ALUMNI

Many of our alumni speak of the profound impact that the school has had on their lives. Since the first graduation in 1971, alumni have chosen careers that reflect the creativity, scholarship, social justice, and community at the core of the Manhattan Country School experience.

Below are just a handful of our very accomplished alumni.

• Claire Chafee ’72 and Adam Kennedy ’75 are award-winning playwrights.
• Katy Chevigny ’82, Katharine Garrison ’81, Melissa Hacker ’75, and Lorna Thomas ’81, are all filmmakers analyzing issues of social justice through documentaries and other film projects.
• Nicholas Goldberg '72 is op-ed editor at the Los Angeles Times and Liam Pleven ’79 is a journalist at the Wall Street Journal.
• Eve Grubin '84 is a widely published poet and former program director of the Poetry Society of America.
• Steven Melendez ’01 has performed with many national and international dance companies, including the New York Theatre Ballet and Vanemuine Theater in Estonia.
• Kelis Rogers ’93 is a recording artist with several top-40 hits.
• John Burnham Schwartz ’79 is an author whose book, Reservation Road, is the basis for a major motion picture.
• Franklin Sirmans ’83 is curator at the Menil Collection in Houston and winner of the David C. Driskell prize honoring African-American art and scholarship.
• Susanna Sonnenberg ’79 is a widely published essayist whose work has appeared in The Nation, O, The Montanan, and others.

• José Castillo ’92 is a security analyst at J.P. Morgan and a member of the MCS board of trustees.
• Alicia Glen ’80 is managing director of the Urban Investment Group at Goldman, Sachs, and Co.
• Bilal Hill ’85 is a chief financial officer at General Electric. He has also served as a member of our board of trustees.
• Bator Kovacs '73 is a vice president at the advertising firm McCann Erickson.
• Daniel Levinson ’76 is the founder of Main Street Resources, a private equity firm.
• Renée Reynolds ’95 returned from a Fulbright fellowship in South Africa to become a researcher in an investment firm. She is also a member of the board of trustees.

• Betsey diBonaventura Brown ’77 is the co-founder and director of admissions at Cornerstone Learning Community in Florida.
• Carlos Garcia ’80 is board president of the Higher Achievement Program, which serves inner-city youth in Washington, D.C.
• Sabrina Hope King ’73 is a professor of urban education and director of the Leadership Preparation Institute at Bank Street College.
• Niko Kolodny ’86 is an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of California-Berkeley.
• Meghan McDermott ’84 introduces young people in underserved communities to the communicative power of filmmaking as the executive director of Global Action Project.
• Mary Trowbridge ’76 is director of the lower school at Manhattan Country School.
• Sasha Wilson ’84 is the co-founder of Bronx Community Charter School, due to open in 2008.

• Matt Chafee '77 is an assistant professor in the neuroscience department at Unniversity of Minnesota.
• Bram Gunther ’76 is deputy director of forestry and horticulture at New York City Department of Parks.
• Julie Gluck Laifer ’75 is an ob-gyn at Seton Women’s Center, which serves a community with many undocumented immigrant families, while also providing medical assistance abroad in countries such as Peru and Sri Lanka.

• Adam Green ’87 founded Rocking the Boat, an educational program that teaches teens about boat-building and the environment in the South Bronx.
• Kim Grose '82 is executive director of the San Francisco Organizing Project. After graduating from Stanford, she was named a Rhodes Scholar.
• Krenie Stowe ’73 is a doctor who co-founded (with her mother) the Frontis Project, which brings medical services to the rural poor in Texas, in 1994.
• Debo P. Adegbile ’80 is director of litigation at the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund and a member of the Manhattan Country School board of trustees.
• Lynn Leibovitz '73 is an associate judge on the D.C. Superior Court.
• Lee Gelernt ’75 is director of the Immigrants' Rights Project of the American Civil Liberties Union.
• Yvette Nicole Malcioln ’76 has served in Madagascar with USAID.
• Chloe Tribich ’92 is lead organizer at Housing Here and Now, a tenant rights advocacy group in New York City.

“What is most important to me?
In answering this question—undoubtedly a question of values, principles, and ideals—even I have been surprised by the extent to which I can directly relate the things that are important to me with the 9 years I spent in a big green-doored townhouse on East 96th Street.”

Daniel Altschuler ’96
Rhodes Scholar, Oxford University