Pilar Alessandra wrote that she is a freelance writer and story analyst and taught story analysis at the UCLA Extension in the spring of 1999. Last fall she married comic and writer Patrick Dodson.

Elena Azzoni moved to San Francisco, aiming for work with at-risk adolescents.

Jayne Barnes is a Licensed Social Worker working as a Recreational/Art Therapist at the River Valley AIDS Project. She also works at the YWCA: North as a counselor/advocate in the Transitional Living Program for Battered Women.

Tammi Brandon is an assistant language teacher in Japan, and is active in many organizations including being the Regional Representative of the Japanese Exchange and Teaching Program and "Wimmin Helping Wimmin" in Osaka.

Judith Branzburg is still in Pasadena, California, teaching English with "Women's Studies/Queer Studies thrown in".

Melinda Chateauvert has a new book "Marching Together: Women of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters" 1998 University of Illinois Press.

Tina Cincotti is working as a project coordinator for the Abortion Access Project.

Katherine Daube earned her Master's in Public Health from Harvard, and last summer started a job as the Social Services Director at the Council on Aging in Chicopee. She designs health promotion programs for elders.

Cheri Ehrlich is an elementary school art teacher for grades K-8, and teaches courses at the Rockland Center for the Arts in West Nyack, NY.

Andrea Fox has been working for the Massachusetts Nurses Association for 10 years and is currently negotiating a 1st contract for nurses in Worcester. She is studying Shuriryu Karate at Valley Women's Martial Arts in Easthampton, and is learning more about gardening, travel, and more.

Michelle Hillman works as a reporter for a weekly newspaper company called "Messenger-Wolfe" in Fishers, NY. The company publishes 9 weekly and one daily paper; Michelle is a reporter and lives outside of Rochester. She writes she has "survived the crazy winter weather. . .I miss UMass and the wonderful WOST classes I took while up there! " and adds that she wants to hear from other alums.

Amy Howland moved to Seattle to work in a Quaker program living cooperatively and working with homeless youth.

Sharon Katkow is doing a Masters Program in Language Acquisition in Tel Aviv, Israel. She teaches English at the middle school level as part of this program.

Jackson Katz was recently quoted in the Boston Globe regarding the Mentors in Violence Prevention Program. The MVP program is at Northeastern University's Center for the Study of Sport and Society. The goal is empowering men to become active bystanders in the face of men's violence against women. The front page article focused on a sexual harassment training offered to Marines on U.S. military bases worldwide.

Caledonia Kearns recently read from her anthology "Motherland: Writings by Irish American Women on Mothers and Daughters," William Morrow and Company, 1999. This book includes well known contemporary and historical authors, as well as work by Caledonia herself.

Christen Kavanaugh is getting her Master's in Early Childhood Education at UMass.

Katie Koloseike is in North Carolina and is the Operations Manager at Bonita Software in Raleigh. She earned her Masters of Arts in Business at the California Institute of Integral Studies. She is learning blacksmithing and flyfishing and is "psyched to be living in the south" and is active in many arenas.

Kathryn McGarvey is a Teaching Assistant at King Philip Regional High School in Wrentham with a Collaborative Program designed as an alternative high school for students with emotional, behavioral and social needs.

Birdie MacLennon is a librarian at the University of Vermont, and has been doing that for 9 years. She writes that she likes the "diversity of the work, the people and the changing technological environment." She has been studying French and traveling to Quebec, Canada. She still appreciates "the value of my education in Women's Studies, and the passion it has given me for learning, questioning, and discovering new ways to invent and imagine the world."

Dorothy Merriam is a family nurse practitioner at Holyoke Pediatric Associates.

Christine Murphy is the anti-racism program associate in the Faith in Action department of the Unitarian Universalist Association. She finished her M.Div. at Harvard in 1997, and was the director of a church rebuilding project in South Carolina immediately after. A construction accident sidelined her, but now she writes that she is "working toward ordination and feel very blessed to be able to do faith based anti-oppression work professionally at a national level."

Patricia Murphy-Sheehy wrote last spring that she was renovating her house in prep for a baby, and working at Massachusetts General Hospital as an epidemiological researcher of medical issues including cardiovascular disease and diabetes. She lives in West Somerville with her husband Jim.

Judith Schneider is a Staff Assistant in the Dean of Students Office at Emerson College.

Amy Summers has begun a business entitled "Transformations-Wholestic Emporium, Gallery, and Workshops." It opened in August in Amherst. Transformations offers products for personal growth, classes, and an inspirational art gallery.

Donna Uhlmann is a criminal defense lawyer in Providence, RI.