Andover Bread Loaf 2022 Annual Report

PHILLIPS ACADEMY 2021 OUTREACH PROGRAM REPORT

ANDOVER BREAD LOAF

OUR MISSION Andover Bread Loaf (ABL) promotes literacy and educational revitalization through the lens of social justice in the most under-resourced communities and school systems around the world, particularly in U.S. urban communities and public schools.

WHO WE SERVE ABL collaborates with youth, adults, educators, and local activists to support grassroots, democratic social action movements that enable people to transform themselves, their communities, and their educational systems.

WHAT WE DO Through interactive programs that teach writing, creative self-expression, and the arts, ABL ignites a passion for learning and empowers youth, educators, and civic organizers to create spaces for emancipatory education and community wellness both inside and outside of schools.

Rising Loaves is a three-week exploration of arts and writing through history, hosted by the Lawrence History Center in Lawrence, Mass. Designed for middle school students, Rising Loaves is a school year and summer program.

Visit andover.edu/ABL to learn more about ABL and its impact.

2021 ABL PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS In the past year and a half, the United States experienced a deadly pandemic, a painful racial reckoning, and an attack on the U.S. Capitol. These events have been traumatic for people throughout the country, but especially for those in the under-resourced communities served by ABL. By being part of the ABL network, youth and adults have had access to resources that helped sustain them as students, teachers, and human beings in this time of crises.

FOCUS ON HEALTHY HABITS. With a grant from Write to Change, ABL started a youth-driven public health campaign that features youth as “health influencers.” Their first initiative, “The Masks Project,” included a public service announcement on healthy behaviors during the pandemic.

SHARING STRATEGIES. ABL’s Peace Literacy Network made a presentation at the convention

LOU BERNIERI Founder, Director

of the National Council of Teachers of English. The presentation, “Leveraging Online Spaces to Unite Families and Teachers Globally,” was made by members from Lawrence, Mass.; Cidra, Puerto Rico; Santa Tecla, El Salvador; Karachi, Pakistan; and Mumbai, India.

A teacher, coach, and administrator at Phillips Academy since 1977, Lou Bernieri

TEACHING SOCIAL JUSTICE. ABL Adult Educator Director Lorena German published an

founded Andover Bread Loaf in 1987. Having

educational text with Heinemann Publishing. The book, Textured Teaching: A Framework

grown up in an Italian American immigrant

for Culturally Sustaining Practices, shows teachers how to implement teaching and learning

community in Brooklyn, N.Y., he recognized

that leads to social justice.

the potential for transformative education

PROGRAM LAUNCH. ABL launched its Educator Support Program that offers ABL alumni up

in nearby Lawrence, Mass., and made

to $500 for projects implemented during the school year or summer.

NEW NETWORK PARTNER. ABL forged a partnership with Lawrence High School. The pilot program will bring cohorts of 50 ninth-graders from Lawrence High to Phillips Academy’s Log Cabin for a day of writing and arts programming and engage them in follow-up

the immigrant city ABL’s home base. The influence and inspiration of Lawrence youth and adults have fostered ABL’s national and international network.

workshops at Lawrence High during the school year.

Slice is a writing and arts program for elementary school students. It began over a decade ago as a twoweek summer program at the Boys and Girls Club of Lawrence (BGCL) in Lawrence, Mass. Today, it is both a school year and summer program.

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Making It Count

THE VALUE IN VIRTUAL EVENTS Andover Bread Loaf has always connected dynamically with young writers and their families, but at the beginning of 2021, when it became clear that events would continue to be virtual, ABL leaders knew they had to increase their efforts even more.

To this end, Nurilys Cintron, a veteran ABL writing leader, has become a maestro of online workshops and Family Literacy Nights. She acknowledges two important benefits of virtual gatherings: first, they allow for a certain vulnerability in writing, and second, accessibility is at a maximum. “We’re able to invite people from other states and countries to join us,” Cintron says. This included award-winning poet Porsha Olayiwola, who ran an ABL workshop during the 2021 summer program.

Mohsin Tejani, ABL director and founder of the School of Writing in Pakistan, agrees with Cintron and says virtual events have even helped him achieve his dream of inviting senior Bread Loaf faculty to Pakistan. In February 2021, “Re-Imagining the Teaching of Writing,” a digital conference organized in collaboration with ABL, brought together some of the most influential people in the writing world, including Emily Bartels, director of Slice Director Kristine Kannas introduces ABL alumnus Alan Nuñez (pictured on screen) to young writers at the Boys and Girls Club of Lawrence. Because Covid protocols dictated that some presenters give their workshops virtually this past summer, Nuñez Zoomed in for a dynamic music and writing workshop.

