Philosophy Alumni of SMCM
Maintained by Michael Taber…
…of the Department of Philosophy
and Religious Studies…
…of St.
Mary's College of Maryland,
U.S.A.
This is a listing of contact information for the
(as of the conclusion of the 2019-2020 academic year) 341 graduates from SMCM
who have majored in Philosophy (plus 5
almost-majors). Please contact me in order to update this
information, especially if you know of some more recent contact info for people
listed here, or to alert me to problems. (Not problems in
general; that’s what God’s for. Or at least one’s therapist. Or
bartender.)
You can contact me via e-mail: mstaber at smcm dot edu
This list has been last revised 14 June 2020.
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Name |
Year |
Where and What? |
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Aaserude, Sarah |
1992 |
MA,
Philosophy-Claremont Graduate University (1994); MAT, Elementary
Education-The Johns Hopkins University (1998). Married to SMCM alumnus Todd
Waddell—August 1996; two sons: Caleb—born November 2004 and Ethan—born July
2008. Todd and I taught English in Wuhan, China 1997-1998; I
taught 4th grade in Waldorf, Maryland—1998-2004. For the last 10 years I have been immersed in the world of educational
assessment, in particular helping develop item banks and computer-adaptive
interim tests for the K-12 market. I am currently a Senior Content Manager at
Northwest Evaluation Association in Portland, Oregon. Through graduate work
in Philosophy and then Education, teaching in China and Maryland, the
abilities to analyze and evaluate that were honed during my education in
Philosophy at St. Mary’s have led me to be able to see more and to see more
clearly than others often can. I also learned to change my thinking when the
evidence shows I have been wrong, a skill I have found rare and useful. On
the personal side, these skills have helped me weather late nights of
research and making difficult decisions that come with having one of our
children have a rare genetic disorder. Sifting through fact, opinion, and
limited data while balancing the necessary with the good is a daily part of
my life, and one that I know I am better prepared for
through the work in Philosophy I did at SMCM. |
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Akhlaghi, Ata |
2015 |
I spent my
gap year after graduation researching and applying to graduate philosophy
programs, and sitting in on further classes at St. Mary’s.
I was fortunate enough to get into one of my top choices (with funding), so
in fall 2016 I start the Ph.D. program at the University of Oklahoma. I plan
to focus on social philosophy with an East Asian lens. |
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Allen, P.J. (Patrick) |
2005 |
Worked as a photographer, and as a gallery director in
Annapolis. Then as operations manager at a digital and printing
studio in Brooklyn. In 2014 became brew master at the Keg and Lantern, in
Brooklyn. His site: http://picasaweb.google.com/patrickallenphotography |
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Anderson, Amy (now Chapman) |
2004 |
After I graduated, I went to law school at Washington
& Lee in Virginia. In spring ’07, I did my final year of law
school abroad at Trinity College in Dublin. Doing
tax law at a law firm in Manhattan. |
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Armstrong, Martin |
2014 |
Headed to Oxford, Ohio to attend Miami University’s
graduate program in Philosophy. |
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Asper, Chuck |
2005 |
Moved to Seattle to teach sailing (www.sailsandpoint.org) and to continue
his passion of photography. In 2009
will start his MFA at Uwash’s School of Art.
If for some reason you are in Seattle drop me a line… with a website at www.charlesasper.com. |
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Babiarz, Renny |
1998 |
I graduated in 2004 from the University of Hawaii with
an M.A. in Asian Studies. I attended (and successfully completed) the
Hopkins-Nanjing Program in Nanjing, China in 2003. Now in the Ph.D.
program in Political Science at JHU. |
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Baer, Jason |
1995 |
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Bache, Carl |
1996 |
Got his MAT at UPitt in
secondary education in English. Since 2004, has been English
teacher at Chesterfield County Public Schools, in Midlothian,
Virginia. Living in Richmond. |
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Bare, Christopher |
1991 |
After graduation worked for several years making sails
at Zahnhiser’s Marina in Solomons, Maryland. Then had his own
sail-making business in Calvert County, Maryland. Moved
to Tampa Bay for a year, then to Utah for a
few. Next, back to Maryland, working at the Johns Hopkins Applied
Physics Lab. In December 2015, just finished a three-year stint on
an APL assignment in Seoul. Now back in Crystal City, Virginia, still working
for APL. |
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Barnett, Bethany |
2002 |
After college, I went to massage therapy school. Then I
got a job writing e-learning programs and mini-textbooks about anatomy and physiology and diseases for pharmaceutical
sales people. I’m still doing that. I lived in
Baltimore for 5 years, but lately I’ve been moving
back and forth between Ann Arbor, Michigan and Arlington, Virginia for my
fiancé’s law schooling and summer internships. |
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Batchelder, Geoff |
1986 ECON |
In December 2008, successfully defended his doctoral
dissertation in the Department of Philosophy at Catholic University of
America, in D.C. Living in Takoma Park, and among other things,
teaching as an adjunct at Montgomery College. |
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Baughman, Rob |
2007 |
Worked as Books Department Manager for a Barnes and Noble
store in Frederick, Maryland. I got to work with books all day and I’ve always loved doing that. Now working as a
supervisor for Starbucks. |
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Baumer, Don |
1999 |
After graduation, I worked for 2 years in retail, 1 as a
store manager for Music & Arts Centers. Went back to school in
Jan of 2002, taking post-baccalaureate courses in Linguistics at
UMBC. Around the same time I started
working for The Princeton Review, where I taught MCAT Verbal/Writing and
train new MCAT teachers. Yes, all of my students are amazed that a
“lazy, dope-smoking tree-hugger” Philosophy major can teach brilliant and
sophisticated pre-med students such as themselves how to rock that test and
get into med school. Studied abroad
in Perugia, Italy summer of 2003. I lived
in Baltimore for 3 years before heading out in 2004 to
the University of Washington in Seattle, where I
have been accepted into the M.A./Ph.D. program in linguistics. Completed MA
in Linguistics at University of Washington in Spring ’08.
Married fall of ’08. Did a year of contract work testing software at
Microsoft. |
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Bean, Chloe |
2013 |
Immediately after I finish classes in December
2012, I have a paid internship at the Maryland Energy Administration as a
legislative assistant to the Director of Government Relations this spring.
After that, I plan to spend my summer traveling around the US, hopefully doing a lot of climbing. And
I have no plans past the summer. |
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Beheler, Ali |
1999 |
Entered the doctoral program in Philosophy
at Penn State, then moved to
DePaul’s. After finishing there, she accepted a tenure-track
position as Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Hastings College, in Nebraska. |
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Berry-Whitlock, Sterling |
2000 |
Entered the PhD. Program in Philosophy
at Fordham University. After a year there, he
lived in China for a year teaching English
in Shanghai. Now in his fourth year at Fordham, Sterling is
teaching intro classes there and researching for the
dissertation. (May 05) |
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Beyna, Greg |
2013 |
After somehow persuading the esteemed professors of
philosophy at St. Mary’s that I was indeed
sufficiently educated, I worked for a year in the position of Annual Giving
Officer in the Advancement Office at the college. |
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Bishop, Robert |
2017 |
In May 2017, I started working in the Admissions Office of
University of Maryland—University College. One of the perks
of working for UMUC is that I got free classes there, so I starting my
Masters of Arts in Teaching for secondary school math. Ideally, I’ll soon be teaching middle school or high school
math. Living in Baltimore by the Johns Hopkins campus, and really
enjoying it. |
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Blank, Nick |
1997 |
After graduating from St.Mary’s I
continued studying Mandarin Chinese in Beijing. Altogether
I spent three years in Beijing including one year at People’s
University studying International Politics together with very conservative
Chinese students. The classes were all taught in
Chinese and I was the only Western student in the class. Through that experience I came to have certain views
on China which I hold to this day. After Beijing
I spent two years at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies
in DC and graduated with an MA in International Economics/International
Relations and Japanese language. During that time I
became interested in the world of risk consulting and after graduation joined
Kroll – the world’s largest risk consulting firm. I spent nearly seven years
living in Guangzhou and Shanghai managing our offices in
those locations. My casework has included intellectual property
investigations, complex fraud investigations and pre-transactional due
diligence. I was promoted to Country Manager
of S.Korea and was based in Seoul.
My wife and I enjoyed the city and the challenges of learning a new language
and adjusting to a culture that is similar yet very different than China. I welcome other alumni who have business
interests in the region to reach out and contact me. Update as of March 2020: We have lived in Hong Kong for
the past 10 years, and our two children attend Chinese public schools. My
daughter refers to me as “the American.” |
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Blier, Daniel |
2019 |
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Blocher, Chris |
2012 |
Planning on living at home, waiting tables
over the summer and spending as much time as possible recording and playing
music. In 2013, began the M.A. program in Philosophy and Social Policy at
GWU. Then took a year off to join an AmeriCorps project, the Choice Program,
in Baltimore, where I spent the year as an intensive mentor and advocate for
at-risk youth downtown. Now (Oct. 2015), I’m back in
grad school, looking to finish up the M.A. this year, and perhaps work for a
think tank in the D.C. area. |
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Bombick, Andrew (Reverend) |
1995 |
After graduation, moved to Ellicott City MD. Then
married SMCM alumna Catherine (Russell). I spent the better part of
four years hawking stereos and such for Circuit City, then joined
the 9-5 masses. Then an operations manager at T. Rowe Price in
Owings Mills. Then in 2008, I became the “manager of retirement
programs” at Black and Decker, in Towson, MD. That’s work, but the real story is all about the
family. Cate and I have two kids, Sophie and James. |
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Brenholtz, Mack |
2017 |
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Brennan, Mary Kate (Katie) |
2004 |
After graduation, served in
Baltimore as a volunteer for AmeriCorps. I thought I wanted to go
to law school, but decided that it was entirely too concrete and practical a
subject for me. I instead attended the Graduate Institute at St. John’s
College in Annapolis to get a masters degree
in liberal arts. Then I moved to Brooklyn, enrolled in the graduate program
at SUNY—Stony Brook, and got my M.A. in 2009. In 2010, I started
the Ph.D. program in Philosophy at Temple University, planning to focus on
how literature achieves much of what both pragmatism and phenomenology set
out to do. Also working as an editorial assistant for the Journal
of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. |
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Brown, Iain Tucker (Tucker) |
2002 |
After graduation, joined the Jesuit Volunteer Corps, on the Marshall
Islands. Having returned in 2005 from the islands fully
soaked in Marshallese culture and Ignatian spirituality,
I had the grace of working for two years as a Campus Minister at Le Moyne
College, a Jesuit institution in Syracuse. After finishing
graduate school at Loyola MD in 2012 (Ph.D. in counseling), my wife and I
moved to Las Cruces, NM to work on border issues. She taught economic
migrants and I coordinating health and wellness
programs for a “tent city.” While living in southern NM, we also joined a
Buddhist sangha and began formal practice of Zen—I was ordained a priest in
the Soto tradition in 2015. In 2013 we moved north
to Espanola—some claim it’s the home of the low-rider—to teach at Northern
New Mexico College. We loved living and working there—it’s
still a home to us—but the college was falling apart and, with a baby on the
way, we chose to relocate to eastern Oregon, where my wife had grown up and
where I worked at the university’s counseling center. However, wanting to be
closer to our families, we’ve now returned to
Baltimore with our one-year-old, and with another baby due in May 2016. We’ve joined Jonah House, the intentional community and
Catholic Worker house of resistance founded by the plowshares activists Liz
McAlister and Phil Berrigan. We plan to share our time between Baltimore and
Espanola, where, along with a few community members and former students and
colleagues at NNMC, we helped found a
non-profit, Barrios Unidos:
Communities without Walls, to address the addiction, violence, and
intercultural trauma in the region. At Jonah House we’re continuing the food
distribution program, developing a community garden for our West Baltimore
neighborhood, facilitating retreats for college groups, and partnering on
local projects that focus on economic and racial (in)justice. |
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Brown, Nick |
2014 |
I am currently (October 2015) working in
Annapolis as a contractual legislative editor for the Maryland General
Assembly. No, I don’t get to write the law, but I do
have to fix the mistakes of the folks that do write it. It is usually more
mechanical than philosophical, but that’s all right,
because I’m still working on my SMP (which straddled Philosophy and
English—my two majors) as a long-term project. I can’t
help it—it’s basically a critical examination of what it means to live better
and a broad method for making it attainable. In other words, it’s a manifesto of everything I care about. I hope to
publish it in some form eventually, even if that simply means putting it on
the internet. As for other, long-term plans, well, I’m
still working those out. |
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Buenaflor, Ryan Mark (Mark) |
2000 |
After working as the Photo Office Coordinator (photo
archivist) and gift shop clerk at the Kennedy Center in
DC, was a photographer and photo office
coordinator for the Kennedy Center in DC. In 2007 he moved to San Francisco and worked at Meyer Sound
Laboratories. Now lives in Minneapolis and works for the Minnesota Council of
Nonprofits. |
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Buttrick, Sarah (now D’Antuono) |
2010 |
Got a job in Dallas, so picked up and moved there, working
as the assistant sales manager of the men’s department at the Dillard’s
in Northpark Mall. Moved back to southern
Maryland, where she is working as a kindergartenparaeducator while
working on her teaching certification. |
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Byers, Stephen |
2003 |
Attending the New England School of Law, in Boston. |
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Byrnes, Liz |
2001 |
After
graduating wrote poetry while working retail and living
outside Baltimore. Lived for a while in Australia. Upon return, I
worked at the Maryland Historical Society as an Art Handler for two years,
taking classes at TowsonUniversity in Art
History. Was promoted in April 2008 to Asst.
