Diving in: COA Magazine Spring 2021

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COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC MAGAZINE

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COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC MAGAZINE

Editorial

Administration

Daniel Mahoney

Darron Collins ’92

Rob Levin Heather Albert-Knopp ’99 Dru Colbert Darron Collins ’92 Arielle Greenberg Jennifer Hughes Caitlin Meredith Amanda Mogridge Chris Petersen Eloise Schultz ’16

Ken Hill

Jamie McKown Bonnie Tai

DAN MAHONEY

Heather Albert-Knopp ’99

Shawn Keely ’00 Bear Paul

Jodi Baker

Design

Sarah Luke

J. Gingrow Patch

Rob Levin

Board of Trustees Philip S.J. Moriarty, Chair Beth Gardiner, Vice Chair Ronald E. Beard, Secretary

Marthann Samek, Vice Chair Henry L.P. Schmelzer, Vice Chair Jay McNally ’84, Treasurer

Cynthia Baker Michael Boland ’94 Barclay Corbus Amy Yeager Geier Winston Holt IV Nicholas Lapham Anthony Mazlish Abby Rowe (’98) Laura Z. Stone William N. Thorndike

Timothy Bass Alyne Cistone Sarah Currie-Halpern Marie Griffith Cookie Horner Casey Mallinckrodt Lili Pew Laura McGiffert Slover Steve Sullens Claudia Turnbull

Samuel M. Hamill, Jr. William V.P. Newlin Henry D. Sharpe, Jr.

John N. Kelly John Reeves

David Hackett Fischer George B.E. Hambleton Philip B. Kunhardt III ’77 Cathy L. Ramsdell ’78 John Wilmerding

William G. Foulke, Jr. Elizabeth D. Hodder Phyllis Anina Moriarty Hamilton Robinson, Jr.

A great thing about being editor of the COA Magazine is I get to interact with a bunch of alumnx. This time around I talked to people about public health in the US, among other things. It was exciting to Zoom with strangers I had a connection with already; COA is that connection. Part of my job is to conduct interviews, answer questions, and solicit writing from people who have populated the island I now call home. In a sense, this place is still full of their walking. A friend once told me of a saying: the roads are full of walkingness.

The roads of MDI are full of the walkingness of COA students. These roads are also full of the walkingness of the rusticators, full of the walkingness of the Wabanaki. Acknowledging those who walk in a place before we do is a way of taking responsibility for our present by acknowledging our past. It’s a way of diving in.

Diving into the Wreck, a poem by Adrienne Rich, speaks to the work of acknowledging the past, interrogating long-held assumptions, and wrestling with what you find. The poem uses a diver exploring a shipwreck as an extended metaphor of what it means to delve into the history of a place or a people. The speaker says they have “read the book of myths,” but now need to investigate “the wreck and not the story of the wreck / the thing itself and not the myth.”

Darron Collins ’92

The faculty, students, trustees, staff, and alumnx of College of the Atlantic envision a world where people value creativity, intellectual achievements, and diversity of nature and human cultures. With respect and compassion, individuals construct meaningful lives for themselves, gain appreciation of the relationships among all forms of life, and safeguard the heritage of future generations.

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FRONT COVER:

Melisa Chan ’18 free diving in Malaysia during her time managing the Perhentian Turtle Project.

Photo credit: Swen Andreas Becht BACK COVER:

Photo credit: Northeast Creek

by Josh Winer ’91

The speaker lays out a plan: I have to learn alone to turn my body without force in the deep element.

And now: it is easy to forget what I came for among so many who have always lived here swaying their crenellated fans between the reefs and besides you breathe differently down here.

I came to explore the wreck.

The words are purposes.

The words are maps.

I came to see the damage that was done and the treasures that prevail.

The founding narrative of COA sounds like the start of a joke: “a priest, a businessman, and a Harvard dean walk into a bar… .” Notice I did not have to say a white priest, a white businessman, and a white Harvard dean. Whiteness does not need to name itself for the sake of clarification; it only exists as a function of what it excludes.

But what Ed Kaebler and Les Brewer and Father Gower began over 50 years ago is not diminished by us looking squarely at the whiteness, the maleness, “the thing itself and not the myth,” rather it is enhanced by our challenging and complexifying the narrative so we are better able to honor the many “treasures that prevail.”

Onward . . .

Dan

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ISABEL MANCINELLI BEGAN TEACHING AT COA IN 1991. SHE HAS ENGAGED SCORES OF STUDENTS IN THE CARE AND RESTORATION OF COA’ S LANDSCAPE , INCLUDING ITS HISTORICAL GARDENS . THROUGH HER COURSEWORK AND HER COMMITMENT TO THE DAVIS CENTER FOR HUMAN ECOLOGY, MANCINELLI HAS EXTENDED COA’ S VOICE , EXPERTISE , AND INFLUENCE IN ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENTS AND L AND USE PL ANNING BEYOND OUR CAMPUS AND INTO THE SHARED L ANDSCAPE OF MDI AND THE DOWNEAST REGION. COA MAGAZINE THANKS ISABEL FOR HER DEDICATION TO THIS PL ACE AND THESE PEOPLE .

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By Isabel Mancinelli, Charles Eliot Chair in Ecological Planning, Policy, & Design

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recent alumnx of College of the Atlantic to acquire GIS data coverage for MDI, establish a friends’ group, and inventory and access potential impacts to native flora and fauna as well as to the local economy.

Instead I landed a job, first as an illustrator, then park planner, and eventually a landscape architect at the North Atlantic Regional Office of the National Park Service. My first assignment was drawing the boundary legislation maps for Acadia National Park. Acadia became one of several parks I oversaw and I made frequent trips to Mount Desert Island. I couldn’t believe I was being paid to return to my favorite place.

As the plan neared completion, professor John Anderson invited me to teach a course about land use planning at COA. During an initial lecture, I presented a project my graduate class had completed for Gunnison, Colorado. The students, including future COA President Darron Collins ’92, wanted to undertake a similar project locally. So I changed my plans for the course and was blown away by the energy, commitment, and creativity those students put into examining and presenting a potential build out scenario for the Route 3 corridor from the head of the island to downtown Bar Harbor. They gave an amazing presentation to Bar Harbor elected officials with huge images graphically illustrating how little protection current zoning provided from the type of sprawl occurring along Route 3 in Ellsworth. It was immensely effective. Their work eventually led to improvements in the land use ordinance and dramatically more thoughtful decisions by major landowners along the corridor. I realized students could have a significant and lasting positive impact on the future of the island I loved.

Once the 1986 boundary legislation passed, the Park Service was committed to completing a general management plan for Acadia. It would be the park’s first. Although Acadia was originally established in 1916, the indeterminate boundary made long-term planning challenging. At that time general management plans were usually the responsibility of the Denver service center. However, due to the contentious nature of the boundary legislation, we convinced the Washington office that in order to ensure acceptance of a plan, local presence was required for the planning team to work closely with the surrounding towns. As team captain, I was duty stationed at Acadia. That planning effort involved numerous, productive collaborations, including working with faculty, students, and

Shortly thereafter I became a full-time faculty member. At first, I intended to return to the National Park Service once my son reached school age. However, when I attended graduation in my fourth year of teaching, and witnessed students I had started working with as first years walk onto that stage having metamorphosed into such confident, capable adults, and knowing I had contributed to that process, I was hooked. COA attracts exceptional students and I have spent 30 years never ceasing to be amazed by their thoughtfulness, dedication, and creativity. I will miss them, and hope many will continue to keep me informed of their lives after COA. Now I’m looking forward to having time to pursue my creativity—painting the beauty that surrounds me on this island.

was 19 when I became entranced by Mount Desert Island while on vacation with my family. We’d stopped for a couple days on our return trip from Nova Scotia.

From our campsite, near Thompson Island, I saw the sun set— rather than rise—over the ocean for the first time. Having been taken by the drama of mountains rising from the sea, the pristine lakes and quiet forests, we returned the following year. It was then, on a ranger-led walk up Beech Mountain, that I learned about forest succession while repeatedly filling a hat with wild blueberries and pouring them into my mouth.

A friend attended an experimental new college in Bar Harbor and I attempted, unsuccessfully, to find College of the Atlantic.

About seven years later, as I was completing graduate school, I saw an advertisement for the position I now hold. I wanted to apply but my then fiancé was not interested in leaving Boston.

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I HAVE JUST AS MUCH TO Feldman in discussion about their experiences with activism at COA and beyond. Sillari says it felt especially beneficial to consider changemaking within the human-ecological framework that “guides us and affects how we approach different types of work.”

Identity-based affinity groups offered space for new students to process their thoughts with classmates who may have had shared experiences. According to the facilitation guide, authored by the team with help from other DEIWG members, they also aimed to “normalize discussions around race and identity while maintaining a culture of honest, open conversations that uplift marginalized voices in the incoming student body,” and provide space for students to “explore their own identities in safe and non-prescriptive ways.”

Figuring out how to do this proved challenging and uncomfortable. “There was something a bit uncomfortable about… [even] defining… what groups [one] could join, knowing it was impossible to encapsulate the full complexities of people’s identities,” Sillari says. After numerous revisions and adjustments, they met with student and alumnx facilitators to discuss the guidelines. While encouraging facilitators to let participants lead conversations, the team talked through potential issues and stressed “prioritizing marginalized people’s safety over privileged people’s comfort.”

Feng says that recognizing the fear of defining identities on others’ behalf better prepared them “to frame our conversations in the affinity groups… than if we had just assumed the categories would be enough.” “We had the urge to give people as many choices as possible,” Lee says, but the team recognized in retrospect that the categories, which could never be a perfect fit, didn’t matter as much as they had initially thought. Having 10 affinity groups made scheduling and effective publicity difficult, resulting in a lower turnout than hoped. But, Sillari writes about the group she co-facilitated, “It was great to have… an opportunity for all of us to reflect on how our own communities, whether that be our families, friends, or previous schooling experiences, talked, or didn’t talk, about issues related to DEI and anti-racism.”

Between the pandemic, police brutality, Black Lives Matter protests, Zoom fatigue, and time differences, the team understood that they couldn’t evaluate their work by turnout alone.

They drafted a survey to collect feedback from participants.

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LEARN FROM EVERYTHING WE ORGANIZED AS THOSE WHO PARTICIPATED. I THINK WE ARE ALL IN THIS LEARNING PROCESS. “We’ve heard from a few people that they now have a name for the thing that they’d been dealing with.”

The weekend following the first week of classes, Lee, Feng, and Sillari got together on campus to write thank-you cards to the panelists and presenters. “That was the first time the three of us met in person,” Lee says, appearing both amused and amazed. “We had this intense experience over several weeks, entirely on Zoom, email, and WhatsApp… and we learned to work together.” “I drew strength from the experience working over the summer together,” Feng notes. “It helped me to engage with [DEI work] outside COA as well.”