JACKIE SCHIEREMBERGG

Director of Health Initiatives: NextGen & ABL Alliance “During the COVID-19 pandemic,

the Bread Loaf School of English at Middlebury College. “I doubt this could have ever happened at an in-person event in Pakistan,” says Tejani.

Because digital events have expanded ABL’s reach and reduced inequalities, a hybrid approach is likely to be part of its post-pandemic future.

JAMES-VALENTÍN (jayvie) Rising Loaves Program Director

“Being virtual has given ABL

KAREN KRAVCHUK

Education Director of the Boys & Girls Club of Lawrence “Throughout the pandemic, ABL

I created the ‘ABL Masks Project,’

the opportunity to connect in

has kept our kids creative and

a youth-led health initiative

new ways with folks around

thinking deeply about themselves

focused on developing youth

the country and the world. I’m

and the world around them.

into health influencers for their

always inspired—virtually or in

In 2020, we held several Slice

families and communities. Early

person—by the ways in which we

workshops via Zoom—it was great

on, a writer concluded that they

see students finding their voice

to see the kids, their families, and

felt it was a ‘safe space’ for them

as writers and as human beings

their homes. Our summer 2021

to talk about these issues. That one

while the program progresses. It’s

Slice program was back in person.

comment inspired me to create

always astonishing and heartening

We had to have smaller numbers

more workshops and expand them

to see the writer you thought of as

but saw the quality in that. It was

into a video series project.”

‘quiet’ speaking their truth.”

awesome!”

Jackie is a community organizer with

As an educator and writer, jayvie creates

In addition to supporting Slice at the

a degree in public health from UMass

spaces in which his community can use

BGCL, Karen is vital to organizing and

Lowell.

its power to shape change.

running ABL’s citywide conferences as well as other ABL initiatives in Lawrence.

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THRIVING THROUGH THE PANDEMIC

90%

Started a youth-driven public health campaign that features youth as

of programming during the pandemic was facilitated by ABL youth writing leaders

and that produced a public service announcement video on healthy behaviors during the pandemic

WRITING WORKSHOP

“HEALTH INFLUENCERS”

100 Phillips Academy alumni attended “Write For Your Life” virtual writing workshops offered by ABL staff

25 members

Offered

RESTORATIVE programming, responding to the traumas youth and adults experienced during the past year

47 people participated in a virtual conference for youth and adults in English, Spanish, and Urdu that was piloted by ABL

of Phillips Academy’s Class of 1971 supported ABL through the impactful PA’71 / Lawrence Project.

They leveraged their 50th Reunion, a match, and their

INCREASED

NON SIBI SPIRIT

the number of paid ABL writing leaders locally and nationally

to inspire gifts to ABL and PALS, and their generosity benefited the broader Lawrence community in a time of great need.

3 books published by ABL alumni

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We extend our deep gratitude to those who made gifts to ABL in FY21. Thanks to your generosity, ABL was able to respond nimbly to the needs of its participants, connecting and supporting students and educators at a time like no other.

Foundations and Organizations Abbot & Dorothy H. Stevens Foundation Edward S. & Winifred G. Moseley Foundation Rogers Family Foundation Middlebury College Write to Change, Inc.

Individuals Nilofer Ayesha Abdur Rawoof & Abubakkar Siddiq P’22 R. James Acheson Jr. ’78 & Joanne Colonna Ashlyn J.M. Aiello ’14 Tenley E. Albright, MD & Gerald W. Blakeley Jr.* P’88 John A. Almquist Jr. ’50 & Laura Treman Almquist

Julia A. Alvarez ’67 & William Eichner Luis B. Andrade ’86 & Jennifer J. Reid Graham B. Anthony ’82 & Angela Anthony Andrew J. Antonucci ’18 Ariel E. Axelrod-Hahn ’02 Sharyn Bahn Harriet Bishop Bakken ’79 & Jon Petter Bakken P’12, ’14, ’16 James R. Bakker Jr. ’71 Susanna Rhodes Beckwith ’88 & Curt Beckwith, MD, P’18, ’24 Bertrand F. Bell III ’50 William J. Bellissimo II ’78 Kimberly Bentley-Salinas & Ruben F. Salinas P’24 James R. Bird Jr., PhD, ’67 & Anita MacMillen Bird

