Class Notes

From Jay Sinha

Matt Pask (’07, M ed ’08) and his husband Matt Richards welcomed twin baby girls into their family on September 18, Maci and Madison.

Jane Mangione works for Backroads, an active travel company based out of Berkeley, CA and Pernes-les-Fontaines, France. She spends most of her time between Italy and New Zealand, where she designs, manages, and leads hiking and cycling tours. She plans to embark on a cycling trip across the US in the summer of 2019 and will be fundraising for World Bicycle Relief during that time. Check out photos, poetry, and stories inspired by her travels on her Instagram: Magic.and.Pasta and her blog:www.magicandpasta.com. Her email address is janemangione@gmail.com.

Kanise Carter Marshall, who studied English at UMW and has an MBA in risk management from Walden University, published a novel, Call From the Willow. She helps other writers through her business, Writeportunity Consulting.

After building an independent artist management and festival promotion career in Ithaca, New York, for 10 years, Russ Friedell, who studied physics, moved to Denver in 2017. He and three partners launched Mammoth Music Group, focused on artist management and event marketing and production, in 2018.