program that allowed me to work two days a week in a Boston middle school as a school counselor while taking courses that pushed me to challenge systems I had worked in or implemented before. I was immersed in “theories of change,” adolescent development, and the drama that is middle school. This year I interned three days a week at Cambridge Rindge and Latin. I am pursuing my licensure as a school counselor in the same environment where I applied the skills I learned at CITYterm: question the world around me, creatively find data to make my case, and maintain an unwavering commitment to the belief that education can and should have a positive power in the lives of young people. I am determined to have a meaningful impact in urban public education. At CITYterm I learned to listen to my own voice and follow my instincts, to thoughtfully question the status quo, and absolutely never settle—thanks to CITYterm I am always on “the hunt,” and I know I will be. I am forever alongside my students with an insatiable desire to engage in reciprocal learning in hopes of creating a more just world.

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Alumni Profile July 2013 LEXI BEACH CITYterm, Spring 1997 The Shipley School, 1998 Brown University, 2002

Lexi Beach takes a leap to open her own bookstore in Astoria, Queens.

I left Dobbs Ferry knowing that I would return to New York City eventually, and for good. I grew up on Philadelphia’s Main Line, and I was very reluctant to return to the suburbs after my semester at CITYterm. All those weeks in the city, almost daily trips to every borough, many months of experience-based learning--I’d fallen in love with New York.

So, after spending my college years in Providence, I moved to the Upper East Side in the spring of 2003 and began working in book publishing. I held positions in a few different departments at Simon & Schuster, and then at a digital retailer managing their audiobook division. I loved living in the city right from the start, and I loved the publishing industry, but until recently, my work felt more like a job than the career I wanted it to be.

What changed was that this past year, I started on a new adventure, one that continues to push me into the DKDK zone every single day. My wife and I just opened the Astoria Bookshop, a general interest bookstore in Astoria, Queens. My new job as an entrepreneur forces me to ask all the questions, all the time. I learned about the free classes and other resources the city makes available to start-ups. I introduced myself to other local small business owners, who’ve been incredibly helpful with advice, support and information. I’ve given myself a crash course in commercial real estate, HVAC, LLC formation, retail terminology, and sales tax collection. I never imagined working 15 hours a day could be so much fun.

David Dunbar and the rest of the staff taught me to read the city as a text, and the message I read last year was that western Queens needed an independent bookstore. I’m so excited to start this business, in this city. Ten years after I became a resident, I love New York even more than when I stood on the top of the Washington Square Arch with the rest of Spring ‘97 on our last night of the semester.

The Astoria Bookshop is open! To learn more visit www.astoriabookshop.com.

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2012–2013 Annual Report of Donors This special edition of Bridges also honors those that participated in CITYterm’s 2012-2013 Annual Fund. The philanthropic support CITYterm receives from alumni, parents, faculty members and friends of the program is invaluable. As a small, non-profit organization, your donations provide vital support, enabling us to increase our scholarship fund and develop our program further. A gift to our Annual Fund is a celebration of the impact we have had in lives of our participants, a commitment to ensuring future students experience CITYterm and an endorsement in the power of our educational model.

In particular, this year we want to call attention to two groups of donors: donors that have given for five consecutive years or more and the creative, dedicated, smart group of educators that work at CITYterm. First, we offer a hearty thank you to donors that keep us in mind year after year. Your generosity sustains us and sets a powerful example for other members of our community. Second, we want to acknowledge that each member of the 2012-2013 faculty donated to CITYterm’s Annual Fund. Phil­anthropic support from families is truly a testament to our collective dedication to the mission. As you consider charitable giving this year, we encourage you to join the entire CITYterm faculty in donating to the Annual Fund.

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WAYS TO GIVE THIS YEAR… Give online: www.cityterm.org/givingcityterm/donate-now/ index.aspx Call: Dial 914-479-6502 to make your gift over the phone Mail: Checks may be mailed to CITYterm, 49 Clinton Avenue, Dobbs Ferry, New York 10522 Gifts of Stock: Call 914-479-6502 An envelope is attached for your convenience.

2012 – 2013 ANNUAL FUND CONTRIBUTORS Your generosity totaled $73,933, providing funds that allow us to achieve our mission through increased financial aid, program support and professional development.

EMPIRE STATE BUILDING ($10,000.00 +) Anonymous Stacie and Jeffrey Halpern PF’12 HEARST TOWER ($2,500 - $4,999) James Patrick Collins F’97 Chloe Joseph F’12 Kim and Scott Joseph PF’12 Sharon and Andrew Moss PS’10, PF’12 WALDORF ASTORIA HOTEL ($1,000 - $2,499) Susannah and David Bailin PS’12* Linda Mason and Roger Brown PS’13 Pamela and John Egan PF’11 Melinda and David Emmons PS’13 Amy and Howard Klion PF’08* Klion Springwater Coven Family Foundation, Inc. Esu Cleveland Lackey GPF’10, GPF’11, GPS’12* Babette and Peter Loring PS’97, PS’00*** Carolyn Orr Mattoon* The Robert and Carolyn Mattoon Fund Marivi and Darius Nevin PF’08** Karin and Giffen Ott PF’11 Pilzer Family Foundation Anita and Neal Pilzer PS’07 Diane M. Allen and John P. Remmert PF’10* Sand Family Fund Barbara and Larry Schoenfeld PS’10 Eric J. Sobel and Lynn Pilzer Sobel PF’97, PS’04*

Amy and David Steurer PS’13 Hong Xu and Jingfei Yang PF’12

FLATIRON BUILDING ($500 - $999) Anonymous (2) Madeline Bradshaw S’13 Wendy and Titus Brenninkmeijer PF’10 Steven Kaell and Erica Chapman F’99** David S. Dunbar PF’99, PS’02** Cindy and Phil Eichenholz PF’12 Carol and Howard Fine PF’10* Maureen Fonseca* Mary Elliot and Mark Friedman PF’12 Greater Kansas City Community Foundation Candace Reffe and Edward Hogan PS’12 Lisa and George Katz PS’11 Jane and James Levitt PS’10, PS’12 Norbert and Roger Longman PS’05* Andrea and Douglas Mabie PS’13 Jennifer Morrison and Richard Marks PS’07 Barbara and Richard Melvoin PF’97 Laura Kittle and Jeremy Moser PF’04** Marlissa Briggett and Peter Necheles PS’13 Donna Crotty and James Ponsetto PF’12 Diane Pink and Roy Pottle PF’07 Ann and Tony Ryan PF’11 Susan and Glenn Shea PF’12

Karen Barbour and David Sheff PF’12 Carolyn Hunt and William Wilkinson PF’11

WOOLWORTH BUILDING ($100 - $499) Anonymous (2) Linda Bradley-Adams and Ronald Adams PS’05 Bridget and John Barnes PF’11 Jack Bathke S’05 Alexis Beach S’97 Laurie M. Beach PS’97 Marika and Rich Bergsund PF’12 Nancy and Todd Bland PS’13 Boeing Elisabeth Keller and Steven Bonsey PF’11 Christopher Bowen PF’12 Miles Brenninkmeijer F’10 Corey Briskin S’05** Elizabeth and Patrick Burns PF’12 Adrienne Campbell-Holt S’97** Linda and Bob Carlton PS’13 Gabriela Castillo S’11* Sharon Nechis Castillo PS’11* Carolyn Cohen S’07 Donari Copperidge F’96 Charlotte Cowles F’01** Elizabeth Devereux F’97 Douglas M. Dunbar F’99* Walker M. Dunbar S’02** Holly Fetter F’07 Nikki Georges-Clapp S’99 Betty Miller and David Gootnick PS’13 Amy and Norman Gorin PS’06** Lindsey Halpern F’12 Mindy Hastie PS’07*

