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Since 2019, Lee Rolontz has been Global Citizen’s SVP of Broadcast and Events, responsible for securing the widest possible worldwide distribution of Global Citizen’s live major events. Global Citizen Festival, is the world's largest movement of action takers and impact makers dedicated to ending extreme poverty. This year's event secured over $2.4BILLION in commitments to end extreme poverty, and Lee has been at the center of this amazing work. Join us to experience the creation of the event directly from one of it's greatest champions!
Lee brings over two decades of network television executive producing credits to her position. Before joining Global Citizen, she was the EVP of TV Production at iHeartMedia, where she oversaw and produced all long-form content development and production.
Prior to iHeartMedia, Lee held senior management positions at Viacom’s VH1, most recently, as Executive Vice President of Original Music Production and Development. Lee began her career as a freelance music video and commercial producer.
She majored in Comparative Literature at Brown and lives with her husband Ernie and daughters Maddy and Pauline in NYC.
Howard Axel is the CEO of Four Freedoms Park Conservancy, the first memorial dedicated to Franklin D Roosevelt in NY and the most significant presidential memorial outside of D.C.
Prior to that he was SVP at Grameen America which has invested over a billion dollars to support women entrepreneurs globally. His earlier experiences include VP Strategic Partnerships at Talenthouse, and Partner at TMT Entertainment Group where he managed careers of Emmy and Golden Globe- nominated actors. He has toggled back and forth between non profit and entertainment with experiences at Life Beat - Music Fights HIV, at Gay Men's Health Crises and Rock The Vote.
Constitutional Law Professor Eric Muller, Dr. Serena H. Chen, Director Reproductive Medicine at the Institute for Reproductive Medicine and Liz Tobin-Tyler, Associate Professor Health Services at Brown's School of Public Health provided expert insight into the legal background of this monumental decision and discuss how this impacts women's reproductive rights and so much more.
Classmate Harry Holt led an important and topical interview with Dr. Jonathan E Collins, Assistant Profession of Education at Brown.
Dr. Jonathan E Collins, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Education, Political Science, and International and Public Affairs at Brown University, where he also holds research affiliations with the Annenberg Institute for School Reform and the Taubman Center for American Politics and Policy. His research examines how democratic processes can improve the educational experiences of students in low-income and minoritized communities. Jonathan has written on race, empirical approaches to democratic theory, education finance, urban school reform, urban school governance, African-American voting behavior, Millennial voting behavior, child care policy, political attitudes toward climate change, and more. His work has been published in Political Behavior, the Journal of Urban Affairs, Local Government Studies and the Harvard Journal of African American Policy. His writings have appeared in the Washington Post, and he is currently an op-ed columnist for Education Week.
Jonathan was born and raised in Jackson, TN. He holds a B.A. in English from Morehouse College and both an M.A. in African American Studies as well as a Ph.D. in Political Science from UCLA.
Harry Holt currently serves as the Vice President of Operations for BITHGROUP Technologies and has been an adjunct professor of business at Morgan State University working with the Earl G. Graves School of Business for more than twenty years. His first book entitled “You Can Get There from Here: from a Historically Black College or University to Greatness Volume One” was published in 2020 and he is currently working on Volume Two. He is also the owner of Tutor Doctor Owings-Mills which provides 1:1 in home and on-line tutoring.
Harry is currently the President of the Brown University Alumni Associated Class Leaders Board, Vice President of the Dartmouth College Alumni Club of Maryland, member of the Advisory Board for the Morgan State University Information Systems and Sciences Program and the Chair of the Strategic Planning Committee for the Irvine Nature Center. He also serves on the Brown School of Engineering Advisory Council. He holds a ScB. In Engineering from Brown, an MBA from Dartmouth College and has completed course work for his P.H.D. in Human Resources and Organizational Behavior at George Washington University.
Fascinating conversation with two experts in developing infrastructure to support women desperately in need of their efforts.
Patricia Langan is a strategic and creative leader who has built and led diverse cross-border teams to support prosperity, rights and voice for women, minorities and young people worldwide. She’s raised $20M+ to improve market access, business growth, capacity, livelihoods and access to digital solutions. These programs have helped 200,000+ rural and urban women, youth entrepreneurs and employees in Africa, Middle East, Europe, Russia, Asia, and Latin America. Patricia currently serves as Regional Director for Africa and the Middle East at WEConnect International, a global non-profit that drives money into the hands of women business owners - helping them gain market access to regional and global supply chains in more than 125 countries worldwide. It registers, certifies, and educates women’s business enterprises that are at least 51% owned, managed, and controlled by women, and then connects them with 145 member buyers from every business sector. Our vision is a world in which women have the same opportunities as men to design and implement business solutions that create wealth and the sustainable prosperity of their communities. She has 30+ years of experience promoting economic development and public sector reform at World Bank and Save the Children, among others. She began her career in project finance at National Westminster and Fuji Banks. She graduated from Harvard Kennedy School (MPP) and Brown University (BA). She has lived in Japan, Ukraine, and Ethiopia. As a volunteer she built an interfaith organization; an American non profit to help Americans better understand Muslims and Islam through media; and a global citizenship organization for high school and college students in the US.