Curator, which I did for 6 months. Then and moved
to Cincinnati to pursue a degree in Museum Studies and live with my
boyfriend. Unhappy with the Univ. of Cincinnati, I started
taking the JHU classes, which are on-line for the most part, working on
my Masters degree in Museum Studies. All
this is further proof that the only reason I majored in Philosophy at SMCM
was the faculty and fellow students, not because I
might ever use my knowledge for anything other than debating MJ. |
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Calambokidis, Alex |
2016 |
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Capers, Camille |
2011 |
Immediately after graduation, I was in Maryland working as
an account processor for HMShost, a large
company that oversees restaurants in airports. As the job market
improves, I plan to move out of the area. |
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Carey, Tim |
2015 |
The current plan of action: 1. Go to law school at Emory
University from 2015-2018. 2 .Seamlessly integrate myself into the
city life of Atlanta, Georgia during this time. 3. Become ultimate
public interest lawyer who improves the world to some degree. 4.
Be in a band that plays more than one show. 5. Discern the greater
truths of the universe. |
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Carrese, Mariana |
2014 |
I have lofty aspirations to make
the world a better place. How would I do this? I hope to practice law (for
the good guys). It is simply a matter of more school
for now…. |
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Castle, Dan |
2010 |
After graduating from SMCM in 2010, I was
admitted to the graduate program in philosophy at Brock University in
Ontario. I went on to complete my MA in philosophy in 2012. Afterwards, I
worked at a computer company in Maryland for a couple of years while also
writing papers and presenting at conferences as my schedule permitted.
Fascinated by Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra, I decided that
I didn’t want tot spend
my entire life on the mountaintops of academia, so I resolved to go out into
the village of the world. I enlisted in the U.S. army as a linguist, for
which I sometime need to brief others who are not subject matter experts. To
do this effectively, one needs to break down the information, find what is
essential, and find a way to convey that to them. This is really
no different than introduction a concept in a philosophy paper or as a
part of a presentation—a skill I developed in my Philosophy courses at St.
Mary’s. In fact, in all of my work experiences, my philosophy training has
proved invaluable, having granted me a solid foundation in analysis and
critical thinking. In these ways, I see my successes as fundamentally linked
to my education in philosophy. While I very much enjoy my work, I do plan on returning to academia in the future. |
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Catalano, Sherri |
1998 |
After graduating in 1998, I worked for about seven months
at The Institute for Genomic Research as a research associate in gene
sequencing. I applied to grad school at
the University of Colorado at Boulder and in
1999 began my loooong journey towards
completing the MA degree in philosophy. While at CU-Boulder, I worked as a
budget, accounting and payroll person for the Graduate Teacher Program and was also a Graduate Grader and a Teaching Assistant for
three semesters. I married another philosopher (he does phil of language and logic) in June 2003 in St.
Mary’s City, and then applied to law school in Dec. 2003. In Jan. 2004, I
(finally) defended my MA thesis in political philosophy and social policy
(“Immigration and Global Justice: Our Obligations to Refugees”). I graduated
from law school at University of Denver in 2008, and am now an associate
attorney at Fisher & Phillips in Denver. |
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Catt, Nick |
1995 |
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Chastulik, Moonfeather |
1999 |
Worked at SMCM after graduation. Then worked as
a security guard at Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Plant. Next, as a
caseworker for a county mental health service. Now an outpatient
therapist and living in Harrisburg, Penn. www.passionparties.com |
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Chong, Jin |
1998 |
Since graduation, I have been teaching in some form or
another (Maryland Science Center, Catonsville Community
College, AmeriCorps). Most recently, I have been teaching at
outdoor education centers and leading trips. Now teaching
at Cal-Wood Education Center. I leave in June for
my summer job leading trips for teenagers. Currently living
near Boulder, I’m learning to play in the
snow! Next fall, I hope to be even further west,
but Colorado is a great place. Jochong at juno dot com (Feb. 04) |
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Christian, Stern |
2016 |
I’m looking to pursue a career in education in the next few
years, and have a couple of potential job opportunities in related fields
coming up soon. Looking forward to new possibilities! In the interim, I’m going on a soul-searching trip to Israel and
German—the latter is whence my ancestors came. |
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Christianson, Dana |
2004 |
I worked for a year in Hughesville at the
Southern Maryland Agricultural Development Commission. I did some
cool things with farms, animals, food, kids and I have to say
I learned sooooo much about myself
being everyone else’s “work horse” and I enjoyed the health
benefits and paid vacation. In fall 2005, will take a few month road trip,
with the goal of hugging a tree in most the national parks
in America. Working since 2006 in
D.C. for “Co-Op America,” now “Green America”: www.coopamerica.org |
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Clark, Beth |
1995 |
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Clark, Paul |
2005 |
Since
St. Mary’s, I’ve been teaching English at my alma
mater, DeMatha Catholic High School. Over
the course of five summers, I earned my M.A. at Middlebury College’s Bread
Loaf School of English. As I have continued in the classroom, both as a
teacher and as a student, I am often grateful for the time I spent learning
from the SMCM Department of Philosophy. One
professor would spend an entire class, or ask us to write an entire paper, on
one of Hegel’s or Kierkegaard’s sentences. This
close reading formed the foundation for how I would examine all texts, and
became a model I try to pass on to my students. Furthermore, the
accessibility of the Philosophy faculty allowed for the development of
personal relationships that gave me a beautiful sense of what the teaching
life is like. They say that a teacher takes all his former teachers with him
into the classroom, and I think of DeMatha’s 208
as a wonderfully crowded place. But a teacher also needs practice,
and Professor Schroeder gave me the opportunity to practice when I TA-edfor his Intro to Philosophy course. Then Professor
Taber mentored me as I organized a reading group of students around
“contemporary philosophical fiction.” At the final session, when the
professors came to visit, Taber asked, “Could we consider all literature
to be philosophical?” As I have led my English students on an exploration of
both popular and canonical texts, you could say that my career is partially
an attempt to answer that question. |
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Clarke, Michael |
2001 |
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Clinnin, David |
2019 |
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Cohen, Ben |
2001 |
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Coffin, Andrew |
2012 |
Worked a sales job, utilizing my sophistry skills learned at
the college. Then moved to San Luis Obispo, where he’s working for a
great company that designs software for scheduling and managing client
databases for health and wellness companies, like studios for yoga, Pilates,
massage, etc. |
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Colson, Keith |
2013 |
Graduating in December 2012, he continued working for the
Southern Maryland Higher Education Center (providing support ranging from AV
technical, to facility, to secretarial) and caring for his family. He plans
to seek employment in higher education in Grand Rapids, MI, working as an
administrator on issues of diversity and inclusion. |
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Combs, Jamison |
2001 |
Teaches 4th grade at George Washington
Carver Elementary in Lexington Park, Maryland |
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Conner, Brendan |
2007 |
After obtaining an M.A. in Political Science from
the New School for Social Research (in NYC), I reluctantly set aside the life
of contemplation and secured a J.D. from the City University of New York
School of Law. I’m currently working as an
Initiative for Public Interest Law as Yale Fellow at a community organization
in NYC, providing civil legal representation for youth who face
prostitution-related police encounters and public benefits discrimination. I’m also an advisor for the HIV Young Leaders Fund, and I
work as an editorial, research, and communications consultant and organizer.
To pay my way in the City, I’ve worked both
independently and as a Research Editor at the Fremont Center on public health
issues for organizations such as Safe Horizon’s Streetwork Project,
UNDP, USAID, and the Open Society Institute. |
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Cooke, Corey |
1993 |
Immediately after graduating from St.
Mary’s, I did a cross-country trip to
California and back, and moved to D.C. For work, I did some waiting tables
and office temp work. (It was the recession of the early 1990s.) Very
quickly, though, I joined the IT field working
in database and web development. I then quickly moved into project and
business management consulting for several mid to large IT and telecom
companies. After the year 2000, I switched to my current profession of
health IT management, and I have been the CEO of a health IT
services company for the last 8 years. The philosophy courses I took at St. Mary’s have
aided me throughout my career by providing me with the invaluable skill of
critical analysis. This skill assists me with getting to root causes of
business and system issues. It allows me to take complex concepts and
succinctly explain them to all levels of people across different business
organizations (technical, management, etc.). Critical analysis has provided
me with a foundation for persuasive presenting and writing, which is
imperative in order to maintain ongoing business growth and development. |
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Cooper, Rebecca |
2002 |
After spending a year teaching
writing and culture at Luoyang Teacher’s College in China, a year trying
to care for of an ill family member, and almost a year
wandering around the West and Southwest, started (fall 2005) the Master’s
program in philosophy at Brock University in Ontario, and very, very much
wants to enter into the doctoral program at the University of Oregon in the
fall of 2007. |
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Correll, Michael |
2009 |
I completed the Computer Science Ph.D. program at University
of Wisconsin—Madison, focusing on issues in Artificial Intelligence. For
2015-16, I have a post-doc at University of Washington at Seattle. |
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Cosenze, Lex |
2012 |
Begins Georgetown law school in the fall of
2012, planning on pursuing public interest
law. |
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Costello, Matthew (M.J.) |
2001 |
Upon Graduation I
began working for the US Department of the Interior (DOI) as an Ethics
Advisor eventually serving as the Ethics Advisor to the Secretary and Deputy
Secretary of the Interior. In 2009 I moved to the Office
of Collaborative Action and Dispute Resolution (CADR) within DOI where I
currently serve as the Acting Director. My office sets the policy for and
ensures the procedures and resources are in place to support collaborative
problem solving, public engagement, and conflict management processes within
a Federal Agency which manages 1 out of every 5
acres of land in the United States. Still
active in the alumni rugby games. |
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Coursen, Jack |
2001 |
Worked for a nursery in D.C. area that specializes in
native species, before becoming a Professional Development Program Associate
at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. |
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Crausman, Aaron (Jamie) |
1991 |
Freelances in video production, including, for example,
pieces for PBS’s “Religion and Ethics Weekly.” |
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Creamer, Kathleen (now Klemm) |
1999 |
After graduation, worked as an au pair for a year
in North Carolina. Completed law school at UNC—Chapel
Hill. After clerking for a judge at the D.C. Superior Court, in the
Family Division, became Director of Legal Services at “Our Place, DC” (www.ourplacedc.org),
a nonprofit assisting women during incarceration and also helping them
transition back to the community after their release. In summer of 2006, got married (to Tom Klemm,
also class of 1999), moved from D.C. to Philly, and started working as a
staff attorney in the Family Advocacy Unit at Community Legal Services in
Philadelphia. I’m currently (2015) the Managing
Attorney there. My career-long passion has been helping incarcerated mothers
and their families. I can’t imagine a better
starting place for my career than my philosophy classes at St. Mary’s. As a
student, I was encouraged to think critically, hone my arguments, and
understand diverse perspectives—all skills that have been invaluable in my
advocacy work. Most importantly, though, I was encouraged to go beyond the
classroom to translate my thoughts about justice and what matters in life
into lived experience. |
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Crehan, Phil |
2008 |
After graduation I fumbled
around for a good four months, looking desperately for a job. Finally I became a substitute teacher for high schools in
Howard County, Maryland. (And with every
opportunity I try to teach kids philosophy; it never works). I will
continue to do this until the summer of 2009. In the Fall
I am going to American University to study in
the School of International Service. I’m
really excited about this because I get to combine philosophy and the world
in a program titled “Ethics, Peace, and Global Affairs.” My plan is to
graduate with a Masters and join an effort to end any and
all human rights abuses. I am including this last part so in 2-5
years, when I read this webpage, I can see how close I am to this goal. |
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Crosby, Dave |
1989 |
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Croteau, Julie |
1993 |
Worked for Major League Baseball for 3 years, traveling
around the world to sow seeds of interest in baseball; worked for Bear
Stearns for 3 years in San Francisco as a Wealth Advisor. Got
married, had Sofie. Then worked for
Morgan Stanley, later transferring to their LA offices. As of
2007, has moved back to S.F., this time with their second
child. Now working at Stanford, to produce the Stanford hospital’s
health and wellness publication called the “BeWellBulletin.” |
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Crowley, Roxanne |
2000 |
I attended Bryn Mawr’s Post-Baccalaureate
Pre-Medical Program and found studying that much science to be painful. So,
no med-school for me. While figuring out what I was going to do with my
life, I worked as a research coordinator for U Penn, Division of Geriatric
Medicine for four years. The research focused on hospice,
end-of-life-care, decision making, and research
ethics. Then I decided that the world needed another lawyer, so I went
to Temple U. Law School, graduating in 2007. Thanks to an awesome fellowship,
I started my first “real” job at Philadelphia’s SeniorLAWCenter,
which provides free legal services to low-income seniors. My fellowship
project focused on providing legal services to seniors receiving end-of-life
care and those on hospice. |
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Cutrell, Max |
2000 |
Working as a GIS consultant in
northern Colorado (Erie). |
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Davis, Kirk |
2009 |
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Dean, Kelley (now Morris) |
1994 |
Making art in Holden Beach, NC, after many other
experiences: www.kdmorris.net |
|
Deming, Nicole |
2001 |
Did environmental education for elementary school groups
in Cuyahoga County, Ohio for two years. Completed a Masters Degree in Bioethics at
the University of Washington School of Medicine (Seattle)
in June 2005. Presented a paper on Relational Autonomy and Ethical
Dilemmas that arise in the care of patients with Multiple Sclerosis at the
annual meeting for the Consortium of Multiple Sclerosis Centers
in Orlando, Florida. Got her law degree in 2008
from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland,
specializing in Health Law and in International Law. Now is
assistant professor of bioethics at Case Western’s School of Medicine. |
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Derdock, Nick |
2008 |
Has a year-long AmeriCorps job at
St. Mary of the Assumption, a Baltimore pre-K through 8th grade
school. In 2009, started law school