Lexi and Ben Hoffman PS’13 Jason Hult F’00** Mary and Timothy Hult PF’00** David Jacoby S’97** Jean Marie and Doug Jamieson PF’10 Blair Johnson F’10* Alan Kaell Stephen J. Kessler PF’97 Acadia Klain S’00 Alec Koo PF’12 Andrew A. Kryzak S’00** Marie and Tom Lyons PS’13 Louise and Michael Malakoff PF’96** Emma Marks S’07 Family Mayer Foundation Inc. Patrick McGettigan* Kathryn and Thomas McLean PS’13 Shira Milikowsky F’97 Linzee Weld and Peter Milliken PF’09 Ann Mitchell PF’99, PS’02** Katharine Nemec Nik Nevin F’08 Lauren Levin-Epstein Odell S’97** Katherine A. O’Neal PS’13 Chase Ott F’11 Alexandra Phillips S’06 Barbara Pickel Susan Warden and Les Porter PS’11* Mimi Powell F’04 Carol and Anthony Ruggeri PF’00 Donna and Michael Ruhlman PF’12 Mary and Carl Schellhorn PF’06** Marion Cunningham and James Sherley PS’11*

2012-2013 CITYTERM DONORS BY GROUP CONSTITUENT

NUMBER OF DONORS

DOLLARS RAISED

All Students

146

$12,374

Students from Last Academic Year

47

$3,699

All Other Alumni

99

$8,675

All Parents

98

$45,431

Parents from Last Academic Year

92

$22,486

Parents of Alumni

69

$22,944

Faculty, Friends, and Foundations

27

$16,128

TOTAL

271

$73,933 CITYTERM BRIDGES 2013 • 15

Susan and Steven Sigal PS’05 Mark Silverstein PF’11 Julie and Dennis Singer PF’08** Jaimie Sanford and Ted Storey PS’12 John Tate PF’96 Antoinette Tomai PF’99* Barbara and Peter van Allen PS’12 WellCall Erin White F’12 Julie and Perry White PF’12 Laura Weisberg and David Wong PS’04 Eileen and Anthony Zaldonis PF’04, PS’10 CARNEGIE HALL ($50 - $99) Adriana Akers S’04 Paula and William Bathke PS’05 Alyssa R. Bernstein F’04* Cecilia Bonnabeau Elinor Broadman S’09** Jessica Bruce F’04 Claire Burns F’12 Sarah Canberg Lillie Carroll F’07 Monica Chin S’12 Megan Crowe-Rothstein S’98** Marcie Cummings PS’05 Ben Fainlight S’08 Evie Fisher S’05 Lainee Marz Flanigan F’00 Matthew Gasiorek F’12 Erin Greene F’04 Cynthia and Ghassan Harb PF’12 Jane Benson and David Hartley PS’08 Brooke Johnson F’99 Claire Kessler-Bradner F’97 Nanci and John Kryzak PS’00** Walker Livingston S’11* Christina Ludovici F’08**

Heather Mabie S’13 Marguerite and Michael Marz PF’00 Claudia Mihm F’12 Katherine and Frank Mihm PF’12 Nguhi Muturi F’11 Lisbeth and Stephen Namara PF’10* Elaine and Trevor Pearlman PS’12 Laura Pickel Faith and Jeffrey Pine PF’10* Caroline Porter S’11* Cara Seabury Radzins S’03 Marguerite Rooney F’12 Mindy and Robert Sherwin PF’05* Zack Sigal S’05* David Simons S’01* Suzy Paré and Jeff Stern PS’10* Shelby Torrese S’10* Eder J. Williams Zoe Winkler F’99 Yixiao Yan S’13 CITY HALL ($1 - $49) Suzanna (Zanny) Alter F’03* Kyra Bergsund F’12 Emily Bland S’13 Anna Bonsey F’11 Blue Bookhard F’12 Molly Boskey S’04 Jesse Brown F’04 Emma Bruggeman F’05 Tess Brustein F’03** Joelle Bueno F’12 Jared Burk S’13 Abigail Byrne F’04 Abigail Cali F’10 Phineas Callahan F’12 Courtney A. Camps** Olivia M. Capozzalo S’09* Katherine G. Carlton S’13 Allison Carter S’11*

2012-2013 ALUMNI GIVING In the past year the alumni community nearly doubled the number of dollars raised, contributing $12,347 to CITYterm’s Annual Fund. During 2011 – 2012 alumni contributed $7,756 to CITYterm’s Annual Fund. The following year (2012 – 2013) alumni increased their giving by nearly $4,500 dollars. Take a look at the chart below and please consider rallying your semester to give more.

Semester

Number of Donors

Dollars Raised

Fall 1996

2

$50

Spring 1997

4

$658

Fall 1997

6

$3,095

Spring 1998

1

$50

Fall 1998

0

$0

Spring 1999

2

$160

Fall 1999

4

$700

Spring 2000

2

$200

Fall 2000

2

$125

Spring 2001

1

$50

Fall 2001

1

$200

Spring 2002

2

$215

Fall 2002

0

$0

Spring 2003

2

$75

Fall 2003

3

$70

Spring 2004

3

$100

Fall 2004

7

$325

Spring 2005

5

$340

Fall 2005

4

$85

Spring 2006

5

$201

Fall 2006

0

$0

Spring 2007

2

$200

Fall 2007

2

$250

Spring 2008

4

$120

Fall 2008

4

$260

Spring 2009

4

$111

Fall 2009

1

$20

Spring 2010

1

$50

Fall 2010

6

$395

Spring 2011

5

$225

Fall 2011

7

$235

Spring 2012

6

$110

Fall 2012

28

$2,788

Spring 2013

19

$911

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$12,374

Lajla Cline F’97 Karissa Coady S’13 Haley Coghill S’06 Sarah Cohen S’13 Michele Corley PF’05 Alyssa Crain S’12 Lucy Crane F’10* Laurel and Brian Daly PS’13 Micah Dornfeld, F’08 Graham Duff S’09 Alanna Duncan F’08 Kelly Eichenholz F’12 Sara A. Eismont S’13 Adela Fine F’10* William Franzosa F’12 Susan Homan Friedlander PS’99 Elliott Friedman F’12 Mika Gans F’96 Adam Harb F’12 Katharine Harding S’99 Katy Hill Harmon F’97 Katherine Harwood S’12 David Herrero S’02* Emma Hoffman S’13 Hannah Horobin-Price S’12 Jung Hee Hyun S’08 Siobhan Masterson and Erik Johnke Barbara and Kenneth Kalter PS’97** Julia Kennedy S’08* Marney Kline F’12 Summer Koo F’12 Cooper Krause S’12 Orion Krause F’11 Katherine Krebs PS’05