Roland Pearson is an internationally recognized senior executive, who over 30 years has built national and international, private and public institutions that deliver sustained social and economic impact and commercial value. He is the Director leading strategy, business development and business execution of the Finance and Investment portfolio at Palladium, which he joined in November 2018 with the merger of Palladium and Enclude (formerly Shorebank International). He has raised, structured, or managed over $1 billion in debt and equity for small business, microfinance, affordable housing, infrastructure, and rural development initiatives. Integrated disciplines of expertise include clean and renewable energy, information technology and data analytics and applications, access to services for women, and business model innovation. Over a nearly two-decade period while living and working in Africa, Roland started, grew, and successfully divested from two companies. He earned a BA with Honors in International Relations from Brown University and a MA with Honors in International Finance, Business, Economics, and Law from the Fletcher School at Tufts University.
"Fermentation is an important method of food preservation that brings unique textures and flavors to many dishes. Sandor has managed to expose the ancient techniques behind the practice while providing approachable recipes for the home cook.”—Daniel Boulud, chef/restaurateur, author of Letters to a Young Chef
For the past two decades, fermentation expert and bestselling author Sandor Katz has traveled the world, both teaching and learning about the many fascinating and delicious techniques for fermenting foods. Wherever he’s gone, he has gleaned valuable insights into the cultures and traditions of local and indigenous peoples, whether they make familiar ferments like sauerkraut or less common preparations like natto and koji. In his latest book, Sandor Katz’s Fermentation Journeys, Katz takes readers along with him to revisit these special places, people, and foods.https://www.wildfermentation.com/ Order Book HERE Sandor Katz is a rock star of the food world. Since 2003 when his book Wild Fermentation was published, he has taught hundreds of workshops demystifying fermentation and empowering people to reclaim this important transformational process in their kitchens. His interest in fermentation grew out of overlapping interests in cooking, nutrition and gardening. His book, The Art of Fermentation (2012), received a James Beard award and was a finalist at the International Association of Culinary Professionals and he received the Craig Claiborne Lifetime Achievement Award from the Southern Foodways Alliance. He has presented workshops around the world Sandor is a retired policy wonk who moved from New York City in 1993 to Cannon County, Tennessee, where he is part of a vibrant extended community of queer folks (and many other friends and allies). He has been living with AIDS since the '80's and considers fermented foods an important part of his healing.
Trivia! Hats! Cocktails! "nuff said.
With so many diverse, yet interrelated experiences under his belt, it's no surprise that Jonathan Speed is a terrific educator and mentor. Hear how he has evolved from Corporate Leader to Entrepreneur to Educator (and learn a little something about VC on the side.)
Jonathan is a senior business development executive and financial strategist who has worked in the financial services, life sciences, and technology sectors. Over the last eight years, he was the CFO/COO of two SaaS, e-learning companies where he managed the administrative, business development, finance, and operations teams. Before entering the SaaS sector, Jonathan spent two-plus decades at Fortune 1000 companies (EY, Citibank, Manufacturers Hanover Trust) and several Silicon Valley start-ups (myCFO and Xaaps). In addition to his professional activities, Jonathan mentors six start-ups, advises Astia.org and the Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center, runs entrepreneurial summits for students who attend Historically Black Colleges and Universities, sits on the Episcopal Impact Fund board and is the co-chair of the San Francisco chapter of the CFO Leadership Council. He is an emeritus trustee of the Brown Corporation and a former member of the San Francisco Housing Development Corporation. He also supports the start-up community as a venture partner at Waterman Ventures, and as a membership/ marketing committee member of the Angel Capital Association (ACA).Jonathan holds a BA in Political Science from Brown University and a MA in Military History from Norwich University.
For the second Classes of the '80's Book Club, join Alice Kaltman ’80 and Host Lisa Amico Kristel ’83 as they discuss Alice’s latest novel, Dawg Towne, inspiration and motivation, craft, writing (and not writing) at Brown, and all things doggie. Toast Alice with a #LiteraryCocktail custom designed for her and Dawg Towne. Cocktail recipe will be shared with registered participants prior to the event for anyone who wants to sip. Canine friends welcome! (Okay, fine, bring cats, lizards, and other critters.)
Alice Kaltman '80 is the author of the story collection STAGGERWING, and the kidlit novels WAVEHOUSE and THE TANTALIZING TALE OF GRACE MINNAUGH. DAWG TOWNE is her most recent novel released in June 2021 from word west press. You can read her short stories in journals like Lost Balloon, The Pinch, Joyland, Hobart and BULL, and in numerous anthologies. She splits her time between Brooklyn and Montauk, NY. where she lives with her husband, sculptor Daniel Wiener, and dog Ollie.
Lisa Amico Kristel '83 is a recovering computer programmer and composition instructor. Before quarantine, she co-owned a restaurant in NYC where she ran the #YeahYouWrite Author Series. She's currently looking for a home for her novel manuscript, The Art of Conversation, and is completing a collection of dark tales. She lives in Oyster Bay, NY with her husband and a dog that isn’t really theirs.
The Jabbering Jonathans are back with a new format for the Fall - roundtable conversations, focusing on new films, available via streaming and in theaters. The Jonathans will pick a film and encourage participants to see it prior to the event. Together they will lead a discussion of the highs and lows, with lots of opportunity to participate, add insight, advance the conversation, and as always, stay connected with classmates.
Join Jonathan Ebinger and Jonathan Eig Tuesdays each month... and yes... if you're up for you it - you too can pick a film and lead a conversation!
This month the boys will discuss Passing. This film, based on the book of the same name, about two women, both living in NY in the 20’s, a century ago, though one of these two friends, passes as white. The film has garnered acclaim, has been directed by Rebecca Hall, who has her own family story to tell, and features Ruth Negga and Tessa Thompson in the leads. NPR Review by Karen Grigsby Bate HERE
Passing is in theaters and on Netflix now.
