CLASS OF 1994 | 2018 | ISSUE 2
Hello from Rahway, N.J. After 11 years, Rahway still sounds weird to this native New Yorker. I work in Tribeca, so my daily commute is sometimes a reminder of why I left the city but still gives me ample opportunity to visit and immerse myself in diverse culture. After 18 years in legal and compliance, I decided to return to school and work towards my masters’ in adult education.
Aram Sinnreich has been elected chair of the communication studies division at American University, and his third book, A People’s Guide to Intellectual Property, will be published by Yale Press in early 2019.
Sondra Youdelman is based in NYC, and has left Community Voices Heard (cvhaction.org) after 16 years to spend the last year fighting back against Trump with the Peoples Climate Movement (peoplesclimate.org). She’s now settling in to a new role at People’s Action (peoplesaction.org) working to build the power of poor and working people, in rural, suburban, and urban areas, to win change through issue campaigns and elections.
Sigrid Schmalzer and Winston Close ’89 live with their two kids, Ferdinand, 10, and Winston “Narri” Anarres, 5, in Northampton, Mass. Winston has taken up barefoot running and creates websites for antiwar, prison-abolition, and other noble causes; Sigrid is active in the resurgence of Science for the People and has published her first children’s book, Moth and Wasp, Soil and Ocean: Remembering Chinese Scientist Pu Zhelong’s Work for Sustainable Farming.
Tonya Ward Singer is traveling around the U.S. and Canada helping educators break down barriers to equal opportunity and elevate language and literacy learning in K-12 schools. Connect with Tonya at tonyasinger.com and check out her new book, EL Excellence Every Day: The Flip-to Guide to Differentiate Academic Literacy. The book is dedicated to a family in Mexico City that she has not seen since 1993; however, she is bringing her family to Mexico City to meet them soon. She plans to surprise the family with the dedication and gift them the book. Since learning that her New England ancestors were enslavers, she’s been on a path to unpack American history of white privilege and white silence via her own family tree.
George Chang has relocated, along with his wife and two kids, from New York to San Francisco to join Voleon Capital Management as general counsel and chief compliance officer. Voleon is a technology and investment firm that uses machine learning techniques to generate investment forecasts. He’s looking forward to getting to know Wes alumni in the area.
Jesse Hendrich practices psychotherapy and has opened a new office in midtown Manhattan. As a community organizer, he has been working on issues of traffic and street safety, affordable housing, and public education reform in his neighborhood of Prospect Heights, Brooklyn (with neighbors Scott Dvorin ’00, Christophe Hille ’96, and Carolyn Cryer ’01). He spends time with Mark Ladov, who lives in the neighborhood and works for the New York state attorney general’s office, and Aaron Passell, who is a professor of urban studies at both Barnard and Columbia. He sees Nicole Davis quite a bit, as she is also a psychotherapist, who practices in Manhattan and Kirsten Cole ’93 as their children go to school together. He and Kirsten do a lot of volunteer and community organizing work together. He also writes that Scott Rosenberg and his wife just had their first child; and Jonah Ross is studying to be a psychotherapist.
Samera Syeda Ludwig | ssludwig@nixonpeabody.com
Caissa Powell | cdp2000@hotmail.com