Sillari acknowledges, “I have just as much to learn from everything we organized as those who participated. I think we are all in this learning process.”

The team stresses that their efforts were only a starting point. “We now have all the documentation, the facilitation guide we wrote, the survey and the survey results, the budget, the scheduling,” Lee explains. “It’s all there for anyone who wants to learn from what we did.” Sillari hopes there will be a deeper institutional commitment in the future. One example is the need to establish a process for addressing microaggressions and racism.

Lee says, “We think that because we’re a community, we can just talk, listen, and be kind and open-minded.”

Initiating conversation is necessary, but the college also needs to invest in structural solutions if it wants to make anti-racism central to both human ecology and our community. This sentiment is echoed by Sillari. “We planned to plant some seeds for further growth and change within the community. It’s not just about making this statement at the beginning of the year that the college is committed to anti-racism and DEI work.”

Lee, Feng, and Sillari are eager to see what changes will emerge at COA from the experiences these incoming students shared. ¬

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Allison Fundis ’03 Exploring ocean stories

BY ELOISE SCHULTZ ’16

Allison Fundis ’03 in front of E/V Nautilus.

Ever since Amelia Earhart vanished over the Pacific Ocean 80 years ago, her disappearance has mystified experts. In August 2019, a National Geographic-funded expedition led by Allison Fundis ’03 traveled to one of the suspected crash sites to continue the decades-long search. Earhart’s fate is one of the many oceanic mysteries that the crew of exploration vessel (E/V) Nautilus hoped to uncover, which brought them from their home port in California to Nikumaroro Island, located within the Republic of Kiribati. As chief operating officer for the Ocean Exploration Trust, founded by Robert Ballard, Fundis oversees annual deep-sea exploration expeditions in biology, geology, archaeology, and maritime history, as well as a robust educational and outreach program aboard E/V Nautilus. Her degree in human ecology has served her well, she reflects, apparent ever since she began working on research vessels and realized that the collaborative work of experts is much greater than any individual on a sea-going mission. “I love that the ocean exploration and research we do aboard

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Nautilus adds knowledge to the planet’s biodiversity, how the earth fundamentally works,” says Fundis, “and ultimately informs how various groups can better manage and protect the global ocean.”

Since 2006, Fundis has led or participated in over 50 expeditions at sea and managed programs that are live streamed to audiences around the world. Along with researchers, the public can watch her team’s exploration in real time as the ship’s remotely operated vehicles investigate the seafloor with 4K and HD cameras at depths as great as 6,000 meters. There, they routinely see stunningly beautiful coral gardens and discover new species, but also occasionally see marine debris that’s drifted for thousands of miles. While the key mission of the Ocean Exploration Trust is to map and characterize stretches of the ocean and seafloor that have not been previously explored, Fundis and her team are equally dedicated to raising awareness about the importance of ocean health as well as serving as role models and mentors for the next generation.

I love that the ocean exploration and research we do aboard Nautilus adds knowledge to the planet’s biodiversity, how the earth fundamentally works, and ultimately informs how various groups can better manage and protect the global ocean.

Allison Fundis ’03 with the remotely operated vehicle Hercules, which she and her team launch from E/V Nautilus to explore the depths of the ocean up to 6,000 meters.

In the weeks preceding “Expedition Amelia,” Fundis and her crew collected bathymetric data surrounding Kingman Reef and Palmyra Atoll in hopes of finding new species of deep-sea corals and sponges. Located inside the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument, the region’s mineral-rich oceanic crust has been speculated by mining companies, and Fundis hopes that the information they gather can be used to develop more informed management policies for critical habitats. Later, they ventured to Nikumaroro to search for the remains of Earhart’s Lockheed Electra.

As they traveled, the crew conducted systematic mapping of the seafloor to better understand marine habitat and the geological history of previously unexplored areas.

By sharing their findings with the public, the crew of E/V Nautilus promote the importance of ocean research and the role of the ocean as a life-support system for the planet. They also offer internships and educator fellowship programs as part of their mission to promote hands-on experiences in ocean exploration, research, and communications. Whether at sea or onshore, Fundis and her team are preparing the next generation of researchers, explorers, and science communicators to make discoveries about the world’s oceans and the lives within them.

To follow the results of “Expedition Amelia,” check out the two-hour National Geographic special about the voyage, which aired on October 20, 2019, or learn more about the work of the Ocean Exploration Trust at nautiluslive.org.

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the rushes

BY DAN MAHONEY

Development

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he oldest community garden in Worcester [Massachusetts] was started in the early 1970s by a group of dedicated grassroots organizers,” says Stacie Brimmage ’08. That same grassroots spirit took hold of the population in the early nineties after the town decided to put a landfill at the base of one of the city’s largest and most beloved parks, Green Hill Park. The grassroots opposition called themselves the Regional Environmental Council (REC).

The REC were unsuccessful in their attempts to stop the city from building the landfill, but they were successful in organizing concerned citizens to act and, in doing so, the REC became a permanent fixture in the Worcester landscape. According to their website, the mission of the REC is to bring people together “to create a just food system” and “to build healthy, sustainable, and equitable communities” in Worcester and beyond. Their core programs are: UGROW (Urban Gardening Resources of Worcester), which supports community gardens and 60+ onsite/school gardens; YouthGROW, which provides personal, professional, and economic development to Worcester youth through urban agriculture; and farmers’ markets which bring fresh produce to people through mobile and standing community markets. The REC lost the landfill battle but never gave up on the fight for justice in the community.

“When I was at COA I was really interested in education and farming. I did a tutorial with Bonnie [COA professor Bonnie Tai] doing education work at COA Beech Hill Farm.

I then did an internship at the farm where we worked with student groups from all over the area giving them hands-on experiences working with the soil.” These experiences crystallized how Brimmage wanted to engage with education in the future. “When I returned to Worcester, I knew I wanted to work with young people and education and farming.” She quickly got a job as a youth mentor with the YouthGROW program—a program she now coordinates. “It was sort of like a camp counselor position but I was able to lead team projects and work with young people on the farm, so it was perfect for me.” Eventually, REC was awarded full-time AmeriCorp positions, and Brimmage was hired as the school gardens AmeriCorps volunteer to develop and expand the school gardens project in partnership with Worcester public schools. “We have a network of over 60 community gardens and just over 20 of those are school gardens. We are definitely heading in the right direction.”

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Now that the REC and its programs are part of the landscape of Worcester, the struggle has shifted, but it remains a struggle. According to Brimmage, “We constantly need to advocate for this funding. Every year we meet up with folks from all over the state and march to the State House to lobby for youth jobs and to talk to our congressional representatives about the impact and significance of youth opportunities in our community. Our local representatives have been really supportive. But this is something we do all the time. We need to make sure that all of our programs are at least level funded in the state budget.”

I agree with Brimmage that Worcester is “heading in the right direction,” but exactly halfway into our conversation, she utters the word “development.” Development can be an explosive term when talking about community building and food-justice programs within cities and towns. “So many things are changing now because of all the development in the city. Worcester is on the map because people can’t afford to live in Boston anymore.” When I hear this I get that sinking feeling in my stomach.

Development. The most common definitions of the word involve terms like “advancement,” “buildings,” and “using resources” by “repurposing land.” In the latter half of the twentieth century, dialogues concerning the built and natural environments have often been at odds. Town governments and business leaders often look to construction aspects of development as ways to improve their communities: more buildings, more jobs, larger tax bases, more services, and we all come out ahead. Local environmental organizations call out the need to develop green spaces that benefit the people living in those communities; they often favor more urban gardens, healthy-eating partnerships, local farming, youth programming, and the blossoming of strong community bonds through land use. In the early part of the twenty-first century, these discussions are still a work in progress.

When the R-E-C met C-O-V-I-D “With the pandemic, all of our programs have seen a huge uptick, for sure. You have a lot of people stuck at home and they are thinking of ways to occupy their time. Starting a garden is perfect! There were also the early shortages at grocery stores and that got people motivated to start sooner rather than later,” says Brimmage. “Our UGROW network created a whole resource page on our website to help facilitate folks getting the resources they needed.” The webpage includes everything from how-tos on container gardening, building raised beds, soil choices, and transplanting seedlings, to guidance on Worcester’s free compost programs and information on Soul Fire Farm and Soul Fire’s links to BIPOCled gardening projects throughout the country. As Brimmage notes, “information is power.”

Under ordinary circumstances, YouthGROW coordinates 40 youth gardeners working in two different garden sites in the city. YouthGROW plans out how summers will work over the course of the winter and ramps up in spring. Brimmage remembers, “we just had our March meeting… at the end of the week the REC office completely closed down. I contacted our youth to let them know the office was closed and we didn’t know when we would reopen. It was a back-and-forth process trying to figure out how we’d run our summer program.

Eventually our local community action council—the one that manages our state funding—mandated that all YouthWorks sites needed to be virtual to limit face-to-face contact. In the end, YouthGROW decided to have only the junior staff and youth leaders tend the gardens. “All of our junior staff were seniors… they had already lost so much [prom, graduation], we were committed to providing them with some semblance of a typical YouthGROW summer. We decided that REC would fund their employment and everyone else would be virtual and get paid through YouthWorks state funding.”

“Virtual farming” may sound like an oxymoron, something you do while tending your Sims world, but the REC crew created something amazing. “We went forward with our annual Spring Gardening Festival and Plant Sale, which was super successful. We did it all by preorder, so folks would just drive up, tell us their order number, and we just put the plants in their trunks and they drove away.” YouthGROW was able to do this with the minimum number of senior

staff, but I wondered about all of the other young people who were unable to work in the gardens. What about their summer experience?

“We had a team of 12 working in the gardens and we were able to set up our other youth farmers with container gardens or supplies to make raised beds if they had space at their houses, so they could practice growing,” states Brimmage. “We grow corn, eggplant, kale, Swiss chard, broccoli, green peppers… we also grow crops specific to Puerto Rican cooking—ají dulce, cilantro, and gandules—because there is a large Puerto Rican population in Worcester. As soon as Brimmage says the word “gandules,” I get heartsick. I lived in western Massachusetts for a number of years and discovered several amazing Puerto Rican markets and restaurants in Holyoke that added new flavors to my vocabulary: pernil con arroz y gandules, tostones, mofongo, and papas rellenas. I miss that food and the friendly people who made and served that food.

According to Brimmage, another aspect of YouthGROW work that COVID-19 affected was the Farm to Your Table Fall Fundraiser. “It’s a great annual event. Folks will come down to the farm, get tours, have food and drinks, hang out, and get to know their community a bit better. This year we did a virtual farm event where we assembled boxes of produce for people to pick up and take back to their homes. We then digitally streamed a local chef from a Puerto Rican restaurant making homemade sofrito with the ingredients from the box so people could follow along and make the dish at home. It was a really cool partnership.”