J. Thomas Bolles ’71 Tyler P. Bond ’10 Mae Concemi Bradshaw ’62 Christopher J. Brescia ’71 & Carol Zarinelli Brescia Amara Moreau Briggs ’91 & Jason C. Briggs Robert A. Briggs ’82, P’11 Vincent J. Broderick ’71 Andrew V. Brown ’88 & Jill Bouquet Brown P’19, ’22 Bartlett M. Brush ’67 Louis M. Bernieri P’96, ’10 & Heather C. Bryant Samuel C. Butler Jr. ’72 & Susan Jett P’03, ’09 Michael T. Cahill ’84 & Hilary W. Addington Peter M. ’53 & Kathleen M. Capra Charles W. Carl Jr., MD, ’48 & Dianne Eckhart Carl David A. Carnoy ’83 & Lisa L. Carnoy Richard M. Cashin Jr. ’71 & Lisa Smith Cashin

Andrew D. ’71 & Lauren A. Caverly Arnold A. Chacon & Alida Alvarado Chacon P’05, ’14 Lincoln D. Chafee ’71 & Stephanie D. Chafee P’09 Gregory J. Chang ’02 & Diem Nguyen E. Drew Cheney ’71 & Sarah Witte Alexander W. Chessman, MD, ’71 & Kathy Chessman Sekou N. Cisse ’21 Charlotte-Luisa W. Cleveland ’11 Margaret W. Coffin ’03 & Nathan S. Kellogg ’05 Elizabeth Walker Compton ’66 Elizabeth B. Crowley ’94 & John D. McKinnon Courtnie R. Crutchfield ’09 Maya Nath Curtis ’97 & Benjamin A. Curtis Joisan E. Decker DeHaan ’99 & Robert W. DeHaan Thomas W. DeMello ’71 & Cynthia L. Feldmann Sanjiv S. Desai ’89 & Wendy Levitz P’24

Olivia Morgan ’90 & David Plouffe

ELEVATING VOICES Olivia Morgan ’90 and her husband David Plouffe believe that an engaged citizenry is vital to a healthy and functioning democracy, and this belief leads directly to why, year after year, they support Andover Bread Loaf.

“Voice and expression are the most powerful tools we have in a democracy,” Morgan says.

“And it matters how we use them. It matters that Lou Bernieri is working with kids in Lawrence, Massachusetts, to develop their potential and hone their craft as writers, speakers, and poets, just as he does for kids at Andover.”

Morgan and Plouffe point to the massive chasm that exists between the resources and opportunities available to kids in our country depending on the zip codes in which they live. “There is no difference in their potential, talent, ability, creativity, or leadership skills,” Morgan says, “only a difference in what community they happen to be born into. That’s a human tragedy, but it’s also a threat to the stability and health of our entire society.”

During the Obama Administration, Morgan served on the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities under First Lady Michelle Obama’s leadership. Inspired in part by the creative writing classes she took at Andover, Morgan worked with the committee to create the National Student Poets Program, which invests in and elevates youth poets.

“Working with young people—listening to them—is what keeps me hopeful and optimistic about the future of our nation and our planet,” Morgan says.

“We have always supported Andover,” Plouffe adds, “because it provided Olivia with an education, experience, and relationships that opened up the world to her and have helped sustain her through the years. Supporting ABL lets others benefit from what Olivia experienced at Andover in a way that is consistent with our values and view of the world.”

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Esther Morgo Diskin ’84 & Glenn S. Diskin Jose A. Dobles ’98 Christopher J. Doherty ’74 & Sally Doherty P’10 Dianne Domenech-Burgos & Willy N. Burgos Mago Emile F. duPont II ’71 & Lindsay H. duPont P’04, ’06 Nekia Monique Durant ’01 Anna Schneider Durham ’78 & Michael D. Durham O. Nicole Durrett ’17 Patricia H. & George H. Edmonds P’79, ’82 Riley M. Edsall ’20 Mara Meyer Epstein ’01 & Jonathan Epstein Lauren Falco Patrick J. & Karen J. Farrell P’08 Keith T. Flaherty, MD, ’89 & Mira Kautzky, MD, P’23 Hailey L. Folmer ’04 Catherine Ford ’11 & Riley Ford Lisa M. Foster ’84, P’12, ’22 Joshua C. Frechette ’90 & Trixie Sabundayo David N. Frechette ’89 & Mika Wood Frechette P’25 Sarah M. Freedman ’12 Beth Friedman & Sherri Bisci Ann & Richard B. Friedman Gregory S. Gasperoni ’82 & Charlene Gasperoni John W. Gillespie Jr. ’71 & Susan Gillespie William R. Godbout ’20 Richard B. Gorham ’86 Dixie Goswami Cynthia L. Greene ’87 & David Jegen Sarah Jane Cohen Grossbard ’84 & Michael L. Grossbard, MD, P’15, ’19 Hannah Pfeifle Harlow ’96 & Jason Harlow Steven A. ’81 & Shirl A. Harrington David R. Harsch, Esq. ’73 Austin D. Hart ’71 & Fagan Hart Howard J. Harvin ’89 & Courtney Brooks Hannah J. Cole Heath ’98 & Tim Heath Elizabeth Hilgenberg Heminway ’54 Edward J. Hill ’79 Patrick M. Holkins ’04 & Jonay Holkins Charlotte Huang ’89 & Andrew Simon William L. Hudson ’70 Alanna H. Hughes ’04 & Andrew Smith

