targets playwrights at the earliest stages of their careers. | Adriane Raff Corwin is currently living in Honolulu and pursuing a Ph.D. in political science at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. She is managing editor of the Manoa Journal of Fried and HalfFried Ideas. | Sarah Elger was a finalist in the Disney ImagiNations design competition. She is halfway through a master’s degree in architecture at the University of Pennsylvania and hopes to go back to Disney this summer. | Bernard Gann and Tyler Dusenbury are in Liturgy, a black metal band named No. 1 in its genre in Spin magazine’s “Best of 2011” issue. | Patricia Pforte is interning at the Brooklyn Historical Society, New York, while she completes her master’s degree in museum studies this spring. | Rachel Schragis is a New York–based artist, educator, and activist who created How Do You Illustrate Corruption? a flow-chart visualization of the declaration of the Occupy Wall Street movement.
’07 5th Reunion: May 25–27, 2012 Please join your classmates Kate Hardy, Meghan Hunt, Mia McCully, Eduardo Mills, Ryan Selzer, Joanna Tanger, Stephen Tremaine, Noah Weston, and others, back on campus in May. Gaia Filicori and Gordon Bell ’08 were on hand, hooting and hollering, at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival, supporting the world premiere of their film, Beasts of the Southern Wild, which won the grand jury prize for best U.S. dramatic feature. Filicori was the production coordinator and assistant casting director, and Bell was the script supervisor on this popular film, which features pyrotechnics, exotic animals, and small children in the bayous of southern Louisiana. | Jivan Lee (BCEP ’07) lives in Taos, New Mexico, where he pursues two interrelated careers: one as a fine artist and one as a self-employed environmental/ sustainability consultant. | Tanner Vea and Matthew Kelly were married on July 3, 2011.
’06 Raphael Bob-Waksberg has been tapped to write a new NBC comedy, starring How I Met Your Mother actor Kal Penn, to be set at the United Nations. | Olivia Carrow works at the Hudson, New York, office of Etsy.com and lives at a newly formed organic CSA community. She is also enrolled in foundation studies at the Alkion Center in Ghent, New York, in preparation for teaching at a Waldorf school, and has formed a new three-piece folk/string ensemble called Pocatello. | Christophe Chung graduated from MIT with a master’s degree in urban planning in 2011 and now lives in Washington, D.C., where he works as a water
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Left to right: Jennifer Robinson, Eben Kaplan ’03, Lisa Savin ’03, Mollie Meikle ’03, Bianca D’Allesandro ’03, Abby Pike, Caroline Muglia ’04, Alex Bernal, Rachel Gardner, Pia Carusone ’03, Sarah Mosbacher ’04 photo Marybeth Joy
supply and sanitation consultant for the World Bank, with a focus on the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. | Peter Haffner is enrolled in UCLA’s world arts and cultures M.A./Ph.D. program in culture and performance, with a focus on Haitian art. | Andy Hardman is in the midst of an accelerated postbaccalaureate nursing program in Duluth, Minnesota, and is the recipient of the HRSA (Health Resources and Services Administration) scholarship. | Sarah Kat Keezing and Ryan Gay ’02 married on June 25, 2011, in Brownfield, Maine. The couple were thrilled to have a pile of beloved Bardians present. They were even more thrilled to welcome the arrival of baby Hudson Ryan Gay on January 26, 2012. | Ezra Parzybok works with the Care Center, a youth program in Holyoke, Massachusetts, which was presented with a National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award at the White House in the fall for its success as an alternative GED program for teen mothers. | Lauren Pessin has been teaching kindergarten students with autism spectrum disorders in the Bronx for five years. | Chelsea Streifeneder had her Red Hook, New York, business, Body Be Well, named best Pilates studio in the Hudson Valley for 2011. | Matt Wing was named the deputy communications director for New York City for the governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo.
’05 Jessica Haskins recently completed an M.F.A. in design and technology at Parsons The New School for Design, and is working as a game designer at Muse Games in New York City. | Renee Pena recently celebrated her company’s second birthday. Creative Sitters, LLC, is the compilation of Renee’s arts-education experience at Bard and the power of teaching in an out-of-the-box environment.
’04 Ronan S. Farrow has received a Rhodes Scholarship, the oldest and most celebrated international fellowship in the world. He plans to pursue a doctorate at Oxford University in international development. Currently special adviser to the U.S. secretary of state for global youth issues, he also was special adviser for humanitarian and NGO affairs. | Liz McGovern and Ian McBee welcomed their second child in the fall of 2011. Ian teaches chemistry at Triton Regional High School in Byfield, Massachusetts, and Liz works as an office coordinator at Suffolk University in Boston. | Jonathan Reingold launched his own law firm, Reingold Law, in Seattle, Washington, with a focus on immigration law. | Rainey Reitman is serving as activism director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a nonprofit civil liberties law firm and advocacy center based in San Francisco. She also has been a vocal advocate for WikiLeaks whistleblower PFC Bradley Manning.
’03 Babacar Cisse completed his M.D./Ph.D. at Columbia University, and he is now at the New York–Presbyterian Weill/Cornell Medical Center for his neurosurgery residency. | Bianca D’Allesandro married Abby Pike at Oz Farm in Mendocino County, California, in October 2011. Currently dean at Oakland School for the Arts, Bianca will complete her doctorate in education at Mills College, Oakland, this spring. | Rudd Davis has been named to the newly created position of president of USA Today’s Travel Media Group. | Laida Lertxundi had her films selected for the 2012 Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (see p. 32). | Nathan Rutenbeck plans to graduate from Yale Divinity School and Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies this spring, after which he hopes to enter doctoral studies in forest ecology and management.