Ebinger has seen more movies than he cares to remember. He is a particular fan of hardnosed drama, ludicrous comedy, and the NYC based films of Sidney Lumet. While his degree is in history, these days he teaches journalism.
Eig was a theatre major who received a Masters in film and has taught screenwriting and film history for more than 20 years. His film blogs can be found at Curnblog.com and his first screenplay is currently in pre-production.
Glen Davis has been a leader in the energy industry for over 35 years. He is currently CEO of Sunfolding, Inc., a supplier of innovative trackers to the solar industry, as well as President of Agile Energy Advisors, LLC, which provides advice and services to companies and organizations pursuing energy and infrastructure objectives.
He served as President and CEO of Renewable Energy Systems (RES) Americas and CEO of Agile Energy, which he co-founded in 2004. The company developed utility-scale solar generation projects in North America with financial backing from Good Energies, Inc.
Glen spent his early years with AES Corp, building it into one of the leading global independent power producers. At AES, he led the development, financing, acquisition, and sale of power generating projects on four continents.
Glen has served on the Board of Directors of the American Wind Energy Assoc and the Board of Trustees of the Western Electricity Coordinating Council, is a mentor and judge for the ClimateTech & Energy Prize @ MIT, and mentor for the Techstars Sustainability Accelerator in partnership with The Nature Conservancy.
He holds an MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Sc.B. in mechanical engineering from Brown.
In the bestselling tradition of The Presidents Club and Presidential Courage, White House history as told through the stories of the best friends and closest confidants of American presidents including: Abraham Lincoln, Harry Truman, FDR, John Kennedy, Thomas Jefferson and Bill Clinton.
Gary Ginsberg grew up in Buffalo New York, home to two US presidents. A lawyer by training, he has spent his professional career at the intersection of media, politics, and law. He worked for the Clinton administration, was a senior editor and counsel at the political magazine George, and then spent the next two decades in executive positions in media and technology at News Corporation, Time Warner and SoftBank.
He has published pieces in the the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal and was an on-air political contributor in the early days of MSNBC. He lives in New York City with his wife and two sons. First Friends is his first book.
The Jabbering Jonathans are back with a new format for the Fall - roundtable conversations, focusing on new films, available via streaming and in theaters. The Jonathans will pick a film and encourage participants to see it prior to the event. Together they will lead a discussion of the highs and lows, with lots of opportunity to participate, add insight, advance the conversation, and as always, stay connected with classmates.
Join Jonathan Ebinger and Jonathan Eig Tuesdays each month... and yes... if you're up for you it - you too can pick a film and lead a conversation!
Kick off Tues, Oct 26th at 8pm ET with The Guilty Jonathan Eig calls The Guilty a psychological thriller, which stars Jake Gyllenhaal as an LAPD officer who gets sucked into a mystery while staffing a 911 hotline. This is an American remake of the 2018 Danish film which won the equivalent of the Danish Oscar for Best Picture. The Guilty is directed by Antoine Fuqua.
=>Watch the official trailer for the film, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaB_ERMAZu4 opening in theaters 9/24, and on Netflix beginning 10/1.
Ebinger has seen more movies than he cares to remember. He is a particular fan of hardnosed drama, ludicrous comedy, and the NYC based films of Sidney Lumet. While his degree is in history, these days he teaches journalism.
Eig was a theatre major who received a Masters in film and has taught screenwriting and film history for more than 20 years. His film blogs can be found at Curnblog.com and his first screenplay is currently in pre-production.
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Colorectal cancer is the 3rd most common cancer in both men and women in the US, and the 2nd most common cause of cancer deaths for men and women combined. Fortunately, the rate of diagnosis each year has dropped overall since the mid-1980s, because of screening and changing lifestyle-related risk factors. Join classmate Gastroenterologist in a talk about colon cancer screening options, and how to reduce your risk of colon cancer Moderated by Dr. Frannie Kronenberg.
Dr. Tom Sepe received his AB in Biology and graduated first in his class from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in '88. He completed his residency in Internal Medicine at Harvard Medical school-Beth Israel Hospital and a fellowship in Gastroenterology and liver disease at Tufts University-New England Medical Center. He is actively engaged in teaching at Brown's Alpert Medical School, where he has recently been promoted to Clinical Professor of Medicine.Thomas E. Sepe MD is a partner at University Gastroenterology, a large single specialty private practice in Island. He has served four terms as President and managing partner, serving on the Board of Directors since joining University Gastroenterology in 1998 and as Chairman from 2003-2012. He is also the Director of the Liver Center at University Gastroenterology, overseeing a robust clinical trials unit in liver disease. His Unit has conducted over 70 Research Trials in Hepatitis C infection. He is recognized as a local and regional authority in liver disease and a national expert in the care and therapy of Hepatitis C infection. His clinical trials unit is now focused on disease specific drug therapy of NASH (non-alcoholic steatohepatitis) and cirrhosis. He is also the former Medical Director of University Endoscopy Group, one of the largest independent consortia of outpatient ambulatory endoscopy centers in the Northeast doing over 34,000 cases per year. In 2019, Dr. Sepe was appointed Medical Director of Nexus Clinical Trials, a regional clinical trials network.
6 HORROR/THRILLER SHORT FILMS FROM BROWN ALUMNI FILMMAKERS
Thrills and chills at the Brown Media Group Fright Fest will be kicked up a notch with the guest appearance of two actors from the cult classic horror film, The Lost Boys: Billy Wirth '84, who played the vampire Dwayne, and the vampire-hunting Frog brother Jamison Newlander!
