RI, area. After finishing a graduate degree and taking a brief trip to China over the summer, she started working in develop- ment and marketing for Youth In Action, a small nonprofit in Providence that empowers underserved young people through peer-to-peer health education and filmmaking about social justice. Ryan Herman is CTO for Findhire.com,


a Santa Monica, CA-based technology startup. Findhire software allows for intel- ligent resume parsing and top candidate suggestions, representing an affordable solution for hiring massive amounts of people quickly and easily. ROBERT CAIAZZO 18 ROBESON STREET, APT. 2 JAMAICA PLAIN, MA 02130-2943 ROBERT.J.CAIAZZO.JR@GMAIL.COM


Baltimore, MD, with her husband. She earned her master’s in clinical psychology and is on her way to a doctorate. She is a therapist at a university counseling center. Last year Ian Zinn traveled to Bhutan


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and India for two weeks. He was promot- ed to VP at Bernstein Global Wealth Management and relocated from the firm’s Manhattan office to West Palm Beach, FL. There, Ian became a board member of Family Promise, a nonprofit that supports homeless children. Claire Fallon is living on Culebra, a tiny Caribbean island near Puerto Rico, where she has opened a yoga studio and retreat center, Culebra Yoga. She says, “Life is wonderful!” In NYC Mikayla Nemes is a physician assistant in a private practice in the Flat - iron district. Last year she had the pleas- ure of attending some “pretty awesome” Skidmore weddings, including those of Laura Renz Odato, Kathryn Sauer Le - Chase, and mine. Jeffrey Goldberg married Casey Bayer


on November 11 in Waltham, MA. Will Bastian was a groomsman. Sarah Berheide and Jon Lamphier were married September 1 and immediately moved to Greensboro, NC, so Sarah could start a new job as head women’s lacrosse coach at Guilford College. Daniel Schwarz is in a master’s program


in public history at American University. Last summer he was a ranger at the Chesa peake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park. He gave boat tours on the Charles F. Mercer in the Great Falls section of the park and organized a walking tour along the canal towpath and Potomac waterfront in Georgetown.


Diane Ventura Farber was mar- ried in August 2011 and lives in


Last October James Guimaraes joined


SSA & Company, an operations consult- ing firm in Manhattan. He heard about the company through Nika Makhmali ’05. Nika is the firm’s marketing manager, while James is in charge of managing its Lean Six Sigma open-enrollment program. ALEXANDRA RAVENER FEIGMAN 43 VALENTINE AVENUE GLEN COVE, NY 11542-4127 AFEIGMAN@GMAIL.COM


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N ’08 MAY 30–JUNE 2 Megan McAdams


(megmcadams@ gmail.com) has been working in Guatemala City with a nonprofit called Safe Passage, helping children and


families living in extreme poverty. Megan reports, “Many families have at least one relative who journeys to the city dump each day, wading through mounds of trash, to collect bottles and metal that can be sold for $2 on a good day.” Safe Passage provides 550 children with meals, school needs, health support, and tutor- ing, and has a literacy program for par- ents. Megan began as a classroom volun- teer and now directs workshops that pre- pare graduates for higher education and the workplace. KELLY GENOIS KGENOIS@GMAIL.COM


In her free time she works for Chicago Chocolate Tours, which provides guided walking and tasting tours of select Chicago chocolate shops, bakeries, and cafés. After mentoring a student through Brooklyn’s iMentor to enroll in Long Island University’s HEOP program, Danny Tejada and the student co-authored a book called Different Families, Still Brothers, available on Danny’s Web site AboutThe People.US. He welcomes hearing from Skidmore friends at danieltejadajr@ hotmail.com. SHANNON HASSETT SHANNON.HASSETT@GMAIL.COM


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Sarah Ely is a Spanish teacher at the Multilingual Chicago School.


hile most of us tiptoe around in the shal- low end of religion, Michael Muhammad


Knight, UWW ’09, joyfully climbs the high dive and performs a double gainer. Wearing a kufi. As a white American convert to Islam, he’s


already an odd man out. But his irreverent books, such as The Taqwacores and Osama Van Halen, have earned him both praise and criti- cism from within and without the Muslim com- munity. He’s been compared to J. D. Salin ger, Jack Kero uac, and Hunter S. Thompson, writers who thumbed their noses at con- vention. The New York Times de scribes him as “a court jester to the Islamic world, a provocateur.” Born to “a Catholic, dys- functional family” in Rochester, N.Y., Knight says, he converted to Islam in his teens, forging his own unique, punk-infused image. He says he identifyied with both Malcolm X and Ayatol - lah Khomeini. By 17, he was “running around Pakistan with Afghan and Somali refugees,” studying the Koran in Islamabad. Since then, he admits, he’s fallen in and out


of faith, ultimately adopting a very liberal mash- up of Islam that draws from the Five Percent “nation of gods and earths,” the Sunni sect, and psychedelia. Currently working on a PhD in Islamic studies at the University of North Carolina, he is writing new books at a break- neck pace. His latest is Tripping with Allah: Islam, Drugs, and Writing, a road book in the tradition of Kerouac’s beat generation, but through an Islamic lens. Knight reflects on his role as a new and


unorthodox Islamic voice: “There are bridge builders and there are truth tellers. The people who work to make real change in communities have to make compromises, and they do valuable work. But I also believe in critics who point the damning finger at them and hold them account- able. I prefer to be a truth teller, because I don’t do well at bridge-building politics. But I see the value in both.” —Jon Wurtmann ’78


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