Hello, classmates, hope everyone had a great year in 2024 and you are enjoying 2025 so far! I don’t have a lot of news to share this time so please, shoot me an email if you have a moment and just let me know what you have been up to! A few new things with me: I celebrated my 10-year work anniversary at the Alumni Association in January! Ten years flew by and I’m so proud and honored to work on behalf of the alma mater that I love! I was also recently promoted to director of alumni engagement, so that was exciting as well!
I did hear from a few classmates. Kim Preble Bright and her husband, Tim are expecting their second child. They have four-year-old Chloe and by the time you are reading this, they will have welcomed a little boy! Congratulations!
Ashley Robinson ’12G, Ph.D. recently published a new article in the Journal of College Student Development: “Im/possibilities of Responding to Racist Harm on the Frontline of Student Affairs.” This Research in Brief article is the last manuscript to come from her dissertation study. In it, she shares insights about what it was like for the nine frontline student affairs educators in that study to respond to racist harms — and how their institution’s policies and practices got in the way of their antiracist aims for working with students targeted by racist incidents. Congratulations, Ashley!
Gimbala Sankare shared on LinkedIn that over a year ago, when he was in Ghana visiting family and friends, they were discussing unemployment in Ghana and the challenges that exist in finding jobs there. He got a few friends together and they built Adjuma.io. Adjuma is a platform with the mission of connecting millions of Africans with millions of jobs on the continent and in the diaspora. They aspire to be the premier jobs platform in Ghana and beyond. Amazing work, Gimbala!
Early in 2024, Brent West was featured in the Giving Tomorrow newsletter. Brent is the executive director at High Peaks Alliance in Maine. The mission of the High Peaks Alliance is to preserve the High Peaks region of Maine. Through advocacy and conservation, they work to keep the land preserved and accessible to future generations of outdoor enthusiasts. Congratulations, Brent, and thank you for your work!
Thanks for reading, everyone! Again, please send me a few lines with an update about yourself! We’d all love to hear what you’re up to! Go Blue!