’07 10th Reunion: May 26–28, 2017 Please come back in May for your reunion. Your classmates and members of the reunion committee Beverley Annan, Kate Hardy, Catherine Lopez, Joanna Tanger, and Stephen Tremaine look forward to seeing you. For more information, call 845758-7089 or visit annandaleonline.org. Caity (Cook) Bolton married Luke Bolton ’09 in 2009. She completed her M.A. in middle eastern studies at New York University in 2010 and began her Ph.D. in cultural anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York in 2013. From 2010–11, Caity lived in Egypt, witnessing the Egyptian revolution in January 2011. She ghostwrote a book for a prominent New York City imam about Islamic law and governance, published in 2015. | Natasha David-Hays met her husband in a trampoline class in New York City. They married in 2014 and had a baby girl in 2015. Natasha is a licensed social worker and substance abuse counselor in New York and Massachusetts. | Brian Dean graduated from the San Francisco Art Institute graduate program in 2015. He met Liz Wand Davidson ’09 while thru-hiking the Appalachian Trail in 2012 and they married in June 2016. They currently live, teach, and make art in San Francisco. | Kate Hardy married Robin Schmidt in June 2013 in Poughkeepsie, New York, in the company of immediate family. In May 2013, Kate received her master’s in social work from Columbia University and works as an associate director of admission at Bard. Kate and Robin live in Queens, New York, where Robin works as assistant to the principal at the Bard High School Early College in Long Island City. Robin continues to perform and record with the band Ikebe Shakedown, whose members include Vince Chiarito ’08 and Barnaby Alter ’08. Jim Bertini mixed and engineered their latest
Mozdeh Zahedi-North ’07, Yolanda Mendoza-Flores ’07, and JP Lor ’07. photo Ambrogetti Ameztoy Photo Studio
album, due to be released this spring. | Haley (Fraser) Hoffner received her doctor of medicine degree from SUNY Downstate College of Medicine in June 2016 and is currently a resident in internal medicine at Kings County Hospital and Downstate University Hospital. In December 2015, Haley married Charm Le’Pre Smith in a small ceremony in Manhattan, New York. Haley and Charm live with their Rottweiler named Spencer in Brooklyn. | Meghan (Hunt) Jordan graduated from Binghamton University in 2014 with her Ph.D. in English. Her dissertation was awarded Binghamton’s Distinguished Dissertation Award and has been nominated for the national Council of Graduate Schools Distinguished Dissertation Award and the regional Northeastern Association of Graduate Schools Doctoral Dissertation Award. That same May she married fellow Binghamton grad Tom Jordan. In attendance were Kate Hardy, Robin Schmidt, Haley Hoffner, Ted Larson, Joshua Wrigley ’08, and Matt Brophy ’02. Meghan is now assistant professor of English at Upper Iowa University in Fayette, Iowa, and mom to Theo, who was born in May 2016. | Sarah Martino lives in Providence, Rhode Island, and is the project director for the Center for Prisoner Health and Human Rights. | Yolanda Mendoza-Flores was sworn into the Massachusetts bar on June 13, 2016, and is currently a first-year associate at the law offices of Lloyd E. Bennett in Union City, New Jersey, where she specializes in immigration and nationality law. On September 3, 2016, she married her partner of six years, Alex Flores, in sunny Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, before 129 friends and family, including fellow Bardians Mozdeh Zahedi-North and JP Lor. | David Russell Moser and Rabbi Yael Rooks Rapport were married in September of last year. David is the director of client services for BeneStream. He received a master’s degree in social psychology from the London School of Economics
and Political Science. | Michelle Moses-Eisenstein moved after Bard to New York City, where she fell in love with tango and earned a master’s degree in public health from Columbia University. Michelle works at the Health Resources and Services Administration and lives in Washington, D.C. She also volunteers with the New Leaders Council as a life entrepreneur trainer and serves on the D.C. chapter’s executive board as cochair of the mentorship committee. | Patrick Murtagh has been working as a flight attendant for a major U.S. carrier since graduation. He can typically be found on transAtlantic routes, where he often works as a language-qualified crew member. A resident of New York City, Patrick lives in Washington Heights with his partner of six years, Daniel, and can be contacted at patrickmurt@gmail.com. | Ethan Porter received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Chicago in spring 2016, and this past fall began as an assistant professor at George Washington University. | Nicole Rhodes and John Weinert were married on August 20, 2016, at their homestead in western Massachusetts. John is a faculty member of Smith College, teaching Arabic language, and Nicole is a field biologist for the Berkshire Natural Resources Council. | Rachael Small is the director of publicity at Europa Editions, where she represents a list of award-winning and bestselling international novelists including Elena Ferrante (Italy), Muriel Barbery (France), Charlotte Wood (Australia), Boualem Sansal (Algeria), Alina Bronsky (Germany), and Santiago Gamboa (Colombia). Rachael is also a translator of French and her first book in translation, Another Morocco: Selected Stories by Abdellah Taïa, will be published by Semiotext(e) this spring. | Tessa Strauss lives in Oakland, California, with her wife, Micaela, and their twins, Ever and Jude, who were born in August 2015. Tessa is a kindergarten teacher. | Bhav Tibrewal married Freya Powell ’06 in 2014.
Andrea Muraskin ’06, Charlotte Hendrickson ’07, Joshua Wrigley ’08, Max Miller ’07, Joanna Leitch ’07, Safi Harriott ’09, John Weinert ’07 (groom), Nicole Rhodes ’07 (bride), Rachael Small ’07, Ella Stocker ’08, Marisa Hebb ’07, Daniel Armenti ’07, Zara Dowling ’07, Heather (Gladstone) Harrison ’10, Gracie Leavitt ’07, Willis Arnold ’07, and Robert Harrison ’07. photo Robert Harrison ’07
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