Stephanie Ricker Schulte, CCAS MA ’02 & PhD ’08, published the book Cached: Decoding the Internet in Global Popular Culture. Cached focuses on how people imagine and relate to technology, delving into the political and cultural debates that produced the internet as a core technology able to revise economics, politics, and culture, as well as […]
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Darley Newman, CCAS/SMPA BA ’01
Darley Newman, CCAS/SMPA BA ’01, hosts, writes and produces the PBS television show Equitrekking, which has been nominated for three Daytime Emmy Awards by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. The Equitrekking team received nominations for Outstanding Single Camera Photography (Greg Barna), Outstanding Special Class Writing (Darley Newman and Chip Ward) and Outstanding […]
Joel Block, GWSB BA ’90, GSEHD MEd ’94
Joel Block, GWSB BA ’90, GSEHD MEd ’94, was named the recipient of the 2013 Agnes Meyer Outstanding Teacher Award. Block has served as a mathematics and finance teacher for 19 years at George Mason High School in Falls Church, Virginia. The Agnes Meyer Outstanding Teacher Award is presented to a teacher in one of […]
Lauryn Sargent, GSEHD MA ’10
Lauryn Sargent, GSEHD MA ’10, has founded Stories Incorporated, a business that helps to preserve and document personal and corporate legacies. Sargent’s business was originally named Stories Inherited and it used to deal exclusively with helping to share the stories of a family’s loved ones through new and traditional media. After businesses began to express […]
Marisa Ranieri, ESIA BA ’12 & Matthew Wilkins, SEAS BS ’12
Marisa Ranieri, ESIA BA ’12, is working as a voluntary English teacher in a rural secondary school in Tanzania through the non-profit WorldTeach. While there, she has established a scholarship fund for local students. Recently, Ranieri was visited in Tanzania by her close friend, Matthew Wilkins, SEAS BS ’12, who was able to raise enough […]
Kristen Mallia, CCAS BA ’03
Kristen Mallia, CCAS BA ’03, is co-creating a reality documentary series called LAUNCH that aims to create jobs and educate Boston’s creative community on entrepreneurship. The 12 part series will document Mallia’s efforts to take the talents of four creative professionals and help transform them into self-sustaining small businesses. Aside from job creation, the ultimate […]
Mariya Bouraima, GWSB BBA ‘06
Mariya Bouraima, GWSB BBA ‘06, launched her own boutique communications agency, Aveya Creative, in early 2013. Aveya Creative provides custom communications for small businesses, including brand strategy, logo design, copywriting and social media management. After working locally and internationally in marketing and communications roles for corporate, government and higher education organizations, including the U.S. Department […]
Paul Spencer [Wachtel] Sochaczewski, CCAS BA ’69
Paul Spencer Sochaczewski, CCAS BA ’69, (formerly Paul Spencer Wachtel) has published the book, An Inordinate Fondness for Beetles. It is Sochaczewski’s personal travel book in the footsteps of Alfred Russel Wallace, the 19th century biologist, collector, geographer, anthropologist, spiritualist, philosopher, conservationist, social critic, writer and dreamer. Sochaczewski follows Wallace’s eight years of exploration in […]
Juan Manuel Henao, ESIA BA ’01
Juan Manuel Henao, ESIA BA ’01, has been named Deputy Head of Mission of the Falkland Islands Referendum Observation Mission. As an impartial group of independent, international observers, Referendum International Observation Mission (RIOM)/Mission International de Observación del Referendo (MIOR), will monitor the upcoming Referendum to be held in the Falkland Islands on March 10th and 11th, 2013. The […]
Dr. Debra Saunders-White, GSEHD EdD ‘04
Dr. Debra Saunders-White, GSEHD EdD ‘04, deputy assistant secretary for higher education programs at the U.S. Department of Education, has been selected as the 11th chancellor of North Carolina Central University (NCCU) by the Board of Governors of the multi-campus University of North Carolina. Dr. Saunders-White, 57, will assume her new duties June 1. Since […]