on a short story I wrote for a Skidmore fiction class—is currently in production in Boston.
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Nina Mini - chetti is a full-
time photographer doing portraits, wed- dings, and special events. She discov- ered her passion for photography and
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weddings while interning at Skidmore for a local photographer. She lives in north- ern California and travels on the East Coast for clients. After four wonderful years in Chicago,
IL, Sarah Ely moved to NYC, where she is a full-time bilingual associate teacher at Brooklyn’s Berkeley Carroll School. She still considers theater her lifelong passion and collaborates with Redmoon Theater, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, and Barrel of Monkeys. Last summer Kappes Wiegand Emmons completed a master’s in French from Mid - dlebury. She teaches English in a universi- ty outside Paris. In May Alexandra Furman received an
MS in environmental studies and a Life Sciences Teacher Certification from Anti - och University New England. Sara DeBrule, who has lived with Skid - more alumni including Audrey Gillis and Alyce Delbridge, is in Jamaica Plain, MA. Active in the Boston community, she serves on the board of the Boston Chapter of the Point Foundation, a national LGBTQ scholarship fund. Sara is also a member of the Boston Women’s Flag Football League and plays on the team Foul Play. She worked as a recruiter for a couple of years and is currently at Hire Minds, an agency that places middle- and senior-level digital marketers in the greater Boston area; her e-mail is sara@
hireminds.com. Kezia Chee is in her second year teach-
ing English at a private school in Gwang - ju, South Korea, where she is having the time of her life. For two years Meg Weagley has been working for USA Triathlon, the governing body for triathlon, the fastest-growing sport in the US Olympic movement. Since relocating to Colorado Springs, CO, she has competed in several triathlons herself and enjoys hiking and skiing. In June she was a US Olympic Committee delegate at the International Olympic Academy in Greece, learning more about the Olym - pics throughout the world. Caitlin Mahony has been interning at
museums and archaeological sites around the world, including the National Mu - seum of the American Indian in Wash ing- ton, DC, and the Ethnographic Museum in Berlin, Germany. She is now enrolled in a joint graduate program at UCLA and the Getty Conservation Institute in the conservation of archaeological and ethno- graphic material, with plans to graduate in May 2014. This September she began as a full-time conservation intern at the American Museum of Natural History in NYC.
David Steinberger is an eighth-grade science teacher at a small independent school in northern Virginia, where he also assists with cross-country coaching and leads an annual study trip to the tropical forests of Costa Rica. You will find him birding, hiking, running, and mucking around in the outdoors. Nick Misani graduated from the Pratt Institute with an MFA in communications design and then went to Rome, Italy, for a couple weeks to attend an intensive classical typography workshop led by design superstar Louise Fili ’73 through the School of Visual Arts. Nick is freelanc- ing while working full-time as a book- cover designer at Penguin in NYC. Beth DeBold graduated in May from UNC–Chapel Hill with a master’s in li - brary science. Jenna Levy has been living in NYC and working in human resources at Discovery Communications, the parent company of the Discovery Channel, TLC, and Animal Planet. She is a recruiter for the ad sales and digital media divisions. Margaret Fiori completed her first year
in the MSW program at NYU. This fall she is interning at the Ali Forney Center, an agency that supports LGBTQ homeless youth. In her free time she enjoys danc- ing and being outdoors. April Bukoski is a program manager at a translation company near Washington, DC. For the 2013–14 academic year she is an English teacher in St. Petersburg, Russia. SHANNON HASSETT
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Lindsey Avery finished her mas- ter’s in clinical exercise physiology and ran her own corporate wellness pro- gram in Portland, ME, until June. She is now at USC-Los Angeles, pursuing a doc- torate in biokinesiology. With full funding by the National Institutes of Health, she is teaching and conducting research on hor- mones, energy, and metabolic disorders in breast-cancer patients during chemothera-
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AT WORK Helping refugees A
n internship with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
was not her first choice, but it helped make Rebecca Horton ’08 what she is today: an associate resettlement officer with the agency. After Skidmore, the government major re -
ceived an MA in international peace studies from Costa Rica’s University for Peace. Once she began the UN internship that was part of her degree program, she “found a passion for international hu - man rights” and, in particular, refugees. In her daily
work, Horton in - terviews people who have fled their home countries to understand why they left and what fears they face about returning. Most are not able to stay in the country where they are seeking refuge, so she helps arrange for them to start a new life in a third country.
Horton goes wherever she is needed. Follow -
ing her initial experience with UNHCR in Costa Rica, she worked for a year in Esmeral das, Ecuador. She was then recruited for an emer- gency assignment in Tunisia, working in a refu - gee camp on the Libyan border. Most recently, she spent a year in Baghdad, Iraq. Although at home in Connecticut for the moment, she ex - pects to go next to Beirut, Lebanon, to help with “the enormous influx of Syrian refugees.” While she has listened to hundreds of stories
of violence and suffering, Horton says the tangi- ble results of her efforts—having a refugee ac - cepted by and arrive in a third country—make it worthwhile. She’s kept in touch with a few indi- viduals from Colombia, Sudan, Somalia, and Iran and says nothing is more fulfilling than “receiv- ing e-mails of thanks or photos of them in their new country, updating me on their lives.” The refugees, she adds, “humble me on a
daily basis.” Each of them “maintains a deep strength and perseverance that one would as sume no person could sustain.” They help her keep things in perspective and remind her that “the strength of the human spirit is much deeper than we believe.” —MTS
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