Melinda Ku S’05* Katherine Lawrence S’06 Samuel Leeman F’11 Laura Levitt S’12 Pei-Hsuan Li S’13 Connor Lovelace S’13 Elissa Lowenthal F’11 Henry Lyons S’13 Grace Mason-Brown S’13 Katharine A. Maxwell S’08 Abigail L. McLean S’13 Ryann McQuilton S’04 Julia D. Miller S’06* Muntaha Y. Mohamed S’13 Sydney Moss F’12 Precious Musa S’13 Jordan Naftalis S’09 Ann Pallotta Nagin and Rick Nagin PS’08 Alexa Natanson F’04 Shea Necheles S’13 Oluwayemisi Olorunwunmi F’12 Jorge Pagan F’12 Benjamin T. Pershouse F’96 Jamie Ponsetto F’12 Josina Reaves Addison Ruhlman F’12 Mary M. Ryan Lily Schorr S’06 Emily Shea F’12 Daisy Sheff F’12 Eshe Sherley S’11 Maria Quiroga and Alvin Shiggs PS’01* Peyton E. Steurer S’13 John Sutherland F’12

Brendan M. Sweet F’05 Jennifer Tapper PF’07 Helson Taveras F’12 Katherine Timko F’10* Natalia Torres F’05* Alexander S. Urquhart S’03 Rasheda Vereen F’05 Wyatt Welles F’12 Charlotte Wells F’11 Samuel Wells F’09 Maureen West F’03 Christina Wohler PF’05** Nathan Wright Veronica Yang F’12

HONORARY GIFTS The following donors chose to honor a member of our CITYterm community with their gifts.

MEMORIAL GIFTS The following donors chose to remember a deceased member of our CITYterm community with their gifts.

Emily Grigg-Saito S’99 Nikki Georges-Clapp, S’99 Katherine Harding, S’99

KEY: Alumni Council Class Agent 2012 – 2013 Faculty & Administration 3 year consecutive donor* 5 year consecutive donor** 10 year consecutive donor***

Kelly Eichenholz F’12 Cindy and Phil Eichenholz PF’12 Dave Krebs S’05 Katherine Krebs PS’05 Bright Tate F’96 John Tate PF’96 Erica Chapman F’99 David Jacoby, S’97 Alan Kaell

CITYTERM BRIDGES 2013 • 17

Food for Thought: Learning About Urban Food Systems at CITYterm JASON HULT, F’00 Urban Core Faculty

When students first arrive at CITYterm the awkward first conversations often are centered around food: How does the cafeteria here compare to your home school? What are your favorite ice cream flavors? How many Masters School cookies are too many? These questions come up again and again because they are both universal and relevant. Through these questions we learn how to eat in this new space, and also about who each of us is – a small window into our values and culture. These initial surface-level conversations about food provide entry into a range of deeper questions. Parallel to small talk about food, students at this point in the term are beginning to engage in conversations about how they learn. Both topics – eating and learning – offer students an opportunity to closely examine their daily choices, and begin to consider where these decisions come from, and how they might exert greater ownership of them.

Over the past several years we have worked to capitalize on this engagement and create a “Food Systems Unit” that allows students to learn from New York City’s rich foodscape. This past Spring, for the first time, we debuted an immersive “Food Systems Week.” This new structure, akin to our Brooklyn Bridge project week, allowed us to focus intensely on issues of food reform in the week before spring break. In small groups, students were given a broad topic, like “Sustainable Fish” or “Food and Human Health” and were challenged to first research, then generate a more specific question or tension within that field. Finally, the students designed a product that provided some resolution to a tension or set of questions explored by the group. As is often true at CITYterm, student groups embraced this challenge in many different ways, creating engaging and surprising projects. One group created a series of children’s books that helped bring to life the challenges of food deserts – urban areas underserved by the existing food system- and how to live healthfully within them. Another created a “mockumentary” video about the challenges reforming the printed labels on food. A third group thoughtfully presented some of the unexpected challenges and implications of urban fish farming using PowerPoint and compelling data.

Spring 2013 students visited the Fulton Fish Market at 6:00 a.m. and were still back and showered before Morning Meeting!

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One of the most exciting aspects of designing and teaching the Food Systems Unit has been the accessibility of people who work within the food system. In exploring specific topics students have talked to rooftop farmers, fishermen, food activists, urban beekeepers, and restaurateurs. The head chef at the Masters School cafeteria, Jonathan Boyd, helped us better understand the system that provides us with food each day. Boyd described the challenges of feeding the diverse appetites and needs within the Masters community, while also achieving its budgetary and sustainability goals. We learned about the nuanced relationship between the

specific cafeteria and its provider, Aramark, and most importantly (in my view) we learned how to predict when to next expect the cafeteria’s superlative turkey stir-fry. The effect of this session was impressive; the cafeteria was transformed in the students’ eyes from a simple source of food, to a more complicated organism that exists within a larger food system.

Teaching food is exciting because it is a naturally interdisciplinary topic. A couple of CITYterm groups have explored the issue of school lunch reform in New York City. How should the city feed more than one million students? The answer to this question requires consideration of economics, agriculture, cultural differences, human physiology, and policy. In teaching about food, our goal has been to empower students to identify and begin to reconcile the tensions between these different disciplines.

This complexity also sets the stage for rich collaborative experiences. Students who tend to prioritize economic efficiency work in tandem with those are most concerned with the lives of animals, to find a common vision. One group looked closely at the industrial meat system and in response, sought to design a plan for a fast food franchise that could be both affordable and ethical. In the process the group considered questions that were highly pragmatic: How do fast food restaurants find profit? And highly philosophical: What level animal suffering is acceptable?

One of the characteristics and rewards of deep, experiential learning is that it changes the way the learner moves through the world. This is evident in this “Food Systems Unit.” The understandings and questions raised are highly applicable. Each trip to the grocery store or cafeteria is a new opportunity to re-see, or re-consider how we participate in food systems: a new opportunity for authorship.

Spring 2013 students met with Stefanie Zaitz, the owner/operator of Wooden Hill Farm (www.woodenhillfarms.com) after exploring the Union Square Farmers Market.

Spring 2013 students on a tour of the Brooklyn Grange, one of the city’s leading rooftop farms.

Neighborhood Study is a CITYterm tradition. Each semester (with the exception of the very first term) has participated in this project. Neighborhood Study is an intensive, six-day project in which students, working in groups, practice a variety of information gathering, analytic and synthetic thinking, writing and speaking skills as they examine a single New York City neighborhood.

This map shows which neighborhoods have been considered over the years.

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Kingsbridge Fall 2004

Inwood Spring 2008

Washington Heights Fall 2001, Spring 2002, Fall 2002, Spring 2003

Grand Concourse Fall 2003, Spring 2012

Melrose Spring 2001

East Harlem

Flushing

Fall 2003, Fall 2004, Spring 2008

Spring 2002, Fall 2002

Roosevelt Island Fall 2003, Fall 2005, Fall 2008, Spring 2012

Astoria

Jackson Heights

Spring 2009, Fall 2012

Fall 2008

Elmhurst Spring 2006

Woodside Fall 2012

Long Island City Spring 2006, Fall 2010

Sunnyside Spring 2009

Times Square Spring 1997

Chelsea

Greenpoint

Spring 2004

Fall 2006, Fall 2010

Union Square

Alphabet City

Spring 1997

Spring 2005

Chinatown Spring 1997

Lower East Side Fall 1997, Spring 1999, Fall 1999, Spring 2000, Fall 2000

Williamsburg Spring 1999, Spring 2000, Fall 2000, Spring 2001, Fall 2001, Spring 2003, Spring 2004

Bedford-Stuyvesant

Fort Greene

DUMBO

Spring 2005, Fall 2006

Fall 2009

Cobble Hill Spring 2013 Lower Manhattan Spring 2011

Prospect Heights

Spring 2013

Crown Heights Spring 2007, Fall 2009

Spring 2007

Carroll Gardens Fall 2007

Red Hook Spring 2011

Gowanus Fall 2011 Sunset Park Spring 2010

Bay Ridge Fall 2007, Fall 2011

Flatbush Spring 2010

Class Notes Fall 1996: Class Agent is Ben Pershouse Spring 1997: Class agent is Lauren Levin Epstein Odell Lauren Odell: Lauren and her husband Jamieson welcomed a baby girl (Harper) on November 8, 2012.