at University of Maryland. |
|
Dice, Austin |
2014 |
The year after graduation, I served as an AmeriCorps
volunteer through Community Health Corps. I was a case manager at
this cute, rural clinic in southern Anne Arundel County. The year after that,
I am employed at the same clinic and continue to do
case management and outreach work. And on the side,
I coach cross-country at the high school I attended back in the day. |
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Dickson, Jennie Malloy |
2002 |
Was Program Coordinator for the UNC—Chapel Hill Department
of Philosophy, and the Parr Center for
Ethics. In 2010, started the Master’s in Social Work program at
UNC’s School of Social Work, as well as teaching yoga. Finished MSWin May 2013 and in 2013-14 took up a one-year
post-grad residency at the campus counseling center at Duke University,
dealing with such issues as adjustment issues, anxiety, depression, and
eating disorders. |
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Di Leo, Cameron |
2015 |
Using the year after graduation to decide which graduate programs
to apply to, for a Master’s in clinical psychology. |
|
Dize, Noah |
2001 |
Came to New York to pursue
acting; realized I didn’t like the odds of ever
making a living wage doing it. So now I work in real
estate, currently as a marketing assistant. |
|
Doherty, Kayleigh |
2014 |
After St. Mary’s, I started the PhD program in Philosophy
at Arizona State University. After receiving my Masters in 2016, I left ASU
to pursue a PhD in Philosophy on a specialized research project I had become
interested in, entitled “Towards Professional Epistemic Justice: Medicine and
Finance,” funded by the Dutch Research Council. I’m
currently working on that project now at the University of Sheffield
(England) and will move in 2019 to finish off the project at the University
of Groningen (Netherlands). |
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Drake, Nikki |
2014 |
Working at a nice restaurant/bar in
Arlington, Virginia |
|
Drury, Jimmie |
2015 |
Working as an AmeriCorps volunteer in
Baltimore for a year, “working on an anti-violence and trauma rehabilitation
task force.” |
|
Dunn, Ben |
2020 |
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Dunn, Zach |
2004 |
Sold cars for a while in Rockville, fulfilling Paskow’s dream for me. Then a Director of
Data and Telephony Operations at Soundpath Conferencing,
in D.C., which was bought by Premiere Global Services, where I am was a Web Support Engineer. And yes still a raging sophist. As of 2015,
Director of DevOps at Optoro. |
|
Eagen, Kevin |
2006 |
Worked for a year, then entered
law school at University of Pittsburgh, to finish in
2010. |
|
Earlbeck, Jess |
2010 |
In fall 2010, entered law school at the University of
Baltimore. |
|
Effland, Kristin |
2002 |
Worked for 2 years for Gender Public Advocacy Coaltion in D.C. Then moved
to Seattle to enroll in midwifery school, starting in
2005. Now at Bellingham Birth Center, in
Washington: http://www.bellinghambirthcenter.com And
on the board of directors of the Midwives Association of Washington
State. |
|
Erlewine, Bob |
1999 |
Got an M.A. in Philosophy from Boston College; then a Ph.D. in Religious Studies
at Rice University. Married Molly Robey in October 2004,
at St. Mary’s. I am now an Assistant
Professor of Religious Studies at Illinois Wesleyan University, a small,
liberal arts college. |
|
Eutsler, Earl |
2002 |
Did tree removal, living in St. Inigoes (just
south of the college). Now lives in Mount
Pleasant, D.C. having worked as an urban forester for D.C. since
2004. Working on an M.S. from Johns Hopkins in
Environmental Science and Policy. Bought a house and is expecting a son
this fall. |
|
Fama, Brennan |
1999 POSC |
Picked up an M.A. from
the University of Chicago in 2000, and proved
conclusively that I was about as destined to be an academic as
I was likely to have tea with John Ashcroft. I’ve
worked in several jobs – all corporate – which have proved interesting only
in so far as that they continue to affirm all of Marx’s theories. Entered law
school in 2008 at Catholic University. |
|
Farrell, James (J.D.) |
2004 |
Worked for the Charles County (MD) Sheriff’s
Office, and now living in Baltimore, working in the Investigative Division
for the Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration. |
|
Felperin, Hannah |
2015 |
Works at an artisanal shop in the D.C. area Ah Love Oil
and Vinegar. |
|
Fick, Bryan |
1993 |
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Finan, Dan |
2000 |
Entered the U. S. Navy in 2003, with
one kid born in 2007 and another in 2009. Stationed in northern
Japan in mid-2007. Returned to civilian life in 2010. As of 2015,
is a Program Analyst for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. |
|
Fine, Lindy |
2002 |
Got her M.S. in Microbiology from
VCU Medical School, and in 2011 is headed to Cambridge, Maryland, where she’s
pursuing a Ph.D. in Oceanography/Enviro Ecology at University of MD’s Horn
Point Lab. |
|
Fiore, Amanda |
2000 |
Taught English in Taiwan, then stayed in Hong Kong for a
month, then taught in China, then taught in Korea and moved back to Taiwan,
while seeing many things along the way. Returned to D.C. and worked three
years for Greenpeace. In 2009 started the MFA program in Creative
Writing at San Diego State University. |
|
Firey, Thomas |
1992 POSC |
Earned an M.A. in Philosophy from Virginia Tech in 1999,
with a master’s thesis on Socratic epistemology (http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-100499-091648/unrestricted/Firey.pdf).
Afterwards, he taught philosophy for two years at New
River Community College. He currently is managing editor of the Cato
Institute’s Regulationmagazine (www.regulationmagazine.com) and a
senior fellow of the Maryland Public Policy Institute (www.mdpolicy.org). For more, see www.cato.org/people/firey.html. He
also is working on a Ph.D. in Economics from George Mason University. |
|
Fitzsimmons, Sharon |
2014 |
|
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Flemming, Tim |
2006 |
In 2009 entered the Master’s program in Interactive Technology
at SMU (in Dallas), aiming to make games that are both fun and
educational. Starting in 2011, became a
level designer for ZeniMax Online
Studios, making massively multiplayer online games. |
|
Floden, Per Mario |
1995 |
Entered the Norwegian military for a
year. Received M.A. from JHU’s School for Advanced International
Study. Is working for an international bank in
Amsterdam, first living in Amsterdam and now for a few years in London. |
|
Folks, Jesse |
2004 |
Got an MA in History and Semitic Languages at Catholic
University of America. Now working in retail in College Park. |
|
Fraser, Alex |
1994 |
Deceased |
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Frieble, William (Billy) |
2000 |
I started teaching art in a wide variety of schools and
after-school workshops after graduation. From there I began to pursue
community artworks, such as murals for non-profit organizations
in Washington, DC and in Panama. I enrolled in a
low-residency Masters of Fine Arts program with the Maryland Institute
College of Art, which led me directly back to St. Mary’s
where after teaching Sculpture and Drawing as a Visiting Professor, I secured
a tenure-track position in Digital Media. After several years, I moved in
2015 to the art faculty of Loyola College of Baltimore, to decrease commutes
upon the birth of our son. |
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Friedman, Pippa |
2015 |
Worked for the graphics design firm I’d
worked at for the past few years, while preparing for the GREs and selecting
the philosophy doctoral programs to which I wanted to apply. Now in the Ph.D.
program at Loyola—Chicago, and am the graduate assistant for the Society for
Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy. |
|
Gaebl, Gina |
2019 |
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Gaginis, Guinee |
2003 |
After graduation, worked in the
office of Senator Dorgan on the Hill. Then worked on health care issues
as a Legislative Assistant with the Sheridan Group, in
D.C. Then I resigned from my lobbying position two weeks
before the 2004 elections, and went to work for the Knowles campaign
in Anchorage, Alaska. (My nostrils would freeze together in a
five minute walk to headquarters.) I flew out
west in January, and played electronic music in San Francisco, later
joined a hip hop band as a bassist
in Sacramento. But it was a bit too laid
back for my taste. |
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Gallant, Easton |
2012 |
Planned to go into teaching, but
as of 2014, is lead installer at SolarCity. |
|
Garcia, Elmo |
2015 |
In the MAT program at SMCM. |
|
Garner, John |
1997 |
After I graduated from SMCM (which I’ll
honestly never figure out how happened), I hung out there working for the
college that summer. Joined the Air National Guard as a wide-band and
satellite technician. Went to basic training and tech school
in Texas and Georgia. Did the part time military thingee until recently (was activated twice but
never sent anywhere). Been working for DISA (Defense Information System
Agency) for the last 5 years as a network engineer (I model
and engineer long-haul telecommunications networks). I’m about halfway through my Masters of
Telecommunications Mgmt degree. It’s funny in a bad way, but, now I actually enjoy
learning and take my studies seriously. |
|
Genakos, John |
2000 ENGL |
Volunteered for AmeriCorps in Leonardtown, MD for a year.
Worked as an English teacher for a year in Chinaalongside
Sterling Berry-Whitlock. Now lives and works in B-More, MD. |
|
Gleeson, Noelle |
2019 |
|
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Golden, Katie |
1993 |
Doing glass work, living in
Vicenza, Italy. |
|
Goldsmith, Michael |
2007 |
Finished the Master’s program in comparative Philosophy at
Brock University in Canada, also working as an editor at the Canadian Journal
of Buddhist Studies. Then returned to Maryland, teaching
philosophy as an adjunct at Carroll County Community College and Community
College of Baltimore County. |
|
Goloff, Josh |
2015 |
In the MAT program at SMCM. |
|
Goodyear, Tiffany |
2004 |
Worked in D.C. for a non-profit, then for three years as a
lobbyist. Moved to Denver, where she opened and now owns and
runs Yours Truly Cupcake. In 2015, started The Sentologist business. |
|
Gottlieb-Miller, Josh |
2008 |
Entering the MFA program in creative writing at University
of Houston. |
|
Greeley, Erin (now
Raven Alder) |
1995 |
|
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Greenberg, Josh |
1994 |
Married to Kristen Sarlin (see
on this page) |
|
Greene, Todd |
1993 |
1993 to 2000 I worked for an
electronics sub-contactor in Gaithersburg MD. I
started out as an electromechanical technician, then as manage of Shipping and Receiving Mgr. for the same
company. After visiting family in SarasotaFlorida several
times in 2000, I finally decided that 30 years of Maryland winters
were enough. My first employment in FL was as a lumber associate at a big
orange mega corporation. I now have a Sales Support position with
a company which offers a supplemental coverage plan.
I married in October of 2007, I have two beautiful
step children & two cats. In addition my wife
Helen and I are active in the local Pagan community. I play music, enjoy
gardening & am lately totally fascinated by the green movement & the
blend of new technology & pre-industrial practices which offer so much
potential for living more sustainably.... i.e. saving the planet from us. |
|
Greenfield, Rhett |
2010 |
Attending Widener University in the fall
(’10) and working toward a Psy. D in clinical
psychology. |
|
Gregg, Andrew |
2007 |
After working for a year, he completed law school at the
University of St. Thomas, in St. Paul, Minnesota. As of 2015, he’s associate counsel at a legal firm in northern
Virginia. |
|
Gregor, Jeff |
1993 |
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Griffin, Shaun |
2005 |
Got a job as a direct result of
philosophy faculty references! Working for the summer of 2005 as a
shipboard educator aboard the skipjack Sigsbey for
the Living Classrooms Foundation, a non-profit org. based out of the inner
harbor Baltimore, MD. I am currently in the process of
applying for the Teton Science school to continue my love of environmental
and philosophical experiential education. I would never have
realized this love, nor my potential and ability without my SMCM philosophy
department classroom experiences, both as a student and a TA! |
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Grigg, Jaclyn |
2015 |
To do: (1) Thank Professor Eric
Hall for persuading me into the Philosophy major. (2) Take GREs. (3) Pay off
all college debt. (4) Finish The Brothers Karamazov. (5) Get
M.P.H., maybe with a focus in bioethics or environmental health policy. But in the short term, I move to the DC metro area, where
my job as a Staff Associate in NIH’s Division of Intramural Research within
the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute begins in early July. I live in
a great area, and love the part of my job where I get to translate clinical
jargon-heavy research into layman’s terms for
publication. |
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Grim, Ryan |
2000 |
After graduation, I bounced around from one con-job to
another, including working as a broker on Wall Street. After
leaving Wall Street I worked as a therapeutic mentor
for emotionally disturbed children. I actually got my break in
journalism with an exposé about my brokerage house. After
finishing the M.A. program in Public Policy at UM—College Park ,
he joined the Marijuana Policy Project as a “Legislative Analyst” (read:
lobbyist) for 2 years. He wrote for The Politico, covering
Congress and the presidential election, before becoming senior congressional
correspondent for the Huffington Post. He is now Washington Bureau
chief for the Huffington Post, overseeing a staff of 45. In 2009,
John Wiley and Sons published his book This Is Your Country on Drugs:
The Secret History of Getting High in America. |
|
Grisar, Lila |
1999 |
Taught and led groups in various youth-serving
organizations, including a mountain semester school for 10th graders,
NOLS, and a wilderness therapy program serving troubled teens and their
families. Now living in Athens, Georgia. Graduated with an MSW
degree from the University of Georgia in 2009 and working towards an MA in
Non-Profit Management. |
|
Guffey, Aaron |
2013 |
Working in D.C. |
|
Hall, Lauren (now Hittle) |
2003 |
Got her B.S. at University of Maryland at Baltimore, and
will be entering, in fall 09, the doctoral program in “Molecular Microbiology
and Immunology.” |
|
Hallisey, Jeremiah |
2012 |
Will be hanging around Southern Maryland for a
bit and continuing with the restaurant job where I get to bartend and share
little golden nuggets of wisdom with strangers. Tentatively I plan on
eventually moving off the east coast and finding some kind of work that
facilitates the good life. Details, of course, yet to be
determined. |
|
Hanlon, Jesse |
2016 |
I will be in Greenough, Montana from late May
to early October, working maintenance at the E Bar L guest ranch (near
Missoula) for fourth summer. After that, I plan to spend the winter in
Towson, MD with my family before buying a vehicle in which I can sleep and
travel from job to job out west for a while. As I have it planned now (May
2016), I’ll try to switch, by season, between trail
maintenance for national parks in the Southwest and range riding to protect
both wolves from human predation and cattle from wolf predation in the
Northwest. At least that’s where the path seems to
lead from here now. |
|
Hasek, Will |
2010 |
Entered the doctoral program in clinical psychology at
Duquesne University. |
|
Heaps, Owen |
2017 |
|
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Heckwolf, Phil |
2006 |
Works for Exelon. |
|
Heimberger, Thomas |
2015 |
Worked at St. Mary’s County Hospital, then thru-hiked the Appalachian
Trail in 2016. Then working in web development after having finished an
intensive program called App Academy. |
|
Heliotis, Peter |
2008 |
Got his MBA from the University of Maryland in 2011. |
|
Hemphill, Timothy |
2007 |
Living in an intentional community, working as a
membership assistant for the Marijuana Policy Project, beginning in
2009. |
|
Hendrick, Christopher |
1994 |
Cara and I were married in 2004, and we have two kids,
Jonah 2 years, Radha 3 months (as of
April 2004). I am working as the Counseling Center Cooordinator for Cornerstone Pastoral Care
and Counseling Center in Annapolis. I see all kinds
of people for therapy and do some administrative stuff. We live in
Columbia. |
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Hendricks, Rob |
2001 |
After graduation I acted with the
Richmond Shakespeare company for two shows. Then
I worked as a juvenile probation officer for about a year and a half. During
that time I decided that I wanted to attend law
school. After graduating law school and passing the bar exam, I worked as a
prosecutor for five years. Currently, I am practicing workers’ compensation
law at a firm in Ellicott City, Maryland. The objective reasoning skills I developed in
St. Mary’s philosophy major continue to serve me on a daily basis. A lot of what I do is to try to uncover the truth based on
the subjective evidence presented to me. I think that the rigorous discourse
and dissection of complex theories really sharpened my ability to cut to the
heart of the issue and focus on what is important in a given situation.
