on literacy and started a female adult women’s literacy class and also taught literacy at the local primary schools. I also did a lot of life skills clubs, with a focus on HIV prevention. And, of course, I played and coached a bit of soccer. I lived with a tribe called the Lugbara, otherwise best remembered as Idi Amin’s tribe. The Lugbara are well known for their beautiful textiles and singing, and are a very welcoming culture. Besides ‘working’ I spent much of my time sipping hot tea during the middle of the day in equatorial Africa and interacting with the local wildlife (goats and chickens).”
2006 CLASS AGENTS:
Marjahn Golban mgolban@gmail.com Lien Bui lbui@gustavus.edu Henry Parker hsparker2001@yahoo.com Rory Collins roryfcollins@gmail.com Alex Gast agast88@gmail.com Alexandra Wennberg is
completing her second year as a predoctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins. Her focus is on dementia.
2007 CLASS AGENTS:
Derek Schaible derek.schaible@gmail.com Etonde Awaah eawaah@gmail.com Nick Rosenbaum goopygoop@gmail.com
2009 CLASS AGENTS:
s Elizabeth Berg returned to the Twin Cities in April 2013 as a member of the North American touring company of Mary Poppins. Berg plays Katie Nanna in the show and is also the understudy for multiple female roles. During the show’s run in Minneapolis, Berg was a fixture in Twin Cities media, including a profile with KSTP in which she talked about her musical and dramatic mentors at SPA: “My director and choir teacher at SPA were amazing…I don’t think any performer can move forward in this business unless they have a mentor, someone telling them you can do this, and you have potential. They taught me all this in high school…They taught me everything I know and are definitely a huge influence on why I’m here today.”
2008 CLASS AGENTS:
Jessica Garretson jesspiperg@gmail.com Nolan Filter lilbddh@yahoo.com Vanessa Levy vanessalevy1@yahoo.com Ariella Rotenberg rotenberg.ariella@gmail.com 5th Reunion in 2013! Jessie Garretson, Ariella Rotenberg, and Kitty Hwang are planning a gathering December 26, 2013. Classmates are encouraged to attend Reunion Weekend events in September. More information will be mailed to members of the class over the summer.
Colin Cowles colin.cowles@gmail.com Liz Moertel emoerte@emory.edu Ashlee Fukushi fuku0035@umn.edu Grace Ferrara gferrara@pugetsound.edu Nikki Voulgaropoulos
graduated this May from the University of Minnesota. She will move to Baltimore this fall to pursue a MSPH in Health Policy at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
2010 CLASS AGENTS:
Katherine Labuza klabuza@gmail.com Paige Owens-Kurtz owenskur@stolaf.edu Elena Miller elena.miller13@gmail.com Rosalind Mowitt is the
Design Editor for a studentrun fashion magazine at Northwestern University called Stitch, which was just named one of “The Best College Fashion Magazines Across the Country” by Teen Vogue. She also does layout, advertising, and marketing for A&O Productions, a nonprofit that provides concerts, films, and speakers for the Northwestern community. This summer she will be interning at Saatchi & Saatchi in Chicago. James Trevathan is a 2013 Goldwater Scholar. Scholarship recipients were selected by the Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Program on the basis of academic merit from a field of 1,107 math, science, and engineering students.
s Ian and Wyatt Wenzel pose with the championship trophy as the U.S. wins the B pool, a victory in the final over Canada 4-2.
2011 CLASS AGENTS:
Taylor Billeadeau shootingstars262@hotmail.com Kaia Wahmanholm kwahmanholm@gmail.com Gavi Levy Haskell was awarded one of two fulltuition merit scholarships this fall through the Clare Boothe Luce Scholars Program in Smith’s computer science department. The scholarship includes opportunities for research and conferences.
s Ambrosia Smith volunteered as an Organizing for America Fellow during the presidential reelection campaign. She was selected among the Fellows to lead the Pledge of Allegiance for Vice President Joe Biden’s visit to Minnesota and had the opportunity to meet him after the event.
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