Notable Alumni, May 2016
Kelsey Yam ’13 was named head women’s soccer coach at Clarkson University. As assistant she had helped the team to its best Liberty League finish in decades.
A three-time all-conference player at Skidmore, she coached underprivileged youth
in Uganda through Soccer Without Borders in her junior year.
Ryder Carroll ’02 has invented Bullet Journaling, a pen-and-paper day-planner (he calls it “an analog system for the digital age”),
that made him an Internet celebrity: his how-to video has more than 2 million views. Carroll is a lead designer at Idean. [more]
Jeremy Sigel ’99 directs partnerships and emerging media for the digital ad agency Essence. Formerly head of its North American mobile division, he now focuses on developing
future digital channels and collaborating with media and data staff. [more]
R. McDermott ’89 is the new managing director of the Jefferies Group investment banking firm. He formerly led short-term municipal bond underwriting and
trading at Morgan Stanley and was a bond trader for Citibank and Credit Suisse First
Boston.
Lee Peyser ’81 is helping girls in Hoboken, N.J., to play varsity lacrosse. A volunteer coach with
the Hoboken Lacrosse Club, he joined its leadership to fund a varsity girls’ program
at Hoboken High School. He’s a longtime lacrosse coach and booster in his hometown
of Livingston. [more]
Artist Carol Goldstein Nussbaum ’79 has her digitally enhanced photographs in Black, White and Green, on view through August at the Gallery at 14 Maple in Morristown, N.J. A former ad
agency art director, she digitally transforms her photos of botanicals into mandalas.
The late Kathleen Conwell Collins ’63 was the first African-American woman to produce a feature film. Her 1982 Losing Ground (screened at the 50th reunion of the Class of ’63 in 2013) kicked off last year’s
Lincoln Center film series “Tell It Like It Is: Black Independents in New York” and
was recently re-released on DVD. [more]
