RE Log Spring 2018

60 Ransom Everglades LOG SPRING 2018 Class Notes Jeanine Mason was cast as one of the interns in Season 14 of ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy and made her debut Nov. 2. Jeanine, who starred as Merav in ABC’s Of Kings and Prophets last year, plays Sam and was among six new interns at Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital. While a senior at Ransom Everglades, Jeanine became the youngest winner of S o You Think You Can Dance , and she has landed many roles in movies and television since. Francisco Triana , see In Loving Memory page 63. 2010 Tina Miller shared an exciting update with faculty member Jose Rodriquez, who passed it on to Class Notes: “My older brother, Bobby Miller ’04 , and I both took and adored your AP Art History class. Fast forward seven years and I’m now doing art in New York City, mainly writing and performing music – com- posed and collaborated with artist Janani Balasubramanian (aka DarkMatter poetry) for a piece commissioned by The Highline Park a few months ago, on a particle-physics based immersive reality piece. A few weeks ago, I played a tiny show, opening for friends, in a dingy bar, and after playing, a woman approached me – she was the curator for the Brooklyn Museum, and she was interested in having my project play for their gala, which was going to be a revival of The Dinner Party , and Judy Chicago was going to be the guest of honor speaking. That is tonight, I’m playing in five hours. I’m so deeply grateful for your class and when the curator mentioned Judy Chicago and the piece, I immediately was brought back to staring at the projector screen in the dark classroom years ago, and later bubbling in an answer on the AP exam, and the significance of her work in feminist art. It’s pretty surreal for that static piece to now be brought, not only to life, but into my life, and I wanted to send you a quick note in thanks. Hope you are in good health and doing well, especially in this climate. I envy all your students and still think your class was one of the best, most thorough educations in art that I’ve received.” Michelle Nahmad won first place in the student filmmaker category for her short film “Shohet” in the AT&T Entertainment Project, an open competition seeking imaginative, undiscovered short films from aspiring filmmakers. She received her BFA in Communication Design and Art History at Washington University in St. Louis and her MFA in Visual Narrative at School of Visual Arts. The recognition came with a $10,000 prize. See an inter- view with Nahmad here. https://shape. att.com/ ; https://shape.att.com/enter- tainment-project; https://www.youtube . com/watch?v=XVxtsLO_LlA 2011 Victoria Sanchez writes, “I have been working for Accenture for a little over a year now. I am a senior technol- ogy consulting analyst who travels every week (Monday through Friday) to my client. I work in Financial Services, more specifically Commercial Lending System Implementations. I stud- ied Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Florida in a five-year program and I love the consulting life! Would love to share my experience with Ransom Everglades students or give any advice to them for their future. I live in Atlanta now, but I’m planning on moving back sometime in July 2018.” Gianfranco Scipioni , see In Loving Memory, page 63. Matt Susskind writes, “I just moved to LA for screen- writing, working independently and looking for jobs writing for TV. I was previously at Google in San Francisco, but decided it was time to try something new.” 2012 Eddie Bustamante is a Financial Analyst at MSP Group, LLC. Alejandro Warman , see In Loving Memory, page 64. 2013 Briana (Bri) Christophers was named a 2017 Spirit of Princeton Award winner last spring. Then a senior majoring in molecular biology, she was among eight winners selected from among more than 80 nominees. The award recognizes those who have demonstrated a strong com- mitment to the undergraduate experience through dedicated efforts in student or- ganizations, athletics, community service, religious life, residential life and the arts. Briana was a peer academic adviser and health professions adviser at Whitman College. As an undergraduate researcher, she was named “25 Under 25 in STEM” by the Princeton journal of science and technology “Innovation” for her work on zebrafish heart development. She was also the first undergraduate member of the Princeton chapter of the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science. She is a head fellow for the Scholars Institute Fellows Program, was a 2016 Freshman Scholars Institute molecular biology course fellow, and co-founded Project Welcome Mat: A Guide for First-Gen Princeton Students. She served as an undergraduate repre- sentative on the University Priorities Committee and the Healthier Princeton Advisory Board. She is a member and former co-president and advocacy chair of Princeton Latinos y Amigos, member of the Latinx Collective, the Princeton University American Sign Language Club and the Princeton University Mentorship Program.