Lexi Beach: Lexi recently got married.

This August, she and her wife opened the Astoria Bookshop.

David Jacoby: David writes: “Olivia Rose Jacoby was born in December, 2012 and she is already a great bundle of joy. She’s already a fan of CITYterm, and not sure if she wants to do Fall 2029 or Spring 2030.

After a carefree year of traveling around the world, we knocked out two kids in under two years and life is, well, ummm, very different! We are quite domesticated now, but still loving living in San Francisco. We bought a home a couple blocks away from Golden Gate Park and the Presidio, and we have lots of room for CITYterm visitors, so all are welcome! In other news, WellCall, the company I’ve worked for over the last 10 years got purchased last year, so I’ve been enjoying a bunch of new challenges and learning curves as our company integrates with our parent company (Health Advocate).

Please send your updates to your Class Agent or email Lisa (lisa.doi@cityterm.org) still weird no longer having Melvoin as my last name.) I’m loving being a mom and am thankful to have the summer off to hang out with my little man. Including this big change, life at Deerfield Academy is wonderful. I can’t believe there are over 1000 alums from CITYterm considering there were less than 100 when I left. “ Katy (Hill) Harmon: Katy is living in Chattanooga, TN, got married in September 2011, and had a baby girl in August 2012. Her daughter’s name is Ellison Ava Hill Harmon.

Sierra McLane: Sierra lives in Alaska with her husband, Denny. She works for Denali National Park and Preserve and is the coordinator for the Murie Science and Learning Center. They ski in the winter, hike in the summer, drive 5 hours roundtrip for groceries, and haul their water from the community well. Their neighborhood got electricity in the late 1990’s, but now they have internet speeds just as fast as anywhere else.

Claire Kessler-Bradner: Claire lives in Oakland with her husband Alex and their new baby girl, Lita Madrid Krassner. She teaches high school art in San Francisco, and she’s sending her first student to CITYterm in the fall!

Fall 1997: Class Agent is Patrick Collins

Spring 1998: Class Agent is Piper Evans

Patrick Collins: Patrick had a baby boy, Patrick Ford Collins, August 8, 2012.

Fall 1998: Class Agent is Katiana Anglade

Becca (Melvoin) Sherburne: Becca writes “Things for me are going well and I just became a mom on May 1, 2013. My son’s name is Hunter Hugo Sherburne. (It’s

Spring 1999: Class Agent is Nikki Georges-Clapp

HAD A BABY?

Fall 1999: Class Agent is Zoe Winkler Carter

Zoe Winkler Carter: Zoe is the Assistant Director of Admissions for Boston College.

She recently wrote a fantastic blurb for CITYterm outlining why CITYterm students are attractive to colleges.

Erica Chapman: Erica is heading into her second year as the Director of CITYterm.

She and her husband, Steve Kaell, are enjoying life in Dobbs Ferry and welcome former students to stop by for dinner.

Last December they enjoyed a vacation to Israel.

Doug Dunbar: Doug and his wife, Helen, live in Scotland!

Spring 2000: Class Agent is Acadia Klain Fall 2000: Class Agent is Lainee Marz Flanigan Spring 2001: Class Agent is David Simons Louise Turner: Louise writes, “I’m living in Houston and am an escrow officer in residential real estate, and luckily I really love it! I bought a house this year, so that is my main excitement currently. I am addicted to home décor!”

David Simons: David is currently exploring a new city, living in Chicago for the year while he clerks for a federal judge. But, he took the New York Bar exam so he’s heading back to NYC in to work at a litigation boutique.

Lauren Ornelas: Lauren is back in New York! She is living in Manhattan and teaching kindergarten at a charter school in Crown Heights.

Email Lisa Doi (lisa.doi@cityterm.org) and we’ll send you a CITYterm onesie!

From right to left: Dean Elise, daughter of Eder J. Williams McKnight (faculty); Lauren Odell (S’97), with her daughter, Harper; Olivia Jacoby, daughter of David Jacoby (S’97); and Patrick Ford Collins, son of Patrick Collins (F’97) 22 • CITYTERM BRIDGES 2013

Annie Sklaver Orenstein: Annie writes “I got married this past year, and I’m working at a market research firm in the city. It’s really fun, I get to travel around the country asking teenagers questions for a living.

Plus, I recently hired David Dunbar to come in and do an expert interview with us, and now my company is obsessed with CITYterm!”

Fall 2001: Class Agent is Charlotte Cowles Spring 2002: Class Agents are Nick Levy and Caroline Gambell Frances Denny: Frances writes “I am currently in the middle of an MFA in Photography at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). I am also a Founding Editor of Scrapped, a multidisciplinary arts magazine for emerging artists.”

Walker Dunbar: Walker is a master firefighter, paramedic, and newly minted police officer in Prince George’s County, Maryland.

Kyle Boynton: Kyle writes, “I’ve been working for the FBI for the past two and a half years, assigned to a drug/organized crime squad working the Gulf, Zeta, and La Familia cartels. I got married in August 2011. My wife is an attorney with Latham and Watkins in Washington, D.C., so we are kind of rocking a long distance marriage. I’m planning on getting back to DC in about two more years.”

Colin Hirst: Colin is currently in Saint Louis, MO completing his residency in internal medicine at Saint Louis University Hospital.

He writes that the hours are long, but the experience is invaluable. He is planning on doing a fellowship in interventional cardiology and peripheral vascular disease/carotid artery disease. He has been living in St. Louis and is adjusting to Midwestern life.

Adria Lopez: Adria writes “I am currently living in Wellington, New Zealand. Before that I was in Perth and Melbourne, Australia, where I met my fiancé who is a Scotsman! We recently decided we love it here so much that we want to apply for residency. Over the last year and a half I’ve been doing more living & travelling than working, but I’m currently working full time at an organization called the Maori Trust, which manages land & assets for the Maori population. I’m hoping to get back to the US again this summer, so I’ll keep people posted! Let me know if anyone is ever down under!”

Karla Ch’ien: Karla is in Boston, just graduated from Harvard Business School.

She is looking for jobs in media and publishing in New York and planning to move back to NYC.

Renan Snowden: Renan recently graduated with a Master of Urban and Regional Planning degree from the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, which she describes as “the adult, nerdy version of CITYterm.” She has since returned to DC where she is working for a local government agency.

Laura Tierney: Laura writes “I’m still in DC working with the US Marshals. I love my job so plan to be with them for a while but wouldn’t mind moving somewhere else.”