Philosopher Michel Foucault’s work Discipline and Punish had
a very strong influence on me as a prosecutor in helping to determine what
would be a meaningful sentence. |
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Herrmann, Eric |
1999 |
I’m an associate at Klein Hornig LLP, one of the nation’s premier
law firms concentrating exclusively on affordable housing and community
development. My work involves structuring and closing complex
transactions that develop and preserve affordable housing and revitalize
communities for clients ranging from neighborhood community
development corporations and tenant associations, to large housing
authorities and national developers. Prior to joining Klein
Hornig, I attended Harvard Law School, where I served as co-chair of Harvard
Law School’s Tenant Advocacy Project and as a student attorney at the Wilmer
Hale Legal Services Center’s Housing Unit. I developed my interest in
affordable housing and community development while working for the National
Housing Trust, a nonprofit dedicated to preserving and improving affordable
housing. Before that, I worked as an English teacher in Shanghai,
China, and at a camp for Burmese refugees in Thailand. I married
fellow St. Mary’s graduate, Kate Greene ’00, in 2005 and our beautiful
daughter, Bea, was born in 2011. |
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Hershfeld, Ryan |
2006 |
For two years after graduation, I was an Executive
Recruiter for The Washington Group. I’m
now Internal IT Liason, for Glencare Healthcare Solutions,
in Columbia, Maryland. (Philosophy degree away!!!!) However,
life is most wonderful. I married my college sweetheart Laura
Zimmer (also an SMCM alum) and we bought a house in Owings
Mills, MD where we live with our two dogs, Olive and Cosette. I’m trying
to live in the most Randian way possible and I may have been a major cause of
the banking crisis. |
|
Hild, Jeff |
2000 |
In law school at
the University of Baltimore (Feb. 04) |
|
Hilliard, Christopher |
1997 |
Completed the Master’s Degree in Liberal Arts at St.
John’s College in 1999, and then went on to work as a temp, and onto a health
food co-op (go figure). And now (2009)
I’ve been working as a warehouse manager for about nine years. Hey, it’s tedious, but at least it’s
unfulfilling. Living in Frederick, where I am fixing up a
house. And, of course, I am still on a
first-name basis with an embarrassing number of bartenders (and an equally
embarrassing number of wealthy business owners and the like). |
|
Hines, Kathleen |
1997 |
I worked as a medical writer/editor at an institute
affiliated with Johns Hopkins that specializes in international healthcare
training (primarily in reproductive health, maternal and newborn health, and
HIV/AIDS), while completing an M.A. in non-fiction writing from
JHU. Now I am off to work in Egypt for three months, at
the BibliotecaAlexandria, in their
publications department. (Apr. 04) |
|
Hinton, Sydneé |
2010 |
Taking a year to work and to prepare for applying to law
school. |
|
Homan, Tim |
2000 |
Worked
as a reporter in the summer after graduation as a reporter
for The Daily Star in Beirut, Lebanon. Spent
two years as a Peace Corps volunteer in Senegal; then had a blast as a
bike messenger in D.C. in summer of 2004. In 04-05, did the M.S.J.
program at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.
After interning in D.C. in summer ’05 went to Boston, at Tufts’ The
Fletcher School, doing a joint degree program between Northwestern and Tufts.
In 2007, started as a reporter for the Congressional Quarterly, living in
D.C. Now covering the U.S. economy for Bloomberg News. |
|
Hoover, Jon |
2006 |
Lived
at Twin Oaks intentional community, in Virginia. Then in 2014
moved to Brattleboro, Vermont. |
|
Horan, Brian |
2001 |
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Hurley, Josh |
2010 |
Currently working a 40 hour job to pay the bills. I’m
using the philosophy degree to help expand my art as a musician. |
|
Hutchinson, Jeremy (“Hutch”) |
2009 |
Is living
in Minneapolis and currently works for Crow’s Nest
Yachts. I am planning on attending
graduate school in a few years for an MBA after I have acquired a few years
of post undergraduate work experience.
Sailing whenever possible. Is planning on biking Peru later
this year. A Zen and the Art of Bicycle Maintenance of
sorts. |
|
Hutson, Laura |
1996 |
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|
Iliff, Nick |
2007 |
After finishing law school at the University of Baltimore,
is (as of 2017) an assistant public defender in Denton, Maryland. |
|
Irvine, John |
1990 |
By day, John is a strategic planner for the Maryland
Department of Juvenile Services. By night he also plays guitar, sings,
records and writes songs for The Jennifers,as well as playing guitar in sundry other
bands. He is also a member of the Homewood
Brass Consort and the Hopkins Symphony Orchestra. In his
rare spare time, John enjoys restoring and riding vintage Italian motor scooters. |
|
James, Dennis |
1989 |
Studied special
education. Is now a real estate agent in New York City. |
|
Jannotta, Sam |
1989 |
Working as a woodcrafter doing
historical preservation for the National Parks Service, in Frederick,
Maryland. |
|
Jarboe, Karen (now Hertzog) |
2006 |
After graduation, I worked for the Maryland Conservation
Corps (MCC), which is a program that falls under Americorps. I
am currently a Park Ranger with the Maryland Park Service and a Wild Land
Firefighter with the Maryland Wildfire Crew. I am also the front woman of a
sea shanty band, which interprets the historical working songs of the age of
sail. I currently am working on an MS in Environmental Policy and Management
and hope to one day manage a large nature preserve. In addition, I do tutoring in guitar, in philosophy,
and in general writing. My degree in philosophy has prepared me in many ways for
my work as a park ranger and historical interpreter. Through philosophy I’ve been able to concisely and accurately
interpret information for the public in an effort to connect people with
nature and history. It has also significantly prepared me for
graduate school. Despite my current focus in the science field, my philosophy
degree has given me the skills to analyze and think critically about
scientific data and subject matters. |
|
Jauregui, Carla |
2004 |
After staying in Maryland for a
while, headed to Breckenridge, Colorado, and fell in love with it, paying for
her love by serving tables The 8 months
of snow drove her downhill to Denver, where she completed her studies to
become a CPA. As of 2015, is working for Ernst and Young in
northern Virginia. |
|
Johnson, Ellen |
1998 |
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Jordan, Leander |
2016 |
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Kalman, Chris |
2007 |
Worked in Colorado, teaching climbing. Now a climbing
ranger at Mt. Rainier National Park |
|
Kazan, John |
2014 |
Aiming towards teaching English in Korea first, then…I do
not know. I want to be a published author, but we shall see. |
|
Kelch, Shaun |
1997 |
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Keller, Darrell |
2005 |
Lieutenant Commander Darrell Lynn Keller, Jr. ’05 is
currently the Tactical Action Officer on the aircraft carrier USS Ronald
Reagan. He recently deployed to the Arabian Gulf in support of
IRAQI and ENDURING FREEDOM. In 2004, he deployed to Antarctica in
support of NASA’s ICESAT project to measure the melting icecaps. In 2006, he
earned an M.A. in Liberal Studies from Excelsior College and is currently
earning a second Master’s Degree in Humanities at Salve Regina University,
while stationed in San Diego. |
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Kelly, Garrett |
2003 |
Worked for a couple years with his wife in Vermont on the
Spring Lake Ranch (which has a herd of beef cattle, a flock of sheep, a herd
of swine, two llamas, a large garden, and a maple syrup operation) to
rehabilitate people mental illnesses. Moved to Alaska, then
NC. Starting in 2008, entered the MSW program at UNC—Chapel
Hill. Gklagan at gmail dot com |
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Kerner, Tom |
1992 |
Enrolled in the M.A. in Philosophy at Virginia
Tech. Then went to law school at California Pacific University,
in San Diego. After a firm in D.C., now practices law at a
firm in, and living in, Wilmington, N.C. Still enjoys a good game
of Ultimate Frisbee. |
|
Kirkley, Bob |
1989 |
Graduated from Florida State University, M.A. in English,
1996. English teacher, Chaminade-Madonna High
School in Hollywood, Florida, 1997-2015, and English department chair
2003-2015. Lived on a sailboat in Miami for ten years. Now English teacher at
St. Brendan High School in Miami. Married to Margret Kirkley,
residing in Homestead, Florida. Paddleboarding enthusiasts. |
|
Klein, John |
2005 |
After trying my hands at the legal profession, handyman-ing, as a public health researcher, and various roles in the
IT realm, I am now (2016) working towards completing EMT/Firefighter
training, while working as a software engineer for a major financial
institution, and living in Arlington, VA, plotting the next stages…while
attempting to unfurl the brilliance of Sartre. |
|
Kolm, Rich |
2010 |
Moved to Boulder, Colorado at the end of the summer to
find work, fun, and mountains. Then back to Maryland, to work as a
green roof tech for Furbish. |
|
Konizeski, John |
1997 |
John is living in Kaohsiung, Taiwan and working at a Catholic
elementary school teaching English and English math. His Chinese used to be
very good but now is only good for remonstrating with students and
translating words and sentences into Chinese for students. I
worked for a couple of years at T. Rowe Price in a call center and found it
lucrative and valuable but boring, so I decided I wanted to continue my
Chinese studies. I chose Taiwan over Chinabecause
I had a friend who recommended it. When I got here I enjoyed studying and
found a decent job fairly easily, which then allowed things to spin out of
control into the marriage and mortgage that I now have. So not really a
plan—just an idea of what might happen. |
|
Kopec, Matt |
2000 |
After graduation, I spent some years working at Outback
Steakhouse, traveling the world, and just generally growing up. But I couldn’t stay away from philosophy. I took some
graduate classes at the University of Maryland, and then got an M.A. from
Virginia Tech and a Ph.D. from UW-Madison. After graduate school, I taught
courses in logic, ethics, and philosophy of science at CU-Boulder. Then I
held a research postdoc at Northwestern University, and I am now a Research
Fellow at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics in Canberra,
Australia. I spend my work days reading, discussing, and writing on topics
like the biological basis (or lack thereof) of human racial classification,
the ethics of using race in law enforcement, the effects of self-fulfilling
prophecies in the sciences, and effective group judgment and decision-making. |
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Krantz, Jamie |
2017 |
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Kristy, Dylan |
2013 |
Lived in my parents’ basement, for the summer. Now I’ve moved to Montana, where I work for my landlord and am
learning how to start a medical marijuana business. |
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Lanoie, Christine |
1997 |
After graduation, worked for two years in the Boston area,
before entering the M.A. program in Philosophy at Boston
College. After completing that, attended the Ph.D. program in
Philosophy at University of Utah, before returning to Boston the year after,
where she worked as Director of the Diabetes Prevention and Control Program,
for the state of Massachusetts. She also completed
her MFA in writing, from Emerson College, was married in 2005, and moved to
LA, where she finished her degree and taught writing at community colleges
while serving as a free-lance grant writer. She served as Associate Director of Institutional Giving at UCLA’s
Hammer Museum from 2011 – 2014, when she took the position of UCLA’s
Director of Corporate, Foundation and Research
Relations. |
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Larson, Christopher |
1998 |
Attend the master’s program at St.
John’s College in Annapolis. |
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Lawrence, Michael |
1999 |
Worked at school in San Diego for children with learning
disabilities; then completed the M.A. program in journalism at UC-Boulder, focusing
on newspaper reporting. I worked as a reporter at the Steamboat
Pilot and Today (in Colo.), and then as the seacoast correspondent for the
New Hampshire Union-Leader. Starting 2015 at a new job, as a city reporter
for the Standard-Times, in New Bedford, Mass. |
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Lay, Jason |
2007 |
After graduation, spent a year as an AmeriCorps volunteer
in St. Louis at the Grace Hill Community Health
Centers. Then back in Maryland for a few months, working
as a massage therapist. In Portland, Oregon, as an intern at Heart
of Business (“….when you want to make a difference but need to make a
profit”: http://www.heartofbusiness.com/ Then moved to St. Louis to open his
acupuncture practice. |
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Leander, Erik |
2005 |
Decided to hold off on grad
school for a year, got married in Summer ’05, got rejected to every Ph.D.
program Kate and Alan recommended. I entered the M.A. program in
philosophy at the University of Tennessee, where I just
finished up (May 2009) a thesis on Husserl’s theory
of time-consciousness. I’ll be teaching
intro philosophy at UTK this summer. In 2010, I’ll
be heading to Oregon to study animal rights law. I was going to
head out there this summer, but my wife and I are expecting a son in
September so I’ve deferred for a year until all that
craziness has settled down. |
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Leddy, Beth |
See “Wentzel, Beth” |
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Lee, Camilla (now Paquette) |
2009 |
Taught kindergarten in Chiang Mai, Thailand for the year.