Daniel S. Janis III ’79 & Stephanie Janis Abigail C. Johnson ’71 Jonathan M. Judson ’02 Philip J. Kann ’71 Charles B. Keefe ’71 & Lila B. Locksley Colleen M. Kennedy ’01 Caroline Sincerbeaux King ’94 & C. Lewis King Michael J. Koehler ’94 & Amy Koehler Elee E. Kraljii Gardiner ’88 & Robert Kraljii Jonathan P. Kukk ’86 & Julie Sowers Kukk P’19, ’22 Jenny Tsai Le, MD, ’89 & Hamilton S.T. Le Tucker Levy ’88 & Victoria M. Levy Qin Li & Bing Wang P’22 Aksana Lishko Thomas P. Lockerby & Kathleen J. McCrickerd Edward R. Lovett ’89 & Erin E. Lovett Michael S. MacDougal ’86 & Janice L. MacDougal Adrienne Hynek Margie ’82 & Peter Margie Anne & Scott A. Marino P’19 Carolina E. Marion ’08 Samantha F. Marrus ’12 Patrick J. McCormick ’83 & Babette Fahey William R. McNulty ’87 & Negar A. Ahkami Gregg R. ’71 & Katherine O. Meserole P’98 Caroline A. Mesinger ’16 John S. Miner ’71 & Nelle Alexander John P.C. Moon ’71 & Louise K. Moon Hee Jung Shin Moon ’84 & John J. Moon Olivia D. Morgan ’90 & David Plouffe Peter B. Morin ’73 & Elizabeth Roscoe Morin ’76, P’07 Michael W. Morris Jr. ’86 & Kristen A. Morris P’21 A. Edward Moulin III ’68 & Willa I. Lewis John Henry Moulton ’88 & Marion F. Moulton Timothy A. & Sheila L. Mullen P’14 Thomas O. Mullen ’14 Emmanuelle M. Murphy ’17 William M. Murray Jr. ’71 & Kristen Trouse Murray Peter G. Myers ’01 Kathleen M. Naughter P’13

Stephen L. Needham ’21 Franklin C. Nevius Jr. ’64 & Patricia D. Nevius Alison Nourse-Miller ’69 & Fredric W. Miller Amy O’Neal Nylen ’91 & Terrence Nylen Julia E. O’Hern ’01 Constance Drayton Old ’80 & Jonathan Old Melanie H. Oliva ’14 Nicholas Olmo ’98 & Johanna Olmo John Palfrey ’21 Caroline Goodson Parker ’88 & John Parker Beth & Tim Parsons Elizabeth Anne Pates ’10 Gillian L. & Jonathan Z. Pearlson P’21, ’23 Jonathan C. Peirce ’63 William & Nancy Penney GP’21 Lily N. Rademacher ’21 Richard L. ’71 & Ann W. Ramsey Allan C. Reeder ’88 Bruce Reider, MD, ’67 & Patricia Simmons Reider P’10 James W. Reidy ’86 & Shantelle Reidy P’21, ’23, ’23 Edward A. Rice ’58 & Mary Dondero Rice Virginia B. & Michael W. Robinson P’22 Suthima M. Rojvirasingh ’20 Christopher P. Rokous ’80 & Judith South Rokous Wilfred J. Romero & Elizabeth Nelson P’12 Case L. Rosenfelt ’22 David L. Ross ’70 Norman H. Rothschild ’86 & Cheng-Mei Liu P’10, ’20 Wendy Bolton Rowland ’60 & Daniel B. Rowland ’58 Tanya Rulon-Miller ’89 & Stephen M. Schlemmer ’88 Natalia D. Salinas ’24 Charles B. Schaff Jr. ’71 & Cheryl O. Schaff Daniel J. Schneider & Leah Okimoto Sean A. Scott ’00 Juan E. Segarra III ’68 Nicole K. Shadeed & Sean J. McCarthy Michael T. Shannon, DMD & Carolyn O. Shannon P’07, ’12 Leila Jones Shields ’93 & Nicolas M. Shields Matthew D. ’86 & Lily E. Shine Gregory D. Shufro ’87 & Jen Shufro P’22

