ALUMNI NEWS Class of 1986 Chris Corbett recently moved back to Marin from San Francisco. He hosts an all vinyl soul weekly event at 19 Broadway in Fairfax on Sunday afternoons. Class of 1988 Mike Long is a film editor who recently came back to the Bay Area to work on the documentary “Q Ball.” It follows the lives of the San Quentin Warriors—teammates and inmates at “The Q”, California’s San Quentin State Prison. Kevin Durant and fellow Golden State Warriors team members’ previous visits to the prison helped kick-start the project. The documentary explores the inmates’ personal struggles, as they search for redemption and transcendence both on and off the court. The answers, characters, and stories are complex, but in San Quentin—a place where freedom is taken away—basketball gives a little bit back. The movie premiered at the San Francisco International Film festival, and aired numerous times on Fox Sports and can now be seen on Netflix. It was nominated for two Sports Emmys. Class of 1990 Sean Peisert leads computer security and privacy research and development at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and is an adjunct professor of Computer Science and Public Health Sciences at UC Davis. He lives in San Rafael with his wife Kathryn, managing editor for The Governance Institute. Sean and Kathryn are over the moon that their son Lucas is a third grader at Mark Day School. They also have a two-year-old daughter, Lauren (Mark Day School class of 2032!). While sheltering in place, they have enjoyed playing tennis in the driveway; building “chain reactions” with prompts from Mark Day School Tinkering Instructors Mr. Greenleaf and Mr. St. Martin; exploring the local fauna, also with guidance from Mark Day School teacher Mr. Krupp; doing playdates and attending virtual jazz and Grateful Dead con-
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certs by video; and caring for the Mark Day School chickens, taking hikes in China Camp and taking the family Labrador retriever on a somewhat excessive amount of dog walks. Class of 2001 Josh Galland and his wife Veery Maxwell happily welcomed their first daughter, Sloane in December 2019. Class of 2002 Sarah (Lopez) Catalano and her husband Tyler Catalano welcomed their first child, Magnus Kilburn Catalano on July 10, 2019.
Class of 2006 Alexandra Norman started her career in education as a teacher at Tilden Preparatory School in the East Bay, and quickly became the Foreign Language Department Head. After helping to open the Tilden Sausalito campus, she went to Teachers College at Columbia University for a Masters in Education at the Klingenstein Center for Private School Leadership. Upon graduation, Alex returned to Tilden Preparatory School Marin as Associate Head of School and now oversees all faculty, academics, and resources, as well as developing curriculum, as the school transitions and rebrands in 2020. In developing curric-
