Utah. Alysia is a genetic counselor at the Department of Veterans Affairs in Salt Lake City.
Emma Newcombe has been working on her PhD dissertation in American studies at Boston University. She has loved being in Boston for the past five years and is currently living with Leah Sussman. Jim Welsh lives in NYC and works as a product manager for men’s apparel retail- er Bonobos. Last fall, he landed several large steelhead during a fly-fishing trip in Washington State.
After four years in London, England, Jesse Kovarsky moved back to the US and lives in Brooklyn, N.Y. He recently per- formed as a main soloist in the controver- sial opera The Death of Klinghoffer at the Metropolitan Opera House (he wrote a piece about it for Gawker). Jesse later played the role of Boy Witch in Sleep No More at the McKittrick Hotel in Manhattan. Washington, D.C., resident Erin
Pruckno completed a master’s in interna- tional education from George Washington University last August. A teacher at the Smithsonian’s Early Enrichment Center, a museum-based early childhood program, she leads her lively preschoolers through- out the museums of the capital. She also has turned her love of jewelry-making and her popular do-it-yourself blog, Thanks, I Made It, into a new book, DIY Statement Necklaces. Victoria Malaney is set to graduate with a master’s in higher education administra- tion from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in May. She is eager to see where she goes next. And she is still look- ing for a reunion co-chair for our fifth class reunion: please email vmalaney1 @
gmail.com if you’re interested in co- chairing or just helping with Reunion. She looks forward to seeing everyone in May.
Frances Gubler (
f.gubler@
gmail.com), who spent two years as a collections man- agement fellow at the Shelburne Museum, is completing a master’s in historic preser- vation and conservation at the University of Vermont. At Skidmore, she was a col- lections assistant at the Tang Museum, studied in New Zealand, and wrote an honors thesis on Maori ritual objects known as korere. Ben Jacobs is a licensed associate real estate broker at Core Marketing Group in Manhattan.
Emily Schlemmer (
emily.schlemmer @
gmail.com) works for Nick Jr.’s preschool show Dora and Friends, conducting forma- tive research with preschoolers focusing
on series content and development. She earned a master’s in technology, innova- tion, and education from Harvard and was previously a research manager for educational technology consulting firm PlayScience.
I enjoy running into so many Skidmore alumni in and around NYC. I am excited to be seeing all of you at Reunion, May 28–31! If you’re not already convinced, there will be chicken fingers and a 5-Year Reunion Fun Day! CLAIRE SOLOMON 104 W. 96TH STREET, #27 NEW YORK, NY 10025-6495
CLAIRE.A.SOLOMON@
GMAIL.COM
New York University’s communicative sci- ences and disorders department, studying linguistic processing in children with lan- guage impairments. After deciding to switch to neuroimaging, she joined the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital as a lab manager, conducting behavioral and fMRI studies of cognitive functioning in patients with anxiety. Alex is currently pursuing a doctoral degree in clinical psychology at Drexel University in Philadelphia, where she studies eating and weight disorders. TANNER KAUFMAN
TANNER.KAUFMAN@GMAIL.COM
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University of Hartford’s PsyD program in child and adolescent psychology. She works with individuals and groups at Community Mental Health Affiliates’ Child Guidance Clinic in central Connecticut and co-facilitates outpatient groups at Bradley Hospital in Providence, R.I. Maggie’s research focuses on the treat- ment of trauma symptoms in children and adolescents. Last year, she worked with the Child Health Development Institute of Connecticut on its trauma-
’12 REMEMBER A FRIEND
Friends of deceased alumni may make contributions in their memories to the Yellow Rose Memorial Fund, Skidmore College, 815 North Broadway, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866. Please include the name of the person being memorialized and, if appropriate, the name and address of a relative to whom the college can send an acknowledgment.
Maggie Luckhardt (maggie .
luckhardt@gmail.com) is in the
After graduation, Alex Muratore worked as a research assistant in
focused cognitive behavioral therapy ini- tiative. This year, Maggie is developing a trauma-informed yoga-based intervention for use in group therapy with teens. ROSS LOVERN 245 W 25TH STREET, #2C NEW YORK, NY 10001-7102 917-628-8450
ROSS@LOVERN.COM
David Solomon has joined Grassland Finance, a Beijing-based collaboration of global microfinance leader Accion International and the biotech and health-care venture capitalists Sagamore Investments. Grassland lends to small businesses in Inner Mongolia and the Chongqing region. David was a US State Department Critical Language Fellow at Suzhou University and spent a postgraduate year in Chinese language studies at Tsinghua University in Beijing. Chloe Barker-Benfield received a mas-
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ter’s in English literature from the University of Buffalo in February. Emma Crimm and Alex Miller live in Oakland, Calif. Alex works at a nonprofit and Emma is pursuing a degree in physi- cal therapy. They are “working hard but very happy.” Hilary Knecht, with her art history major and minors in arts administration and Italian, works in the education department at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art; she’s at hknecht @
massmoca.org. Victoria Young, a psych major with a minor in American studies, began work- ing at the University of Pennsylvania’s Positive Psychology Center. A senior research coordinator, she is helping to create and deliver online interventions targeting middle school students’ beliefs about practice and academic achieve- ment. MARGARET MYERS 44 CALLENDER STREET CAMBRIDGE, MA
MARGARETGMYERS@GMAIL.COM
After graduation, Rivka Gevinson traveled to Norway to continue working on a series of landscape photo- graphs. She is living in Berlin, where she held an exhibit of her photos last year. Brianna Wellen (
briwellen@gmail.com) is a clinical research assistant at the Pediatric Anxiety Research Clinic of Rhode Island Hospital/Brown Medical School. In addition to coordinating clinical care, she is researching a new tool to teach commu- nity clinicians how to treat children with OCD using cognitive behavioral therapy
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