Now works at AFS Intercultural Programs. |
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Lemley, Paul (now Fiona Maeve Geist) |
2009 |
After graduating from
SMCM, I studied Continental Philosophy at Brock University (Canada), and in
2010 begia the Ph.D. program in
Philosophy, Interpretation and Culture at SUNY-Binghamton. When I am not slowly
grinding away at what little sanity I have left working on academic pursuits,
I enjoy reading Deleuze and Guattari and wondering what I did wrong in a past
life to be reborn as a philosopher. As an ABD (all but dissertation), I
taught as an adjunct at SMCM fall 2014-December 2015. |
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Letts, Dawn |
2001 |
Worked for Maryland State Parks at St.
Mary’s River State Park. In 2011, graduated from the
Maryland Park Service Ranger School. As of 2016, she is Lead Ranger and
Acting Park Manager at the Point Lookout State Park complex. |
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Little, Jason |
1995 |
Worked for several years
at Point Lookout State Park. Now working at Dunkirk
Supply and starting his own “Moonlight Pool and Spa Service.” |
|
Loff, Sarah |
1999 |
After working short-term jobs in the D.C. area for a couple
of years, worked as a web editor for Georgetown Universitydesigning
websites for their fundraising office. Then in 2008, worked for
Media Matters for America, in D.C., as a web producer. Since then,
putting her critical thinking and writing skills to work as a web content
editor for a contractor for NASA’s website. |
|
Loughran, Brendan |
2012 |
Spent the summer after graduation living on
campus in Queen Anne Hall doing odd jobs as a lifeguard, waiter, caterer and
general raconteur around St. Mary’s County, trying to spend many hours in
both the river and the Green Door, soaking up as much of St. Mary’s life as I
can. In August of 2012 I moved to New York
City to pursue an M.A. in Bioethics from New York University, concentrating
in clinical ethics. |
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Ludwig, Julie |
1991 |
Taught high school in
the Baltimore area. Lives with son Kellen (b. 1994) in
upstate New York, first teaching at an alternative high school
in Watertown, and now, having gotten her masters in educational
administration, is serving as a special education school improvement
specialist. I work for the New York State Education Department, at
a cooperative board of education that serves 18 districts over 3000 sq miles from Lake Ontario into the
Adirondacks. |
|
Lykens, Alex |
2013 |
After graduation, I’ll be
attending the University of Baltimore Law School while living at my parents’
home in Towson. While I’m waiting to graduate, I
will have the pleasure of working for Top Notch Moving and Storage, based in
Timonium. |
|
Lyman, Brian |
2000 |
Earned a J.D. at
The George Washington University Law School, May, 2003. Admitted to practice law
in Maryland and is currently an associate attorney at the general
practice firm of Hillman, Brown and Darrow, PA in AnnapolisMaryland. Otherwise
busy with 5 kids. http://www.hbdlaw.com/ |
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Lynch, Amelia |
2011 |
In September after graduation, started working in Cordoba,
Argentina for a grass-roots non-profit organization. In 2016 is returning to the
U.S. (with her husband!) to start a Master’s in Speech-Language Pathology in
at West Chester University in Pennsylvania. |
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MacDougall, Mark |
1994 |
Worked for 10 years for Fidelity Investments in Boston.
Now a director at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. |
|
Magruder, Sarah |
2001 |
Assistant Director of the Writing Center at SMCM for many
years. |
|
Malmrose, Andrew |
2013 |
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Manarolla, Andrew |
2001 |
Completed the M.A. program in Environmental Public Policy
at UM-College Park. |
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Mann, Benjamin |
2018 |
Got my degree in December, and
within several months, am in sales and have been promoted to a management
position. |
|
Manrodt, Peter |
2010 |
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Marquette, Chris |
2014 |
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Martin-Poteet, Graham |
2015 |
I cycled across the country to raise
$10,000 for Conservation International. I then hiked the
AT southbound, from August to December, after which I started working as a
bike mechanic at Silver Cycles in Silver Springs, MD for a year and a half. I
am now the Service Manager at College Park Bikes, in College Park, MD. |
|
Masson, Stephen |
2013 |
Working as a tech assistant at the Southern Maryland
Higher Education Center, where I’ve been working
part-time during college. |
|
McCain, Cameron |
2020 |
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McCarty, Kate |
2004 |
Worked as a camp counselor in Estes
Park, Colorado for the summer after graduation. Then as
a deckhand for the Living Classrooms Foundation,
in Baltimore. Next, for a year as the Sailing Program
Coordinator at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, in St.
Michael’s, Maryland—terrorizing schoolchildren on a daily basis Then March-August 2008 as a Youth Crew Leader
for the Montana Conservation Corps, operating a chainsaw and being a
badass. Now she has moved to Portland, Maine, and until she finds
something more regular, she is doing catering jobs sporadically. |
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McCrae, Joe |
2000 |
Worked in Residence Life as
at UM-College Park for two years. In fall 2004,
started the M.A. program in college counseling at University of Delaware,
completing it in 2006, when he began working as Faculty Counselor at
Delaware County Community College. |
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McCutcheon, Sean |
1994 |
Sean McCutcheon spent a number of years divided between
working various computer jobs and doing nearly 15,000 hours of meditation, as
well as playing bass in several bands, composing progressive rock in strange
time signatures, and doing oil paintings in 4-D perspective. After
dropping out of two graduate programs due to boredom (Psychology at Antioch
and Buddhist Studies at Naropa), he is currently
pursuing an M.S. in Computer Science at the Florida Institute of Technology,
which he is finding to be more challenging. |
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McDowell, Leslie (née Severy) |
1990 |
Received M.A. degree from JHU’s
School of Advanced International Study in D.C. Lived in China |
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McGrew, Megan |
2005 |
Completed her Ph.D. in Philosophy
at Florida State University. Now living in Georgia working on educational
plans for children with autism. |
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McLendon, Markus |
1994 |
After graduation, I was
a department store manager for about three years, but it was cutting
into my sailing time. So I moved to Baltimore, and I sort
of drifted around working temporary jobs for computer contractors
and the government until I realized I had a damn fine education and
needed to get onto using it for something other than solving other
people’s computer or staffing problems. I even worked in an
Italian restaurant. As amusing as it was learning to make Italian pizza
and sundry foods from a Russian national, I decided I wasn’t
really accomplishing anything. So I got
a job working with emotionally disturbed kids in special education,
first as a teaching assistant, then a teacher and then a principal,
at Taylor School in Baltimore. During the course of that
journey, I went on and earned a master’s degree in Special Education from
Loyola College of Maryland. Then after some reorganization, I got my
present position of School Director for New Foundations in Baltimore I
actually am responsible for the whole ball of wax now. |
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McManus, Kristin |
2007 |
Worked as a paralegal in Baltimore, then for Maryland Hall
for the Creative Arts, in Annapolis. |
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McMurray, Creighton |
2000 |
I received a Master’s Degree in Bioethics & Medical
Humanities from the University of South Florida in 2004. During
that time I worked as a Bar Manager, Event Promoter,
DJ, and a Private Investigator for Missing Llama. Since then I’ve
moved to the Northeast Kingdom in Vermont (or, as some fellow alumni refer to
it, the Moose-Infested North) where I owned and operated a restaurant called
Jennifer’s, and the Grand Trunk Tavern, both in Island Pond. Now in Atlanta,
attending Emory law school. |
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Mickle, Jonathan |
1996 |
Completed law school at Duke University; now practicing in
North Carolina. |
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Miller, Danny |
2004 |
After graduating, I spent a year traveling
in India, Thailand, the Middle East, and Southern Africa,
doing Tsunami relief work, living in an ashram to practice meditation,
and was certified to Teach English as a Foreign
Language. I am currently living in Gaithersburg, Maryland, teaching
English to an international class of adult students. |
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Mink, Shani |
2015 |
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Mintz, Zach |
2015 |
Currently working part time at my local community college
library, while saving up to start grad school (pending
GRE results) in Library Science. Eventual career plan: Research librarian. |
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Mitchell, Ruth |
1990 |
After graduating I hung out for a few years “down in the
county” digging. Went to Egypt to get M.A. in Anthropology
from the American University in Cairo, and spent two
wonderful years there. Came back to the county and here I am digging
away, working as an archaeologist at Historic St. Mary’s City. |
|
Moessinger, Seth |
2007 |
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Mogilnicki, Vince |
2019 |
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Montefusco, Peter |
2006 |
After graduation, went to law school at Washington and Lee
University, finishing law school in the worst job market for lawyers. After
trying a few things, decided to open his own law practice in 2013: Montefusco Estate
Planning. |
|
Moran, Darryl |
2001 |
Made music in Charlottesville, VA for a few
years. Then worked in Boulder as a consultant and executive
producer for a company promoting and producing musical events, like at the annual
New Orleans Jazz Heritage Festival. Kept up the drumming there, and added ski-bumming. In 2015, is heading back to Charlottesville. |
|
Moreland, Jonathan |
2000 |
Worked as substitute teacher after
graduation, and got married. Then
completed an M.A.I.S.D. (Master of Arts in Instructional Systems
Development) at the University of Baltimore. I’m teaching World History and United States History
at Calvert High School, Prince Frederick, MD, where I also coach
baseball. And my favorite addition to my
resume since departing SMCM: I’m a DAD. |
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Moroz, Stephen |
1996 |
Took graduate courses in
philosophy at American University, while working for the National Parks
Service in Charles County, Maryland, in Salem, Massachusetts, and at the Cape
Hatteras lighthouse in N.C. I am currently (2009) a park
ranger here on Lake Mohave, in Lake Mead National Recreation Area out west. |
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Morrison, Mary |
1991 |
2245 Newton
St., Denver, CO, 80211-5061 |
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Moser, Jon |
2001 |
Completed M.A. degree in Religion
(focus: Ethics) at Yale Divinity School, then was Assistant
Coordinator of the Bioethics Project at Yale. Now teaching U.S.
History (as well as intro to ethics and intro to philosophy) at his high
school alma mater, Perkiomen School in
Pennsburg, PA. |
|
Murphy, Mark |
1993 |
Works for Wookie Foot. |
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Murphy, Michael |
1995 |
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Nahr, Andreas |
1993 |
Designed his own major in German Literature and
Philosophy. After graduation from SMC I
traveled around the world for 6 weeks. Major stops were: Japan, China, Mongolia, Russia and Europe. After
that I went to Grad School and got an
MA in Philosophy. Upon that graduation, I traveled in Africa for 4
months, ran out of money and came back home. I then landed a job as a flight attendant, putting
those philosophy degrees to good use. That’s
where I met my wife; we were married in 1998. In 2002 I took an
early out from the airline, and have been working in IT ever since. I have 2 kids. Emma (born 2003) and Peter (born
2005). We moved to Minnesota in 2007, where I continue
to work in the legal IT field. Address: 5915 Oakview Ln N, Plymouth, Mn 55442 |
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Nesnow, Geoff |
1996 |
I moved to D.C. after SMCM, then moved
to California (San Jose), then moved to Rhode Island (job
transfers), where I got married and bought my first house. I worked for
a tech start-up, where I created a new position for myself as Chief
Technology Evangelist. I actually got that job partly because the CEO
at the time was also a philosophy major (Haverford) and we hit it off. The
company Iron Mountain has purchased that company and now I work for
them. |
|
Newcomer, Caitlin |
2005 |
Moved to Prague in summer after graduation to teach
English businessmen and pre-school boys
(sometimes it was hard to tell the difference) Returned a
year later to attend the MFA program in Creative Writing at The Ohio State
University. |
|
Nicolas, Ashton |
2005 |
Is the Summer Programs Coordinator at Goucher College, in Baltimore. “I organize
all housing, meal, and other requests for those summer camps and conferences run
through the Events Office. I plan every aspect of their campus stay. I also
work with organizing the housing, meals, and classroom space for our graduate
programs and summer research projects. I love it, but it’s
hard staying focused when everyone else is on vacation! |
|
Oh, Lana |
2001 |
After working for consulting firms in the D.C. region, she
lived in Belgium, got a graduate degree in Migration Studies at
the Brussels School for International
Studies. In 2010, is living in Uganda, working for the International
Organization for Migration: http://uganda.iom.int/ |
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O’Hara, Megan |
2007 |
After graduation, I worked for the Audubon
MD-DC as an environmental educator, then as a case management intern for the
International Rescue Committee, a humanitarian relief organization. I
am currently working for the City of Baltimore as a Pollution Control Analyst
(biologist) and in spring 2009, I will start the MS program in
Environmental Science and Policy at Johns Hopkins University. |
|
Overholser, Anne (now Geisinger) |
1990 |
Worked as Quality Specialist and
in Customer Service at McCormick & Company, in Baltimore. Now
an IT Technical Services Manager at Lockheed Martin. |
|
Parks, Kevin |
2007 |
In 2008 completed the Master’s
program in Philosophy at Brock University in Canada. Now working
for a government agency in the D.C. area. |
|
Pearson, Dan |
2004 |
“In the D. C. area, doing paralegalish stuff.” In 2014, started law
school at George Washington University. |
|
Perilla, Rob |
2006 |
Studied at Tai Sophia Institute,
at Maryland University of Integrative Health, and is now a licensed and
self-employed acupuncturist: Self-Care Acupuncture, in Annapolis. |
|
Perrie, Matt |
1992 |
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Petit, Ross |
1999 |
Last seen living in San Diego. |
|
Pfau, Harris |
2011 |
Working retail at
Earth Treks Climbing Centers as well as teaching climbing classes here and
there. It pays the bills.Considering law
school. |
|
Pinilla, Gabe |
1999 |
Tended bar in Florida, with a view of
sunsets. Ended up in law school and now practices in Ft. Lauderdale,
doing business and commercial law at The
Solomon Law Group. |
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Ploger, Rob |
1993 |
Woodworking in Tucson, making musical instruments and
furniture, and teaching tai chi: www.rploger.com |
|
Poling, Greg |
2007 |
Taught English in elementary school
in Shanghai (which is where he spent the spring of his junior year) to
further his study of Mandarin. Then returned home and worked odd jobs
while applying to grad school. In 2010 Greg began the M.A. program in Comparative and
Regional Studies, focusing on Asia, at American University’s School of
International Service, in D.C. While in grad school, he worked in D.C. at the Center for Strategic and International
Studies, in their Southeast Asian program—first as an intern, then as
a research assistant (a staff position), and then upon completion of the M.A.
program in May 2012, as a research associate “I am a fellow in the Southeast Asia
chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a non-partisan
think tank in Washington, DC, where I manage research projects aimed at
guiding U.S. foreign policy in the Asia Pacific at large, and Southeast Asia
in particular. My work seems at first blush decidedly non-philosophical, but
my background in philosophy has given me some important legs up in my field.