And after the pandemic recedes, does Brimmage think folks will abandon their home gardens? “People are going to keep growing. Our community gardens have always been active and that will continue. We have a fast-growing list of people wanting to join our garden projects. We always have community members reaching out to us about spaces in their neighborhoods to grow. It seems like people are becoming more aware of our current food system and how farmers are exploited, and how large food processing plants have exploited their workers during this pandemic.

When people pay attention to those types of things, it adds up and motivates them to keep growing.”

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Käthe Kollwitz was a way…

For my senior project at COA, I studied pregnant women in Nepal who were HIV positive. The only public maternal hospital in the entire country is in Kathmandu. Before I left COA for the study, I remember Ms. Netta [anthropology professor Netta van Vliet] saying to me, “Porcia, you’re just a fly on the wall. Sit in the corner, observe, and write it all down.” That’s what I did; I wrote down every single thing and I was awake until 2 am writing descriptions of what I saw. This was sometimes graphic, a miscarriage—in the ER there were two women who were literally leaking because their water broke and they were delayed in being attended to due to heavily occupied nurses and doctors. There was just so much.

I wanted to tell people what things were, how things are outside of this wonderful bubble of being in a high-income country where there is a lot of privilege—even me as a local person from

Kathmandu to do this research—but I struggled with how to make people understand the problem, the suffering. How could I bring them into those rooms?

The written part of my senior project* was one way, but I wanted a pictorial version so that people could be part of that interplay, like how a virus moves from human to human… the inescapable intimacy of that moment. Visual art is a different kind of dialogue. Ms. Catherine [art professor Catherine Clinger] showed me the work of Käthe Kollwitz and it made sense… how Kollwitz (German painter, printmaker, sculptor, 1867–1945) was a witness of such suffering. *Manandhar created a series of intaglio prints as a part of her senior project entitled, Virus, Human, and Power. Images can be found here: coa.edu/porciamanandhar

Can you pause this?

I was doing assessments of birthing centers in rural Nepal where my [current] field site is—it’s a place called Sarlahi in the rural southern part of the country where one of the oldest research sites that Hopkins utilizes is located. They have been there since 1988. It was one of the first places where they did a large-scale vitamin A trial. It was huge, thousands of kids were involved and they found that there was a 30% reduction in mortality when these young people were given vitamin A. Eventually, after subsequent studies, it became an official World Health Organization (WHO) recommendation.

It’s funny, when I was growing up in Nepal, I got those vitamin A capsules at the same time I got my polio vaccination. When I came to Hopkins I had no idea how much they were involved with the Nepalese government. It turns out my academic advisor was in her early twenties when she joined the vitamin A project in Nepal, and now here we both are at Hopkins.

The WHO is there to provide top-class recommendations from scientists, but the country needs to have both the economic and political means to do something with these recommendations.

Let’s say country Z is a tourist destination, but country Z also has an active cholera outbreak. If tourists hear the word cholera they automatically think the country has dirty water and poor sanitation. Because of this, the outbreak might not get reported.

Or let’s say it gets reported, and the non-governmental organizations in the area are able to send help in the form of vaccines.

If country Z’s government doesn’t have the infrastructure to do mass vaccinations, the vaccines will just sit at the airport.

Another example is HPV vaccinations, which are routine for young teenagers and adults in the US—even though there is a lot of vaccine hesitancy in this country. But when I was in Nepal, 32

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about to turn 25, I thought that I should get my HPV vaccination. In order to do that I had to go to the tourist hospital, which is fancy and big, and I walked in and asked, “Do you guys give the HPV vaccine?” and the nurse brought me to a room, closed the door and said, “Are you married?” “No, I’m not married.” It was so frustrating, the lack of messaging about this. In Nepal, only married women can get an HPV vaccination, and they are required to pay out of pocket.

Public health in Nepal used to be run through the central government in Kathmandu. Kathmandu decided on the health needs of the country. They’ve just changed over to a federalized system where each province is now autonomous, but because this system is so new, no one is sure who to ask for what. There are great benefits to a federalized system but while all of this is being reorganized, you cannot just tell a woman in labor, “Can you pause this? I just need to figure out a couple of things before we go any further.”

Local control allows each province to determine its own needs. A province can say “we don’t need any more vitamin X but we need vitamin Y.” Not all population groups are comparable and it makes sense to have localized control. But for large scale operations like countrywide vaccinations, these things need to happen regardless of disagreements or chaos in a particular area. You need to have a centralized response in order to reach everyone.

When it comes to public health, your rights are national rights—universal rights— not conditioned upon the politics of your local or regional office.

$5 a dose I am in the Department of International Health at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. We work mostly with low- to middle-income countries (LMICs). Under the larger department, there are four sub-programs, and I am in the Global Disease Epidemiology and Control program. Amy [Wesolowski ’10] is in the Department of Epidemiology. It gets confusing. I met Amy years ago at a dinner at [COA professor] Dave Feldman’s house—we both had longer hair back then. I did not know if she was at Stanford or Hopkins until one day I ran into her at the coffee shop! We had the same advisor at COA, took mostly the same classes, and we both ended up at Hopkins. We both talk about COA a lot. Sometimes we will be in the same meeting and Amy will say, “You know that Porcia went to the same weird college that I went to, the one none of you believe exists.”

The School of Public Health reminds me so much of COA, I don’t feel very different in how I interact with faculty and other students. It’s been so great. It reminds me of being at JAX [Bar Harbor’s Jackson Laboratory], which was such an inspiration to me because there were people from all walks of life, people from many, many different countries doing some deep, ground-breaking thinking on the island.

When I was at COA I had some amazing friends come and visit my home in Nepal. And I remember some asking if they really needed to get vaccinated against Japanese encephalitis [and I told them yes]. You do not need this vaccination in the US because JE is more common in other places than in the US, just like if you were to go to South Sudan you would want to get vaccinated against yellow fever. In the US, getting some of these shots is as easy as going to Walgreens; it’s not so easy in other parts of the world. Most of the health posts I work with are single-floor buildings with four rooms or less. That’s it. Those four rooms are used for delivering babies, postnatal care, vaccine delivery, treating patients for diarrhea and vomiting, and everything else you can think of.

Both the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines have synthetic mRNA components [as of this writing both vaccines have been approved by the FDA]. The one obstacle with the COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer is that it requires ultra cold chain storage.

The Moderna one also requires cold chain storage, but not as extreme as the Pfizer vaccine. How do you keep that cold chain intact if you are transporting the vaccine to, let’s say, Nepal?

Getting it to the airport is one thing but then how do you get the vaccine into the rural, low-resource settings? When I was at the field site in Nepal on vaccination days, I would arrive at the health post in the morning and find nurses waiting for a person to come from the district headquarters on his motorbike. He

usually had a cooler and inside that a plastic bag with these little vials, and that was it. So, again, there is a lot to consider.

The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is an adenovirusvectored vaccine and the cold chain is not as extreme. That vaccine is being talked about as being mostly for poorer countries. It is about $5 a dose, which is doable. And this is where the WHO and GAVI [the Global Vaccine Alliance] are really important. GAVI gets enough funding for LMICs to get vaccines for free. LMICs get their routine vaccines, especially childhood vaccines, through GAVI and the WHO. There are three general economic tiers we talk about in public health: there’s high-income, middle-income, and low-income countries as categorized by the World Bank. The middle-income country designation is growing. You have countries like India, Ghana, and Nigeria. Lebanon is another one. The gross national income in these countries is higher relative to LMICs, so they graduate from the low- to middle-income category.

On paper they are doing well, so GAVI comes in and says, “Now that you are wealthier you should be able to afford vaccines on your own.” Such graduating countries are then given some grace period to transition and this allows GAVI to devote more resources to comparatively poorer countries. But these middle-income countries, in absence of proper planning and budgeting, can get stuck with a bill they did not foresee.

For the past two decades, for instance, they’ve been relying on GAVI to help them get these vaccines, and now they are expected to pay for them going forward.

These three [COVID-19] vaccines are amazing when you think about it, so technologically and biomedically advanced.

But they still need to be tested. The science needs to be replicated and the data checked and rechecked and proven safe and effective. Science and public health are about solving problems for the greater good, not about trying to make a profit.

I was reading this New York Times article about the couple that started BioNTech. They are Turkish immigrants living in Germany. This couple [Ugur Sahin and Özlem Türeci] said they started working on a vaccine because it was their duty as scientists. They then partnered with Pfizer for development and now their company is worth billions of dollars, but they still ride their bicycles to work and they don’t own a car. And this is a Turkish couple living in Germany where recently there has been unrest about immigration.

I sent the article to my advisor and she said something like, “I’m really proud to be an immigrant, and you should be too.”

That’s all. ®

Porcia Manandhar is a doctoral candidate at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health studying infectious disease epidemiology and vaccine science and policy. When not working or teaching herself to knit, she can be found perfecting her savory tofu recipe in her kitchen in Baltimore, Maryland.

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Is there anything you feel you want to say, right up front, about race, racial justice, and whiteness at COA? BONNIE TAI (BT): Although I probably have

more to say about gender at COA than about race, I’ve been the only full-time US woman of color on the faculty since I started here 20 years ago. That’s very much shaped how I’ve thought about these issues. I also want to note that my experiences of white supremacy as an Asian American are quantitatively and qualitatively different from those of other BIPOC, a difference that is rarely if ever explicitly acknowledged at COA. In my time here, the student body has become more diverse. One out of four students are international; one-sixth are students of color; one-sixth are first generation college students; many more receive financial aid than used to be the case. But the faculty has not gotten much more diverse.

How has this lack of faculty diversity played out in my experience? Here’s just one example: one year, a commencement raised a lot of faculty voices about how it was all older white men on the dais. A year later, I was asked to be faculty marshal. When I asked what that involved, I was told it essentially meant being in the front of the procession. I asked, Does this have anything to do with the conversations and criticisms about who was on the dais last year?

The response did not convince me that my visible racial and gender difference from the majority of my peers was not the primary motivation for the invitation to serve in this symbolic role. I remember responding: Until the faculty reflects at least the diversity of the students, I don’t want to be the token woman of color: it’s a superficial, meaningless, and dishonest act. The honorific had nothing to do with what I contribute to the faculty. So I declined.

I understand the pragmatism behind short-term, simplistic solutions like this attempt to present a more diverse face of COA at one of our most public events, but they also reflect the depth of unawareness around some of these issues.

CATHERINE CLINGER (CC): When I came for my initial interview at COA before I was hired, I wasn’t familiar with Maine. I’d come from Montreal and London, and had spent most of my life in New Mexico. So I was very surprised by what I saw as a room of “glowing white heads” which were the faculty. I almost didn’t take the position, because I wondered how the dynamics would play out in a place where the faculty did not appear to reflect the student body. How could students find themselves? The students want to understand history and continuity in their studies, but they also want to be current.

What does white supremacy look like at COA?