Join us as we celebrate Brown alumni filmmakers with six Brown alumni short films from the horror and thriller genres.
Billy Wirth '84 has a permanent place in pop culture, portraying Dwayne, the “death by stereo” vampire in the iconic 80s film The Lost Boys. Other famous roles include: Boys on the Side, Body Snatchers, and War Party. His television roles include appearances on shows such as: Tales from the Crypt, Sex and the City, CSI, Chicago PD, Scorpion and recently Godfather of Harlem (with Forest Whitaker). As a director, he’s best known for his critically acclaimed feature film, MacArthur Park (Sundance Competition), as well as his directorial debut with the short film, “Kismet”, written and produced by Sheri Sussman – starring actors such as: Stephanie Niznik, Garry Marshall, and Mariette Hartley.
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Jim Lewis was raised in New York and London. He has taught philosophy and literature at Columbia University, and has written about both politics and the arts for many magazines, journals, and museum catalogs. Jim Lewis lives in Austin and is the author of three novels, which have been translated into many languages: Sister, Why the Tree Loves the Ax, and The King Is Dead. He has also written criticism, reportage, and essays for the New York Times, Slate, Rolling Stone, Granta and others. He has written a screenplay, based on a short story of his own, for Francis Ford Coppola's Zoetrope Studios. and he collaborated with Larry Clark on the story for the movie Kids.
He has been described as “a rare talent” by the New York Times and “a powerful literary voice” by Jeffrey Eugenides.
Offenses targeting Asian Americans are sadly a near-daily feature of our news cycle. Join classmate Eric Muller and "honorary" classmate Mark Koide (technically '85, but he knew everyone!) for a conversation about the internment of Japanese Americans in World War II - Mark's personal family history and Eric's area of professional expertise.
Eric Muller: Eric is a professor at the University of North Carolina School of Law in Chapel Hill, NC. He attended Yale Law School and practiced law for seven years, four of them as an Assistant US Attorney in Newark, NJ. He entered academia in 1994 as an Assistant Professor at the University of Wyoming College of Law where he began to learn about the wartime removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans, which soon became the focus of his research and writing over the following two-plus decades. His first book, Free to Die for their Country: The Story of the Japanese American Draft Resisters in World War II (U. of Chicago Press 2001) was named a top nonfiction title for 2001 by the Washington Post, and his most recent book, Colors of Confinement: Rare Kodachrome Photographs of Japanese American Incarceration in World War II (UNC Press 2012) won a prize from the Western History Association.
Mark Koide: Mark is the CEO of the Anthony & Sylvan Pool Corp, the nation's largest inground pool builder. He attended the Kellogg Graduate School of Management with several '84 classmates and after graduation he pursued a career in the health & wellness side of the food industry and then the broader health and wellness industry. He has held multiple executive positions in companies ranging from Fortune 500 companies to startups.
Mark is the son of Dr. Sumi Mitsudo Koide & Dr. Samuel S. Koide, the grandson of Hideko & Sukeichi Koide of Puyallup, WA and Asa & Sotaro Koide of Honolulu HI. His mother and her family were interned in the Minidoka Relocation Center for nearly three years during World War II and his paternal grandfather was incarcerated for three years in Honolulu. His father served at the end of World War II in the Military Intelligence branch of the US Army. Because of the impact of the war and the post war anti Japanese sentiment, he was raised with a strong identity and parents who were leaders in the Japanese American community and redress movement. His mother was the long time president of the Japanese American Citizen's League of New York.
We have lived through the collective trauma of the Covid-19 pandemic. What makes this a trauma? What defines resiliency? And how do we begin the recovery process? Dr. Michael Roy has extensive knowledge and experience with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder from working with soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, individuals involved in shooting incidents, and other traumatic events. Join us as we start making sense of what we have experienced, and finding our way forward.
→ Part of the Healthy Living Series - Moderated by Dr. Frannie Kronenberg.←
Dr. Roy is Professor of Medicine, Dir of the Division of Military Internal Medicine, and Deputy Dir of both the Traumatic Brain Injury Research Ctr and the Ctr for Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine, at Uniformed Services University. He is a graduate of the Brown School of Medicine, and has a Master’s in Public Health from Uniformed Services University.He completed an internal medicine residency and a general medicine fellowship at Walter Reed Army Medical Ctr, and retired as a Colonel after serving in the Army for 24 yrs. He is a 2-term past president of the Society for Brain Mapping and Therapeutics and a Fellow of the American College of Physicians.
Dr. Roy authored the books Physician’s Guide to Terrorist Attack and Novel Approaches to the Diagnosis and Treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. He has received more than $20M in competitive grants to improve the care of service members with PTSD. Dr. Roy is the recipient of the ACP Army chapter’s Colonel William Crosby Superiority in Research Award, SBMT’s Golden Axon Award for Career Service to the medical community, and the Cybertherapy, Cyberpsychology, and Social Networking Conference’s Cybertherapy Lifetime Achievement Award.
The situation in Myanmar continues to deteriorate. The military seized control on February 1 and has declared a year-long state of emergency. Since then, mass protests have been taking place across the country.
Elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi and members of her National League for Democracy (NLD) party were among those detained and hundreds of people, including children, were killed.
Join us as John Groch, former Public Affairs Counselor at the US Embassy in Myanmar, will help us better understand the unrest.