The logic and critical thinking skills I learned as a philosophy major have
proven invaluable, both during my graduate education and in the think tank
world. And without the background in ethics I gained at SMCM, I probably
would not have decided to pursue international relations as a form of public
service in the first place.” Greg is the author
of The South China Sea in Focus: Clarifying the Limits of Maritime
Dispute (CSIS, July 2013) and a coauthor of From Strength to
Empowerment: The Next Generation of U.S.-Malaysia Relations (CSIS,
May 2012), Sustainable Energy Futures in Southeast Asia (CSIS,
December 2012), and A U.S.-Indonesia Partnership for 2020:
Recommendations for Forging a 21st Century Relationship(CSIS,
September 2013). In September 2012, he married Nicole
Norfolk, and the two live in Glen Burnie, Maryland. |
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Pollack, Debbie |
1998 |
Completed in 2006 the Ph.D. program in Clinical Psychology
at Duquesne University, in Pittsburgh, with a year-long internship at SUNY Upstate Medical University,
in Syracuse. Now in clinical private practice near there, and occasionally teaches a course at the
university. |
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Pollock, Adam |
2008 |
I was a Peace Corps volunteer working with the NGO AIESEC
in Ohrid, Macedonia. I also did a decent
amount of work with the local Red Cross. |
|
Polster, Devin |
2000 |
After graduation, taught Literature part-time
at the College of Southern Maryland. Served as a
Peace Corps Volunteer in Thailand. Completed the M.A. program
in International Relations at the University of Chicago,
followed by working in international finance. Worked in D.C.
overseeing disasters and coordinating federal recovery efforts for the
government, then moved to San Francisco, still
working for the federal government. |
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Porter, Jill |
1990 |
After getting her Doctorate of
Education in Educational Leadership, with
concentrations in Peace Education and Global Education, she is now Professor
of Education and Philosophy, and University Field Supervisor, at AlliantInternational University, in San Diego,
where she teaches peace education, critical thinking, and education and
ethics. She occasionally leads students on study tours
to Egypt, where she was on 9/11. JillSPorter at otmail dot com |
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Posey, Sarah |
2006 |
Worked (mostly from home) in legal
research for a Bethesda firm. Then as general manager of
the Woodlands Grill, in Wildewood, in California,
Maryland. Then as the Food & Beverage manager at the Hilton Garden Inn
in Solomons. |
|
Powers, James (J.G.) |
1990 |
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Prendergast, Alison (Ali) |
2005 |
Lived in Silver Spring, where I
was still yelling about theological dilemmas, looking for a job that let me
organize things. I was the Assistant Store Manager at the Barnes & Noble
in Georgetown, then worked in Operations for three
years for a D.C. public charter school. After getting her MBA at UVA, got a
job in Buffalo in 2014 as an Executive Associate for M&T Bank’s Internal
Consulting group. |
|
Pressley, Kacie |
2006 |
In August 2007, I moved to
Thailand, stopping off in China. Now work for the Prince George’s
County (MD) fire department. |
|
Prybylski, Nate (now Nate Frost) |
2006 |
Graduated a semester early from
Drexel law school. Passed the Maryland bar in February 2011. As of
2013, still hadn’t found a job beyond document
review, despite my best efforts. (The recession of 2008 created quite a glut
of J.D.s.) In 2015, “I got a job working as an attorney at the Social
Security Administration. Administrative Law Judges make decisions as to
whether or not a person is entitled to SS benefits, and I extrapolate the
evidence and write the actual decision to support the judge’s determination.” |
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Puvapiromquan, RateeluckTarn (now Rateeluck Tarn Goelling) |
2001 |
Tarn is an electrician (a
journeyman inside wireman) in D.C. and is active in the AFL-CIO and the
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. She was married
in September 2014. |
|
Rader, Bill |
2010 |
Entered University of Maryland
School of Law, focusing on health law. Got an internship for after
his first year with Judge Kenney (a long-time adjunct at SMCM) at the
Maryland Court of Special Appeals. Now works for the Social Security Administration. |
|
Ramsey, Mukhtar |
1998 |
In 2007, got a Master of Science
of Oriental Medicine from the Phoenix Institute of Herbal Medicine and
Acupuncture. Now a self-employed acupuncturist and Chinese
herbalist, in Scottsdale, AZ. |
|
Raftery, Meghan |
2005 |
I graduated and moved
to Baltimore for two years. I then moved to D.C. and
worked with a government contractor working for the Department of Defense,
while I completed a Masters of Science
program in Information Systems at UMBC. Working as an analyst for BAI,
Inc., in Arlington, VA. |
|
Ranta, Annamarei (née Wittmann) |
1994 |
Received her M.D. from Penn State; practiced
neurology in Charlottesville, Virginia. Married to
John Ranta (’97), moved to Atlanta in
2004, then to New Zealand, where she is now the Executive
Clinical Director of Medical Services at New Zealand’s capital’s major
hospital. |
|
Ranta, John |
1997 |
Worked in computers
in Charlottesville, Virginia, until 2004, when he, Anna Ranta (’94) and daughter Syrah moved
to Atlanta. Completed the M.A. program in Philosophy at
Georgia State University in fall 04, and they’ve moved to New Zealand., where
John now co-chairs the New Zealand Green Party. |
|
Rattey, Justin |
2013 |
For the first part of 2014, I will be working as Project
Manager for Good360, which is a non-profit located in Alexandria, VA, which
distributes unused goods from larger organizations (e.g., Target, Wal-Mart)
to non-profits that need them. In 2015 I began the
Ph.D. program at Georgetown in political science, focusing in political
theory, which uses coursework from both my undergraduate majors (philosophy
and political science). |
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Rebeck, Sharon |
1998 |
After having lived outside of Boston while working as a
copy editor, getting a masters in
education, teaching two years in a Waldorf school, slicing meat in a deli,
running a farmers’ market for a local bakery (none of those things
simultaneously), she is now living and teaching in
Boulder. Completed her Masters in Counseling Psychology and
“working primarily with a mindfulness-based somatic modality.” |
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Reidinger, Nicole |
2013 |
In the summer after graduation, attended the Summer
Publishing Institute in New York, to explore working in publishing. Then
worked in D.C. for the Endocrine Society, helping to arrange their
conferences. In summer 2014, I moved to their publishing department (medical
journals). |
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Reuben, Danny |
1998 RELG |
I graduated in 2001 with an M.A. in Buddhist Studies
from Naropa University (in Boulder).
I have completed all my class work for my Ph.D. in Buddhist and Hindu
Philosophy and Religion at the California Institute of Integral Studies
(outside of San Francisco), and am now in my dissertation proposal
phase. I saw Tom Waits in concert (2 nights in a row) while living
in Boulder. I’ve added to the tattoo collection and now have my
entire back done (my dedication to the major religious traditions of the
world)….I just got back from giving two talks in Hawaii at the International
Conference on Arts and Humanities, and am giving another talk in March 2004
at Wittier College in Los Angeles. Been doing Sanskrit for the past 3 ½
years, have an awesome cat named little one (she’s
not fat, she’s big boned)…still watching hockey, still being punk (even more
so now a days) and of course I’m living in San Francisco. Still drinking lots of diet coke, smoking too much for my own
good, and still don’t do drugs….go figure….well, I guess it’s time to end
with my new catchy phrase that I made up, “I tried to take myself seriously
once, but got hurt…I’m better now, as long as I take my meds…” dan the man, or fnord,
or shakes, or whatever-strikith-thou….and I still
can’t spell…. |
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Roberts, Hilary |
1993 |
Taught little ones in Baltimore County public schools, till 2015, when she left BCPS to become director of the
Homewood Early Learning Center at Johns Hopkins. |
|
Roberts, Jesse |
1993 |
Worked as coach for the women’s soccer team at UW—Green
Bay, and then for Clemson University and TowsonUniversity. In Baltimore now, working as
Director of Enrollment and Marketing director for a Catholic HS in Baltimore,
while finishing (done in 2011) an MBA from Loyola University. Was
the Director of Admission at West Nottingham Academy in Cecil County for
three years. |
|
Roche, Matt |
2000 |
During his final semester at SMCM, he started
working at the Capital Research Center, a Washington think tank that monitors
trends in philanthropy and corporate giving, and continued there for a couple
of years. Then he worked for a few years as a fundraiser for the Tax
Foundation (www.TaxFoundation.org),
a think tank in Washington, D.C. Although he long vowed never
to become a lawyer, he graduated from Catholic University’s law
school in May 2009. He is married and a board member of America’s
Future Foundation (www.americasfuture.org)
and lives in D.C. (cell: 202-390-7474) |
|
Rockler, Jeremy |
2009 |
I am currently living in Buffalo, NY
where I worked in the year after graduation as an AmeriCorps
VISTA volunteer, trying to set up a CityCorps program
in the city of Buffalo. CityCorps seeks
to connect AmeriCorps with the City of Buffalo government, channeling
volunteer energies to respond to the needs of Buffalo residents. I
would certainly recommend AmeriCorps as an option for those future grads looking for a unique way to get experience in the
‘real world’! I stayed in Buffalo the next year, to work for the city,
and then worked as a bank teller and next as a loan administrator for First
Niagara Bank. Got married in 2012. Completed the Masters of
International Management degree (through UMUC), with a concentration in
Financial Management, and now working for Citigroup, supporting Latin
American traders (based in NY) trading in foreign currency products. It’s an opportunity to work hands-on with the
international financial markets, and to learn some Spanish, too! |
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Rubin, Paula |
See “Swann, Paula” |
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Rudin, Bryan |
2014 |
Was the Africa editor at Cartogracy.com. In December 2017, completed his certificate in
Intelligence, and three days later, reported for his first day as a police
officer trainee for the City of Baltimore. |
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Saah, Christopher |
1998 |
After graduation… Then
lived in L.A. for two years, before moving back to the D.C.
area. Enrolling in fall 2004 in the Maryland Institute, College of
Art, in their Photography and Digital Imaging
program. Samples of stills available at http://www.safelightfilms.com |
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Sachs, Elizabeth |
1995 |
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Sanders, Stacy |
2004 |
Planned to enroll in the Ph.D.
program in Philosophy/Applied Ethics at Bowling Green State University in
Ohio, until she found out she was accepted as a Research
Assistant at The Hastings Center, in New York (www.thehastingscenter.org),
which specializes in bioethics. She spent two years there, and
although Bowling Green agreed to defer her admission and financial package
for those two years, she decided in the meantime to enter the Masters of
Social Work program at the University of Michigan. After
completing that, having focused on geriatric social work, she worked as a
field organizer, and then ultimately as director, for the Elder Economic Security Initiative, within
Wider Opportunities for Women, a non-profit advocacy organization in Washington,
DC. She then became director of the National Neighbors Silver program,
which, under the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, works to ensure
banking and credit services and adequate housing for economically vulnerable
older adults. Since 2012, she has moved to the non-profit Medicare
Rights Center, where she is the Director of Federal Policy. |
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Sanford, Rachael |
2002 |
Graduated in 2005 from law school
at University of Denver. Living in Danville,
Virginia, working for mid-sized law firm Clement & Wheatley
(www.clementwheatley.com), where I practice family law and general civil
litigation. |
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Sarlin, Kristen (now Greenberg) |
1993 |
Married to Josh Greenberg (on this page). |
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Saviano, Kim |
1993 |
Worked doing tech stuff for a loan company in the Denver
area. As of 2015, is project manager/senior business analyst for Bross Group, as well as a mediator
at Rational
Resolution. |
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Schack, Lizzie |
2018 |
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Schell, Dan |
2010 |
I am spending two years as team leader with Americorps National Civilian Conservation Corps. In the
first year, I managed a team of 18-24 year olds who worked on four projects,
including building a house in Baton Rouge, working at a heritage farm in
Arizona, working at an outdoor education center in Jamestown, Colorado, and
removing tornado debris in Joplin, Missouri. Following Americorps, my tentative plan is to attend grad school. |
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Schermerhorn, Jack (Calvin) |
1998 |
Received a Master of Theological Studies
from Harvard Divinity School, and following a year off,
enrolled in the Ph.D. program in American History at UVA. After
completing that, went to Arizona State University, where he has two daughters
and is now an Associate Professor of History. In 2011 he
published Money over Mastery, Family over Freedom: Slavery in the
Antebellum Upper South (JHU Press), and in 2015 The Business
of Slavery and the Rise of American Capitalism, 1815-1860 (Yale
Press). |
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Schisler, Mikhael (Al) |
2019 |
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Schoming, Ella |
2011 |
Is married and still playing some rugby.