BT:

A lot of it is tacit. There are assumptions about norms, standards, ways to truth, and the meritocracy: who deserves awards, praise, compensation, opportunities, etc. For example, there is a tacit hierarchy about what kinds of self-presentation we value over others. A masculinist, individualist, near-narcissistic self-promotional presentation in intellectual debate and discourse reaps greater rewards (talk time, hiring, promotion) than self-presentation more common in collectivist cultures that value humility, interdependence, and the elevation of others. And it’s difficult to talk about white supremacy without talking about how it intersects with language dominance and monolingualism, ability, citizenship, gender, sexuality, and so forth.

White supremacy also manifests itself in what gets taught in the curriculum: whose words are valued, validated, magnified; whose stories get told.

These are all implicit moments that we mostly don’t examine closely or systematically. And the questions these moments raise are ethical questions. If we don’t yet have a level of self-awareness about the roots of our assumptions about what merits acknowledgment, recognition, rewards, and celebration, it’s very hard to meet our basic ethical obligations as teachers to respond to the needs of all students equally and equitably.

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REUBEN HUDSON (RH): Unfortunately, I see white supremacy enacted all the time in chemistry teaching, including my own, because a lot of the fundamental things that we teach early in chemistry are from white European dudes. The very ideas that form the literal basis of chemistry, such as electrons, were discovered by a French guy, a German guy. It’s an incessant march of white guys. Contemporary chemistry involves all sorts of different people, but we can’t always get to those in introductory chemistry courses, which means I have to leave more diverse sources out of the curriculum early on.

Beyond my specific discipline, I see how there are standards or expectations that we hold students to which are baked into white culture but not shared by other cultures. We operate on this false and white supremacist premise that our students all come in with the same bodies of knowledge or norms. And then we wonder why all students aren’t equally engaged.

JODI BAKER (JB): It looks much the same here

as it does at other small liberal arts institutions in America. The value of these institutions is measured, at least in part, by exclusivity. Who has access, who we’re built to serve, who and how we exclude—this is really at the core of who we are. For better and worse, we tend to think of COA as pretty special. We have an extraordinary history, unique mission, innovative curriculum—all very cool. But this can feed a false sense of exceptionalism. It’s easy to assume that we are so interesting, so radical, so well intentioned that we are somehow outside or beyond this problem.

And of course, we are not. We’re cut from the same fabric, married to many of the same academic traditions, steeped in some undeniably racist and classist foundational principles—just like everybody else.

CC:

We are a relatively young school, and the mythology of our founding is still really potent. But that potency can be a negative, because the world is not the same place it was when the school was founded—and frankly, even back in the heyday of the counterculture that helped started this place, it was not a great place for those other than white males.

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Honestly interrogating why a place like this remains tied in any way to these principles and structures seems important. I don’t think anybody at COA is eager to bolster or maintain the fundamentally racist and classist norms of higher education, but none of us have been trying hard enough to dismantle them either.

What do you think are some ways of remedying those problems?

CC:

We’re not very good at looking at other models because we always want to self-generate. We have such a sense of ourselves as an iconoclastic institution that we think we can’t borrow from other models. I’ve been confused by why we don’t look at existing ways of re-looking, at other ways of acting. Why don’t we investigate those and explore them together? There are other wisdoms. I tell my students that all the time.

JB:

I think we need practice. By this I mean we need to develop a collective practice of engaging with these topics honestly and openly. Practice taking active risks, acknowledging our mistakes, apologizing, and trying again.

I think that’s especially hard at COA. We are a pretty intense group—hyper-intelligent, passionate thinkers who care deeply about social issues and injustice. The fear of “doing it wrong” can be paralyzing here both institutionally and personally. Offering up the space to consider the nature and scope of this work critically, without a narrow agenda, without constant correction, without prescribed outcomes and with many different voices in the room—this would be a great start.

Resisting skepticism, cynicism (not my strong suit), and trusting that we are all actually capable of participating responsibly and effectively in this dialogue and in this work would also be useful.

We will undoubtedly disagree but I hope we’re not so conflict averse that we seek out only the most bland, palatable, incremental revisions.

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What do you feel most despondent or frustrated by in terms of how white supremacy manifests at COA?

RH:

Recently, I was trying to write a grant to better recruit and retain underrepresented students in STEM areas, from funders who only fund US citizens. I was trying to get the data on registration for American BIPOC in our introductory STEM classes, and to chart that through intermediate and advanced classes, to see if we lose American BIPOC students as we move up in the sciences, to see if the pipeline is leaking and if we have a recruitment or retainment issue. But frankly, there just aren’t enough American BIPOC students on campus and in these courses to get any meaningful statistics—we’re only talking about a handful of total students. And that’s sad to me.

BT:

At COA, we tend to see ourselves as non-hierarchical and egalitarian but that view can often completely disregard systemic inequalities within and outside of COA, and how those inequalities impact our internal structures, policies, and processes, and ultimately students’ opportunities to succeed at COA—academically, socially, and professionally.

For example, language itself is a signifier of national origin, citizenship, socioeconomic status, cultural class, race or ethnicity, educational access, etc. If as a teacher your sole or primary means of evaluating student learning is through verbal or written means, and your evaluation of student learning privileges these English language-focused skills above other valid assessments, you deny or ignore the historic and systemic inequities, not to mention cultural differences that contribute to how you interpret and evaluate students’ language and communication skills. There is substantial documentation of how public K-12 schools in the US, as one specific example, systematically disadvantage students in underfunded school districts through inequitable school finance policies impacted by discriminatory employment and housing practices. Feedback and evaluation practices that overemphasize the evaluation of writing and spoken presentation skills fail to document and celebrate student learning and growth, and unfairly penalize students based on their diverse secondary school experiences. As Katarina Tomasevski writes in Education Denied, education is a multiplier of human rights. And, by extension, the denial of the right to education is a multiplier

of the denial of human rights. Perhaps more frustrating than that is the lack of humility that comes with externalized and internalized white supremacy.

Under what conditions are we open to learning from those we have been conditioned to believe are inferior to us—whether due to their age, gender or sexual identity, educational background, class, language proficiency, race, ethnicity, or national origin?

CC:

Our challenge is to depart from our attachment to a “common identity” and value system. Someone will say that a new idea “doesn’t really represent the values of the college.” But what does that mean? We don’t share a common understanding even of that concept.

Those are the discussions where we have to look at the structures in place, see the flaws. We must be willing to call into question the efficacy of the paradigms in which we’re operating.

What do you feel most hopeful about in terms of COA’s ability to make significant changes or progress?

RH:

Our students are very much included in our decision-making processes and governance, and, to my mind, dismantling white supremacy is something that the students want. In Academic Affairs meetings, it’s often the students who first notice that a course proposal has only white people on its reading list, for example, and call that out. We tend to be more responsive to student input and desires than other institutions are.

We can follow our mission to listen to the students and respond to their needs.

BT:

Many of our community members value and practice humility. Part of practicing humility is acknowledging that the lines that divide us at COA are also many of the lines that divide the citizens and residents of the US and across the planet.

Many of us recognize that replacing white supremacy with the recognition and celebration of the humanity of all people, regardless of race and color and other weaponized differences, requires moving the needle not just at COA but also beyond. This movement starts but does not end with ourselves.

CC:

I’ve witnessed a greater attention being given to all the tiny things that one needs to consider, including process and procedure, which can seem ridiculous but are really important.

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Where are you from?

I grew up in Massachusetts. When I’m writing, I often return in my mind to the landscape of my childhood—the stone walls and small farms, the quiet drama of the seasons, the smell of the earth emerging from under melting spring snow. The properties of that landscape are inextricable from my early memories of being alive.

What made you choose College of the Atlantic? Were you glad you did?

I loved my time at College of the Atlantic. I came thinking I would become a scientist and I was initially drawn to the scientific aspect of human ecology and the possibilities for fieldwork in the biological sciences. I wanted to be in the world. But over my years at COA I was more and more drawn to literature and writing as forms for asking the questions I wanted to ask. I am still influenced by human ecology as a philosophy; I am still skeptical of any sort of objectivity that tries to keep the world at arm’s length. When I’m working on a poem, I always ask myself, “Can I surrender my authority while staying alert to the world? Can I welcome what is not-me into the poem? Can I keep uncertainty alive?”

When did you know you were a poet? When did you start to take yourself seriously?

I’ve probably always taken myself a little too seriously! I started writing things down when I was young. I might have started calling it poetry in high school. When I came to COA I thought of myself as a poet who was also studying science.

The animal faces portrayed in Goya’s El sueño de la razón produce monstruos made me think of the animals in your poems. Can you tell me what drew you to this etching?

I was initially drawn to the etching’s title, which has two translations. The common translation of Goya’s El sueño de la razón produce monstruos is, “The sleep of reason produces monsters.” But the alternate translation is, “The dream of reason produces monsters.” As I was working on these poems, I became very interested in the simultaneous truths captured by these two translations. Both statements are true, even though they have nearly opposite meanings. On the one hand, when reason is absent, or “asleep,” and we operate out of ignorance or superstition, monstrous things can happen. On the other hand, an over-investment in reason—the delusion that reason can be applied to all experience, the “dream” of it—also allows for great monstrosity, for exceedingly chilling acts. I think the ambivalence implied in the title phrase edges toward a profound truth. And ambivalence is fertile ground for poems.

I love that you use livestock management manuals. Have you worked with animals? It felt so known and personal.

I wrote this book in order to work through some questions about what it means to be human. And animals help us see ourselves, I think. It’s a very human-ecological stance! I have, in fact, spent some time on farms. But I’m a poor farmer. I daydream too much and I get tired easily.

I loved all of your poems, but found myself moving closer to the poems where an I appears. I was struck in Sword-Swallower with the notion of knowing exactly what I want and, “I take my violence out over the field.” Do we all have a violence? What is it? What were you thinking of—if I can be so bold as to ask.

The inquiry in that poem—and across the book—is shaped by the question, “How much of our aliveness can we bear?”

Another way of asking that is, “How much of our own capacity for violence must we tolerate, in order to be fully awake?” At the same time, I was very interested in humans’ complex, emotionally-charged dependence on animal life, and in the relationship between animal consciousness, dream consciousness, and childhood. These threads met in my work.

In Mnemonic, you write, “The way to keep something is to forget it. Then it goes to an enormous place.” Do you journal and take notes? Do you allow yourself to forget and remember without worrying about loss?

I don’t journal. I trust that, of everything I experience, the important images and correspondences will survive somewhere. And in poetry, sometimes making something up is more accurate to the memory than direct transcription would be.

Do you have a day job?

JENNY GEORGE: The Dream of Reason Copper Canyon Press, 2018

I have a quiet and minimal life, and I work part time, so I have space for writing and thinking. My day job is helping to run a foundation that supports social and environmental justice. It’s important to me to do some work that faces directly into the realities of suffering, inequality, and extraction. As much as I love poems—and believe that art contributes immeasurably to the meaning of our lives—I don’t see that poetry will save the world. For that we need collective mobilization. So I try to have space for both kinds of efforts in my life.