→John Groch joined the State Department in 2004, after 13 years as a professor of Film and Media Studies.From '16-'19 he was the Public Affairs Counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Myanmar, where he worked closely on a range of issues that garnered international attention, including the Rohingya crisis, journalist arrests, and the spread of disinformation and hate speech on the country’s social media platforms.
Prior to his time in Myanmar, he served overseas in Afghanistan, Singapore, and the Philippines, and in DC at the State Department and on Capitol Hill (as a Foreign Affairs Fellow in the office of Rep. Adam Schiff). He will return to the Philippines in August as Public Affairs Counselor at the U.S. Embassy there.
Throughout the past year, several of our classmates have led themed-series sharing their expertise and knowledge:
Trivia: Game Master Joan Winter Skerritt has engaged us with a variety of themes ranging from Brown lore to music, film/TV and history. If you haven't challenged your memory and knowledge definitely look out for our next Trivia night!
Cocktails: Our class mixologist Pamela Arya has lead series of seasonal themed Cocktail Nights. In July, Pam focused on Bourbon teaching us the Bourbon Figgy Fizz, the Brown Derby and the Brooklyn! In October, Apples made an appearance in the fabulous and fruity drinks.
Film: Our Jabbering Jonathans (Jonathan Eig and Jonathan Ebinger) kept us entertained with almost weekly chats about movies, Providence, the 80’s, Semiotics and other cinematic subjects.
Cooking: Cookbook author Leah Eskin has led live cooking instruction for her sinful brownies and yummy Chocolate Custard. The recipe is HERE along with the brownie recipe!
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Check out our Resources Page of this website for many of the drink and cooking recipes.
Always wanted to learn more about Non-Profits & Foundations....?? These folks know their stuff! Join us as Derek Rapp, Paula Murray McNamara & Jim Kallman share their extraordinary experiences.
DEREK Rapp is currently a Managing Director at RiverVest Venture Partners, a life sciences venture capital firm. Previously, Derek served as President & CEO of JDRF, the world’s largest non-government funder of diabetes research and a leading advocacy group for the type 1 diabetes community. Derek has served on many boards in a variety of areas – patient advocacy, research and science advocacy, general philanthropic support, civic economic growth, and private education. He currently serves on the Board of Directors and Executive Committee for Research!America and the Global Mission Board for JDRF.
Derek lives in St. Louis with his wife, Emily, three adult children and he recently became a Grandfather!
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PAULA McNamara is president of the Murray Family Charitable Foundation. Previously, she worked for 21+ yrs at Fidelity Investments. At Fidelity, McNamara held a variety of positions ultimately becoming a Senior Director of the company’s division overseeing Web and system installations. In 2011, Gov. Lincoln Chafee appointed her to the Rhode Island State Investment Commission.
At Brown Paula has held many important positions. She was a member of the Board of Trustees '14-'19, the Co-Chair of the Brown Annual Fund '16-'19 and currently serves on the Facilities and Campus Planning Committee. Paula has been a member of the Sports Foundation since '95 and recently stepped down as the first female President of its Board. Paula is a trustee at Providence Country Day School and was a Board Member at the Lincoln School '02-'19, and its Chair '10-'14.
Paula lives with her husband Kevin in Rumford, R.I. They are the parents of Maggie (Harvard '17) and Joe (Brown '20).
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Jim Kallman serves as Chairman of City Harvest, Inc. (cityharvest.org), New York City’s oldest and largest food rescue program, and has led its board since '05. In '21, City Harvest will have revenues of over $200M and will rescue and deliver
≈140M lbs. of food to feed New Yorkers.
Jim also serves on the Board of Feeding America (feedingamerica.org), the nation's leading domestic hunger-relief charity and one of the largest non-profits in the U.S. He is a non-family Trustee of the Thompson Family Foundation, a $500M foundation focused on the arts/culture, medical research and historic preservation. He has also served as Vice Chairman of the Board of the Rippowam Cisqua School, in Bedford, NY.
At Brown he served as the Treasurer and a Trustee of the Brown Alumni Association, a member of The Brown Annual Fund Leadership and on the President’s Leadership Councils.
Jim is currently a private investor, formerly a partner of a private equity firm and lives in Bedford Corners, NY with his wife and their 17 yr old son.
If you’re tired of waiting for the Friends reunion, join us on Thursday April 22nd for a special Oscars edition of the Jabbering Jonathans. They will break down the year in movies and run through their much awaited award choices. And you will have the opportunity to listen, comment, and go off on the movies you loved or hated in 2020.
The hosts, of course were Jonathan Ebinger & Jonathan Eig
As a reminder: Ebinger has seen more movies than he cares to remember. He is a particular fan of hard nosed drama, ludicrous comedy, and the NYC based films of Sidney Lumet. While his degree is in history, these days he teaches journalism.
Eig was a theatre major who received a Masters in film and has taught screenwriting and film history for more than 20 years. His film blogs can be found at Curnblog.com, and his first screenplay is currently in pre-production. It will come out one day if we're ever allowed to leave our homes again.
Prostate cancer has become a chronic disease. Join Dr. Nat Barnes and learn about the advances in treatment that have transformed the management of this disease for men of our generation.
Dr. Nathaniel Barnes, MD, earned his medical degree from Harvard University. He completed both his internship in general surgery and residency in urologic surgery at Duke University Medical Center, where he served as chief resident and won the Jack McGovern Award for Excellence in Urologic Surgery.
Board certified in urology,
Dr. Barnes is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons (FACS). He treats patients 18 years and older for general urologic concerns or issues. His clinical interests include treating stone diseases, male infertility and voiding dysfunction, as well as female urology.
