second son, Jonah Benedict, on November 6 in Newton, Mass. Emily Jones and Jed Wang Bonner


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were married in October, eight years from the day they met in Skidmore art profes- sor Deb Morris’s color class. The ceremo- ny was held in the backyard of Jed’s fami- ly home on NYC’s Upper West Side, and a reception followed at the Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture on Prospect Park West. Skiddies in attendance were Whitney Nathan, Collin Burger, Maclean Fisher, Rebecca Chaika, Elizabeth Garvey, and Sam Merwin. The newlyweds live in Los Angeles, where Emily is an architectural designer at XTEN Architecture and Jed is the assistant gener- al counsel at real estate investment group Steadfast Companies. I received an MFA in film and screen- writing last spring from Boston University. My award-winning short script, Rest in Peace, Albert Lively, based on a short story I wrote for a Skidmore fic- tion-writing class, is currently in produc- tion in Boston. KELLY GENOIS KGENOIS@GMAIL.COM


Samantha Levine minored in jewelry and metals. While attending Western New England University School of Law in Springfield, Mass., she launched Auburn Jewelry, a business that was featured in Time Out New York and Wag magazines and on fashion Web sites Lucky and Uber Apparatus. After graduation, Evan Bates relocated


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Ashley Grossman Epstein and husband Adam welcomed their


Amanda Izenson graduated from law school last spring. She is an associate attorney at Diana Adams Law and Mediation in Brooklyn. One of Amanda’s poems was included in Lady Business, an anthology of queer poetry published by Sibling Rivalry Press.


A ski racing coach since her Skidmore days, Lyndsay Strange has been at it full-time for the past four years. She worked at the Bromley and Stratton resorts in Vermont before moving to Vail, Colo., and then Salt Lake City, Utah. There she works for the renowned Rowmark Ski Academy, which is associ- ated with the preparatory school Rolland Hall. Several Rowmark graduates have made the National Ski Team and competed in the Olympics. Lindsay also writes for Powder Magazine, Alpine Press, The Ski Prophet, and SkiGearTV and for her own blog. Chris Toregas has been a financial plan-


ning specialist in Morgan Stanley’s Wealth Management Office in NYC since 2010. In February he was named to the firm’s Pacesetters Club, a program recognizing financial advisors in their first five years who provide exceptional service to clients. Chris’s achievement was reported in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal and online at Bloomberg and Yahoo Finance. He is a member of Skidmore’s Career Advisor Network. SHANNON HASSETT SHANNON.HASSETT@GMAIL.COM


MAY 29–JUNE 1


ready to start working on patients in May. Travis Webster-Booth started his dream


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to Peterborough, Ontario, to be with high school sweetheart Liz Spang. The couple wed in October 2012 in Kingston. Evan works for the John Howard Society of Peterborough, coordinating restorative justice conferences for teens diverted from the court system, which he describes as “this social worker’s dream.” Last fall he attended the Restorative Justice Conference hosted at Skidmore by sociol- ogy professor David Karp and had a blast! Boston, Mass., resident Jamie Falzone accepted a job as marketing and events coordinator for a local nonprofit. She sings and is an active member of her choir’s fundraising committee. While she doesn’t travel as often as she’d like to, Jamie recently visited Israel.


job as a copywriter for a marketing agency in Providence, R.I., last summer. He is also collaborating with Joshua Cipolla ’09, Aaron Moberger ’09, and Adam Stoler on a five-song EP under the name Straw Man Stands. Zoe Coppola is set to graduate from the Peabody Institute with a master’s in harp performance and pedagogy in May. She married Luke Li in a small, wintry wedding in Ithaca, N.Y., last year. Zoe visited Ashley Prickel in Baltimore, Md., in February. Jules Martowski hopes to transition


from his current position working with adolescents diagnosed with concurrent psychiatric illness and substance abuse at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Mass., to a full-time graduate program this fall. “It’s been a great experience and I’m ready to move on to the next stage of my career.”


Ari Manstein is in her second year of dental school at Temple,


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or Kyle Bawot ’11, the entrepreneurial spirit starts in a Quechua-speaking village


10,000 feet above sea level in the Andes Mountains. There, in the Peruvian village of Inkawasi,


Bawot helps a band of impoverished indigenous women bring their hand-woven creations to market. His first international buyer? The Skidmore Shop. “It was almost necessary that we started in a place like Skidmore,” he says. “I had the connection, the store felt it could make money selling the items, and it’s also helping people out.”


The textiles


range from brightly colored handbags and tablecloths to ponchos and hats. As a par- ticipant in the Peace Corps’s Community Economic Development


Program, Bawot travels to the village monthly. With his help, the women now sell their work at a store in Chiclayo, Peru’s fourth-largest city. The items also retail online. Since arriving in 2012, Bawot has taught


business classes to aspiring entrepreneurs at a technical institute. He’s also done small-busi- ness consulting and helped launch community banks. When his Peace Corps stint ends in August, he expects to stay in Peru to forge his own career in international trade, hopefully in global coffee markets. For now, he spends hours each week boning up on his Spanish. (It was his desire to speak the language that first drew him to Paraguay and then to the Peace Corps in Peru.)


Nurturing indigenous entrepreneurs, it turns out, has some distinctive challenges. Bold, new business mindsets can’t be rushed, something Bawot was initially slow to recognize. “I found that Peruvians seem a little less


open to trying unfamiliar things,” he says. “As a teacher and adviser, it’s important that I always keep this in mind when working with my stu- dents or small-business owners. Change will eventually happen, but at a much slower pace than in the US.” —Andrew Faught


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