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From left to right: MDIBL poster presentation to highlight student work; Mary Ann Handel, Nadia Harerimana ’18 (center), postdoc Travis Kent at the Jackson Lab; Jeremy “Heath” Fuqua ’19 presenting his poster at the Maine Biological and Medical Sciences Symposium at MDIBL; COA professor Chris Peterson.

the undergraduate institution. “Together, they come up with an agreement for a course and curriculum that gives students an experience that they wouldn’t have had otherwise, exposing them to what a research laboratory is all about,” says Hand.

“Unlike most academic courses, it’s a total immersion event. Students get to know what it’s like to be in a real research lab, where things don’t always work out the way you want.”

Students start out by taking basic biology courses at COA, sometimes with guest lecturers from one of the nearby research institutions. That might lead to taking a workshop in molecular genomics during spring break at the MDIBL. Some students are able to do a summer fellowship, allowing them to build on their experiences by joining active research efforts.

Similarly, an academic year fellowship builds continuity through the year, supporting students to expand their work into their senior projects at COA. Of these experiences, laboratory immersion often has the biggest impact on student learning, says Petersen. “It throws students into the deep end of a pool. It teaches them how to ask questions when they don’t know the answer, and it teaches them to then gain independence. They start out being nervous and having horrible imposter syndrome. And then, they start getting more confident.” Alongside fellow biology professor Helen Hess, Petersen oversees the INBRE program at COA, and works with the laboratories to ensure a good fit for students and researchers.

Being honest and professional in a research laboratory is as much a part of student learning as gaining technical skills, he says. “A lot of my work is about coaching students how to be open and secure in their insecurity. My mentoring is about helping students feel comfortable enough to say when they are lost, or need help, and then to learn and move forward.”

As a current PhD student in computational biology at Emory University, Harerimana uses statistical methods to understand the genetic intersection of depression and Alzheimer’s disease. Having previous laboratory experience through INBRE, she says, gave her the courage to shift gears—in doing so, she rekindled her passion for math and statistics within the realm of biological research. “My research is about psychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders, while all my work is with numbers and code. But eventually, I’m asking the same fundamental biological questions that a person in the wet lab is asking,” she reflects. “I love data! In a computational biology lab, I’ve found a place where the two are intertwined.”

Harerimana’s trajectory from the mouse lab to the computer lab reflects INBRE’s expansion into bioinformatics: the science of collecting and analyzing complex biological data. “Right now, there’s a huge amount of research going on all over the world,” explains Hand. “Data from that research is out there in the literature, in publications everywhere, in courses and in conferences. Bioinformatics attempts to pull all of that together. For instance, someone may be interested in a particular gene or protein. A bioinformatics project might mine the literature in search of that particular gene or protein and put all that material together online in a database so that another scientist can find it.”

Before knowledge becomes knowledge, what is it? An exploration of the deep; the wreck and not the story of the wreck. Data is not just the stuff of science fiction (although, predictably, the Enterprise’s void turns out to be a trap), but it teaches us that even space voids have stories to tell, and many ways to tell them. More valuable than knowledge, data tells us, is wisdom: what inspires us to venture beyond our depth and face what we don’t know, until we do.

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Bill Carpenter, now emeritus professor of literature and creative writing, recalls Mel as an invaluable presence in the early days, “because he really knew something about educational experiments and had already thought through many of our innovations. He had the knack of incarnating our dreamy ideas into practical form. What does Shakespeare say? ‘Gives to airy nothing. A local habitation and a name.’”

Mel was magnetic, too. One day in late 1972, 17-year-old Steve Savage ’76 was hitchhiking to Bar Harbor. He’d already been accepted to attend Bates College, but wanted to take another look at COA. As luck would have it, Mel picked him up and, after talking a while, invited Steve to stay at the fixer-upper the Cote’s recently purchased in Hulls Cove—a house now known as Twin Gables. The next day Mel gave Steve a job painting several of the rooms. “He and Polly were so awesome,” Steve remembers, “I stayed a week and decided this was the college for me. The first year I backed the college’s Pinto into a tree. I thought Mel would give me hell, but he just shrugged and said, ‘That’s why we have insurance.’”

Two of Mel’s extracurricular contributions survive today. One is the community garden, where he and Sam Eliot established the first two plots. The other is the college’s outdoor orientation program, one of the first in the nation.

Mel took a break from COA from 19771986, working for five years at Princeton University Princeton Education Center at Blairstown, which provided outdoor education programs for inner city youths, then five more years at New Hampshire’s Notre Dame College.

Mel returned in 1987 to become a much-needed leader in rebuilding the college after the 1983 Kaelber Hall fire.

Initially he served as the college’s director of institutional research, funded by our first US Department of Education Title III Strengthening Institutions Program grant, written by Ted Koffman. He subsequently assisted Ted in strategic planning for subsequent Title III grants that funded programs, new faculty, staff, and tech-

nology that were crucial to the young college’s survival and future. As part of the restructuring, COA President Lou Rabineau appointed Mel as administrative dean, overseeing personnel and budgets.

He then appointed professor Rich Borden as academic dean, focusing on curriculum planning and management.

Rich recalls, “Our partnership continued for more than a decade until Mel’s retirement. I thoroughly enjoyed working with him. He was a wonderful colleague, a uniquely capable, kind, and creative problem solver. There was another dimension of Mel’s professional life that was especially rewarding for both of us. Shortly after he returned to COA, he became a member of the Society for Human Ecology (SHE). Before long, he rose to be a central figure. Mel and his wife Polly were part of the US delegation to the 1992 International Human Ecology Conference at Gothenburg University in Sweden, where he delivered an address on COA’s newly created MPhil degree program. In 1994, he was elected as SHE’s executive director, moving the organization’s central office from Colorado to Bar Harbor. Between then and his retirement from the college in 1999, he oversaw the planning and supervision of multiple SHE conferences: Michigan State University (1994), Lake Tahoe (1995), COA (1997), and McGill University (1999). Human Ecology Review—SHE’s official, peer-reviewed journal—was also founded under his leadership. The competence and compassion Mel brought to these activities were deeply appreciated by his international colleagues. Many came to the college, where their visit usually culminated in a lively celebration hosted by Mel and Polly.”

Mel is only half of an inseparable equation: Mel + Polly = love + art + friendship + fun. Married in 1961, Mel and Polly and their three sons, Mel Jr., Adam, and Quentin, were an inspirational model for how to savor life and generously, delightedly share its joys. Polly, an artist and COA faculty associate, and the kids filled their homes with beauty: color, flowers, paintings, and animals. Garden vegetables jumped from the earth, coaxed by Mel’s extraordinarily green thumb (and the odd

tablet of sodium nitrate), just as flowers did for Polly. Mel was a superb fisherman, fishing from COA’s cobble beach, from an old red dory or motorized blue skiff, setting out ground lines for flounder from Hulls Cove after the family moved to Twin Gables in 1972, jigging mackerel from the Bar Harbor Town Pier, fishing for trout and bass from a homemade kayak on local lakes and ponds, gigging eels, and gathering clams and mussels at every opportunity. Seafood and vegetables made their way into Polly’s pot, ending up as French country cuisine that stimulated every sense. Faculty meetings often overflowed into spirited and delicious parties at Twin Gables or, later, their home in Hall Quarry. They were the best of hosts.

When Mel retired from COA in 1999, he and Polly moved to Provincetown, Massachusetts, where Polly continued her art career and together they developed a gardening business and volunteered with a number of civic, arts, and environmental organizations. Polly died on December 12, 2017, and Mel two years later on November 27, 2019. They are remembered with warmth and gratitude by students, colleagues, and friends from the COA community and all around the world.

Rich Borden spoke for all of us when he wrote, “It is said the quality of life is measured by the friendships we have made. Mel and Polly Cote brought immeasurable joy to my life. I loved them, love them still, and deeply miss their friendship.”

An obituary for Mel may be found at ellsworthamerican.com/obituary/melvillepeter-cote. A remembrance of Polly Cote written by Helen Caivano was published in the Spring 2018 COA Magazine, pages 56-57, issuu.com/collegeoftheatlantic/docs/ spring_magazine.

Steve Katona is a founding faculty member of COA, the first director of COA Allied Whale, and the college’s fourth president, having served from 1993-2006.

Acknowledgments: Thanks to Rich Borden, Roc Caivano, Bill Carpenter, Millard Dority, Steve Savage ’76, Jill Tabbutt-Henry, and Ted Koffman for their contributions.

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situations, but we are presented with these because we can handle them and persist.’”

While all the library ladies loved the students and frequently served as motherly figures, Marcia Dorr stood out for her care, enjoyment of life, child-like joy and playful spirit. Her husband Darrold and their three boys regularly shared their table with COA students. “By being themselves, intelligent, grounded local folks, sharing their childhood stories with me, I learned from them much about the culture and personalities of the region and learned many lessons about social interaction and communication,” says Alexandra Conover Bennett ’77.

“They believed in me which of course helped me believe in myself and helped me become the independent person I longed to be.” She adds, “They were such outstanding human beings that were a major fabric of my early life.”

I, too, was one of many privileged students taken under Marcia’s wing. I was fortunate enough to have arrived at COA in the fall of 1987, within weeks of her son, Chris, heading out West. The apparently similarity of our height, boisterous energy, and hair made me a good enough surrogate that she instantly adopted me as one of her large and extended family.

“Mumcia’’ or (attempting the heaviest Maine accent I could muster) “Mothah,” was how I regularly addressed her. Like many others in this extended family, Marcia and Darrold’s house was always open and often served as a primary crash pad during in-between-times or visits. It was a home away from home, but it was her love, her warmth, the heart she always wore on her sleeve, that made so many of us feel nurtured and supported.

After 25 years at COA, Marcia announced her plan to retire in 1997.

At that graduation she was performing with John Cooper and the chorus.

Unbeknownst to her, the So Long song

they had practiced together had been tweaked by the rest of the crew. As she was singing with the chorus, the rest began singing “So Long Marcia Marcia” and at first, she did a double take, looking more closely at her music sheet before starting to look around and realizing they were singing to her. Tears flowed from Marcia (and many others) and she was presented with a COA chair.

That chair remained a prized possession at the new home she and Darrold built in Franklin several years later. Their new, quiet, rural hilltop perch afforded them not only a distant view MDI, but also provided optimal wildlife and bird viewing.

Marcia was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s in 2014, but continued to light up with visits from family and friends.

“It’s a bittersweet memory, but mostly sweet for me,” shares former COA president Steve Katona, Marcia’s carpooling mate for decades. He recounted seeing Marcia and Darrold at Ann Peach’s memorial service in 2017. “You never know what someone with Alzheimer’s will be like, but I went up to Marcia as soon as I saw her and she broke into this huge smile and opened her arms and called out ‘Steve!’ and gave me a great big hug adding ‘It is so good to see you!’”