Amelia Taylor: Amelia just finished her first year at Harvard Business School and just returned from a school project in southern India, which was a lot of fun.

Sarah Eckert: Sarah writes “I moved to Baltimore for a job almost 2 years ago. It is a great city to explore, especially from a neighborhood study perspective! I teach education courses at a small university here and do research with first-year teachers in Baltimore and Philadelphia.”

Lisa Riordan Seville: Lisa writes “I’m in New York, holding down the fort, working as a reporter, which is something like perpetual CITYterm. Many of my stories happen outside the city. Every now and then though, I do stuff here. I saw Sara Shiggs-Quiroga (S ’01) recently. I think she was most excited about the fact that I was part of NBC’s “rink team” on election night, putting down the red and blue states at 30 Rock. I have the oversized windbreaker to prove it.

Fall 2002 needs a Class Agent. If you’re interested in helping out please contact Lisa Doi (lisa.doi@cityterm.org).

Spring 2003: Class Agent is Sarah Patrick Fall 2003: Class Agent is Zanny Alter Lori Lupo: Lori writes “I am living in southern NH and working north of Boston building my massage therapy practice. I am in my 7th year of business which is very exciting for me! Most of my work is medically focused for injury recovery or sports medicine for athletes/body builders.

Last year I left the corporate world, which I did in addition to massage for a few years. It was a great move and I hope to never have to have a boss again! I have also been traveling within New England and working with many local artists who are willing to trade work with me. I am as happy as could be!

Tess Brustein: Tess writes”Greetings from San Francisco where I now live. I’ve seen Eve Meyers (F ’03) a bunch, which has been wonderful! If anyone else is out here, definitely hit me up. I’ve started my own education technology company called SmarterCookie, which is an online video coaching platform helping teachers improve their practice. Starting a company is quite the roller coaster, but very exciting.”

Rosie Ellis: Rosie writes “I moved to New York and started working on the Emerging Products and Technologies team at Yahoo.

It feels great to be back in the city and would love to see any of you that are out here.”

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Alyse Ruiz: Alyse writes “Still teaching/ serving as the English department head at Doral Academy Charter High School in Miami. I’m actually looking to move back up north (I’m the crazy one who trades in flip flops for winter coats). If all works out, I’ll be back up north next year!”

Eliza Coleman: Eliza writes “I left San Francisco today to move to MA. I’m staying on with Cultivate Wines as a part time contractor working on their social responsibility/giving program, but most of my efforts will now be helping my boyfriend take over his family’s 70 year old custom jewelry business from his dad.

Pretty exciting! So, if any of you are ever in the market for diamonds (or any jewelry), feel free to reach out!”

Elisabeth Aroneau: Elisabeth writes “I’m still in VA going to school and teaching an undergraduate creative writing course. I just graduated with my MPA. Miss you all and that great big city.”

Maureen West: Maureen writes “I’m still in NYC working on my Masters in Psych Counseling, and I love it. I’ll be interning at a high school in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.”

Claire Lewis: Claire writes “I’m living in Boston and working at Cambridge Associates, still doing equity fund research.

I’m loving it and I’m really happy to be back up north (but kind of missing Richmond’s warm weather right now).”

Ali Jafri: Ali writes “I’m in DC - I’ve been here for 3 years now, where I’ve been working at Georgetown doing research on political instability in South Asia. I’ve really liked it so far and have applied to masters programs in international affairs which, depending on what kind of news i get in a month or so, will either keep me in DC or move me up north to Boston.”

Jason Bear: Jason writes “I am selling bonds and get to travel all over to pitch business which is kind of cool. I was just in New Orleans (crazy place) and Salt Lake City. It would be great to see anyone in and around the NYC area. Let me know a time and place!”

Rachel Hussey: Rachel just moved to Raleigh, NC. She writes “Can I comment on how THIS FALL will be our 10th anniversary!?! And I still think about CITYterm at least once a day! We have an apartment in Raleigh (with pull out couches, so people, feel free to visit!) but no jobs yet... I’m 24 • CITYTERM BRIDGES 2013

going for a change of scene & new opportunity- let’s hope there’s some!

That’s my biggest news, but I was so excited to watch Isaac Aptaker’s (F ’03) episode of ‘The Neighbors!!”” Go Aptaker!

I can’t wait to hear about what everyone else is up to!

Laurel Roberts-Meese: Laurel writes “I finished my masters in counseling psych this December, and I’m about halfway through my clinical hours toward licensing.

I work at a middle school as the school counselor, and see families in a Medi-Cal clinic once a week. I published two novels this year (under a nomme de plume) and was overwhelmed by how they were received. I think I might have found my “thing” and I already have the next one in the works. My writing was definitely a “DKDK” thing I stumbled into by accident, and I couldn’t be happier. Lately the East Coast has been calling my name, so I may be headed over there soon...”

Eve Myers: Eve writes “I am still living in San Francisco and get to see Tess Brustein (F ’03) every now and then which is always fun! I have been working for a real estate investment banking firm for almost a year and really enjoying it, despite the ridiculous hours. I am trying to learn as much as I can about real estate and related issues, and hope to go back to school sometime soon for an MBA/Masters in Real Estate Development or Urban Planning...I guess CITYterm really rubbed off on me.”

Isaac Aptaker: Isaac just finished working as a writer/producer on the first season of ABC’s new sitcom, The Neighbors.

Now he divides his time between trying to get a movie made and packing for the free trip to Israel he gets for being Jewish.

Spring 2004: Class Agents are Claire Eustis and Emeric Harney Fall 2004: Class agent is Erin Greene Pauline Zaldonis: Pauline moved back to New York City last fall to begin the urban policy program at Milano the New School of International Affairs, Management, and Urban Policy. She plans to eventually work in the field of food policy. In addition to her studies, Pauline is working at Insides-

chools.org at the Center for NYC Affairs.

She lives in Astoria and is hoping to launch her roller derby career.

Natasha Menell: Natasha has been traveling through Europe, working at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) while finishing up her master’s degree at the London School of Economics. At the OECD, she is involved in a project on international co-operation between competition enforcement authorities. She recently lived in Paris and met up with CITYterm classmate Jack Smith (F ’04) when he was visiting from Vancouver.

Erin Greene: Erin made the move back east to New York City after spending six years in Los Angeles. She works in external relations and development for Columbia Business School and lives in Hell’s Kitchen. Since returning to NYC, she has enjoyed catching up with fellow CITYtermers Mimi Powell (F ’04), Alexa Natanson (F ’04), Jesse Brown (F ’04), and Kristin Hendriksen (F ’04), all of whom live in the city, and reminiscing about the good ol’ days up in Dobbs.

Spring 2005: Class Agent is Corey Briskin Ashante Bennet: Since graduating from Temple University with a major in Spanish Literature and a minor in Sociology, Ashante has been busy working as the wholesale brand manager for fashion designer, Norma Kamali. She loves her job, and she is learning so much from Norma! Ashante is living in New York City and loves exploring it...every day is an adventure. Recently, Ashante had the opportunity to meet Junot Diaz at a book signing in NYC, which was exhilarating, not only because he is her favorite author, but also because she felt like I was a CITYterm student again!

a 7-day, 550-mile bike trip from SF to LA with AIDS/LifeCycle to raise money in the fight against HIV/AIDS (this years ride had 2,200 riders and raised over $14.2 million!).

