1) Ayn Cates Sullivan, who attended CS in the 1970s, is the recipient of several awards for her children’s books, including two Gold awards from the Mom’s Choice Awards, Winner at the London Book Festival (2012), Honorable Mention at the Los Angeles Book Festival (2012-2013), and Winner at the Beverly Hills Book Awards. She is currently the President of Infinite Light Publishing and holds an M.F.A. in creative writing from Columbia University, a Ph.D. in English literature from King’s College London, and an M.A. in counseling psychology from the University of Santa Monica.
2) Robin Duddy-Tenbrunsel (Seminar class of 2001) is in the second year of her masters of public policy at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy where she is the Editor in Chief of the Georgetown Public Policy Review. She previously worked at Social Finance, a nonprofit organization dedicated to designing public-private-nonprofit partnerships, and at Partners in Health, an organization working to provide a preferential option for the poor in health care. Robin has interned with the Kaiser Family Foundation, the Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center, the Middlesex County District Attorney’s Office, and the Office of Congressman Ed Markey. She graduated magna cum laude from Tufts University with a B.A. in political science.
3) Amy Holland, who attended CS in the 1970s, is the Executive Director of the World Affairs Council of Maine, a nonprofit and nonpartisan educational organization seeking to engage and educate people of all ages to become global citizens. She graduated from Tufts University with a bachelor’s in international relations and French and has a master’s in public policy and management from the Muskie School of Public Service. She previously worked for the Maine State Legislature and several Maine non-profits.
4) Congratulations to Paige Protinsky Woods (Seminar class of 1996 and Extended Studies Program class of 2000) and her husband Jeremy on the birth of their daughter, Madelyn Jane, this past summer.