Ten minutes later, Darrold came over and told Steve that Marcia wanted to say hi.

“I thought, well, I just did, but OK.” As he approached, Marcia again flashed a great big smile, opened her arms and proclaimed “Steve! It is so good to see you!”

Steve added, “I think I got at least six or seven more big hugs during the memorial. I can’t help but remember her for her total sweetness, so helpful, and so loyal.”

Marcia passed away in her sleep on November 3, 2020 with Darrold, her loving partner for over 60 years, laying beside her. Audrey, who along with Marcia’s granddaughter, Marion, and daughter-in-law, Amy, had been with

Marcia that last day, adds “Marcia was an angel walking amongst us—now she has her wings.” Plans have not been finalized or scheduled, but Darrold will bury Marcia at a family plot in Town Hill when it is safe for family and friends to gather.

I know many of us who were at COA in its first 30 years can easily conjure the warmth and instant ease of her smile— “pure sunshine” as it has been called by many. Marcia’s curiosity and admiration of others, her generosity, and the support she gave to hundreds of COA students helped open doors, spark relationships, and build bridges between the often disparate worlds of COA and the working people of Maine. Given the turbulent and polarized times we live in, we need more people like Marcia in the world. Like a Zen master / professor emeritus of the social emotional, she demonstrated and modeled kindness, acceptance, appreciation, and fun. Hopefully each of us can channel some of what she taught us so beautifully. We miss you Marcia and please know, we love you “deahly!”

Jeff Miller (or “Jeffy” as Marcia called him), lives in Washington, DC where he shares his love of bicycling and history as the DC Cycling Concierge (no Lobster Bike involved). A 1992 graduate, he still considers being Darron Collins’ resident advisor one of his greatest accomplishments.

In addition to those quoted, Jeff wishes to thank Darrold Dorr, Sandra Holmes Modeen, Pancho Cole ’81, Timothea Sutton ’92, Hannah Stevens ’09, Bill Scanga ’92, Don Cass, and Johanna Bernstein ’83 for their time and contributions. He wishes he had more time to connect with even more faculty and alumnx, and invites your stories and photos at jeffreybcmiller@gmail.com. He will compile additional stories to share with Marcia’s family.

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Good Food and Food Fights Monday, July 26 to Friday, July 30, 2021

The College of the Atlantic Summer Institute is a week-long ideas festival that welcomes leaders from around the world to share their expertise and thoughts on the most pressing issues of our time. This year’s theme will be Good Food and Food Fights. During the week, we will explore all aspects of food—production, policy, climate change, food justice, hunger, organics, nutrition, and the joys of eating and cooking.

2021 SPEAKERS INCLUDE: Michael Pollan Winona LaDuke Soledad O’Brien Dan Barber Leah Penniman

Sam Sifton Ruth Reichl Christopher Kimball Chellie Pingree

Amber Tamm Anochi Odinga II Saru Jayaraman Susan Rockefeller David Rockefeller, Jr.

Follow the Summer Institute on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and at coa.edu/si for updates on new speakers as they are announced!

The COA Summer Institute is free and open to the public, but registration is required.

Current Champlain Society members can register starting on May 1.

General registration will open to the public on June 1.

Not sure whether your Champlain Society membership is current?

Please email Wes Norton at wnorton@coa.edu or call 207-801-5627.

Want to become a member? Go to coa.edu/tcs

A NOTE ON SUMMER EVENTS: College of the Atlantic is closely monitoring the COVID-19 pandemic and CDC recommendations for large gatherings. We are hopeful that we will be able to have events in person this upcoming summer, but recognize that there are many unknowns.

Regardless of whether we are able to welcome an in-person audience to campus, we will be livestreaming the sessions and are committed to providing a rich virtual experience for the institute. We will communicate details regarding the format as they become available via email and at coa.edu/si.

Learn more online at coa.edu/si

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From left to right: Timmon Wallis ’78; Fran Pollitt ’77; Brooks McCutchen ’84 & Janis Steele’s Immuto (Change); Liz Lundberg ’86; Jackson Gillman ’78; Gray Cox ’71 and grandkids.

Summer 1971 Program) is (Experimental alive and well, still living GRAY COX

in Bar Harbor with his wife Carolyn and teaching at COA. This summer, he decided to use a marine device to practice social distancing and bought a Zodiac and spent lots of time gazing at MDI from Frenchman Bay, teaching grandchildren how to catch mackerel, and pondering how best to teach new courses on artificial intelligence and on the history of God.

1977

and wife Tonya, a healer and fellow traveler for the past four years, are weathering out the COVID-19 storm at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains near Wintergreen in Central Virginia. They have a view of pastures, woodlands, and The Priest, (which has the longest continuous incline along the Appalachian Trail, if you ever want to crash with them while taking it on).

He remains a facilities architect and a senior manager for Job Corps campuses across the country. He is also designing, developing, and building buy-and-hold residential real estate in Charlottesville, and is arranging financing for a net-zero duplex near the University of Virginia.

Kids are launched but living nearby and it’s been great being “Grandpa” to five grandkids, most of them now teenagers.

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FRAN POLLITT is serving as Area Teaching

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work moving the cluster into the 3rd Milestone of growth, overseeing 100+ core activities including children’s classes, study circles, and devotional gatherings. Recently appointed to the Town of Wayland Racial Advisory Committee, she is helping to organize townwide conversations on racial justice and a large event June 13 celebrating Race Amity Day.

1978 the National Storytellingreceived NetJACKSON

GILLMAN

work’s Circle of Excellence Award. His 2020 Oracle performance can be seen on youtu.be/ Exhzn3B0w5M. His weekly family program, sponsored since 2013 by the New Bedford Whaling National Historic Park, continues on Zoom during the pandemic. Email jxsong@ comcast.net for the Friday morning link.

TIMMON (MILNE) WALLIS was involved in the

2017 negotiations for the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, which, in 2020, achieved its minimum number of 50 ratifying countries and finally entered into force as binding law in those countries on Friday, January 22, 2021. He writes, “Our global network, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2017. I have been working to build support for this treaty here in the United States ever since, and I am happy to report that we so far have ten members of Congress on board with it, along with numerous cities and towns across

the country. We have legislation pending in the Massachusetts and California state houses to align entire states with this treaty. Despite the pandemic, it’s been a good year for nuclear disarmament!” (Photo is of Timmon with the Maltese Ambassador to the United Nations, Carmelo Inguanez, who promised to read Timmon’s book on nuclear weapons, and subsequently got his country to sign and ratify the treaty.) a play1979 wright, but she hasis stillbecome a ANDREA LEPCIO

personal trainer and yoga teacher in recent years. In 2020, she launched Mighty Fit to offer fitness and yoga online. Learn more at mighty.fit. She lives in Bar Harbor.

“No big 1981 news, but I havewrites, been living on JANIS BIONDI

Cape Cod since 2013 working as a gardener and independent wild commercial shellfisher.

I’m taking the winter off from shellfishing to work on my painting.”

LUNDBERG retired from riding race horses for a living in 2012, after 30 years, and is currently writing a memoir entitled; The Far Turn, about becoming a thoroughbred jockey. She is still working her “day job” as a custodian for Hancock County Schools on the N. Panhandle of West Virginia, and recently began a new career in network marketing. She says, “This would seem to be the opposite of

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From left to right: Paul Boothby ’88; Mary Raikes ’02 (left) and Noreen Hogan ’91 (far right); Jan Biondi’s ’81 painting Incoming; Bill Stevens’ ’84 pizza oven; Jim Senter ’85.

what someone with my background ought to be doing, or should want to do. This makes it all the more important that I strive to educate others about the possibilities inherent in this business strategy. I have had some amazing adventures, both the best and worst of which I am grateful to have experienced. One enduring tradition in my family is relative poverty given our lofty, educated status, and hating Big Business. So I am pleased to announce that this new adventure is about making money without compromising my personal integrity. The mission of the company I am working with is in line with the spirit of human ecology.”

1982

MARIE MCCARTY and STEVE BAIRD ’83 live near Homer, Alaska,

and are getting through COVID-19 restrictions working at home, hiking, and snowshoeing.

Their closest neighbors include fellow COA graduate Shan Burson ’83. Marie is the executive director of Kachemak Heritage Land Trust, a nonprofit working with willing landowners to protect important wildlife habitat and recreational lands. Steve is the research coordinator at Kachemak Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, a partnership between NOAA and the University of Alaska that works to enhance understanding and appreciation of the Kachemak Bay estuary and adjacent waters and lands.

Their two young-adult children are both in Colorado at the moment, and they look forward to visiting them when travel is safe again.

1984

BROOKS MCCUTCHEN and JANIS STEELE ’86 recently moved

out from under The Ocean Foundation’s friendly sponsorship umbrella after seven years to launch their own 501c3, the Island Reach Foundation. They write, “Intersecting cultural anthropology, cross-cultural psychology, global health and, of course, human ecology, we work in partnerships with communities across topics of food sovereignty, agroecology value-webs, biocultural conservation, gender, and climate activism. Our 2020 film, Immuto (Change), about change agents on the frontlines of the climate crisis, from Vanuatu to Viet Nam, Morocco, the UK, EU, and US has won awards and been screened in film festivals around the world. We also created a 3-D virtual gallery as a companion viewing guide for the film. It’s all licensed under Creative Commons and available to view for free at the foundation’s website, IslandReach.org. Without human ecology, we dunno what we’d be doing!”

BILL STEVENS, wife Sara, son Noah, and sev-

eral neighborhood friends just built an outdoor oven in their backyard in Lanesville, Massachusetts. They’ve been cooking pizza and baking bread for curious friends and neighbors.

Having lots of winter weekend picnics!

been on the 1985 board of Fertilehas Ground Food JIM SENTER

Co-op going on four years and they are 18

months away from opening their store. He writes, “Fertile Ground is a Black-led organization building food security and community development in Southeast Raleigh, North Carolina, which is predominantly inhabited by people of color. We call ourselves a food co-op but we are really a local food system in a single organization. We have growers and consumers as members, and when we get our store open, workers will be members as well. Fertile Ground is part of a nationwide network of people building liberation through cooperative community development, with the long-term goal of building a cooperative economy. In a related bit of news, the Schumacher Center for a New Economics, of Great Barrington, Massachusetts, has agreed to take my collection of books on the history of the international cooperative movement. It is a great relief to know that, on my death, the collection (some 250 books) will be kept together in a place where it can be used. Not that I’m planning on dying anytime soon, but as Guatama taught, I have not escaped aging and death. So I plan on dancing while I can.” to say, 1988 “I’m not sure if thiswrites is the kind of PAUL BOOTHBY

news you’re looking for, but I retired in 2020 after 25 years of ministry as an eco-humanist Unitarian Universalist. I’m sure other folks have livelier stories to tell, but we all retire, eventually (if we’re lucky).”