Now, she’s looking for the next multi-day cycling challenge, or perhaps even to get into low-level racing.

Corey Briskin: Corey recently graduated from Brooklyn Law School and is currently spending every waking moment studying for bar exam. Corey spent the month of August in the most relaxing way possible before starting his job at the Nassau County District Attorney’s Office in September.

Hannah Longman: Hannah is living on the Upper West Side and working for a small beauty PR firm in SoHo. During non-business hours, she takes voice lessons and spends quality time with friends and family.

Rachel Oppenheimer: Rachel is living in Prospect Heights and working at CUNY. She keeps herself active and is having fun with running, rec league soccer, and watching Girls. Life is good. (Elizabeth Warren for President -- 2016!! (It’s a pipe dream.)

Fall 2005: Class Agent is Natalia Torres Molly Nussbaum: Molly is working on “The Americans” for FX here in New York.

Sophie Glidden-Lyon: Sophie writes “I’m back in Maine, living with an old friend and working too many jobs for my own good. Luckily they include an internship at the Maine State Museum, and another at the Maine Women Writers Collection, where I’m getting a ton of experience with museum and archival work. I get to sift through old papers and photographs all day and I love it.”

Kathryn Sonnabend: Kathryn writes “I moved to San Francisco for the summer and am getting to know the city—so far,

I love it as much as I always thought I would.” This Fall, Kathryn is staring her Masters in architecture at Harvard.

Natalia Torres: Natalie is working at Prep for Prep as a Post-Placement Counselor and still loving life on the Lower East Side.

Spring 2006: Class Agents are Haley Coghill, Jake Loewenthal, and Lily Schorr Fall 2006: Class Agent is Tenisha Williams Spring 2007: Class Agent is Marvin Jablonsky Fall 2007: Class Agent is Katie Tapper Michael Cameron: Michael writes “I’m living in San Francisco, working on some projects for nonviolence through meditation. I’ve been at it since summer 2011 and have been experimenting with friends on developing a coherent way to address the roots of the internal and external difficulties folks are facing out here.

Since last October we’ve been organizing a lot of different events. From hosting ceremonies from the book Silo’s Message for folks struggling with illness and other difficulties to workshops on conscious freestyling (and next Saturday slam poetry!), and on Sundays we’ve been using a potter’s wheel in my garage for working on ceramics and developing a consistent and attentive, and focused style of work.

Everything in the direction of establishing peace internally and externally.

Holly Fetter: Holly writes “Hope each of you is doing well wherever you are. If life brings you through the Bay Area anytime soon, let me know!”

Lillie Carroll: Lillie writes “I just finished participating in the IDEX Fellowship in Social Enterprise in Hyderabad, India.

Cassie Pruyn: Cassie is currently living in New Orleans, Louisiana. She is working to complete an MFA in Poetry at Bennington Writing Seminar’s low-residency program in Vermont.

Kathleen Adams: Kathleen is living in New York City and loving life. In June, she finished a social innovation program, the Starting Bloc Fellowship. She is spending the summer traveling and having fun.

Dori Storbeck: Dori is still living in California and working at Google as a Community Manager for Hangouts. In her free time, she has been cycling, as well as spending time clearing out the jungle that grew behind her rental house for the last 4 years to make room for a vegetable garden. Most recently, Dori returned from CITYTERM BRIDGES 2013 • 25

Through this fellowship, I was matched with a low-income, conservative, Muslim school where I worked on capacity building and implement various projects to help improve the school. In addition to working at my school, I also work for an amazing social enterprise start-up called VOICE 4 Girls! VOICE offers summer camp programs for girls in spoken English skills & girl’s empowerment. Living in India definitely has its challenges, but I loved exploring Hyderabad on my scooter, attempting to cook Indian food, and learning a lot about Islam that I didn’t know I didn’t know. I traveled around southeast Asia.

Juliet Knuth: Juliet organized a fundraiser at Pratt Institute for art supplies that were lost after a fire destroyed part of the school’s historic Main Building. She wanted to raise enough money to put on an exhibit for everyone affected by the fire.

Sara Low: Sara writes “I’m spent my last semester at Skidmore finishing my anthropology major and writing my thesis on cybersociality and community in massively multiplayer online games. In March I presented this year-long study at the Northeastern Anthropological Association conference in Baltimore. I plan to continue in the field of behavioral game design and theory after I graduate. All in all, I’ve pretty much been playing a lot of World of Warcraft over the past year. I’m also hoping to return to New Mexico to continue work as a field technician in the Taos Collaborative Archaeology Project’s excavation of a Pueblan, pre-historic pithouse.”

Elizabeth Esposito: Elizabeth writes “I finished college this January (a semes-

ter early!) with a major in Environmental Science & Policy and a minor in Spanish.

During my last semester, I honed in on my concentration, Sustainable Development. I completed a GIS map of habitat in Ambergris Caye, Belize and created a preliminary coastal buffer zone management plan, which I presented to my department and that will be presented to the island’s Town Council this spring. I was also President of my 80-person house at Smith. Over the summer, I designed an orchard for the American Chestnut restoration effort. It is going to be built at Smith’s field station this spring. Right now, I’m looking for work in urban planning, environmental policy, and any related fields.”

Catie Hall: Cattie writes “I finished up the good life here at Vassar College. I’m dedicating the summer to a project of my friend’s and my design called Shifting Gears. The Shifting Gears Project layers dialogue, the active creation of alternative food systems, the female perspective, and bicycle transportation as interrelated mechanisms for change towards a more just, peaceful, and compassionate food system. Our project consists of biking across the country from Poughkeepsie, New York westward across Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Iowa, Nebraska, Wyoming, Idaho, Oregon and then south through California to end in San Francisco, engaging in conversation with women food producers and, through the creation of a participatory website, developing strong and resilient networks of people across the country dedicated to reevaluating what it means to be in relationship on a number of levels: relationships between people within

a community, between people and nature, and between different communities across the country.

So that’s what I’m most excited about!”

Katherine Tapper: Katie writes “Currently living in Chicago, IL after graduating from Tufts, but I’m doing Teach for America in Gary, IN. I teach high school math at a charter school and I just found out that I got rehired for my second year! I’m excited. I haven’t traveled anywhere interesting, I am not a GM for a sports franchise, but I’m enjoying my life in a new/awesome city. Ever stuck at O’Hare because of weather (that actually happened to me at CITYterm), let me know! I’ll pick you up, we’ll grab dinner and you can sleep on my air mattress.”

Jennifer Lawrence: Jennifer writes: “I went abroad to India last spring semester and am missing it all the time. As I am preparing for life post-graduation I am trying to figure out if more travel is in the works or whether I will have to put that off until a little later. I took advantage of senior spring by taking an African dance class which is the MOST fun while plugging away on my thesis for my concentration in American Studies- a case study of prison art exhibitions as potential pieces of social activism.”

Spring 2008: Class Agent is Ezra Plancon Fall 2008: Class Agent is Alanna Duncan Spring 2009: Class Agent is Allie Briskin Liza Comart: Liza finished her second year at Occidental College, due to the fact that she took a gap year. She has decided to double major in Psychology and Spanish.

She plans on going abroad to Spain or Argentina next year. Her main activity in college is rugby, which has expanded both her sports abilities and her social life. She misses CITYterm a lot, and constantly notices how positive the foundation has been.

