Stories Archive

Stories

Arts/Media: Jay Shapiro ’04, Screen Studies Major

Watch a trailer from his film “Opposite Fields.” Documentary filmmaker, New York The boy’s name is Ivan, and he is poor even by Ugandan standards. He lives with seven other relatives in an equipment shed, sleeping on the bare ground, which turns to mud during rainstorms. Once his eyes shut, though, he is happy. “When I…
Business: Maria D. Arabatzis ’09, M.B.A. ’10, Management Major

Portfolio associate and researcher, Reynders, McVeigh Capital Management, LLC, Boston Maria Arabatzis is a runner whose high energy helped her keep a step ahead while a student athlete at Clark. Today, it helps her meet the daily challenge of beating the market. Arabatzis wanted to be a dentist when she arrived on the pre-med track…
Business: Long Lin ’09, Economics Major

Financial analyst, Schiltkamp International Consultants, New York “I always think my ‘career’ started in my freshman year,” says Long Lin. At the time he was unsure of his professional path, but he discovered very quickly how best to move in the right direction. With the help of Career Services and the and the online alumni…
Money, Management and Makeup

Jim Mancuso ’07, M.B.A. ’08 Major: Management; Finance and Global Business Controller/Head of Finance, Temptu Inc., New York, N.Y. Want to sculpt those cheekbones for your next femme fatale film role? How about smoothing out your skin tone for that upcoming wedding photo shoot? Or maybe your broadcast image needs to be a wee bit more…
The Big-Screen Thrill Maker

Scott Silver ’06 Major: Screen Studies Co-owner of Silvatar Media, Los Angeles Scott Silver makes movies for a living, but often his most essential tool is not a camera or an editing machine, but his cell phone. As co-owner of the production company Silvatar Media, Silver must stay almost obsessively networked. Phone calls — thousands of…
Seeking Solutions in Developing Countries

Brooks Marmon ’07, M.A . ’08 Major: History Program Management Associate with global programs, Higher Education for Development Sitting in on board meetings with senior-level university and United States Agency for International Development (USAID) officials was not something history major Brooks Marmon expected to be doing this early in his career. But as program management associate…
Battling Disease at the Molecular Level

Kelley Shortsleeves ’09 Major: Chemistry Associate scientist at Ensemble Therapeutics, Cambridge, Mass. It’s no coincidence that when she describes her profession, Kelley Shortsleeves’ phrases are peppered with the vocabulary of conflict. She speaks of “antagonists” and “targets,” and about locating the weakness in an enemy that has proven impervious to traditional methods of attack. Shortsleeves is…
Education: Aaron Joslow ’05, English Major

Principal, Rally Point Webinars, Miami, Fla. Aaron Joslow ’05 likes to tell stories. After graduating from Clark, he headed to Key West, Fla. to co-found and run a history tour (“Walk on the Wild Side”) with his uncle. This was no ordinary monuments-and-statues tour — it was filled with stories about ghosts, authors, eccentrics and…
The View from Kilimanjaro

Katie Cordes ’07 Major: International Development and Social Change Kilimanjaro Program Manager, ThomsonSafaris.com, Tanzania In April 2007, Katie Cordes was entertaining job offers from recruiting companies when she stumbled upon the ad for her dream job. “They were looking for someone with six to 10 years of experience, but I knew it was a perfect fit,”…
Art: Damon Ginandes ’04, Studio Art Major

Knowledge Worker, Capgemini, Jersey City, N.J.; Painter/sculptor (damonginandes.com), New York area How would you like to get paid for doodling at work, drawing images to illustrate ideas that percolate at corporate workshops? And when you’re done with that, you hit the streets to create celebrated pieces of art in locales ranging from the traditional (art…