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and enjoy flying around the spectacular mountains of our amazing home. This winter we welcomed a baby girl into our family and look forward to having her join our adventurous lives.” Jules Skloot writes, “I continue to collaborate and perform with the Ballez, a queer ballet company in New York. We premiered our second fulllength Ballez, Sleeping Beauty and the Beast, at LaMama Theater, April 29–May 8. Last September I had the great joy and honor of being a chuppah pole holder at the wedding of my dear Hampshire friend and classmate Maggie Shar 99F to her beloved Jessica Harwood.” Arion Thiboumery writes, “Moved back to the region — southern Vermont. Started a new slaughterhouse, Vermont Packinghouse (www. vermontpackinghouse.com). Doing work with Hampshire, hosting student tours. Funny how things come back around. Look me up if you’re doing delicious food/farm stuff in the area.”
accessing resources (education, housing, food, shelter). The book serves as a resource to advocate for queer youth, who continue to suffer despite recent federal gains for LGBT rights. It’s also an exciting, engaging read aside from the advocacy goals.”
Vanessa Gravenstine writes, “Hi, classmates! I’m finishing an MS in environmental science in Syracuse. I work with several organizations to assess and improve bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure on campus and in a nearby town. I also recently got a job assessing sites for community solar projects. And, most exciting, I received a fellowship to go to Thailand in May and intern at an elephant reintroduction program. I’d love to visit Iceland in the upcoming year, and I’m looking for a travel partner . . .”
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Zane Thimmesch-Gill writes, “My book Hiding in Plain Sight was just named as a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award. The book explores the challenges of surviving the streets as a homeless trans youth and discusses the barriers to
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Pamela “Pam” Cargill writes, “I’m pleased to report that my solar consulting practice is growing. I’ve recently incorporated my business, Chaolysti, and I’m starting to expand my focus, as solar is edging its way into more mainstream energy production. Now I’m taking the decade-long shift in residential solar markets since I left Hampshire and applying it to how the future of distributed energy (for example, solar-energy storage and grid planning) affects the business of solar and
the consumers we serve. By the time you read this, my article in SolarPro magazine will have hit the stands. It’s a guide for solar installers to the growing ecosystem of software solutions specific to helping them run their businesses more effectively, the result of two years of study and interviews.”
Dan Inglis writes, “I’m doing better than ever as a freelance voice teacher, music director, and musician. “After doing my Div III on the nature of musical ability, I started teaching private voice. This has become my Div IV and a joyous life’s work: building the voice studio of the 21st century. I’ve been busy teaching in Northampton ever since. “Being dragged kicking and screaming to my first workshop in Estill Voice Training in 2007 led me to become a certified Master Teacher in 2013 and learn the technical framework that now enables me to perform three or four times a week, direct four choirs, and teach singers in many styles. “What’s most exciting right now is adding online lessons and developing online teaching resources. Singing is an art that, in the information age, can’t be replaced by a machine and is never going away. I don’t think in-person, one-on-one lessons are going anywhere either. But the ways we learn, practice, and even perform this art are changing, and I continue to learn with my students.”
2001 Elisabeth Gambino writes, “I worked as a Teachers for Global Classrooms Fellow in Morocco in March. I’m teaching art full time at Bard High School Early College Baltimore and will be leading teachers at the Maryland Artistry Teaching Institute this summer. I recently received an NEA Learning and Leadership grant for designthinking instruction and a Generation Study Abroad grant from IIE. This spring, I’m piloting a social-justice poster project, a vertical gardening design charrette, and a unit on migration, visual storytelling, and empathy. Other visual arts educators and teachers interested in globalizing their classrooms can follow my blog at teachpeaceblog. wordpress.com.” Lucia Green-Weiskel writes, “I’m teaching political science part time at Johnson State College, in northern Vermont, after recently moving here from Brooklyn. My husband and I had our second daughter, Aria Skye Williams Eddy, on October 30, 2015. Her older sister, Hero Iona Williams Eddy, was born May 2, 2013. I’m taking some time off from my career to be a stay-at-home mom but I plan to begin a full-time teaching position soon. I’m also finishing my dissertation on lobbyists and US–China relations and am a consultant to the Beijing-based Innovation Center for Energy and Transportation. I recently became a term member on the Council on Foreign Relations, in New York.” Tim O’Neill writes, “My wife and I welcomed our first child, Miles Robert O’Neill, on October 6, 2015. Favorite activities include raspberries, grabbing his toes, and Donald Drumpf memes.”