Allie Briskin: Allie studied abroad in London for her semester abroad. She had a wonderful time not only exploring the city but also being able to travel to different countries in Europe. She was sad to be away from Syracuse but also knows that she is got a wonderful experience. She is always missing Spring 09 and got to visit Copenhagen to see Danny Carling (S’09), who was studying abroad there.

Tristan Grant: Tristan finished his sixth semester at Hampshire College, and he is finally pulling together his various studies toward a focus in Sustainable Water Resource Management. He continues to live in Maine during his summers.

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Fall 2009: Class Agent is Lindsay Szper Edwin Chalumeau: Before entering his final year at Syracuse University, Edwin interned at Oxfam of America in Boston on a few Information Technology and Management projects.

Lindsay Szper: This summer Lindsay scored a summer camp job in a Castle two hours north of Barcelona lifeguarding and teaching English to Spanish kids! When camp ends, she’ll bum around Europe for a bit, then spend the fall in Strasbourg, France studying French culture and interning in a hotel for college credit.

Chloé Ouyang: Chloe just completed her sophomore year at Vassar College, and is an International Studies major with concentrations in Education and Political Science.

This fall, she will spend a semester abroad in Buenos Aires with her favorite CITYterm roommate Abbie Cohen (S’09). The two could not be more excited to reunite and explore a new city together!

Spring 2010 Class Agent is Rachel Moss Fall 2010 Class Agent is Gracie Hall Spring 2011 Class Agent is Damion Miller Tre Hall: Tre writes “College is going pretty great so far, but pretty busy. I joined a fraternity, released a new EP, and will soon be rapping for hundreds of people at USC. I am in a main stage play this semester led by USC school of dramatic arts.”

Syndey Ling: Sydney writes “College is awesome, I’m having an amazing time, and doing a lot of graphic design work. I recently did an internship last semester with a company that works with a lot of fortune 500 companies, so I had a great time there. I’m also talking to some CITYtermers every now and then.”

Olivia Glick: Olivia writes “I’m currently at Wesleyan University, and I really love it here. I’m taking an Urban Societies class, which is really similar to a lot of the stuff we did at CITYterm, so that’s awesome. I am also in a sorority here, which takes up a lot of my time. I saw former CITYtermers Mica Agate-Mays (S ’11), Kendall Watson (S ’11), and William Nathan (S ’11) this past year!”

Amanda Diamond: Amanda writes “I’m loving college! It is really fun, and I feel independent. I was in a show last semester, and I am doing some behind the scenes stuff with another show now. I’m also doing a mentoring program, which is really great. I’m visiting Tre Hall (S ’11), and another friend at USC over spring break.

Allison Carter: Allison writes “I am at

Williams College, and it is really busy, and challenging, but lots of fun also. I’ve learned a lot, and made a lot of great friends. I haven’t been doing too many new things, but I joined my college’s sailing team, which is a lot of fun. Other than that I’ve just been working, and hanging out with my friends. Unfortunately I haven’t talked to as many CITYtermers as I would like, but I miss everyone and would love to get back in touch.”

Caroline Porter: Caroline writes “College is fantastic so far, being in sunny California makes it hard for college to be bad.

Classes are engaging and challenging and I am making lots of great friends. I’m an official Scripps College tour guide and I am applying to be a New Student Leader for next year’s freshmen class.

Chelsea Fine: Chelsea writes “College is awesome! I’m having a really great time here! I mostly just explore awesome restaurants in Chicago. I’m so horrible at keeping in touch, but it turns out one of my best friends here is CITYterm alum Walker Livinston’s (S ’11) cousin.”

Gillain Katz: Gillian writes “I am now a freshman at Colby College in Waterville, ME and I am loving every minute of it (except the freezing cold weather)! I am the new head of ‘Her Campus Colby,’ an online magazine targeted at college women and I look forward to taking on this leadership role.”

Austin Hartwell: Austin writes “College has been really exciting so far. I am working really hard in my classes, and I

am especially liking Biology and Chemistry.

Being in New York again has been a really great opportunity for me; I love exploring the City on the weekends, and am remembering a lot of our CITYtrips. I have seen a few CITYtermers from Spring ‘11 roaming around in the city, and I even ran into the new CITYterm group when they were counting off in Grand Central.”

Anna Smilow: Anna writes “I just finished a gap year between high school and start­ ing at Yale. During my gap year, I worked as a house cook for an American professor on the island of Elba in Tusca­ny, then I did a marketing/communica­tions internship for a start up company in Wellington, New Zealand, finally I took a three-month intensive graphic design course at Shillington School in NYC. Damion Tyrone Brewer Miller: Damion writes “I absolutely love college!

I am currently at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. Drake has so much to offer my major. I am involved in so much on campus and off campus. I am president of my residence hall, on admission coalition where I give tours and host students over night, am a part of Big Brother Big Sister, on the Residence Hall Association board, I work the front desk of my hall, and I work at GAP Inc. I love keeping myself busy.

This semester I started my practicum with 1st grade students. So cute!! I recently visited Alex Dudley (S’ 11) in Miami, Florida.

Elke Schipani: Elke writes “Being back in the city and studying here has been incredible. Since coming here, I’ve become part of the Barnard Bartending Society, the CITYTERM BRIDGES 2013 • 27

Columbia Medical Students Association, and I have just pledged Alpha Omicron Pi as part of a recolonization of the very first chapter-- the Alpha chapter, meaning I’m a founding member! I have been studying neuroscience, and hope to continue studying with and public health, and also Pre-Med.” Brianna Willis: Brianna wrote that her first semester at college was difficult, but that the second semester felt better. She’s considering joining a sorority, applied to be an RA. She writes: “I try to text CITYtermers, or check up on CITYtermers regularly. Also Caroline Porter (S’11) is good at snapchatting.”

Mica Agate-Mays: Mica writes “College is good, but I think I might take next year off.

I just saw former CITYterm alum, Olivia Glick (S ’11)!!!”

Emma Demane: Emma writes “College is going great, and I try to stay connected to my CITYterm friends.”

James Odell III: James writes “College is like CITYterm, except slowed down to about half the speed. I am into a music thing, reading, and flying through. It feels like hyperspace. I recently walked into former CITYtermer Kendall Warson (S ’11) and I see CITYterm alum Dorren Zass (S ’11) sometimes. Went to the neighborhood study presentations, and the new CITYterm director is pretty cool.”

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Walker Livingston: Walker writes “I joined the Kappa Sigma fraternity, and going to the Washington Monument and Lincoln Memorial soon.”

Brian Morgan Burns: Brian is enjoying college. He writes: “I am still in touch with CITYterm alum Kelly Ball (S ’11).”

Alex Dudley: Alex writes “I’m loving college. I am currently working, enjoying college life, and traveling (hopefully visiting New York this summer where it all started). Former CITYtermer Damion Miller (S ’11) just came down to Miami, Florida to visit, and I keep in touch with CITYterm alumnae, Amanda Diamond (S ’11), Sarah Carlow (S ’11), and Emma Demane (S ’11) occasionally! I miss all of my CITYterm friends though.”

Taylor Thorne: Taylor writes “My life has been crazy. College is going well. I’m at Lynn University, [but I’m] considering transferring next fall.”

Kelly Ball: Kelly writes “College is going well, and I love it so much. There isn’t too much happening because I have been recovering from knee surgery I occasionally talk to some of the CITYtermers!”