By day, is a clerical specialist at a retirement and assisted living facility
in Westminster, Maryland. |
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Schultz, Anthony |
2005 |
Completed the MAT program at Towson University, and is
working in the Baltimore County Public Schools as aS.T.A.T. teacher,
helping to drive instruction and professional development for teachers in his
elementary schools. So he coaches teachers. |
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Sellouk, Jamie |
2008 |
Pursued training as a chef, while working in Israel, till cutting a tendon in his hand put an end to that. In
2015, passed the test in Brighton, England to become a certified
sommelier—one of few such in Israel. As of October 2015, working at a
restaurant in Israel as a sommelier. Then in May 2016, opened his own
consulting business: wine tours, menu design, workshops, etc.—all with an
emphasis on Israeli wines. |
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Severy, Leslie |
See “McDowell, Leslie” |
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Shapiro, Rachael (now Lipton) |
1999 |
After St. Mary’s, I went on tour with a punk rock band,
waitressed and rock-climbed in Colorado and completed a graduate program in journalism
at the University of Colorado at Boulder. I moved to New York City, where I
live with my musician/composer husband. I’m the copy
chief of features and entertainment at the New York Post, and I am happy. |
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Sharp, Jean Allison (now Ali Sharp Church) |
2003 |
Worked for two years in the Choice program
in Baltimore, helping at-risk high-schoolers stay
“on-track.” In 2005, moved to Tennessee, and in 2008, married
SMCM alumnus Mikey Church, in St. Inigoes. Spent
two years in Montana working as a youth care worker for a temporary shelter
for teens. In 2010, moved to Tajikistan as Mikey’s research
assistant on his Fulbright, studying water poverty. Back in
Missoula, received an MSW in 2014 from University of Montana, having decided
that social work is philosophy in action. Now they are living in Dixon,
Montana with nine chickens, four turkeys, and one dog on the Salish Kootenai
Reservation where Ali works as a critical access hospital and hospice social
worker. |
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Sheils, Will |
2002 |
Worked in Annapolis for several years, doing
advertising for a sailing magazine. Then traveled to Europe in fall
2005. I am currently living Annapolis and working for an East Coast
yacht company in yacht sales (www.intrinsicyacht.com). Actually, my philosophy degree has proved it’s relevancy
in sales and acting as a mediator between buyers and seller. Who would
have thought? |
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Shephard, Molly |
2015 |
Several months post-graduation I
received the opportunity to work at a grassroots marketing start-up. That
position propelled me into my current position, Director of Marketing and
Business Development at Media Prowler, a leaning in the online marketing
industry. I have been with Media Prowler since the summer of 2017. In March
2018, I launched withMolly.com, a blog
that provides the “big sister” outlook on everything from relationships to
skincare. We cover all facets of internal and external beauty with a focus on
building feminine power, heavily influenced by Professor Emerick’s
class “Feminism and Philosophy.” Within its first year withMolly.com hit several important
goals, including reaching 17,500 monthly visitors and 31,000 site hits per
month. As of summer 2019, I consider myself a 9-5 marketer, a 5-9
blogger, and a 24/7 ultramarathoner (with a
100-miler on my horizon for March 2020). |
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Shepherd, Matt |
1999 |
After graduating I sat by my
parent’s pool a la The Graduate for about 3 weeks. Then I got a
job at an educational research organization. I worked there for
about 5 years first as a research assistant, then as a web developer, and
finally as a network engineer/help-desk monkey. During the first year of work I learned what Homer meant
when he said, “The boy reminds me of myself when I was his age . . . before
the weight of the world broke my spirit.” Then I sold my soul and took
a job as the IT Manager for a lobbying firm. As of 2019, I am VP and founding partner of MindPoint Group, a cybersecurity firm that was listed in 2019 as the Washington Business Journal Best
Places to Work. My wife Leena, also an SMCM alum,
has moved to that company, too. |
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Siegel, Aaron |
2011 |
In Chicago, enrolled in the John Marshall Law School. |
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Sijgers, Garrett |
2017 |
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Siler, Jeff (Darrion) |
2007 |
Started as an early childhood music specialist at Bach 2
Rock, in D.C. In the off-season, played baseball in Belgium for
the Merchtem Cats. Then spent 3 years in
Lisbon, teaching English, philosophy, and brewing, as well as coaching
baseball. Now back in Baltimore area, working as Director of Baseball and
Softball Operations at Extra
Innings Baltimore North. |
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Silver, Jacob |
2013 |
I enjoy working with kids, especially in an outdoor
setting, and I’d like to see a bit more of our
beautiful country. In addition, I’d like to keep
studying philosophy. Hopefully, a graduate school
will have me one day. So for the summer of 2013, I returned to a supervisory
position at the Quaker outdoor education camp in NC that I’ve
worked at. Then in the fall, I returned to St. Mary’s County, to work
full-time at Evenstar organic farm, to sit in on additional philosophy
classes, and to serve as a course assistant for Philosophy 101, and then for
Philosophy 120 in the spring of 2014. In the summer of 2014, I will hike part
of the Appalachian Trail, then return to the NC outdoor education camp as a
rock-climbing instructor. Then on for a 2-year stint as a teacher and
“houseparent” at the Arthur Morgan School (a progressive boarding school near
Ashville, NC, for 7-9th graders, in the Quaker and Montessori
traditions). |
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Singer, Craig |
1999 |
Worked at Legg Mason, until moving to New York in 2007, to
work for Citicorps, and an analyst covering
the banking sector. |
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Siuta, Sandy |
1994 |
Living in Ann Arbor,
Michigan. |
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Skopp, Bethany |
1999 |
After graduating from George Washington University’s
School of Law, started in 2003 working as an attorney in the
Prince George’s County Public Defender’s Office. |
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Slaght, Christopher |
1997 |
After graduation, became a teacher (getting a M.A. in
English Lit from Middlebury College), teaching English and history in a few
villages in Alaska. As of 2015, is teaching in Fairbanks, where he continues
to learn new things and has a very hot sauna. |
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Sloboda, Melissa (now Supik) |
2006 |
Working at JHU’s School of Medicine. |
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Smith, Alana |
2001 |
After the MA program in “Humanities and Social Thought” at
NYU, and working in Manhattan part-time as an office Manager, Alana returned to Maryland and
to pursue her MSW at the University of Maryland’s School of Social Work. |
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Smith, Allison |
2011 |
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Smith, Jordan |
1994 |
As of October 2015: “I am currently re-rigging the USS
Constellation, in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor. My jobs usually center on working
on or captaining boats and tall ships. I live on my boat in Annapolis with my
girlfriend.” |
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Smith, Nathan |
2013 |
I’ve been keeping quite busy since graduation with work and
travel. Since May of 2013, I’ve bicycled across the
U.S., and while working as a bike mechanic for DC’s Capital Bikeshare, traveled to England, Ireland, and New Zealand.
Since early 2014 I’ve managed procurement
and logistics at a start-up subscription business in Columbia, MD,
named Friends and Farms. We work with local and regional food
producers of all types to deliver bundles of meal-ready groceries to our
customers in the Baltimore area. It’s a great job. I’ve learned so much about food and cooking, as well as
managing myself and others. My SMP was a look at the moral structure and teachings of
the Slow Food movement, and it basically got me my
job. The research required for my SMP was my introduction to food systems,
policy, and history, and I draw on that knowledge every day at work. |
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Smith, Susan |
2012 |
After graduation, I will be working at Fish
Whistle as a server in Chestertown, Md for
the summer. I will also be a teaching assistant for a Horizons program at
Radcliffe Creek School. In the fall, I will be attending graduate school at
Salisbury University (but will be living in Chestertown and going to a
satellite program at Chesapeake College) to acquire a Master’s in Social
Work. I plan to work while going to school and eventually I plan to be a
social worker in Maryland. |
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Snyder, Henry |
2000 |
Henry Snyder tries to keep things
interesting. After getting a Master’s, he now lives in South Carolina,
where he counsels the at-risk youth of our proud nation. He has previously
lived in VA, NC, MD, and your momma’s closet. He enjoys e-mails, surfing, bebopping, and scatting. And
writing, having written and directed short films. |
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Sottek, T.C. (Timothy) |
2008 |
A week after graduating, I got down to
business! I’m working with the
National Parks Conservation Association (www.npca.org) as a “Research
Coordinator” (a.k.a. lobbyist) for conservation issues. If you’re curious about why lobbyists and special interests
are good for democracy, shoot me an email! Then in 2013, moved to NYC to take a
position at The
Verge. |
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Southgate, Karl |
2005 |
Taught English in Japan. Then lived in
Ashville, NC, making music there, then Charleston, SC. Now in Chicago “becoming
a shrink” at the Chicago School of Professional Psychology. |
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Sower, Clinton |
1996 |
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Stanton, Kevin |
1994 |
Got his MA in Philosophy from
Colorado State University in 2001, and is an adjunct instructor of philosophy
at Front Range Community College. |
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Stauffer, Zach |
2017 |
Working in groundskeeping at
Camp Maria Retreat Center, and studying for the GREs. |
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Stearns, Easton |
2008 |
Manager and head mechanic at The Catonsville Bike Shop, in
MD. |
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Stevenson, Ian |
1999 |
After graduation, completed the Master of Liberal Studies
program at St. John’s College in Annapolis, and worked
for a couple of years for the National Coalition for the Homeless,
in Washington, D.C. Then moved to a lobbying firm in
D.C., working as an accountant. Married in 2005. Then
“a wonky ontologist [that’s right: OWL]
for a semantic technology company” in Hunt Valley, MD. Starting in fall 2014, got a full-time job with Baltimore City Public
Schools, teaching Information Technology to 10-12 graders in west Baltimore. |
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Stockmeyer, Ed |
2006 |
After completing law school at the University of
Minnesota, is an attorney in Minneapolis. |
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Storms, Karen |
1992 |
After graduation, began the M.A.
program in Philosophy at University of Connecticut, and cut
that short in order to return to work in the theater community in D.C.,
including at Arena Stage. Now the stage manager for the Washington
Ballet. |
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Strakna, Adam |
2018 |
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Strauss, Ethan |
2007 |
Worked as a clinical assistant at
the Kennedy Krieger Institute, while working on his Master’s in Social Work
(Families and Children) at the University of Maryland
(Baltimore). Now doing social work, mostly with children, in
Harford County, Maryland |
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Surlis, Aidan |
1996 |
After graduation, went to work selling real estate
in the Annapolis area. Still there as of 2014, though also busy with three
children. |
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Sutt, Christina |
2008 |
Finished law school at the University of Baltimore, and
passed the bar. But her timing was unfortunate, for
she hit the job market just when, because of the recession, there was the
largest glut of J.D.s in recent memory. Is now teaching in an alternative
high school in Baltimore while finishing up (in 2015) her master’s
in teaching. “It’s challenging, but very rewarding, and a lot more
interesting than law was.” |
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Sutton, Charles |
1999 |
Completed the doctoral program in
Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts, and is now a Reader at
the University of Edinburgh. |
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Swann, Paula (née
Rubin) |
1994 |
In 1997, I received an M.A. from St.
John’s College in Annapolis where I also met my husband,
John Swann. I completed another Bachelor’s program at UMBC in
Computer Science in 2001. I am now working as a computer scientist
in the D.C. area. I’m also on the board
of my county’s literacy council and have been a reading tutor for an adult
for over two years. |
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Swearengen, Ken |
2006 |
For the summer was the Aquatics Director at a
Boy Scout camp on the Eastern Shore. Then I entered the MA
program in Philosophy (Mind, Language, and Knowledge) at University College,
Dublin. After completing that (my thesis was about how our concepts of the
world mesh with our actual experience of it), I headed back to Baltimore and
became a copywriter for a small publishing company, focusing on finance and
health. I did that for about 5 years, until the ennui started to sink in; I
decided that I enjoy writing as a hobby much more than as a job. So I went back to school and got my BS in
Information Systems and Technology Management from the University of
Baltimore. In mid-2015, I started a job as software programmer,
where I utilize all that logic I learned while studying philosophy. It’s great applying the logic I learned to solving the
puzzles that software development provides. Not only does it keep me
interested in my work, but I usually get to learn
something new every day. |
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Sweeney, Jennifer |
1998 |
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Taflan, Anna |
2019 |
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Teti, Stowe |
1993 |
After graduation, began the M.A.
program in Philosophy at University of Connecticut. Returned
to the D.C. area and worked designing furniture. Then did architecture,
as a managing partner at T-Squared Architecture, living in Potomac, Maryland.
