Kerry Brogan lives and works in Beijing, where she has developed a successful career as an actress. Fluent in Mandarin, Kerry has appeared in more than 40 Chinese films and television shows, playing a wide variety of roles. A native of Massachusetts, she was profiled by the Boston Globe on the eve of the Summer Olympics in Beijing (including an online video interview with clips from some of her performances). She is recording her first CD.
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Jane Gilvin ’02, Jessica Anzelone ’02, and Adam Brown at Jessica and Adam’s wedding celebration at Bard’s Spiegeltent
earned her master’s degree as a distance-learning student, Toni is happy to have returned to a community of online learners. When she bumped into Sarah Shapiro at a restaurant after her interview, she knew it was a sign to take the job. Clarisse Labro lives in Paris. She is an architect for the firm of Shigeru Ban, whose offices are located at the top of the Centre Pompidou. Clarisse married in the spring of 2008. Angie Smith ’04 was a guest at her “big wedding celebration” in France that fall. After receiving a recent issue of the Bardian, Clarisse reconnected with Pia Carusone ’03. María Elena Masó Isea, William Ruíz ’03, and their son, Simón, moved to Puerto Rico last summer. The family plans to open an artist collective/theater space. Melanie A. Meyer was acknowledged in Martha Blackwelder’s book At the Edge of the Sky, published by the San Antonio Museum of Art. Melanie provided research in the formative stages of the book, which describes the museum’s Asian art collection. Jessica Neptune is a doctoral candidate in American history at the University of Chicago. Having finished her course work, she is doing research for her dissertation. She also teaches courses on race and the American prison system, and historical writing and research for college seniors. Tamara Plummer is the assistant director of campus programs at the University of Vermont. She continues to play bassoon, and performed with the Harlem Symphony Orchestra at the Apollo Theater in 2007. Jaren Smith and Patrick Farrell were married on October 6, 2007, in Boulder, Colorado. Lara Tucker is in her third year as a graduate student and teaching fellow in Latin American literature and culture at Columbia University. She received her master’s degree in 2007 and expects to complete her Ph.D. by 2010.
’01 Class correspondent Sung Jee Yoo, sujeyo@gmail.com
Toni Capaccio and Josh Miller were married on August 16, 2008, in Hershey, Pennsylvania. In attendance were fellow Bardians Hillary Avis, Julie Endy, Jean-Marc Gorelick ’02, Heather Salon, J. R. Valenzuela ’02, Elena Vogel ’02, and Vanessa Volz. Toni and Josh have settled in Alexandria, Virginia, where Josh is finishing a Ph.D. in philosophy and teaching at George Washington and American Universities and Toni works as an attorney with the Government Accountability Office. Julia Christensen is the Henry R. Luce Visiting Professor of the Emerging Arts at Oberlin College and Conservatory. Her first book, Big Box Reuse, about the community reuse of abandoned Wal-Mart and Kmart buildings, was published by MIT Press in 2008. In May 2008 Michelle Efrein became the executive assistant to Susan Weber, director of The Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture in New York City. After a rewarding and fascinating year teaching English at West Point, David Gruber accepted an offer to return to Bard in the fall of 2008 as a visiting assistant professor, teaching First-Year Seminar and in the Academic Resources Center. His first collection of poetry, Sleepers’ Republic, was published by Astrophil Press. Ariana Stokas has returned to Bard as the director of opportunity programs. After graduation in 2000, Ariana went on to earn a master’s degree from Teachers College, Columbia University, where she is now completing work on her dissertation on “the school as an embodied aesthetic experience.”
’99 Jedediah Berry’s first novel, The Manual of Detection, was published by The Penguin Press in February. He completed a master of fine arts degree in creative writing at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, in 2008, and now lives in Northampton, Massachusetts. Kanako Nakamura Kishi was married in September 2007 to an engineer whom she met at the tennis school they both attended. On July 5, 2008, they became the proud parents of their son, Nagisa. The family lives in the outskirts of Tokyo. Christa Parravani’s first solo exhibition of photographs opened in November 2008 at the Sara Tecchia Roma Gallery in New York City. Marina Smerling graduated from University of San Francisco School of Law in 2006, “blessedly” passed the bar exam, and has since joined an employment law firm in San Francisco that represents low-income Latino immigrant workers in unpaid wage and discrimination cases.
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