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Patricia (Selcke) Grad wrote in as she was headed to Efrosini “Cindy” Camatsos’s wedding in Greece! Congrats, Efrosini!! 

Emily Sharrock is celebrating one year as an independent strategy consultant and philanthropy advisor, focusing on education and early childhood policy. After 10 years working in NYC government at the Department of Education and another eight years at Bank Street College building out its public impact work, she says it felt like the right moment to take the leap. She’s been feeling especially motivated to help activate more philanthropy to support children and families in this moment when the needs are so urgent. She’s married to Leo Kim ’97, and they have two kids who are now 12 and 15—hard to believe. They recently spent a lovely day with Minona Heaviland ’99 and their families (they make a point to see each other every year), and she keeps in close touch with Talia Greene. They also just had a mini-Wes reunion at Leo’s 50th birthday celebration, with Joanna Starrels ’97, Alejandro Luciano ’96, Carolyn Cryer ’01, and Joel Levin ’96, all there to mark the occasion.

Neil Seth says he, his wife, Sylvie, twin 10-year-old boys (Asher and Sebastian), and their Bernese mountain dog (Junie), currently live in Bedford, New York. Their boys are going into fifth grade next year. They like running track, jujitsu, playing golf and tennis.

Inspired by love for this amazing earth and the peoples in it, Mark Steele ’91 and Lodi Siefer can be found engaged working for climate justice at the Climate Justice Hive. There are so many different groups and organizations working toward similar ends, but they are siloed from each other and often pitted against one another in competition for funding and resources. The Climate Justice Hive is finding out who is doing what and where around climate justice, first in Boulder County, and now in Maine, helping groups better coordinate and collaborate with one another. They also offer fiscal hosting to aligned projects that want to focus on their work rather than the bureaucracy of becoming a nonprofit! They ask you to check out their work and consider supporting their efforts through sending leads, encouragement, and good wishes!

Sara Brenneis is still a Spanish professor at Amherst College and just published two books in Spain. After a year living in Madrid with her husband and two kids, they came back to the U.S. and got a postelection dog. Recent Wes sightings include Carter Bays ’97, Craig Thomas ’97, Rebecca Alson-Milkman, and Pat Butler at the Solids show in NYC; Nick Coleman back in Madison, Wisconsin; and Margaret Solle Salazar at our Low Rise A4 reunion last summer.  She encourages everyone to reach out if you’re coming through Northampton, Massachusetts, on your kid’s college tour!

Here in Alaska, by the time you are reading this, we’ll be fully in the dark days, but hopefully with snow on the ground to help spread what light there is. It was great hearing from so many of you. Please stay in touch! 

ABBY ELBOW | aelbow@gmail.com