Sarah Carlow: Sarah writes “College is great! I love Vanderbilt University. I recently joined Alpha Omicron Pi sorority, and I love it!! I still talk to a couple of CITYtermers.

I talk to former CITYtermer Amanda Diamond (S ’11) every once in a while, and I think we’re going to see each other this summer. I miss SPRING ‘11’ a lot.”

Fall 2011: Class Agent is Elissa Lowenthal Annabel Barnes: Annabel writes, “I just finished senior year and am slowly getting back into the flow of things. My schedule was extremely mellow––psychology, sociology, advanced painting, and creative writing––which allowed me time to work as an intern at a local mediation firm, as well as continue to participate on the varsity swim team. At CITYterm, I fell in love with the city, and applied early decision to New York University. I will be attending Gallatin: The School of Individualized Study in the fall, and cannot begin to explain my excitement!”

Elizabeth Berthy: Elizabeth writes, “For my senior project, I studied cultural identity by interviewing immigrants and refugees and writing essays based off of the interviews. This summer, I tutored a young woman from Djibouti in English whom I was able to meet through the Adult Education program of Portland that I worked closely with during my project.

And in the fall, I’ll be attending Kenyon College in Ohio!”

Emmy Daniels: Emmy is happy that her senior year is over and is just kickin it in Minnesota for the summer. She is very excited to be heading back to the city next fall at New York University Tisch as a dramatic writing major. Congrats Emmy!

Kathleen Egan: Kathleen writes, “School went really well including graduation and my final tennis season. I am excited to be done with high school! This summer, I’m looking forward to spending time at home with my family. In the fall, I will be attending Duke University. Go blue devils!”

Caroline Engro-Lobel: After finishing her first year at NYU, Caroline decided to stay in the city over the summer. She had an internship with the People’s Improv Theater. Caroline encourages all CITYtermers to come check it out!

Eliana Gottesman: Eliana is VERY excited to be finished with her last semester of senior year! She will be attending New York University next year with a major in acting/theater. Additionally, she has become quite a talented beekeeper and is now in the process of forming a private honey franchise from her basement.

Hemma Hamburg: Hemma writes, “I’ve had a fantastic gap semester and am truly ecstatic to be going to Oberlin in the fall, Hippie central and super psyched to see some fellow CITYTermer’s around! I’ve been doing lots of traveling, writing, reading, cooking, and general yuckin it up.”

Jenna Hutchenson: Jenna had a great final semester of high school but is looking forward to college. In the fall, Jenna plans on attending the University of North Carolina at Charlotte with a major in early education.

Orion Krause: Orion Krause just graduated from high school in Maine and is enjoying the warmth of summer. He worked at Monhegan Island in July and studied music at Oberlin College in the Fall. He misses all of his F’11 CITYterm friends and hopes that they are all doing well.

Elissa Lowenthal: Elissa very much enjoyed her first year at The Ohio State University. Over the summer, she will be kickin’ it in Cleveland until she returns to school next fall. She is most looking forward to the upcoming college football season where the undefeated Buckeyes will continue their reign.

Alissa Merz: On May 31st, 2013, Alissa graduated from Concord Academy after four long years there. She is spending her summer in Boston with friends and taking small trips to NYC, the Cape, and Martha’s Vineyard. She will also spend four days with Cliff and Sam (both from her term) at the Bonnaroo music festival in Tennessee this June. At the end of summer, Alissa will be moving to London where she will spend her freshman year at NYU London.

She is very excited for London and all the adventures it holds.

Matt Ryan: Matt has been doing well through his junior year at Belmont Hill. He finished this year up well in all aspects of post- CITYterm life and even won a New England championship in rowing! The summer was spent at Sunapee in New Hampshire and in Boston. Next fall as a senior, he’s excited to finish the college search as Fall 11’s favorite and only current senior.

Yashodra Suri: Yashi writes, “I just graduated from Palmer Trinity School with honors and am planning on attending the Florida International University Honors Program. I received the Ambassador’s scholarship which is full tuition for all four years at FIU so I’m looking forward to all the new experiences I will have!”

Joelle Bueno: Joelle participated in the Bank of America Student Leaders program that takes 220 kids from all over US (5 from Boston) and partners them with non-profits. She writes “They also hosted us in DC for a week of leadership training which was awesome. They partnered me with the Boys and Girls Club, so I worked in one of the clubs and the main office.”

Claudia Mihm: Claudia writes “I spent my summer working at a day camp at my school, being a counselor to about 14 5-year olds. This was my first time being a full-time counselor, which was really exciting, but also came with a ton of new responsibilities. Other than that, I spent a week at the beach with my family and am starting to move forward with college applications!”

Maggie Wilkinson: Maggie had a great end to senior year — the best of high school with the exception of CITYterm.

This summer, she travelled to Italy for 2 weeks and relaxing at home while she enjoys her last months in the south. In the fall, Maggie will return to the city at New York University Gallatin!

Spring 2013: Class Agents Sara Eismont and Abigail McLean

Zoe Zachary: Zoe enjoyed her first year at Bard college and is looking forward to spending time at home over the summer while working.

Muntaha Mohamed: Muntaha wrote a new story this summer and sang in a wedding with Nora Daly (S ’13).

Annie Bonsey: Annie writes, “Having finished up my senior year of high school at Cambridge Rindge and Latin, this summer this summer, I travelled to France and Italy, as well as spending a lot of time with friends and family. I am very excited to be attending Scripps College, one of the five Claremont Colleges in California. I miss my CITYterm family every day, but hope to carry on what they have taught me in my four years of college and beyond”.

Spring 2012: Class Agent Hyacinth Parker Fall 2012: Class Agent Claudia Mihm Elliot Friedman: Elliot writes “I spent three weeks at Cornell doing a summer program on different types of design as well as design theory. Since being home, I have been exploring Portland, working on college applications, and teaching tennis lessons to at-risk kids. Before summer ends, I’m looking forward to spending a week in Canada with my family, and going camping with friends.”

Wyatt Welles: Wyatt writes “I’m trucking along with my play that will go up in December. Additionally, I will (hopefully) be participating in my schools fall musical.

I have been working on video editing this summer, and will hopefully have some new videos up soon. Other than that, I’ve been slaving away on my blog!”

Maddie Bradshaw: Maddie spent the summer traveling around the country and is visiting Chicago, Santa Fe, South Carolina, California, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.

Shea Necheles: Shea spent the summer baking and selling pies at a farm stand.

Abigail McLean: Abigail worked as a lifeguard this past summer and traveled to California, Boston, and Pittsburgh.

Peyton Steurer: Peyton spent the summer studying for the SAT and ACT and looking at colleges.

Sara Eismont: Sara worked as a camp counselor and traveled to North Carolina, Aruba, and the Jersey Shore.

Mimi Li: Mimi spent the summer attending a pre-med camp at Washington University in St. Louis and a dental camp in Taiwan. She was volunteered at a hospital.

Jared Burk: Jared visited friends and family in California and started college at Indiana University.

Ames Ward: This summer Ames took a six-week road trip with his dad and brother across the United States and Canada.

Sunny Yan: Sunny attended a math camp in Boston and spent time looking at colleges.

Precious Musa: Precious studied for the SAT and ACT this summer and she visited colleges.

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