From 2010-2018, he was a clinical ethicist at Children’s National Health
System, consulting on all manner of cases in pediatric ethics and writing
about them. In 2019, he moved to Cambridge, Mass. to begin life as a
faculty member of the Harvard University Medical School Center for Bioethics,
teaching in the Masters of Bioethics program, where he is
needed to shore up students’ understanding of Aristotle, Kant, Mill,
and the like. He continues to edit the journal Pediatrics Ethicscope, and will be taking over as
editor-in-chief of the HMS Bioethics Journal. His daughter plans to
begin attending St. Mary’s in fall 2019. |
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Thelin-Knox, Vanessa |
2006 |
In August 2014, finished her
3-year program in acupuncture, at the Won Institute of Graduate Studies, in
Pennsylvania, and then began her own practice in Bethesda, Maryland: www.holisticacupuncturebethesda.com/ |
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Thomassen, Ben |
2001 |
Worked for a small internet design
company in D.C. Then 2003-2005 in the M.A. program in Liberal Studies
at University of Chicago. Then law school at
Chicago-Kent College of Law. Now an associate attorney at a firm in Chicago. |
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Thompson, David |
1992 |
Worked for a series of internet service providers, through
their success and purchase by larger companies. Now works for Dataprise, a managed service provider that serves
businesses. |
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Thurlow, Barbara |
1990 |
Does photography and portrait art
in D.C. For years was on the volunteer staff at the National Zoo,
working with the gorillas and the reptiles; although not now a volunteer, she
still regularly visits the gorillas. “My husband, Brian
Williamson, is still tolerating me after almost 12 years. He is a
gravedigger and a fan of Tolkien and Jung. Oh, and we have a very
handsome black cat named ‘Scootch.’ He’s our
only child.” |
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Tomcsik, Jeff |
1999 |
After a couple of years working as a mate on a charter
fishing boat (out of Scheible’s, south of the
College), got his Masters of Arts in Teaching degree from the College of
Notre Dame (through the Southern Maryland Higher Education
Center). Taught middle school in Charles County,
MD for 2 years, and got married. In spring
2005 received his Captain’s license and runs a weekend charter boat out
of Scheible’s, while managing a dental office
during the week. |
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Trainor, Tripp |
2014 |
Entered the University of Baltimore Law School in 2015,
with an interest in juvenile defense. |
|
Tupper, Kelton |
2016 |
I will be working at St. Mary’s as an intern with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, where I will be
doing my best to care for students throughout their time at college. |
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Turner, Chelsea |
2006 |
Worked after graduation at the Library of Congress, and in 2010 started the Master’s of
Public Policy program at the University of Maryland. As of 2015,
she is a health care analyst for the National Association of Quality Assurance. |
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Tyree, Adrian |
2006 |
Since my graduation, I have worked primarily in the direct
care, human services field. I’ve held various community-based
and management positions. Most notably, in 2009 I began public service with
the Maryland Department of Juvenile Services. I worked for five years as a
probation officer/case management specialist, before being
promoted to management in 2014. In 2011 I began training in Krav Maga, an Israeli
martial art and reality-based self-defense system. Since 2013 I’ve been a certified Krav Maga instructor with Krav Maga Maryland. How has my St. Mary’s Philosophy coursework helped me? I
would say that my professional life after SMCM encompasses sharing the values
I received as a philosophy major (and religious studies; I double-majored).
Respecting others’ humanity. Asking the difficult questions. Identifying problems and then actively being a part of the
solution. I live these values when I teach self-defense and in my
public service. I’ve helped those with
mental and emotional disabilities to improve their life balance, and I
contribute to public safety and the rehabilitation of delinquent youth
through DJS. |
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Um, Ennis |
2018 |
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Underwood, Alexis |
2018 |
In the year after graduation, worked for The Literacy Lab as a tutor. |
|
Vargas, Patrick |
1992 |
Completed PhD in social psychology from The
Ohio State University, in 1997. Spent one year as post-doc
in Sydney, Australia, at University of New South
Wales. Now a professor of advertising and psychology at the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign. Recently got first
professional haircut in 12 years. (Jan. 04) |
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Virga, Michael |
2012 |
After graduation, I worked in Tucson as a
volunteer for the Jesuit Volunteer Corps from August 2012 to August 2013, at
Community Home Repair of Arizona, Inc (CHRPA).
After that, I continued working at CHRPA for a year as a low-paid
employee. Beginning in January 2015 I began working with the
Arizona Conservation Corps as a crew member; I have since advanced to the
position of crew leader, leading a crew of seven other members to complete
projects for the Forest Service, National Park Service, and the Bureau of
Land Management. |
|
Vorhis, Chris |
2007 |
Taught English in Dalian, China for three years.
Learned Mandarin Chinese. Got married to an amazing woman, Ji Shi, in summer
2010. Currently at College Park's Maryland School of Public Policy as a
Robertson Fellow, studying ISEP (International Security and Economic Policy)
MPP '12. Loves all things international, and has plenty of advice for
those who want to teach English overseas (esp. in China). |
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Waller, Dave |
2006 |
Living in Panama City, Florida, working as a
photographer—family shots on the beach, and that sort of thing. |
|
Waro, Wyatt |
1997 |
I was painting high-rises in Hawaii shortly
after graduation in ’97. I did that for about 5 months before coming back to
St. Mary’s where I worked as a Contract Administrator for a small defense
contractor in Lexington Park for about 8 months before moving
to DC. I worked for myself doing some home improvement work for 5 months
while also working for a real estate firm and then another govt. contract as
a technical writer for another 5 months. Then I got the job as a satellite
controller at Goddard Space Center, and stayed there over 2
yrs., followed by two more years working for XM Satellite Radio. I moved in
w/ my bro in So. Jersey, delivering newspapers and selling BMX &
mountain-bike parts via eBay for a few months. Then, I moved back to St. Mary’s and lived in a shack w/ this local girl, her mom, 3
kids, 1 runaway girl and 20 cats in the last old non-wealthy home
off Breton Bay. I lived off unemployment and eBay during this time
before I just had to get the hell out. So I moved
to Hawaii and just resumed my mountain-biking, bodyboarding and
spearfishing hobbies living w/ my uncle and auntie until my unemployment
checks ran out. Then I got a job at Club Femme Nu, Hawaii’s best strip
club, where I worked as a bar waiter full-time. In mid-2004, I
started working as a baggage handler for the TSA at Honolulu International Airport. In
between all my jobs I managed to travel quite a bit.
Really enjoyed the 4 corners region of the US and all
of California. Enjoyed Norway and Sweden a lot too. |
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Wates, Tyler |
2014 |
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Watters, Andrew |
2007 |
Worked for a pedicab company
in Newport, then in Boston. Now in SF, where he is
sailing and managing the local branch of the pedicab company. |
|
Weaver, Adam |
2003 |
After graduation, worked as a … at the law firm of …. In
D.C. Then started and graduated from law school at Catholic
University. Working now as an attorney in D.C. |
|
Weeks, Cathy |
See “Wright, Cathy” |
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Weingarten, Abby |
2015 |
Have a paid position on the Pine Ridge Lakota reservation
in South Dakota, as a program supervisor for the non-profit Re-Member. |
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Wentzel, Beth (née Leddy) |
1998 |
Attended Naropa Institute,
in Buddhist studies in Boulder, Colorado. Now practicing
eastern medicine in Manhattan, as Beth Leddy Wentzel,
L. Ac. www.bethanyleddy.com |
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Whitaker, Aaron |
1996 |
Lived for a while in St. Mary’s County, working for a
military contractor in Lexington Park. Then moved to San Diego to
do the same. |
|
White, Rob |
2004 |
From St. Mary’s, I went on to law school, and then into
politics. After spending several years working on Capitol Hill as Counsel to
Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, I ran a hard-fought political race for DC
Council At-Large in 2014, and now serve as Director of Community Outreach for
DC Attorney General Karl Racine. More than any other course of study, my
philosophy major pushed me to move from society’s conventional concepts of
morality and idle altruism to the challenge of doing actual good. My personal
politics, refined in my small philosophy classes, dictate that good is not in
our intentions, but in how we actually help people. Once out in “the real
world,” where the pace and consequences are swift, it can be nearly
impossible to grapple with these foundational beliefs. So I can’t think of a better major for building strong and
analytical public servants who are able to think through the noise and
pressures of popular rhetoric to find meaningful ways to help. |
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Wilkinson, Nick |
2017 |
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Williams, Litsa (Beth) |
2002 |
Got an M.A. degree in philosophy at
the University of Warwick (England) in the year after
graduation. Then worked for a year in the Choice program in St.
Mary’s County, helping at-risk high-schoolers stay
“on-track.” Since 2005 I went to work for
a homeless outreach program in Baltimore, working as a case manager for
homeless adults with mental illness. At the same agency I
then coordinated a United Way funded housing program for just
regular old homeless people (i.e., not crazy). While working I also went back and got my MSW (through which I did field
work as an HIV case manager and worked at the VA hospital on the
surgical ICU and facilitating a PTSD group). And
now I am seeking joy in the teeth of despair here in organ world,
at the Living Legacy Foundation. Essentially, my position used to
entail going to hospitals all over the state to meet with families whose
loved ones are about to die (typically as a result of senseless accidents or
random brain bleeds) to discuss with them the possibility of organ
donation. Now I have been “promoted” to more administrative duties, helping
to run the organization. |
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Winslow, Matt |
1993 |
After graduation, worked as a living history interpreter
at Historic St. Mary’s City for four years. Completed law school
at University of Wyoming, and practiced criminal law at a firm
in Cody, Wyoming. In 2005 he opened his own
general-practice law firm in Cody, and looking to engage in what he called
“righteous litigation,” which he explained as “when I get to stand up for
someone whose rights are threatened by a vastly more powerful foe. Most
commonly I find it in criminal defense and
plaintiff’s personal injury cases (I like fighting insurance companies).
It means that I get to do good in the world,
and is the polar opposite of helping rich people fight about
money.” Then in 2015, became a foreign service officer with the
U.S. Department of State, and moved to Washington, D.C. |
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Winterstein, Christopher |
1991 |
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Wittmann, Annemarei |
See “Ranta, Annemarei” |
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Woods, Russell |
2008 |
Immediately after graduation, I lazed
around for but a short period of my days at a little house I rented in Chapel
Hill, NC, my home town. Then I was working 40 hour
weeks as a carpenter (old, wise Wittgenstein would be pleased). Then I got an
MBA in the “Green MBA, Sustainable Enterprise” program at Dominican
University of California. The motto of my MBA program was “Transform
yourself, transform business, transform the world.” I’m attempting to work within corporations to drive
sustainable ethics and radical economics. I now live in the San Francisco area,
where I am a site manager for SBM Management Services, which contracts with
Genentech to manage their facilities, including the world’s largest cell
culture manufacturing facility. I operate a contract worth just shy of $10M
annually. I have 12 administrative staff and nearly 80 line level employees
who report to me. And all this in an extremely
complex and heavily regulated industry. I regularly scoff at the irony that I
wrote a polemic on overwork in the U.S. as my St. Mary’s Project, and now
regularly work 60+ hours per week. I am an annual member of Black Rock
City, as are my wife and son. In my free time my
family and I attend music festivals and event—sometimes on stilts, always in
costume. |
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Woodward, Hilary |
2000 |
Is a Communications Representative for the National
Association of Realtors, in D.C. Used to work downtown near the Mall in the
communications office of the ill-named Graduate School, USDA (which
is neither a graduate school nor technically part of the USDA). After graduating from St. Mary’s and before being sucked
back to the Central Atlantic, I gave actual graduate school a go at the
University of New Hampshire in their nonfiction writing master’s program, but
it didn’t stick, unlike the snow that winter. |
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Wright, Geoff |
1993 |
Works in computers in Anchorage. Married
to Cathy Wright (’93; née Cathy Weeks), with three kids. |
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Wright, Cathy Weeks |
1993 |
Worked at the Borders bookstore in Anchorage, then as an
administrative assistant in the Dept. of Mathematics at
the University of Alaska. Then got her bachelor’s
degree in nursing and works two days a week as a pediatric
nurse. Married to Geoff Wright (’93). They’re raising their three kids. |
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Y, b |
2009 |
after graduation, i moved
to baltimore, md, and worked at johns hopkins university and red emma’s bookstore.
In the summer of 2010, i hauled off
to seattle to teach, acquire a new name,
and find out what the west coast was like. i’ve been here ever since. these
days i work at two alternative high
schools in the seattle public school
district, where i put my philosophy
degree to work every day as a post-secondary counselor. i also try to keep busy by
studying generative somatics, cruising for
dogs, and building transformative justice community with queer and trans
folks of color. if you’re ever lost in the city, say
hello. |
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Young, Caitlin |
2007 |
Working for Sapienta, in
D.C., as a program manager/business consultant for a contract with the
Department of Homeland Security. |
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Young, Peter |
2005 |
After the post-commencement summer working in D.C., I
moved to Hawaii to find a job. Now I’m
back in D.C., working as the Assistant Director of Admissions at St. Anselm’s
Abbey School, my alma mater. |
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Young, Rich |
1992 |
I’m currently (in 2009) working as a web developer for
the College of Engineering at Colorado State University. The
job is a recent change; my last employer (an overseas bicycle tour operator)
was getting shaky in the current economy, so I left after 9 years
there. Current and former jobs were both
half-time. The other half of my time goes to homeschooling
our 3 boys (4, 6 and 9), which is a great intellectual adventure on many
levels and one of the best decisions I ever made. My wife Lorin Spangler
(SMCM ‘92, history) is a half-time school teacher,
so we are able to each have a (half?) career and share equally in the
parenting and homeschooling duties. I left philosophy around 1995 after completing all
coursework and ~50 pages of a thesis for a masters in phil at CSU. I’m
still tweaking the answer to why I stopped so close to the end; drop me a
line for the latest version ;^) |
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Zuke, Scott |
2009 |
Although I could not have known it at the time, my year-long, senior project (the St. Mary’s Project) in
Philosophy, which was on democracy and the ethics of global development,
opened my career path for me. After St. Mary’s, I continued my studies on
this topic by getting a Master’s degree in the University of Maryland’s
School of Public Policy. For years now, I have written, and still write to
this day, a monthly column covering international political issues, often
with a philosophical angle, for a local newspaper back home. I also served as
a communications intern with Freedom House, an international organization
that promotes democracy. I was able to leverage my writing, technical skills,
and interest in foreign affairs to land a job at The Middle East Institute, a
non-profit think tank in D.C. I now direct the communications department,
managing the organization’s website, media relations, marketing, scholar
interviews, and A/V production. Looking back, it suddenly all makes sense.
Thanks SMP. |
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