Alumni@EA Alanna Wren Shanahan ’92 Mindy Scheier ’89 and Named Athletic Director at Runway of Dreams Make Johns Hopkins University Fashion Accessible to All Alanna Shanahan ’92 was named the first female athletic director at Johns Hopkins University on June 6, 2016. Shanahan had been the deputy athletic director at the University of Pennsylvania since 2012 where she was the senior women’s administrator at Penn’s Division of Recreation and Intercollegiate Athletics and the executive director of the Penn Relays. She is Hopkins’ fourth athletic director since 1950. Shanahan was a three-sport athlete at Episcopal playing field hockey, basketball, and lacrosse. She was inducted into the EA Athletic Hall of Fame in 2005 for her play on the lacrosse field where she was an All-American and won an Inter-Ac Championship. She went on to play lacrosse at the University of Pennsylvania and served in various coaching capacities for the team after she graduated. She is married to fellow alumnus Kevin Shanahan ’93, and they have two children.
Ankur Arya ’08 Makes a Difference for Students in Wilmington
Mindy Scheier ’89 has worked in the fashion industry
for her entire career. When her own son had trouble wearing the same styles as the other children at his school because of his challenges with muscular dystrophy, she knew she had to address the clothing difficulties faced by the differently abled. In 2013, she established Runway of Dreams, a non-profit organization dedicated to working with fashion designers to create clothing that is adapted for people with disabilities. Recently, fashion brand Tommy Hilfiger partnered with Runway of Dreams to create the first-ever, fully adaptive collection of clothing. For more information about Runway of Dreams and Scheier’s work, visit runwayofdreams.org.
Ankur Arya ’08 was recently profiled in Main Line Today
and Haverford, the alumni magazine for Haverford College, for his work at Thomas A. Edison Charter School in Wilmington, DE. After completing a two-year commitment with Teach for America at Edison, he decided to stay on to do more for the students who are in a chronically underserved community. In 2013, he established Leading Youth Through Empowerment (LYTE), which is a program designed to help Edison eighth graders earn acceptance to top public and private schools in the Wilmington area. According to the article in Haverford, all of the program’s 23 scholars were accepted into the best area schools within the program’s first two years. Due to its success, the program was expanded to two other Wilmington charter schools. For more information about Arya’s work at Edison, please visit www.haverford.edu/magazine. Photo by Tessa Marie Images.
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Save the date for the Meehan Golf Outing at White Manor Country Club: Monday, September 19, 2016 Open to the entire EA community, the Meehan Golf Outing raises money to support the Thomas J. Meehan, Sr. Scholarship Fund.