He has published and presented numerous articles and abstracts to urological associations and holds active memberships in both national and local medical associations, such as the American Urological Association; the Society of Urodynamics, Female Pelvic Medicine and Urogenital Reconstruction; the South Central Section of the AUA; and the Texas Medical Association.
In his spare time, Dr. Barnes enjoys photography, traveling, cooking and attending the opera and theater.
The Covid-19 pandemic exposed significant racial disparities in health and health care in the United States requiring important discussions about unconscious bias and systemic racism in medical practice and in the US health care system.
Hosted by Dr. Andrea Reid - Assoc Dean for Student and Multicultural Affairs in the Program in Medical Education, and Director of the Office of Recruitment and Multicultural Affairs (ORMA) at Harvard University.
Andrea E. Reid, MD ’88, MPH ’01, is also a faculty member of the Department of Medicine and the Gastrointestinal Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), and serves as Director of Diversity and Faculty Development for Gastroenterology.
She earned her MD and MPH from Harvard and has held leadership positions as gastroenterologist and hepatologist at the Washington, DC VA Medical Ctr, chairing the GI Training Examination (GTE) for the American Gastroenterological Assoc (AGA) and membership in the Manpower and Training, Public Policy and Advocacy, and Nominating Committees of the AGA; and chairing the AGA Task Force on Under-represented Minorities.
She served on the Education and Clinical Research Committees of the American Association for the Study of Liver Disease (AASLD), and was a member of the American Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) Internal Medicine Residency Review Committee (RRC). She was also a member of the National Committee on Foreign Medical Education and Accreditation.
We mixed cocktails and heard some fabulous stories about music and the business of running a radio station.
=>Maggie Dugan joined WBRU almost the moment she arrived on campus, as Public Affairs Director and News Director. (Christiane Amanpour was on her staff!) She did a 2 week run as morning show newsie/sidekick with Stephen but couldn’t hack the early alarm. In 1992, with Patti, Stephen and other BRU alums, she supported a student mutiny when the Board tried to strong-arm them into dropping the rock format to become an NPR affiliate. She even served as WBRU Board President for a year.
She now leads Inclusive Innovation - facilitating innovation/collaboration workshops for scientists and development agencies. Since '92 she has lived in Paris and Barcelona since '13. Favorite Cocktail: Moscow Mule.
=>Stephen Hill - The door to the narrow brick building at 88 Benevolent St was the entrance to the freaking fantastic wild career/life that has been Music Director for the mouthful-of-a-moniker, The 360 Degree Black Experience In Sound, on-air host and co-creator of the it-existed-until-the-station-itself-didn’t-anymore seminal Sunday evening show, The Gentle Touch (highest rated show in the station’s history) and co-host (with Maggie…then Patti) of the WBRU Alternative Rock formatted weekday morning show.
Stephen joined WBRU when at the “mixer”, he was told he could get free records and concert tickets. WBRU led to WILD-AM (Boston) (and to Board Member of WBRU) which led to The Tom Joyner Morning Show. Patti then saved his career and brought him to MTV which led to 18 years at BET…which has led to some cool project work and semi-retirement. So there. Favorite Cocktail: Flavored Vodka Straight
=>Patti Galluzzi - Program Director of WBRU from June '83 - June '84. (An Honorary Class of '84 since that was the year she "graduated" from WBRU.) Prior to that she was a Production Director and a Disc Jockey. Highlights of that year include a day on College Hill with James Brown, hosting Elvis Costello at WBRU studios, sharing an apartment with Maggie Dugan, and doing the morning show with Stephen Hill.
After WBRU, Patti was hired to run the Music Dept. at MTV, which she did for almost 11 years and was lucky enough to hire Stephen Hill. She is currently Marketing Chair and former Co-President of the Brown Club in NY, where she recently produced an exciting, highly-attended event with Andrew Yang and Alex Wagner. Favorite Cocktail: "Whatever she's drinking"
Heart disease remains the leading cause of death in the US. Rhonda shared with us what we can do now to prevent cardiovascular disease (e.g. high blood pressure, heart attacks, strokes, Afib) in the years ahead.
Rhonda received her medical degree from Rush Medical College. She practices at the John H. Sengstacke Clinic of Provident Hospital in Chicago as an Attending Physician in Family and Community Medicine. This clinic is part of the Cook County Health System of Illinois and is a Federally Qualified Health Center, serving communities of people living primarily below the poverty line.
She has a special interest in Women's Health and Medical Assisted Treatment of Opioid and Alcohol Dependence and cares for people of all ages, races, genders sexual orientations and socioeconomic statuses.
1974... 6th grade. I ride my bike everywhere. I love the freedom. 2021... A pandemic is raging but I need to workout. Where is that banana seat bike?
This year, bikes have been in short supply behind toilet paper and paper towels, so many dusted off old bikes and started riding. And it's naturally socially distanced. But as an adult, how do I start riding again? What do I need?
Classmates who never gave up their bikes shared how they burn calories, raise money and quench their competitive nature. Moderated by Jeff Anderson
=>Marc Foster<= has been avidly cycling for 54 out of his 58 years. He rode with Brown Cycling Club while in Providence, but these days he mostly does street and road riding, with a little gravel mixed in, from his base in the Boston area.
=>Lori Lieberman<= started distance cycling when she was diagnosed with MS 18 yrs ago, riding in a 150 mile, 2 day event, Bike MS: Cape Cod Getaway (CCG); and has done it every year since. She spent her honeymoon riding in the Dordogne region of France, but when she started she had never (never) done any distance cycling and didn’t know how to get her feet into the cages. True story. Still married. Still loves bike vacations!
