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Adam Epstein and Ashley Grossman were married August 16 at the Surrey-Williamson Inn at Skidmore. In attendance, along with several Skidmore faculty and staff members, were Travis Roe-Raymond, Carrie von Glahn, David Baker, Andrew Pape, Kirstin Griffiths, David Steinberger ’09, Jane Raftopolous ’09, Rob Hill ’09, Nick Misani ’09, and Jamie Falzone ’09.

Joseph Kaifala is the subject of a soon-to-be-released film, Retracing Jeneba, which documents his efforts to empower and educate youth in his homeland of Sierra Leone. The film begins with his imprisonment, along with his father, during the civil war of the 1990s and follows his journey to Washington, DC, where he worked in Congress for the subcommittee on Africa and global health, and his founding of the Jeneba Project. The project, named for his grandmother, is helping to rebuild schools and libraries. In addition to providing school materials for students, the Jeneba Project has created more than 160 scholarships for young girls, who have traditionally had limited access to education. All proceeds from the film will go to the project. Joseph is currently pursuing a fellowship at the Monterey Institute of Nuclear Nonproliferation in California.

Tom Qualtere is a research assistant and speechwriter for Edwin Feulner, president of the Heritage Foundation, the nation’s largest conservative think-tank. He is also a regular contributor to NewMajority.com, a political Web site founded by former Bush speechwriter David Frum that’s focused on modernizing the conservative movement. Tom lives in Washington, DC.

Devin Zibylsky is a first-year doctoral student in clinical psychology at Ohio University in Athens, OH.

Erik Wilson worked in Nepal this past summer as a photojournalist and blogger for International Bridges to Justice, an NGO in Geneva, Switzerland. One of IBJ’s main projects, JusticeMakers, provides funding to human-rights activists around the world. Erik’s assignment was to photograph the work of Nepalese activist Ram Kumar Bhandar.