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2005

Craig Hyland
craighyland@gmail.com

Jennifer Slane is in her second year of medical school at the New York College of Osteopathic Medicine.

Matt Lesser works for Leslie J. Garfield & Co. in Manhattan, where he specializes in small building and residential townhouse sales.

Isaac Richter works for the New York City Civilian Complaint Review Board.

Douglas Miller just bought a condo in Boston. He is a production assistant for the New England Sports Network for the Red Sox and Bruins. He also works for Jacob Realty, NextGen Realty, and Boardwalk Properties, the largest residential real estate company in Boston, where he does rentals, sales, and property management.

Rebecca Preston lives in England, where she is working on an MA in creative writing at Bath Spa University.

Pia Shah lives in Oakland, CA, and works for a nonprofit in San Francisco called Best Buddies.
She manages a program that pairs adults with developmental disabilities in one-to-one friendships with volunteers. She is responsible for recruiting, interviewing, and training volunteers, planning events, and grant writing. “I feel very lucky to be able to make an impact on the community,” she says.

Kate Mangiaratti was promoted to a senior fund accountant at State Street Corporation in Boston, MA.

Rachael Beard and Anna Markowitz live in NYC. They recently started a nonprofit organization called LinkEd, an online community of people, organizations, and resources working to overcome educational inequity. The LinkEd board of directors is headed up by Gay Hartigan ’73 and Barbara Beck, Skidmore’s director of human resources. LinkEd’s advisory board includes Craig Hyland, Lizzie Neary, Risa Shoup, Christina Barsky ’06, Jessyca Dudley ’06, and Brittain Mason ’06. For more information or to get involved, visit www.linkeducation.org.

Mackenzie Firer-Sherwood is pursuing graduate work in chemistry at Boston University. She teaches organic chemistry and is conducting bioinorganic research, which includes purification and characterization of multiheme cytochromes.

Shira Hofmekler married Matthew Gregory in July 2005. Shira, an actor in NYC, was cast in the Broadway production of Frost/Nixon by Peter Morgan at Lincoln Center, opening in April.

Megan Taylor spent the 2005 school year teaching English writing to 300 college juniors in Qufu, China. Qufu is located in Shandong Province, the birthplace of Confucius. Megan now lives in Queensbury, NY, and is a case manager at the Saratoga Domestic Violence Rape Crisis Center.

Jill Hanson has taught secondary English and Latin at the Newman School in Boston, MA, since September 2005. She will enter graduate school in the fall to pursue an MA in teaching. She lives in Brookline, MA, with Stephanie Drahan.

I was recently named a Jonathan Lax Scholar by the Bread and Roses Community Fund of Philadelphia, PA, for my work with the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender movement at Skidmore.