=>Jeff Anderson<= rides for fitness, errands, and in competition. He got involved in local bicycle advocacy in 2009 when he tried to ride with his oldest child to school and discovered there was no bike rack to lock their bikes. This prompted his work to change the Fairfax, VA Public Schools’ attitude towards children bicycling to school. Jeff is the past President of Fairfax Alliance for Better Bicycling and is a 2x Bronze Medalist at US Nationals racing tandems. He remembers every bike he's owned.
=>Bill Nighan<= began road cycling in earnest at Brown, when he started building wheels and gluing tubular tires in his dorm. This would become a somewhat socially acceptable addiction. He still loves all forms of cycling and the associated tinkering. He loves the feel of fast tires on all kinds of surfaces, the speed, the flow, the scenery, the comradery, the great food and coffee, and all the beautiful bits and parts all over the world.
And... holds the US National Record in Flying 250 meters on the track for Men 55-59, and was National Champion in Team Sprint, Men's 55+, as Man 1 of the 3 man team West Coast Boyz in 2018.
=>Cameron Sears<= is an avid enthusiast. He has competed in triathlons for 30+ years, adventure races for 10 years and has done many multi-day solo bike tours around the country.
Danny discussed how we can we optimize our health care and health outcomes by being engaged patients, and how patient portals and telemedicine will play a role in the future of our health care experiences.
Dr. Danny Sands is Co-Founder and Chief Advocacy Officer, Society for Participatory Medicine; and Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
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He is passionate about healthcare transformation. A practicing physician with training and experience in clinical informatics, Dr. Sands has worked in a the health care IT industry since 2004. He spent almost 14 years at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, where he developed and implemented innovative systems to improve clinical care delivery and patient engagement, including clinical decision support systems, an electronic health record, and one of the nation’s first patient portals.
Dr. Sands is the recipient of numerous honors, including recognition in 2009 by HealthLeaders Magazine as one of “20 People Who Make Healthcare Better.” He is the co-author, with e-Patient Dave deBronkart, of Let Patients Help.
He holds an academic appointment at Harvard Medical School and for twenty years has maintained a primary care practice in which he makes extensive use of health IT—much of which he helped to introduce during his tenure at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
In 2009 he was recognized by HealthLeaders Magazine as one of “20 People Who Make Healthcare Better.”
OK... no one wants to talk about it, but our brains do not quite function the same way they did when we were at Brown.
Join the first of our Healthy Living Series - kicking off with Dr. Jon Richman, Neurologist, to discuss brain health and memory— to talk about normal memory function in one’s late 50’s and how we can maintain our cognitive fitness as we get older.
Jon earned a Bio-Engineering degree at Brown and his Medical degree from the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. He did his Neurology training at the University of Virginia Health Sciences Center and completed a year of fellowship training in Electromyography Neuromuscular disease at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Moderated by Dr. Frannie R Kronenberg an internist at Mass General - who has been practicing Primary Care for the past 27 years and received Top Doctor designation in Boston Magazine again in 2020!
Explore this classic family history with the niece of Alex Haley! And listen to her recorded talk posted below.
Since 2001 Anne has been the Managing Assistant City Attorney for the City of Los Angeles, Anne oversees the selection, retention and maintenance of the law firms that partner with the City. She recently joined the Office’s Dispute Resolution Program and also serves on the Office’s Equity Panel and as part of its Criminal Justice Reform Working Group. Anne began her career as a litigator and joined Johnnie L. Cochran's law firm’s entertainment division.
Anne is active with the California Minority Counsel Program, is a member of the LA County Bar Assoc., Black Women Lawyers and the Langston Bar Assoc and is working on her first book – a memoir to continue the family story!
Anne graduated cum laude from Brown majoring in Cognitive Science, and from Stanford Law School where she was a writer and editor for The Stanford Law Review.
The Iditarod and dog mushing are not topics familiar to most of us... and yet they are fascinating. Alex and Rob bring two diverse perspectives on this unusual sport.
Alex Stein: screenwriter, documentary filmmaker, multiple Moth-winning storyteller, and author of Tales from the Trails. 21 short stories take you inside the minds of dogs and mushers.In '10 & '11, Alex traveled the Iditarod Trail filming traditions and activities of the race and directed the award-winning documentary MUSH (Anchorage Film Festival, PBS). Since 2012, he has cohosted DogWorks Radio’s popular “Mushing Radio” show. He is also a regular on the live-story telling "circuit" in LA. Here's a mushing story from The Moth. While at Brown, Alex had a double-concentration in Econ and Philosophy of Religion. He’s been known to argue that the two fields are secretly the same thing.
Rob Urbach: CEO the Iditarod - The Last Great Race on Earth Rob joined the Iditarod last June as CEO and has immediately addressed the challenges of making the event safe for athletes, dogs and volunteers by rerouting it to avoid the City of Nome. This is only the 4th time the route has been changed in the history of the race. Prior to this, Rob was the CEO of USA Triathlon where he was named Inside Triathlon magazine’s most influential person.
Urbach holds an MBA from the Wharton School of Business and is a graduate of Centre College in Danville, Kentucky. He has completed 80 triathlons, including the Ironman World Championships in Hawaii. Customers have questions, you have answers. Display the most frequently asked questions, so everybody benefits.
