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Summer 2014
play and playground equipment, and thoroughly enjoyed her classes. Rachel now teaches second grade in the mid cities of DFW… and has been loving every minute of it! Colin Forage has moved back to Austin, where he works on a research team at the University of Texas through the university’s computational biology and bioinformatics department. He spends his free time enhancing his web development skills, taking on projects as they come his way. Since graduating from Pitzer College in May 2012, Leslie Canter has been in Austin, working in film production and distribution. She enjoys running around town with Team Rogue and remains to this day very active in Sarah Aragona '04 and Cole Arledge '07 were married in March
the educational organization she founded while at St. Stephen’s, Bridges to Burma.
2006
Seve Garza has been running his business, G52cube,
SELINA STRASBURGER
since July 2010. Nearing graduation from Chapman
selina.strasburger@gmail.com
University in the spring of 2012, Seve expanded his
S A R A H H . S H E P PA R D
existing photography and stencil business to include
sarahcromwell@aol.com
videography. In 2012, he produced the creative content (illustrative work and short films) for the Pacific Aerospace Resource & Technologies (PART) maintenance repair and
2007
overhaul company; he had free reign to go around PART’s
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hangars and film time-lapse videos of the airplanes being
C O L E A R L E D G E , cole.arledge@gmail.com
disassembled and then reassembled. Upon graduation, Seve moved back to Austin and now primarily focuses on
Ben Ferguson led a storytelling workshop for the
Ben Ferguson '07
Theatre Focus program at St. Stephen’s on April 26. He
stencil work. He is currently creating a body of work with the purpose of addressing the hardships of homelessness.
is a founding member of Pig Pen Theatre Co. Check out
through the school, learning Spanish and analyzing the
For this project, Seve teamed up with Caritas and Spratx
Ben and the group at www.pigpentheatre.com.
business environment in Argentina. Mark worked the
to develop an effective communication method for
Cannes Film Festival in May for the American Pavilion.
distributing strong visual rhetoric that reminds the
Cole Arledge and Sarah Aragona ’04 were married on
He will spend the summer in London, interning for the
public that homelessness is a serious issue and that
March 29.
website TwentySomethingLondon.com and consulting
the people it affects are to be respected. For more
with them on marketing best practices.
information on Seve’s homelessness series or the work
Martha Cox graduated with a B.A. from Rice in 2011 after
of G52cube, follow him on Instagram: @g52cube.
majoring in architecture. In 2013 she earned her bachelor
After graduating from The University of Texas at Austin
of architecture degree. “Since then, I have been working
last May with bachelor’s of science degrees in physics
at the Gensler Houston office in the mixed-use studio
and mathematics, Danny Broberg decided to pursue
and been very much enjoying work and graduated,
a graduate degree. As of fall 2013, he has been in the
professional life. I traveled to Mexico City in the winter
materials science Ph.D. program at the University of
of 2012 and plan to visit a friend from high school in
California at Berkeley … and has been quite happy to be
Jakarta, Indonesia, soon. I bike commute to work almost
in the warm California sun!
every day and am doing the MS 150 this April.” Michelle Kean has been enjoying her graduate program
2008
— this time back in Texas. She is currently finishing up her master’s degree in curriculum studies at Texas
AMANDA KUSHNER
Christian University in Fort Worth. She is already looking
amandakkushner@gmail.com. Amanda has set up a Facebook
forward to putting her degrees to use upon graduation.
group for the class called St. Stephen's Class of 2008.
Rachel Gleitman graduated from Texas Christian University Mark Jackson has been pursuing a master’s degree in
in May 2013 with a master’s degree in elementary education.
global marketing at the Thunderbird School of Global
While at TCU, she worked as a teaching assistant,
Management. He spent summer 2013 in Buenos Aires
conducted her own personal research over children’s
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St. Stephen’s Episcopal School
Mark Jackson '08