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Akshita Bhanjdeo has joined the International Rescue Committee this year as a media and communications analyst. | Dylan Dahan is attending the University of Oxford to pursue a D.Phil. in the interdisciplinary bioscience doctoral training program. | Alexander D’Alisera is attending Yale Divinity School to pursue an M.A. in the history of Christianity. | Hannah Durham is a communication and enrollment manager at Bowdoin College’s ISLE Program. | Rose Falvey will spend six months interning with the Southern Poverty Law Center. She will conduct research for the Intelligence Report, write articles, and help expand the publication’s reach. Rose also is a recipient of a Justus and Karin Rosenberg Foundation internship. | Alexa Frank received an editorial internship at Hachette Book Group. | Andrea Fronsman is pursuing an M.S. in human-environment relations, environmental psychology at Cornell University. | Nina Hemmings is now the assistant to the Development of New Plays Department at the New York Theater Workshop. | Lily Mastrodimos, Bella Mazzetti, and Andrea Szegedy-Maszak ’16, of Jawbreaker Reunion, a band with Tom Delaney ’16, were interviewed by MTV about their music and upcoming album. | Christina Miliou-Theocharaki, recipient of a Justus and Karin Rosenberg Foundation internship, spent the summer as the Combating Anti-Semitism and Extremism Intern at Human Rights First, the premier organization working globally to protect human rights. | Hallie Nolan began her pursuit of a master’s degree in architecture and urban design in the fall of 2015 at Washington University in St. Louis. | Jake Weissman is attending the University of Maryland College Park to pursue a Ph.D. in behavior, ecology, evolution, and systematics.
Raed Al-Abbasee is earning his Ph.D. in biomedical sciences at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He is very grateful to the generosity of Bard College as well as his professors Swapan Jain and Brooke Jude, whose passion and enthusiasm for biomedical research inspired him to pursue the field of gene therapy. | Nushrat Hoque is among the newest class of Woodrow Wilson New Jersey Teaching Fellows. The program recruits both recent graduates and career changers with strong backgrounds in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) and prepares them to teach in highneed secondary schools. | Grayson Morley began studying at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop this fall. He is teaching literature and working on his short stories. He misses green Annandale, his fellow Bardians, and the Burrito Stand. But chiefly among them, the Burrito Stand. | János Sutyák (B.Mus.), who in 2015 completed the Conservatory’s Advanced Performance Studies Program, was awarded first prize this summer in the Slider Asia International Tenor Trombone Competition in Hong Kong.
’14 Brady McCartney, previously dean of studies at BHSEC Cleveland, has received a new appointment to the positions of dean of students and faculty in economics at BHSEC Baltimore. | Scot Moore (B.Mus.) and David Adam Nagy (B.Mus. ’12) join The Orchestra Now in residence at Bard College. | Emma Schmiedecke (B.Mus.) will travel this fall to represent the New York Youth Symphony and the United States, sponsored by the U.S. State Department, at the CONNECTT International Youth Orchestra Conference in Trinidad. | Last year, Rebecca Swanberg trained horses and guided treks in Iceland. Upon her return to New York, she worked with the digital department of PBS. She currently spends mornings training horses in upstate New York and afternoons working on her writing, and will teach journalism at St. Luke’s School in the West Village.
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’12 Kabren Levinson is a marketing operations specialist at FinMason, Inc., a financial tech startup devoted to helping people understand their retirement portfolios. He was also the chief technology officer for the Vienna Project, a social action memorial project that was the first public art memorial of its kind in Europe. Kabren is the cofounder of a new DJ/artist duo called ÖPYN MYND. | Lindsay Stanley has been recruited for the position of leadership giving manager with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, where she will serve as a member of the philanthropy team, executing strategies to generate investments from important leadership donors. She is also a proud new member of the Board of Governors of the Bard College Alumni/ae Association.
’11 5th Reunion: May 27–29, 2016 Please join the reunion committee of Shawn Steele and Pearl Tang to organize your reunion in May. For more information, call 845-758-7089 or visit annandaleonline.org. Robert Goodis received his J.D. from American University, Washington College of Law in May 2015. The Goodis Center, a human rights research and advocacy organization Robert started while at Bard, received 501(c)(3) status in late 2014. | Deanna Licata and John Borthwick ’09 were married on September 18, 2015, at the Quadrangle
Club in Chicago. Deanna and John met at Bard, where both played rugby. | Ben Pesetsky (B.Mus.) has been appointed the PR and communications manager for the Handel and Haydn Society in Boston. Ben is also working on a new composition to help celebrate the 10th anniversary of Bard Conservatory.
Teammates celebrate a “rugby wedding” (L to R): Kent Gowen ’09, Nathan Gandrud ’09, Brian Wolf ’05, Emma Ciccarelli ’11, Holly Schroeder ’11, Marla Port, Molly Trostel ’12, Deanna Licata ’11, John Borthwick ’09, Robert Ross ’09, Derek Hernandez ’09, Jennifer Overstreet ’09, Marta Shocket ’09, Bethany Dettmore ’09, Rachel Zwell ’10, and Joseph Forsyth ’09. Not pictured: Kaycee Filson ’11, Casey James ’10, Bob Lumsden ’09, Vivianne Morrison ‘09. photo Robyn Lytle of Michelle Lytle Photography
’10 Elizabeth Vicki Goldfarb was married this year to Matthew David Simon. She is studying for a doctoral degree in psychology at New York University, where she is conducting research in cognitive neuroscience.
’09 Nese Devenot completed her Ph.D. in comparative literature at the University of Pennsylvania, where she studied psychedelic philosophy and the literary history of psychedelic self-experimentation. She is beginning a three-year position as Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in digital humanities at the University of Puget Sound. | Joe Forsyth and Erica Ball Forsyth ’11 were married on June 29, 2014, in Rock Hall, Maryland. Many Bardians were in attendance: Kylie Collins ’11, Mackie Siebens ’12, John J. Brennan III ’10, Amy Monaco ’06, and Derek Hernandez ’10. Joe and Erica live in the suburbs of Philadelphia. Joe teaches high school English at a public charter school, and Erica, after earning her Ph.D. in music composition from the University of Pennsylvania in May, is now teaching as an adjunct at local colleges.
’08 Alanna Costelloe-Kuehn was a recipient of the HRSA Nurse CORPS Scholarship and is graduating soon. If other alumni/ae have experience in the health care field and would like to share stories and