RE Log Fall 2016

44 Ransom Everglades LOG FALL 2016 Gulliver Preparatory and Florida Christian schools. She performed in Broadway and off-Broadway productions and appeared in a number of movies and television shows as a featured dancer or vocalist. She received her BFA in musical theatre at the Boston Conservatory of Music. Bruce Robbins arrives to Ransom Everglades as an experienced AP social sciences teacher and boys’ varsity basketball coach. Mr. Robbins coached boys’ varsity basketball at high schools in California and Indiana and spent one season as a men’s assistant at St. Francis University in Fort Wayne, Ind. He won 10 league or conference championships over two decades and compiled more than 300 victories. Last year, Mr. Robbins taught social sciences/ human rights at the Wildwood School in Los Angeles; in the decade prior, he served as social sciences department chair at San Dimas High. He also taught and coached basketball and cross country at Canterbury High in Fort Wayne and Burris Laboratory School in Muncie, Ind. Mr. Robbins received his BS in social studies at Ball State University in Muncie. Virgilio Alfredo Sklar ’98 assumes a full-time post at Ransom Everglades after a year as a private tutor and substitute teacher at RE. A former attorney advisor at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in San Francisco, Sklar served as com- munity law and policy fellow at the Center for Collaborative Change in Newark, N.J. He worked as a law clerk at the Environmental Law Institute in Washington, D.C., a legal intern at the National Wildlife Federation in Ann Arbor, Mich., and an instructor at The Princeton Review. At the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, he co- founded the Diversity in Medicine lecture series, assembling the inaugural lecture on health disparities in the treatment of LGBT patients. Sklar received his BA at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, and his JD in 2011 at the University of Michigan, where he also received a mas- ter’s in urban planning. William Tran arrives to Ransom Everglades with experience as a college counselor, assistant director of ad- missions and English teacher. He served as an educational consultant Collegewise in Irvine, Calif.; assistant director of admis- sion at Connecticut College; an admissions reader at Pomona College in Claremont, Calif.; and English teacher at Los Angeles- area charter schools. He most recently worked as a strategy consultant for Due West Education in Beijing, China. Mr. Tran received his BA in media studies/ critical studies from Pomona College. Lindsey Scott Wagner brings extensive experience working in St. Louis University’s office of admission to Ransom Everglades. Wagner served as the school’s East coast program coordinator, managing a recruitment ter- ritory that consisted of the entire Eastern seaboard while conducting more than 50 admissions interviews in the fall of 2015. While reaching 100 percent of his admissions goal and reviewing more than 600 applications, he also worked as vice chair for the New England Area Regional Representatives group and executed the Jesuit Excellence Tour to 16 high schools in Florida. He also served for three years as admission counselor, managing an eight-state territory and providing coun- seling to applications in areas of admis- sion, financial aid and housing. SENIOR LEADERSHIP TEAM Marty Taft Elkins, Director of College Counseling, brings experience from six independent schools over three decades. Mrs. Elkins has served as director of college counseling, head of school, teacher and coach. She was director of college counseling at Shadyside Academy (2013-16); New Hampton School (2009-12); Groton School (2001- 09) and Holderness School (1998-01). She was among the first classes of girls at Phillips Exeter Academy, where her parents taught; she matriculated to Williams College, receiving her BA in American Studies. She received her MAT in secondary education at the University of New Hampshire and earned a CAS in Administration, Planning and Social Policy at Harvard University. Greg Pollard , Director of Advancement, brings a wealth of experience from the world of independent schools, a major public research university and the private sector. Mr. Pollard has worked as the regional director of major gifts at Phillips Exeter Academy; director of major gifts at the University of Virginia; as- sistant vice president at Wilmington Trust Company; and, most recently, director of advancement at Kimball Union Academy in New Hampshire. At Kimball Union, he coordinated campaign initiatives, the annual fund and special funding projects, helping raise between $2-14 million an- nually. Mr. Pollard earned his BS at the University of Delaware. Raymond Stewart , Chief Technology Officer, helped trans- form information technology systems at The Park School in Massachusetts, where he served as director of informa- tion technology, and The Potomac School in Virginia, where he was director of academic technology infrastructure. He also brings extensive experience in the private sector. He has coached basketball and assisted with student government, and worked as an adjunct professor at Catholic University in Washington, D.C. Mr. Stewart received his BA in sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, and his MA at San Francisco State University; he is pursuing an EdD at Columbia University. New Talent