Kim Stolz ’05 was one of the top 12 contestants chosen to compete in season five of America’s Next Top Model, hosted by Tyra Banks on UPN. Stolz, who in an opening interview had said that she hoped her education would give her a strategic edge, won a prize in one of the weekly competitions: a cameo role on Veronica Mars. Stolz played a car-rental agency employee whose by-the-book boss was played by Joss Whedon ’87. A government major as an undergraduate, Stolz wrote a thesis comparing the U.S. exit strategies in several recent interventions.
Thomas L. Greaney ’70 is the 2007 recipient of the Jay Healey Health Law Teachers Award. A CSS major at Wesleyan, Greaney was a Fulbright Scholar before attending Harvard Law School. After working as an attorney for the U.S. Justice Department, Greaney joined the faculty of Saint Louis University in 1987 and is currently their Chester A. Myers Professor of Law and the co-director of the University’s Center for Health Law Studies.
Matthew Glaser ’87 joined Turner Investment Partners as director of alternative strategies on the investments team. Previously, he was the co-founder of Granite Hill Partners LLC, an alternative investment fund agent. He also served as head of institutional equity sales for Susquehanna International Group. A history major at Wesleyan, he earned his MBA from Columbia University.
Matt Kushner ’03 earned a screening for his animated music video of indie singer Justin Catalino’s “When the Sky Is Falling,” at the 11th Annual LA Shorts Fest. The piece, which he animated, directed, and produced, served as his thesis for his master’s degree from New York University’s Center for Advanced Digital Applications. Initially, it had won in the online competition, Famecast, which sent it to the Shorts Fest. At Wesleyan, Kushner majored in film studies, with a focus on computer animation. To view Kushner’s work, see www.mattkushner.com.
Ameenah Lloyd ’03, a student at the University of Virginia Law School, was recently awarded the Reed Smith Fellowship by the firm’s Philadelphia office. The award is given to a first-year law student who demonstrates excellent academic achievement while overcoming economic or social adversity in pursuit of a law degree, in addition to demonstrating a commitment to community involvement. The fellowship entitles Lloyd, who served in the Peace Corps, to summer employment at Reed Smith. At Wesleyan, she majored in sociology.
Josh Lockwood ’93 was appointed executive director of Habitat-NYC, a leading affiliate of Habitat for Humanity International, which builds affordable homes for ownership in New York City’s five boroughs. He joined the organization in 2006 as chief operating officer and was appointed acting executive director in the spring of 2007. Prior to joining Habitat-NYC, Lockwood was a principal at HR&A, focusing on affordable housing and strategic planning. A government major at Wesleyan, he received his master’s degree from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University.
Jenifer McKim ’88, an investigative reporter at the Orange County Register, was selected as one of 30 journalists to be a 2008 fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard. Established in 1938, the Nieman program is the oldest midcareer fellowship for journalists in the world. The fellowships are awarded to working journalists of accomplishment and promise for an academic year of study at the university. McKim, an English major at Wesleyan, will study the problem of child prostitution and the related issues of gender, family, and sexuality that put young women at risk.
Touching Snow, the debut novel by M. Sindy Felin ’94, was selected as a finalist in the Young People’s Literature National Book Awards. A sociology major while at Wesleyan, she has said that she drew inspiration for this work from her own experiences and those of other Haitian immigrant households in the suburban New York community in which she grew up. The first member of her family to be born in the United States, she was also the first woman in her family to attend college. Her book was published by Atheneum Books for Young Readers, a division of Simon and Schuster.
Christianne Meneses Jacobs ’95, founder, publisher, and editor of Iguana, a Spanish language magazine for children, was one of only 10 Latina business women throughout the United States honored with an Anna Maria Arias Award, named for the creator of Latina Style Magazine. A government major at Wesleyan, Jacobs is a native of Nicaragua; her family moved to the United States in 1988. Now a second-grade teacher and the mother of two, she holds a master’s degree in education. She and her husband, the creative director, founded the magazine to fill a gap they noticed as their first child began to read, and they found very few Spanish language texts geared to children. “The dream for my daughter, and for all Latino children, is that they will continue to read in Spanish, to feel proud of being bilingual, and to never forget their roots,” she writes. To see the magazine, go to www.IGUANAmagazine.com.
Bob Glasspiegel ’77 was chosen by the Wall Street Journal as one of the best life insurance stock analyst in a recent survey of the master stock pickers from each industry. A co-manager at Langen McAlleney in Hartford, he was an economics major at Wesleyan, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He earned his MBA from Harvard University. This is the sixth time the Wall Street Journal has named him in its listing of top analysts.
