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During the COVID-19 quarantine, Kristen Eignor DiCerbo ’95 foresaw the impact of technology in education. “There was a huge increase in usage as teachers and learners looked for online tools,” says DiCerbo, chief learning officer for the Khan Academy.
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Retirement is a relative term for attorney Don Shonn ’67. He spent 25 years in private practice, including work in Surrogate’s Court with a focus on estate and elder law. He also served as village attorney and trustee for his hometown of Akron in western New York, and before that worked for 20 years at an environmental law firm.
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Swinging 20-plus feet above the ground, would you rather fly or catch? Trust your partner to catch you or prefer to catch your partner?
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Richard Burns '77, a lifelong activist, is the founding board chair for the new American LGBTQ+ Museum scheduled to open in 2024 in New York City.
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At Hamilton, Tenes Paul ’13 loved philosophy — and the prospect of becoming a physician. Taking premed courses and majoring in philosophy, he was prepared for either path. The hard part was picking a favorite, and he wrestled with that dilemma in a paper he wrote for a philosophy seminar.
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Her love of public speaking goes back to her college days, when she was required to take a course in the subject. Now Cari Craden ’87 P’21 is a public speaking and pitch coach — in two languages.
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For more than 20 years, Jeff McMahon ’97 has been part of an entrepreneurial trio that successfully launches start-ups, swapping an occasional Hamilton story en route. His classmates Nick Laidlaw and Robert Naughton round out the partnership.
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Her standard joke is that she could wire your house, but you wouldn’t want her to. Besides, that might be a waste of her creativity. Lois Bryan ’04 is a master electrician in theatre and dance at California State University, Fullerton.
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As an early-career geomorphologist who studies glaciers, polar climate, and climate change, Drew Christ ’11 wasn’t expecting to be in the spotlight. Then he began to research core sediment samples taken in the 1960s from beneath Greenland’s ice sheet.
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She came in for a bit of friendly ribbing from co-workers when Business Insider named her one of “2021’s rising stars of the electric vehicle industry,” but that was OK. “It was really exciting, despite the teasing,” said Claudia Morse ’19.
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