Fabulous discussion about career transitions - taking on a bigger role or not sure what comes next. These experts (and classmates!) share insights and resources for a conversation about what to do NOW!? Marcy Porus-Gottlieb is an Executive Coach, brand strategist, facilitator, speaker, and teacher (and avid student) of leadership. She helps senior leaders and their teams clear the path to creating big futures, happy and productive organizations and results that matter. Marcy earned her MBA, from UC Berkeley and holds numerous coaching credentials. She and all of these experts are alums of Third floor Bronson, and while are our recent reunion was tickled to see her senior year holiday photo card still on the wall at Louie’s Diner! marcypgconsulting.com Laurie Sherman is also an Executive Coach and consultant. She has led and managed organizations and initiatives in the nonprofit and public sector for over 30 years, including a lengthy stint as senior advisor (in the arenas of health, education, and human services) to Boston's longest-serving mayor. This year she published her first book ( Chasing Social Justice: How Do We Advance the Work that Matters Most?) and launched her coaching practice. LaurieSherman.com Tara Noonan Amaral has led recruitment, diversity and strategic talent acquisition for Marsh & McLennan, Fidelity Investments, NY Life, ADP and Hewitt, (Aon). She has 20+ years of experience developing, implementing and operating CORPORATE and RPO Talent Acquisition and recruiting functions. She is now focusing on the Future of Work(ers), Diversity & Inclusions solutions, and cross cultural and multi-generational talent strategies, partnering with #AmazingCommunity and Essteem.com. Tara is a new resident to Charleston, SC.
Dr. Terrence Brown is a writer, researcher, consultant, entrepreneur and lecturer on creating value. He is the former Dean of the Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship and an Associate Professor in Entrepreneurship and Innovation and Head of the Industrial Marketing and Entrepreneurship Division at the Royal Institute of Technology. While at Brown Terrence was the Treasurer of the great class of '84 AND President of the Brown Republicans club!!! He has been a life long Republican, but... who can say where he'll go from here? He holds an MBA in Entrepreneurial Mgt from Wharton, an MBA in Organizational Mgt and a Doctorate in Entrepreneurship and Corporate Strategy from Rutgers. He also earned a second Ph.D. in Marketing from Sweden's northernmost university, Luleå Technical University in Luleå. He has lived in Stockholm for the past 25 years, so is sure to bring an outside/inside perspective.
John Gannon is a Massachusetts-based Municipal Lawyer and an elected Town Councilor At-Large for Watertown, MA. At Brown, he served as councilor on the University Council of Students, Brown's student governing board.
From June '20 until Election day, he served as regional lead counsel for the Florida Democratic Party's voter protection team, with an amazing team of lawyers from all over the country to assure that all eligible Floridians were able to cast their ballots. John has a specialty in election law, having represented municipalities, Democratic candidates at all levels and state ballot campaigns, including election recounts. He has served as an attorney in four close presidential campaigns in FL, including the 2000 recount. With over 11M votes cast, this was the largest election in state history.
(See recording below)
Former CMO of Facebook and current Chairman of Hawkfish – the Digital machine behind Bloomberg’s presidential campaign https://www.hawkfish.us/Gary graduated with a major in Am Civ and earned an MBA from the Kellogg School of Mgt at Northwestern. He then went on to senior marketing roles at some of the greatest brands of our generation, Pepsi, IBM, eBay, Paypal, Google and Facebook.
At Hawkfish, he has been intimately involved with the 2020 campaign focusing on social media efforts to engage Americans and encourage them to vote in this election. Gary shared some fascinating stories and gave us the opportunity to ask those important questions.
(See recording below)
Remember how good Leah's brownies were??? Let's do it again! This time we'll make her yummy Chocolate Custard.
The recipe is HERE along with the brownie recipe! (On the resources page of this website!)
The recording is below if you want to cook along with us! You won't be disappointed!
Don’t miss the updated 2021 version of our class trivia game! GameMaster Joan Winter Skerritt will be tweaking the scoring system and adding new categories of questions (Music! Movies! Fashion!).
Wear your favorite hat and join the 80’s nostalgia!
80's music is the best! And Game Master Joan Winter Skerritt will give us this new "spin" on our favorite event. Test your music knowledge and soak up some holiday cheer!
Holiday decorations, outfits and the use of tinsel is highly encouraged!
Recipes for holiday mocktails and cocktails will be shared, but bring whatever puts you in the spirit.
And definitely invite your friends!
Our classic trivia night with lots of holiday cheer. Game Master Joan Skerritt will be hosting.
Ugly sweaters and ugly hats expected and recipes for specialty frosty holiday mocktails and cocktails will be shared. Bring your favorite drinks. Invite your friends.
In July, Pamela Arya came back for another Friday NIght "Mixer" focused on Bourbon teaching us the Bourbon Figgy Fizz, the Brown Derby and the Brooklyn!
In October, Apples made an appearance in the fabulous and fruity drinks from Pamela Arya - resident Mix Master, Foodie and (mushroom forager).
Our Jabbering Jonathans (Jonathan Eig and Jonathan Ebinger) kept us entertained with almost weekly chats about movies, Providence, the 80’s, Semiotics and other cinematic subjects.
See recordings of selected sessions below.
Lori Lieberman, a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist has help countless people with all versions of eating disorders. And surprisingly, she is a strong advocate for carbs, loves sourdough bread and is known for her wonderful recipes (see links below). Why have carbs become a "bad" food? How should we be incorporating carbs in our diet? Lori shared some of the background in the carbs story, shared some advice and of course, answered our questions.