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UPDATES [1] LAUREN HARTMAN ’00 published Northern Passages, a book that focuses on scientific research, shipping, mythology and tourism in the Arctic. The book is a culmination of Lauren’s research, artwork and travel to the Arctic tundra. Working with two Russian curators, Lauren organized Northern Passages, a traveling exhibition that made its way across Russia to natural history museums in Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Murmansk and Polyarny. The book encapsulates the research behind these exhibitions, presenting it in visual and written form. The color photographs in the book show rarely seen aspects of life in the Arctic tundra in Northwest Russia, a tour of the first nuclear icebreaker, as well as reproductions of each work of art from the exhibition. [2] BRANDON STOLL ’12 graduated from Southern Methodist University in Dallas with a bachelor’s degree in economics and a minor in statistical science. He worked in Dallas as a big data analyst for an income development firm until April 2018. Brandon’s next step, together with his
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girlfriend, Kellie Conant, has been to open Parlor’s Handcrafted Ice Creams. The couple spent seven weeks traveling in Europe and the U.S. to research the business prior to its launch. “We felt that Dallas was in dire need of a high-quality, scratch-made, local ice cream shop, similar to Salt & Straw in Portland, [Ore.,] Van Leeuwen in New York City and McConnell’s in Los Angeles,” Brandon writes. “Dallas is the fourth largest metropolis in the country and has a sweet tooth to boot, so it seemed like the perfect market to open what we hope is the first of many stores.” The concept came together in January 2019, and Parlor’s began selling its first scoops in October. Based out of the Dallas Farmers Market, Brandon and Kellie are in the process of opening their first brick-andmortar location, which they hope will allow them to manufacture and sell wholesale to local restaurants, hotels and grocery stores.
The organization coordinates volunteers who safely deliver groceries, medicine and other necessities, free of delivery charge, to those who are most vulnerable to COVID-19—the elderly, the homebound and the immunocompromised. “During a routine grocery run, I began to worry about the health and safety of my grandmother and other older adults I had seen shopping,” Healy writes. “When I got home, I began researching for an organization that could help vulnerable populations gather essentials in times of crisis but could not find one, so I started to draft my own. The pace of growth—reaching nearly 1,000 deliveries and 10,000 volunteers in two weeks—has been astonishing. Peoples’ brightest lights always shine in the darkest moments, and I think Invisible Hands has provided a platform for that mantra, as trite as it is, to be demonstrated.” Invisible Hands’ efforts have been featured in Vogue, People and Grub Street.
[3] HEALY CHAIT ’13 launched Invisible Hands in New York and parts of New Jersey in the midst of the COVID-19 outbreak.
[4] This spring, MADISON GRAHAM ’16 will graduate from the University of Tennessee with a degree in anthropology with a con-