Alumni/AE
Class Notes Class of 2011 Molly Chapman is currently attending Denison University where she plays field hockey. Molly led the Big Red with 11 goals and three assists, and this past fall she earned first-team National Field Hockey Coaches Association (NFHCA) all-region honors. Molly also earned first-team AllNCAC honors and played in the NFHCA Division III Senior Game in Lexington, VA, on November 22. Victoria Gray is in her final year of college and will graduate this May from the University of Wyoming. She then plans to move to Buffalo, Wyoming to open her own retail store—stay tuned! Jonah Feitelson interned last summer at the National Economic and Social Rights Initiative (NESRI) in New York City. This opportunity was provided with funding from Hamilton College’s Summer Internship Support Fund established in 2005 by John G. Rice ’78 . NESRI is a non-profit organization that promotes movements for what it deems essential social and economic rights, including education, healthcare and housing. NESRI has played a large part in the universal
healthcare movement in VT and the housing crisis in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina. Jonah, a government major and economics minor, says he became interested in social and economic rights after taking classes at Hamilton like Economic Development and Politics in Africa. Interested in visual media he is interning in the Communications Department at NESRI. Rachel Kanegis is a senior at the University of Delaware. She will graduate in May 2015 with a degree in elementary education. She is in her second year of assistant teaching in a nearby Delaware public school and loves it! Rachel is looking for a teaching job in a Manhattan private school upon graduation. She is an active member of Chi Omega sorority. She keeps her horse, Buster, at a nearby barn and continues to ride all the time, fulfilling one of her life’s passions.
Class of 2012 Winston Boney transferred from Savannah College of Art and Design to the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Carl D’Amour-Belizario enjoyed a great hockey season. His team, the Hobart Statesmen, clinched first place and had home ice for playoffs in February. Chloe Gbai is currently a student at NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study. While a student a Millbrook, one of Chloe’s community services was the website, where she assisted the Communications Department by editing and creating various videos on campus. She’s taken her video skills to a whole new level recently. Working with fellow NYU student Emily Wong, she made a short film about the artist Banksy and his residence in NYC. About a month after posting their video on Vimeo, they were contacted by HBO to license their footage to be a part of a larger documentary. Chloe and Emily then worked with HBO’s production team to integrate their footage into the HBO documentary Banksy Does New York, which premiered on HBO last fall. Aldin Medunjanin, a junior at Skidmore, hit an historic 1,000-point mark on the basketball court at Skidmore this winter. Skidmore Athletics reports, “The talented guard became the 15th player to reach the
Class of 2009
Class of 2006 Matthew Mulberry earned a master’s degree in International Relations and European Studies from the Central European University in Budapest, graduating in June 2014. He now works in Washington DC at the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict (ICNC) as program advisor of Editorial and Media Initiatives. Links to his most recent work can be found on www.nonviolent-conflict.org.
Tyler Mauri, along with business partner Matthew Mead, has created a design+build startup, Hempitecture, that focuses on construction methods with one of nature’s most rapidly renewable and energy-friendly resources, industrial hemp. Coupled with its carbon-sequestering properties, hemp building represents a solution to the environmental issues caused by the building sector. Currently, Tyler and his partner are completing their first project in Custer County, Idaho at the non-profit Idaho BaseCamp. This project, partially funded by a successful Hempitecture Kickstarter campaign, is the first public-use hemp building in the US and will be utilized as a yoga, meditation, and dance studio. The design process was a collaborative endeavor between Hempitecture and Living Architecture, a design firm specializing in highly sustainable building practices. This project has been a foundational experience for Tyler, and he will continue to develop Hempitecture with his business partner while attending the University of Virginia Masters of Architecture program beginning in the fall of 2015.
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