Donor list reflects gifts received from July 1, 2020, through June 30, 2021.

P = Parent(s) of Phillips Academy student or alumnus/a GP = Grandparent IRT = Institute for Recruitment of Teachers alumnus/a * = Deceased

Abby J. Shuman, PsyD, ’84 & Dean Eaton Parker W. Sides ’95 & Lori P. Marshall Sides ’00 John P. Slavin ’87 & Brigid McBride George B. Smith Jr. ’83 & Beth Becker-Smith James W. Smithwick ’99 R. Jordan Smyth Jr. ’84 & Shelagh Meehan Smyth Anna E. Stewart ’93 Jasmine A. Stovall ’10 Nicolas I. Swenson ’15 Josef J. Tatelbaum ’78 & Grace Wang Thomas L. Taylor ’22 Paul R. Tessier ’71 Sylvia L. Thayer ’54 & J. Philip Zaeder P’79, ’83, GP’17, ’18 Elizabeth M. Tran ’19 Heidi L. Van Horn ’86 Paul F. Van Houten ’84 & Christina Gaberino Van Houten Svenja Vehrenkamp ’09 Natalia Villegas & Cesar A. Ospina P’22 Jed D. Walentas ’92 & Kate Engelbrecht Sam S. Walker III ’71 & June Gilstrap Walker Seth Walworth ’71 & Susan Chadwell Walworth Loraine Washburn ’73 Nathaniel L. Waters ’95 Timothy I. Watt ’89 & Amity Gaige Juma O. Waugh ’98 Amy Whitehead Brian Wiley ’82 & Sarah Wilson Wiley Brooke H.B. Williams ’84 & Joshua Liberson Cindy L. & Gary S. Winemaster P’23 Adam K. Wise ’83 & Ann S. Wise Jonathan K. Wonnell ’77 & Frances Wonnell Sturgis P. Woodberry ’84 & Carolyn Woodberry Alice C-J. Wu ’92 & James Fei Torrance B. York ’84 & Gregory T. Walters Sarah Young Anna J. Zimmer ’17 Carolyn M. & James P. Zimmer P’17, ’20 Brittany Zorn, IRT ’13 Gregory J. Zorthian ’71 & Robin Reeves Zorthian P’11

ABL ADVISORY BOARD Michael T. Cahill ’84, Chair New York, NY Susanna Rhodes Beckwith ’88, P’18, ’24 Providence, RI Sanjiv S. Desai ’89, P’24 Coconut Grove, FL Jose A. Dobles ’98 Brooklyn, NY Ricardo Dobles ’85 Holden, MA Keith T. Flaherty, MD, ’89, P’23 Cambridge, MA Elee E. Kraljii Gardiner ’88 Vancouver, BC, Canada Cynthia L. Greene ’87 Newton, MA Tucker Levy ’88 Charlestown, MA John Henry Moulton ’88 Greenwich, CT Gregory D. Shufro ’87, P’22 New York, NY Scobie D. Ward ’84 Hong Kong Timothy I. Watt ’89 West Hartford, CT Sturgis P. Woodberry ’84 Darien, CT

Christine Jee, manager of school and community collaboration at the Addison Gallery of American Art and ABL Executive Board member, leads a conversation with a group of Slice students who visited the Mel Kendrick ’67 exhibition at the Addison in July. Thanks to the

A PRIVATE SCHOOL WITH A PUBLIC PURPOSE

generosity of the Addison—one of ABL’s oldest and most active partners—youth in ABL programs and classrooms in grades 1–12 visit the museum during the summer and school year.

Phillips Academy’s four educational outreach programs— Andover Bread Loaf, the Institute for Recruitment of Teachers, (MS)2, and PALS—have long served as resources for students and teachers locally, nationally, and worldwide.

Photos: Gil Talbot, Anne Marino

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