Cara Parks ’05 and Whitney Snyder photo Jacqueline Schlossman of Readyluck Studios
Sarah Mosbacher ’04, Pia Carusone ’03, and Mollie Meikle ’03. photo Rachel Naft
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Cara Parks was married to Whitney Snyder in May at the William Paca House. Cara is a freelance editor/writer and Whitney is an editorial director
Pia Carusone opened Republic Restoratives Distillery in Ivy City, Washington, D.C. Attending the opening weekend festivities were Mollie Meikle, Eben Kaplan, Sarah Mosbacher ’04, Sarah Paden ’09, Lucas Pipes ’08, and Katy Stein ’66. Pia welcomes Bardians for a tour and cocktail. | Sarah Schendel began a new job as staff attorney at IIIC, a nonprofit organization serving immigrants in the Boston area, where she focuses on providing immigration legal services to homeless and low-income women. She recently taught immigration law as an adjunct professor at Northeastern University School of Law, and also serves as the immigration law advisor at Lawyers for Affordable Justice, a partnership between Boston University, Boston College, and Northeastern University. She lives in Massachusetts in the wonderful SomervilleCambridge area.
of news. They met and live in New York City. | Maura Roche married Nicholas Reynolds on March 15 at the Basilica of St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral in Manhattan. Maura works at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and is also a private tutor specializing in Latin and ancient Greek languages and history. Nicholas is studying for a Ph.D. in political theory. Maura and Nicholas met in 2008 while working for an educational services startup in Manhattan.
’02 15th Reunion: May 26–28, 2017 Plan now to be in beautiful Annandale for your reunion. Contact alumni@bard.edu or call 845758-7089 to join your reunion committee.
Darsi Monaco ’04 and Jacob Mueser. photo Allan Zepeda
’04 Darsi Monaco was married to Jacob Mueser in February of this year. Bardians in attendance were Owen Hutchinson ’07 (bridesman); Ava Warbrick ’06 (bridesmaid); Simone Frazier ’04; Jonathan Paul; Natasha Llorens SR ’03, CCS ’11; Mareike Winchell SR ’01. Darsi is director of trusts and estates at Gurr Johns, an art advisory and valuation firm in New York, where she advises clients on large art collections, and she serves on the Bard Center for Curatorial Studies Arts Council. The bride and groom met through mutual friends in New York in 2007 and they have been a couple since 2010.
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For two years Emily Benedetto has been working as program manager for Primary Care Mental Health Integration at Cambridge Health Alliance, where she is facilitating the integration of mental health services at 12 clinics north of Boston. She married Leigh Bernstein in September of 2015, and they are happily settled in Somerville, Massachusetts. Liz Disterhoft ’04 introduced Emily and Leigh.
’01 David Resnick attended the Nexus Youth Summit at the White House. He consulted with the Executive Office of the President and State Department on using social media to foster global entrepreneurship. Resnick cofounded Bestr, an enterprise platform, to market the best things to do around one’s location; cofounded Stutter Social, a
David Resnick ’01 with Tom Chi, cofounder of Google X, with whom Resnick co-led a workshop on rapid prototyping. photo Courtesy of David Resnick
virtual support group that hosts meetings across 50 countries; and founded the School of Emotional Physics, a meditation and metaphysics center.
’98 Kate Travers Sexton and her husband, Phillip Sexton, welcomed Charlie Fox Sexton on December 20, 2015. He joins his big sister Sadie Grace.
’97 20th Reunion: May 26–28, 2017 Plan now to be in beautiful Annandale for your reunion. Contact alumni@bard.edu or call 845758-7089 to join your reunion committee.
’92 25th Reunion: May 26–28, 2017 Plan now to be in beautiful Annandale for your reunion. Contact alumni@bard.edu or call 845758-7089 to join your reunion committee. David Cote wrote the libretto for the opera Three Way, composed by Robert Paterson. The world premiere is January 27, 2017, at the James K. Polk Theater in Nashville. The production will then transfer to Brooklyn Academy of Music in June 2017. Three Way, coproduced by Nashville Opera and American Opera Projects, consists of three comic one-act operas about craving and connection.
’91 Tim Clifford presented his first solo exhibition, Threat Assessment, in New York at Howl! Happening Gallery. In May 2016, his sculpture Monument to a Missing Island was exhibited on Randall’s Island, New York, as part of FLOW.16. In March, Robert Motherwell: 100 Years was published by Skira Press, coauthored by Tim (with Jack Flam and Katy Rogers).