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1991

NOREEN HOGAN, MARY RAIKES ’02 and friend Auria Mauras

started off on a cross-country bicycle adventure from San Diego, California to St. Augustine, Florida on Leap Day 2020.

Though they had to stop halfway across the country in Del Rio, Texas, they felt accomplished having biked 1,400 miles during the early months of the pandemic.

1992 arrived back in Bar Harbor after LELANIA HARPAL KAUR AVILA

navigating the tumultuous seas of parenting through childhood cancer. She writes, “Our son, Haji, made it through the woods late February 2020, so COVID-19 gave us the opportunity to get some extra rest and recovery time. I turned 50 in 2020, the first mother in my maternal lineage to make it to 50 (and healthy to boot!) in generations. This fuels my passion to believe we can indeed make the impossible possible, that with attention and dedication, ancestral patterns can change.

In my current work as a multi-media activist, I note how activism could benefit from true, long-term community building. I’m using my family’s homeschool as a research laboratory to test the hypothesis that to teach listening skills, one must first actively listen. I intend to spend the next period of my life sharing my conclusive results via a communication toolkit, calligraphy, puppetry, and more. I post updates at3h-ha.org, and check email most often at chickenhatlady2020@gmail.com if any alumnx want to be in touch.” has been awarded a year-long Maker/Creator Fellowship at Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library in Delaware for 2021. He is painting two dozen large-scale, watercolor Tree Portraits of the amazing specimens that inhabit the 1,000-acre, mixed old growth, and historically curated gardens.

Several of his pieces will be shown in the Winterthur Galleries as part of their upcoming Outside/In exhibition. In July, he will be showing his MDI Tree Portraits series at Artemis Gallery in Northeast Harbor for the third year in a row. robfinn.com

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and was awarded the Senior Class Preaching Prize. She has dedicated her time to feeding ministry, anti-racism education, and programs in contemplative spirituality. The Episcopal Church is inclusive—with social, racial, and environmental justice as part of the core mission. Heather will be ordained as an Episcopal Priest in 2021. in 2019, CURRY CAPUTO was 1995 Late hired as a full-time faculty member

at Central Maine Community College in the Building Construction Technology Department.

In December 2020, he was promoted to department chair. He writes, “Every other day, I teach students of all ages with friend and fellow alum Troy Ireland ’95. My eldest son Milo is safely ensconced at Colby College, while my twin teens chart new pandemic territory at Erskine Academy in China. Finally, my wife Andrea Lani ’95 gives more than she gets every day at the Capitol working for the Revisor of Statutes and she writes and she reads like she’s running out of time.”

and 1996 her family (partner Derek SchusLAURIE

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BREWER

terbauer and kids Otto and Violet) moved to Barrington, Rhode Island, in June and purchased an early 1800s home that was formerly the village cobblers shop. During the pandemic they’ve remained well and added 11 chickens to the family too! Laurie continues to work at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) Museum, right now in a remote capacity, and continues her courses for the RISD Apparel Department (The Uses Of Animals In Relation To The Industry Of Man: Design and Nature, 1851 and Now, and Fashion: A Global Context) which have been held virtually as well. She presented at several conferences remotely: the RISD Weekend Symposium, where she exhibited research for her forthcoming show with the working title, Sedna; and at The Costume Colloquium VII: Fashion and Dress in Place and Space, where she presented, “Location is Everything: Examining the ‘Alaskan Sealskin’ Industry.” In February she is looking forward to participating in a symposium at the Anchorage Museum, “Landscapes of Change,” made possible by the Henry Luce Foundation.

is starting joined the 1993 a new tenure-track position in the 1997 board of trustees at Maine AuduCEDARBOUGH T. SAEJI

MARGARET HOFFMAN

fall. Saeji continues to regularly publish academic articles and book chapters on Korean culture, and has recently taken on more of a public intellectual role with invited columns and interviews, in addition to over 100 media comments for magazines, newspapers, TV, radio, and podcasts in 2020.

bon back in July. She is serving on the Marketing Committee, primarily helping to better connect them to Maine’s tourism industry.

HEATHER SISK graduated with an MDIV from The General Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church in New York City in May 2020,

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year, GIDEON CULMAN earned 2002 Last a Master Certified Coach credential

from the International Coaching Federation.

Out of about 35,000 credentialed coaches worldwide, only 1350 hold the MCC, so this is a huge deal. He continues to own and operate K Street Coaching and live with his wife and

two children in Washington, DC. Photo courtesy of the International Coaching Federation. took time off from 2004 practice to have a surprise fourth BRI DUGA

baby! Carbon Jack LaFlamme was born on November 14, 2020. She is enjoying staying home and homeschooling her three big kids.

and 2005 husband Ian Carlsen welcomed MARJOLAINE WHITTLESEY

Robin Alan Whittlesey Carlsen on March 28, 2020—just in time to cozy up during the pandemic. He already takes after his parents and loves being outside and eating everything.

and 2006 husband, Matt, welcomed twin ASHLEY BAKKEN-MARTIN

girls on October 5: Camille “Millie” and Juliet “Jules” Martin. Ashley is still practicing pediatric hospital medicine at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital in Oakland, California.

RICHARD MACDONALD published a book in

December. Little Big Year: Chasing Acadia’s Birds is the story of a year of birdwatching in Hancock County, weaving together stories of birding, birds, and his life experience with them. He was inspired to spend 2018 in a year of local birding to celebrate the 100th anniversary of passage of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. The book is available by contacting The Natural History Center info@TheNaturalHistoryCenter.com.

cre2008 ated a community muralhasentitled MEESHA GOLDBERG

Kinfolk in Charlottesville, Virginia. Families of multi-racial deer leap across a turquoise, 90-foot wall between two giant star quilt symbols borrowed from Pennsylvania Dutch barn art and Indigenous ceremony. The mural is punctuated with a land acknowledgment, reminding the viewer that the mural occupies Monacan Nation territory. Profits from the mural were returned to the Monacans and their fight to protect their ancient capital city, Rassawek, from a proposed water pump station.

To find out more visit: culturalheritagepartners. com/saverassawek.

For JESSICA HARDY, 2020 saw a full transition to telehealth working as the director of nutrition and wellness for a longevity-based medical practice. She moved her own personal training business to a telehealth platform, and was welcomed onto an advisory board for a company called Esports Healthcare, working to optimize and support health for professional gamers. This year saw the loss of her dog, Dozer, but she recently welcomed a new pitbull pup named Honey. Looking forward to a new year!

Clockwise from top left: Richard MacDonald ’06 having a Little Big Year; Ashley Bakke-Martin ’06 and husband Matt welcomed twins Camille “Millie” and Juliet “Jules” Martin; Jessica Hardy ’08 & Dozer; Jill Piekut ’12 & Chris Roy got married; Bri Duga ’04 welcomed Carbon Jack LaFlamme; Heather Sisk ’93; Lelania Harpal Kaur Avila ’92; Marjo Whittlesey ’05 & husband Ian Carlson welcomed Robin Alan Whittlesey Carlsen; Meesha Goldberg ’08; Gideon Culman ’02 (center top); Rob Finn’s ’92 painting Browns Meadow Tree.

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ALUMNX NOTES As of February 2021, ELENA 2009 PIEKUT is back in the COA area

after six years in the New Hampshire seacoast/lakes/mountains. She has accepted the position of Ellsworth city planner. For the past five years, she’s been the City of Dover, New Hampshire assistant city planner and zoning administrator. This will be the third time she’s moved to downeast Maine during the month of January… always in January. She writes, “I’m looking forward to reconnecting with the COA community and hopefully partnering with current students in my professional life. It seems like I’m part of a small wave of people moving back or working on finding a way to move back, so that’s exciting!”

and wife 2010 Sannie welcomed Evelyn “Evie” NOAH HODGETTS

Robin Hodgetts on June 8, 2020.

Even though 2020 was a tough year for everyone, NAFISA MOHAMMADI and her family took some time and explored parts of the Canadian Rockies, Banff, Lake Louise, and Jasper. A means to escape the realities of the pandemic for a short while and reflect and reconnect.

BECKY WARTELL married Seven Siegel on October 29, 2020 in an exceedingly small legal ceremony in the barn of their new home in Gorham, Maine, which they bought in September. ARWYN SHERMAN ’13 was among the six people present in person (masked and distanced), many others tuned in over Facebook live. The couple plans to have a giant party and do the Jewish ritual wedding stuff once large gatherings become safe again.

and 2011 her wife Adrianna Wheelock ALLI (HICKS) WHEELOCK

welcomed their first child, Raven James Wheelock, on October 13, 2020. Raven and his three feline siblings are getting along purrfectly.

offers 2012 holistic care through energetic VIVIAN

LAMBERT

alignment, holistic massage, Ayurvedic health consults, homemade herbal products, and workshops through her business, Vivian Rae Wellness. She writes that, “Reopening has gone well in these strange times. Has been lovely to see some COA family again!” Please check out her latest

blog post on Ayurveda, at vivianraewellness. org/post/what-is-ayurveda.

JOSE MERLO writes to say that since graduating from COA he has been living back in Quito, Ecuador. Jose notes, “I will be moving to the coastal city of Guayaquil, Ecuador to manage Republica del Cacao (BCorp) collection center, to convert it into a regenerative agricultural experimental center while planting a tropical forest & producing small batches of craft chocolate. If possible, I’m looking forward to working closely with COA 0n exchange programs, and always missing the good old days in Bar Harbor.”

JILL PIEKUT writes, “I graduated from Sim-

mons University with an MS in library and information science in May 2020. As of my graduation, I have a new job as the Patten Free Library archivist & special collections librarian in Bath, Maine. I also got married to Chris Roy in September 2019, so my name has three more letters: Jill Piekut Roy. MATT SHAW ’11 was my best man. We live in Richmond, Maine with our dog, Josie.

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MARISSA (ALTMANN) BALFOUR wrote in to say that she

“moved full time to Key West in February, 2020, got married in March, and is still working as assistant to the executive director at the Wildlife Friendly Enterprise Network.”

She also started a position as biodiversity specialist with Textile Exchange in October.

ANNIE COHEN will be taking on the role of

interim director for the small nature camp she used to work at, Burgundy Center for Wildlife Studies, in Capon Bridge, West Virginia. Annie notes she has found out that many COA alums also worked there in the eighties and nineties, so that has been a fun, small-world thing to discover.

MADDY MAGNUSON is one of the three authors of the newly published 2020 edition of Best Practices in STI/HIV and Pregnancy Prevention, the high school sexual health curriculum that is funded by the Maine CDC and Maine DOE. This new edition includes LGBTQ+ inclusive content and activities on affirmative consent. They are also one of the creators of its virtual classroom companion tools for distance and hybrid learning. The curriculum and

From top to bottom: Noah Hodgetts ’10 & wife Sannie welcomed Evelyn “Evie” Robin Hodgetts; Nafisa Mohammadi ’10; Becky Wartell ’10; Alli Wheelock ’11 & wife Adrianna Wheelock welcomed Raven James Wheelock; Marissa Balfour ’13 in the Keys.

