Joaquin Ribadeneira, an Ecuadorian, and Nestor Paz-Galindo ’93, a native of Bolivia, and their fellow members of the Latin America and Caribbean regional campaign committee have established the Latin American Regional Alumni Endowed Scholarship Fund to help recruit talented international students. They’ve issued a challenge: They’ll match every dollar for the scholarship up to $500,000, with the goal of completing a $1 million endowment.

“Bringing more international students to Dartmouth adds layers of perspective, which benefits everyone. If you bring an international element to a class having a discussion about U.S. politics, you add a wealth of perspectives and more detached understanding of what’s happening,” Joaquin said. Both Nestor and Joaquin have brothers who went to Dartmouth and are involved in the project as well: Felipe Ribadeneira ’86 and Luis Paz-Galindo ’93. For more information email calltolead@dartmouth.edu.

As promised in the last Class Notes, here’s news of more columns, books, and articles written by our fellow ’92s. Heeten Kalan wrote an editorial for The Boston Globe March 3, titled “I am not ‘nonwhite.’ “We have a dynamic and fluid vocabulary to match an increasingly pluralistic culture. So why do we still label people by what they’re not?” Heeten is the director of the democracy and climate programs at the New World Foundation in New York City and board chair of the South Africa Development Fund (formerly FreeSA) in Boston.

Anita Tucker recently published a book on adventure therapy with a group of other practitioners and academics: Adventure Group Psychotherapy: An Experiential Approach to Treatment (Routledge Press). Anita is a professor in the University of New Hampshire’s department of social work.

Ric Crabbe published “Let’s Do the Time Warp Again: Human Action Assistance for Reinforcement Learning Agents” in the proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (with coauthors Carter Burn and Rebecca Hwa). Ric is a professor in the computer science department at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.

Kevin Franck published an article in The New England Journal of Medicine: “Regulation of Over-the-Counter Hearing Aids—Deafening Silence from the FDA” (with coauthor Vinay Rathi).

Jon Kohl published a textbook on heritage interpretation (branch of communication with visitors at educational, natural, or recreational sites) this year. Legacy magazine featured his article, “Going Galactic: Expanding Heritage Interpretation to Include the Potential Influence of Extraterrestrial and Extradimensional Beings,” as its cover story. He also wrote “Talking climate with those living in different climate change world(views)” for Yale Climate Connections. See more of his publications at researchgate.net/profile/Jon-Kohl. Jon continues to enjoy living in Costa Rica with his family.

Anna Adachi-Mejia wrote “Baking a Process into Writing Your First Draft of a Scientific Piece” (Medium.com) and “A Dartmouth Professor on the Art of Running Meetings with You in the Driver’s Seat” (theladders.com) while she was an associate professor at Geisel School of Medicine. Anna is currently the executive director of the Veterans Education & Research Association of Northern New England Inc. (VERANNE), which advances healthcare for veterans. Through Adachi Labs, LLC, she provides professional coaching, editing, and meeting facilitation expertise (including focus groups and photovoice consultation).

Anna’s coaching business appears in the Dartmouth alumni small business directory (dartgo.org/smallbusiness). More on that in the next column!

—Kelly Shriver Kolln, 3900 Cottage Grove Ave. SE, Cedar Rapids, IA 52403; (920) 306-2192; dartmouth92news@gmail.com