Class Note 1992
Issue
Nov - Dec 2018
As I write this, summer is winding down and I haven’t received updates from many ’92s, but fortunately, hardworking members of the Fourth Estate have been digging up the relevant news of the day—which, naturally, involves our amazing classmates.
Many news outlets, including National Public Radio and WGBH, have interviewed Cathleen Caron about Justice in Motion, which she founded in 2005 to help migrant workers navigate the legal justice system. “Justice in Motion’s international connections made it one of the nonprofits best positioned to help families with deported parents. It had already trained a ‘defender network’ of 44 human rights organizations…in Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua,” wrote the National Catholic Reporter.
Vanity Fair included Alexandra Bernadotte Nilsson, founder of Beyond 12, which supports first-generation college students, in a photo spread featuring 26 entrepreneurial women of color and captioned: “Each one of the women in this group tableau has raised $1 million or more in outside capital, breaking barriers and shattering glass ceilings along the way.”
BostonVoyager interviewed Courtney Dickinson, founder and director of Acera: The Massachusetts School of Science, Creativity, and Leadership, in Winchester. The lab school serves approximately 140 high-ability students and features project-based learning, with a goal of developing teaching techniques and curriculum that can be shared. I truly appreciated Courtney’s honest description of the challenges she faced as she attempted to bring her ideas to the public school system and then decided to open a private school. “Going to Dartmouth enabled me to see that I could have my own opinion and voice and to believe that I was worthy enough to make an impact,” she said. Acera is currently pilot-testing the use of CRISPR technology and gene-editing in high schools.
The Geisel School of Medicine’s news feed featured an article about Anna Adachi-Mejia’s research using a process called photovoice, which involves placing cameras in the hands of study participants. “The major goal of this study is to promote understanding about aging in communities of color and those of language minorities,” Anna said. “What’s nice about using pictures to convey their perspective is that language or literacy barriers disappear through the magic of photography.” Anna is director of the health promotion research center at Dartmouth and an associate professor of community and family medicine at Geisel.
According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, “Erika Graham-Wilkins created her Peachtree City-based business based on a passion for cooking developed while watching her godfather, Doc Shepherd, and her grandmother, Artie R. Jones, preparing meals in their work as domestics. She credits them for the opportunity to attend Dartmouth College, become an engineer and then an attorney, and then finally with inspiring her to create Doc and Artie’s Teas, Spices & Foods. Her husband, Thaddeus Wilkins, is co-owner. She has created dozens of spice blends, teas, salts, soup mixes, sauces, and glazes.” The Constitution praised their Tangy Ginger Peach Glaze, “a scrumptious combination of honey, soy sauce, ginger, rice vinegar, peaches, and mustard, and you could absolutely just eat it with a spoon.” It’s available at docandarties.com.
If you catch any more classmates in the news, let me know, and I’ll include them next time. Soon I’ll be visiting Hanover to meet with the other ’92 classmate volunteers who comprise our executive committee during the annual Class Officers Weekend. More important, I’ll be able to spy on my daughter, Anna, who will just be settling in as a freshly minted, pea-green member of the class of 2022.
—Kelly Shriver Kolln, 3900 Cottage Grove Ave. SE, Cedar Rapids, IA 52403; (920) 306-2192; dartmouth92news@gmail.com
Many news outlets, including National Public Radio and WGBH, have interviewed Cathleen Caron about Justice in Motion, which she founded in 2005 to help migrant workers navigate the legal justice system. “Justice in Motion’s international connections made it one of the nonprofits best positioned to help families with deported parents. It had already trained a ‘defender network’ of 44 human rights organizations…in Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua,” wrote the National Catholic Reporter.
Vanity Fair included Alexandra Bernadotte Nilsson, founder of Beyond 12, which supports first-generation college students, in a photo spread featuring 26 entrepreneurial women of color and captioned: “Each one of the women in this group tableau has raised $1 million or more in outside capital, breaking barriers and shattering glass ceilings along the way.”
BostonVoyager interviewed Courtney Dickinson, founder and director of Acera: The Massachusetts School of Science, Creativity, and Leadership, in Winchester. The lab school serves approximately 140 high-ability students and features project-based learning, with a goal of developing teaching techniques and curriculum that can be shared. I truly appreciated Courtney’s honest description of the challenges she faced as she attempted to bring her ideas to the public school system and then decided to open a private school. “Going to Dartmouth enabled me to see that I could have my own opinion and voice and to believe that I was worthy enough to make an impact,” she said. Acera is currently pilot-testing the use of CRISPR technology and gene-editing in high schools.
The Geisel School of Medicine’s news feed featured an article about Anna Adachi-Mejia’s research using a process called photovoice, which involves placing cameras in the hands of study participants. “The major goal of this study is to promote understanding about aging in communities of color and those of language minorities,” Anna said. “What’s nice about using pictures to convey their perspective is that language or literacy barriers disappear through the magic of photography.” Anna is director of the health promotion research center at Dartmouth and an associate professor of community and family medicine at Geisel.
According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, “Erika Graham-Wilkins created her Peachtree City-based business based on a passion for cooking developed while watching her godfather, Doc Shepherd, and her grandmother, Artie R. Jones, preparing meals in their work as domestics. She credits them for the opportunity to attend Dartmouth College, become an engineer and then an attorney, and then finally with inspiring her to create Doc and Artie’s Teas, Spices & Foods. Her husband, Thaddeus Wilkins, is co-owner. She has created dozens of spice blends, teas, salts, soup mixes, sauces, and glazes.” The Constitution praised their Tangy Ginger Peach Glaze, “a scrumptious combination of honey, soy sauce, ginger, rice vinegar, peaches, and mustard, and you could absolutely just eat it with a spoon.” It’s available at docandarties.com.
If you catch any more classmates in the news, let me know, and I’ll include them next time. Soon I’ll be visiting Hanover to meet with the other ’92 classmate volunteers who comprise our executive committee during the annual Class Officers Weekend. More important, I’ll be able to spy on my daughter, Anna, who will just be settling in as a freshly minted, pea-green member of the class of 2022.
—Kelly Shriver Kolln, 3900 Cottage Grove Ave. SE, Cedar Rapids, IA 52403; (920) 306-2192; dartmouth92news@gmail.com