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virtual classroom can be accessed for free at the Maine Family Planning website: mainefamilyplanning.org/for-educators/teaching-materials graduated from 2016 the University of Maine with dual MARINA CUCUZZA

master’s degrees in marine biology and marine policy. She has been selected as a John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellow at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, working with the National Marine Fisheries Service and the Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research as a climate and fisheries specialist.

GALEN HECHT writes to say that he now lives

in Soldotna, Alaska, and works as stream watch coordinator with Kenai Watershed Forum.

After successfully defending her MFA thesis in poetry at Oregon State University, ELOISE SCHULTZ moved back to MDI to join Mount Desert 365, a nonprofit that supports the long-term economic vitality of the Town of Mount Desert. has returned to 2017 writing the opinion column, “Letter SHLOMIT AUCIELLO

From Away,” which has appeared online and in print since 1992. The essays are published on a bi-weekly basis at knox.villagesoup.com/p/letterfrom-away/1864300. Weekly columns can be found at shlomitauciello.medium.com.

is now a research 2018 specialist at the Access to Justice Lab RIANNA BROOKS

at Harvard Law School. In this role, she manages randomized control trials focused in civil and criminal justice reform.

JENNA FARINEAU moved to Washington, DC in 2019 to start an internship. That move led to a fellowship which, in turn, led to being offered a permanent staff position as digital communications officer at ActionAid USA. She writes, “Here is our statement on the attempted coup—very proud to be working with these folks: actionaidusa.org/news/actionaid-usa-condemnsattempted-coup-at-the-u-s-capitol. (For context: [COA professor] Doreen Stabinsky connected me with ActionAid Senegal while I was a student!

I did my second internship with them, so this feels very full circle!)”

HAKIM NOAH has been continuing to run his massage practice and also started a new job as the online studio manager for Yoga Center Amherst. He is in charge of marketing and grow-

ing the business, and promoting and creating workshops, classes, and trainings in the yoga world. He notes, “We are beginning an online Ayurveda training that COA alumnx might be interested in! Check it out here: yogacenteramherst.com/wellness-ambassador-program.”

In the fall of 2020, KIERA O’BRIEN began her MFA in creative writing at the University of Pittsburgh, where she is a graduate fellow in poetry.

2019 to work with

VITORIA BITENCOURT was hired JOHN JACOB ’81 as

a curatorial assistant at the Smithsonian after having completed an internship with him. She writes, “For the past year we’ve been working on an exhibition that opens in July. I am including the museum release so you can read about it if you’d like. It has both my name and John’s.” americanart. si.edu/exhibitions/east-baltimore-photographs

HANA KEEGAN has been living and working in

London since graduation, and recently wrote this article for The Stage: bit.ly/3iQXlXw Amsel Verlag of Zürich, Switzerland will publish

ANĐELA RONČEVIĆ'S artist book that is also

her master’s thesis for the MFA in art in public spheres at the Lucerne School of Art and Design, Switzerland. I Will Swim, and My Daughter Will Swim Too, is an illustrated artist book that explores gender equality through swimming.

The book comprises 20 oral histories by storytellers from different countries and contexts who tell their experiences with not knowing how to swim. Many of the storytellers are sisters, mothers, and aunts of fellow COA alumnx! The book opens debates on feminism, sociology, politics, ecology, translation, philosophy, and ethics. The book will be available for purchase online in March 2021. Find more information at andelaroncevic.net

2020

REBEKAH HEIKKILA and LIO COOK ’21 became first-time homeown-

ers this past summer when an unanticipated opportunity arose to purchase a beautiful, 120-year-old house on the quietside of MDI. Since becoming quarantine companions at the beginning of the pandemic in the spring of 2020, the two became collaborators on an intentional community project that focuses on shared resources, simple living, and a commitment to lifelong learning. They will be seeking year-round residents for their “homestead-in-progress” starting in June 2021. ■

From top to bottom: Maddy Magnuson ’13; Marina Cucuzza ’16; Hakim Noah ’18; Kiera O’Brien ’18; Anđela Rončević ’19; Rebekah Heikkila ’20 & Lio Cook ’21 are new homeowners!

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In March, just before the COVID-19 pandemic closed the country, William H. Drury Professor of Ecology and Natural History JOHN ANDERSON traveled to Saint Vincent College at the invitation of Jim Kellam ’96 to give a talk on conservation as part of their bioethics series. In June, a scratch team consisting of Anderson, Ivy Enoch ’18, Hale Morrell ’12, Franklin Jacoby ’12, and David Anderson counted and mapped Great Duck Island’s gull colony to maintain the longterm dataset. In autumn, Anderson served on the Waterbird Society Conference Organizing Committee along with Kate Shlepr ’13 & Jenna Schlener ’19 for the first-ever international Virtual Waterbird Society Meeting. Shlepr and Anderson both presented aspects of their research at the meeting, as did Aya Kumagai ’21 and Hallie Arno ’22.

The meeting also featured workshops hosted by Anna Stunkel ’13 and Lindsey Nielsen ’12. Stunkel demonstrated how to draw an eider duck, and Nielsen taught the art of drawing feathers on scratchboard. The workshops were such a success that the Waterbird Council has asked that they be repeated live in Texas next year. In January 2021, Anderson presented a talk on the history of Great Duck to the Harpswell Heritage Land Trust at the invitation of Julia McLeod ’03.

A new short film by NANCY ANDREWS, T.A.Cox Chair in Studio Arts, and Jennifer Reeder called I Like Tomorrow premieres during opening night of The Portland International Film Festival (Portland, Oregon and online), March 5–March 14, 2021. In the film, Captain Regina Lamb, (Michole Briana White) confronts an awkward love triangle with her past, present, and future selves in a lonely space station (live-action, animation, musical).

In the spring of 2020, Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman Chair in Performing Arts JODI BAKER, along with Aimée Miranda ’21 and

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Leelou Gordon-Fox ’21, created COArt, an informal online space for sharing COA student art, art processes, and art-related livestream events. Initially the space was simply an effort to help art-focused students complete and show their senior projects (given the temporary closure of the Ethel H. Blum Gallery and our studios). It quickly became clear that COArt could also be of use as a platform for housing and developing all sorts of other creative work. Over fall and winter break, senior staff redesigned and migrated COArt to a new, more practical platform and doubled our work study staff. The site will host a new exhibit as part of its grand reopening in spring 2021 (COArt2020. org). In January of 2021, Baker participated in a two-week-long online physical training intensive (Suzuki and Viewpoints) with members of SITI Co. (NYC). The experience was tremendously valuable as a way to investigate and strategize methods for teaching physical theatre practices over Zoom. It was made possible by professional development funds from a Davis Educational Foundation grant.

Like many Americans who are fortunate enough to live near public lands, David Rockefeller Family Chair in Ecosystem Management and Protection KEN CLINE turned to the outdoors to weather the COVID19 storm. “Acadia kept me sane over the past year,” notes Cline, “as I went into the park multiple times every week since March.” This spring and fall, going into the park was also part of Cline’s job as he taught his American Public Lands and Acadia National Park courses with weekly field trips into Acadia. Cline also did research on the National Park Service’s legal response to the pandemic during this time. Finally, it appears that the Trump administration never got around to replacing Cline as the Secretary of the Interior’s appointee to the Acadia National Park Commission. “I had been expecting to lose that appointment since January 2017, but they apparently had bigger fish to fry (or they never read my resume),” Cline says.

Left: Nancy Andrews and Jennifer Reeder’s I Like Tomorrow featuring Michole Briana White.

Above: The view enjoyed by Gray Cox, summer 2020.

KOURTNEY COLLUM, Partridge Chair in Food and Sustainable Agriculture Systems, worked with former grant writer Kristina Swanson to secure a $50k grant from the Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation to fund the MDI Food Access Project, a partnership between COA, COA Beech Hill Farm, Open Table MDI, and the Bar Harbor Food Pantry. This partnership works to deliver fresh produce, dry goods, and prepared foods to areas of Mount Desert Island underserved by local food-security organizations. Kerri Sands ’02 joined Collum as the program manager for the Sustainable Food Systems Research Collaborative, a partnership with UMaine. For the third year, they trained undergraduates in knowledge-to-action research. This summer they supported one UMO fellow and two COA fellows—Sarah Somes ’21 and Lily Gehrenbeck ’21. Somes researched cooperative behavior among maple syrup producers. Gehrenbeck conducted an oral history of Maine beekeepers.

clarinet. This summer he was able to gain considerable perspective on the COVID-19 crisis and life by looking at MDI from the point of view of his Zodiac out in Frenchman Bay while stocking up on a winter’s supply of mackerel.

Professor GRAY COX has been quite enjoying the opportunity to not only experiment with teaching online, but to also both organize and present at Zoom workshops with international participation. He has done a series of presentations connected with the Quaker Institute for the Future this year, such as “Community Based Security” (cosponsored with Sequoia Samanvaya), “Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Spirituality” (as part of the QIF Summer Research Seminar), “The Pandemic as Portal to the Future” (with Friends Association for Higher Education), and an interview with climate activist Ania Wright ’20 as part of a series on Gandhian approaches to social change through constructive programs and swaraj (sponsored by an NGO in Chennai, India). This work is all part of an effort to further what Cox calls the Slow Zoom movement, modeling mindful ways of producing and digesting digital experiences on the mindful ways of nourishing our bodies developed by the Slow Food movement. He continues to work on a variety of languages, including

Professor DAVE FELDMAN’S book Chaos and Dynamical Systems (Princeton University Press, 2019) has received very positive reviews from the Mathematical Association of America and the American Journal of Physics. He is making slow but steady progress on a textbook on sustainable energy. Feldman is an active member of two community organizations: MDI Racial Justice Collective and MDI Racial Equity Working Group, and he is on the steering committee of Indivisible MDI. He volunteered for State Senator Louis Luchini (D-Hancock) in the 2020 election and served as an election observer for the Maine Democratic Party in Calais and Ellsworth.

Writing lecturer MARTHA ANDREWS DONOVAN was invited this past fall to serve as a virtual guest speaker for an advanced creative nonfiction course at New England College, where she previously taught as a professor of writing. Donovan’s reading and presentation centered on the intersections of memory, image, and narrative in her hybrid essays, “Dangerous Archaeology: A Daughter’s Search for her Mother (and Others) ~ a memoir in fragments” (with photographer Autumn E. Monsees, Hayden’s Ferry Review, 2012) and “The Changing Light, The Changing Days ~ a memoir in fragments” (The Mud Chronicles, 2018).

In the spring of 2020, JAY FRIEDLANDER, Sharpe-McNally Chair of Green and Socially Responsible Business, presented to senior leaders from colleges and universities around the world at the AshokaU

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