Emily Buser, Ed.M., writes that April 2015 marked her one-year anniversary working at the Columbus Metropolitan Library (CML) as the business intelligence analyst for the Public Services Department, where she provides data analytic services to staff throughout their 22 locations in central Ohio. “Part of my work responsibilities also involve bridging connections between CML and the school districts we serve,” she writes. “Are we having an impact on literacy skills throughout our children’s programming? It’s a wonderful, challenging career path!”
Living in a place like New York City, there’s not a lot of space or a lot of calm, so being able to get out on the water with amazing, hardworking teenagers is a huge gift. There is a wonderful combination of peace and strength all at once. To see our kids find their way from novices where they’re just beginning to learn to set the boat to varsity rowers with confidence and ability is also a great thing to be a part of.
and programming, and serves as a dorm parent to 40 young women and an actual parent to her two young sons. , Ed.M., was featured in the new book Unselfish for her work starting Row New York in 2002 with one borrowed boat and eight rowers. The program teaches young people in underresourced communities in New York City the sport of competitive rowing. Today, the program serves more than 2,000 students each year; 98 percent of the participants graduate from high school and go on to college. @RowNewYork
Jenna Mancini-Rufo, Ed.M., is the director of special education and student services for North Penn School District, which serves roughly 13,000 students in Lansdale,
Pennsylvania. She writes that some of her proudest accomplishments include leading the implementation of a tiered reading intervention system at the high school level and establishing a multiple disabilities support program for students with severe cognitive and physical disabilities. She is currently chairing an inclusion task force for the district in an effort to refine and expand inclusive practices for students with disabilities. She lives in the Philadelphia suburbs with her husband and two daughters and is currently pursuing her doctorate at Immaculata University. Taryn Sabia, Ed.M., is lead researcher at the Florida Center for Community Design and Research within the University of South Florida School of Architecture and Community Design. Her work focuses on resilient urban design, transit and the public realm, and the sustainability of cities. For eight years she has also overseen Urban Charrette, Inc., the nonprofit she co-founded to build community capacity around better
Peter Mueller, Ed.M., was named principal of Basalt High School in Basalt, Colorado. Prior, he was a project director at the Nature Conservancy and a middle and high school principal in the Telluride R-1 School District.
Kimberly (Zern) Evelti, Ed.M., serves as the associate academic dean at the Williston Northampton School, a co-ed boarding and day school offering grades 7–PG in Easthampton, Massachusetts. Last year, Evelti helped develop and implement the school’s 1:1 tablet computing initiative, deploying over 600 Microsoft Surface Pro devices to all students and faculty. She also founded the school’s Williston Scholars program, wrote and teaches a course in video game design
In February 2015, classmates Jenna ManciniRufo, Kim Evelti, Robyn Wiens, and Taryn Sabia had a mini-reunion at St. Pete Beach, Florida.
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