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Philip Rickey ’78 is a sculptor and public artist who has completed major environmental projects throughout Minnesota and Indiana, and large-scale stone sculptures in Germany and Norway. He also makes smaller object sculptures in wood and bronze, and over the last 5 years has begun to see many of the photographs he takes as a new expression of his art-making.

Rickey is also owner/manager of the estate of his father, sculptor George Rickey, which is related to his own work as an artist.

Alisa Sikelianos-Carter ’01 is a mixed-media painter from upstate New York. She has been awarded residencies at The Fountainhead Residency, The Millay Colony for the Arts, NXTHVN, Vermont Studio Center, The Wassaic Project, and Yaddo. Her upcoming exhibitions include group shows at James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY; Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago, IL and Fridman Gallery, Beacon, NY. She earned her BA and MA from SUNY Albany in Painting and Drawing.

Sikelianos-Carter asserts that Black features are a manifestation of a sacred and divine technology that has served as a means of survival, both physically and metaphysically. She envisions a cosmically bountiful world that celebrates and pays homage to ancestral majesty, power, and aesthetics.

Inspired by traditionally Black hairstyles, Sikelianos-Carter uses web and catalog-sourced images to construct new archetypes. Through her exploration of opulent, luminescent materials she is creating a mythology that is centered on Black resistance and utilizes the body as a sight of alchemy and divinity.

Lola Dement Myers ’16 This is LOLA and she has been online for a very long time looking for harmony between the digital and physical world. LOLA is working in Chicago and living in LOLA WORLD.

LOLA WORLD is her personal ideology that guides all decisions she makes, including her work. Through world-building practices she explores surveillance, digital etiquette, and identity through icons. She uses digital, ceramic, and metal fabrication, to create the designed objects of her personal world.

She is obsessed with acting corny on the Internet because she values her privacy.

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Michelle Berman Marchildon ’78 is The Yogi Muse, an award-winning journalist and the author of four books on yoga. Most recently, she co-authored “Fearless After Fifty: How to Thrive with Grace, Grit and Yoga,” which was featured on PBS. Her first book, “Finding More on the Mat,” features some of her time at Buxton. She has a masters from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and is an E-500 RYT registered yoga teacher. She has been teaching yoga since 2007. You can find her in Yoga International, Yoga Journal, Mantra Yoga and Health and Sports Illustrated. The class will be easily adapted to all levels; all you need is a body and a sense of humor.

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Greg Roach has been the Buxton School’s Executive Chef and Food Service Director since 2015. Greg began cooking professionally in 1984. He has worked in kitchens across the country, most recently at Wild Oats Market and the National Cooperative Grocers, where he developed the prepared food department and consulted with co-op grocery stores nationwide. Greg has degrees from the University of Michigan and the Culinary Institute of America. Currently he resides in North Adams with his spouse and son.

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Maurie Levin ’81 has represented death-sentenced inmates in state and federal courts for more than 25 years. She co-directed the Capital Punishment Clinic at University of Texas School of Law for almost a decade, but then had to get out of the Texas heat. Maurie currently represents condemned inmates in Texas, is one of the Texas Regional Habeas Assistance Counsel, and as an attorney with the Mexican Capital Legal Assistance Program is counsel to the Government of Mexico in the cases of Mexican nationals facing the death penalty in the United States.

Williams Cole ’86 has been producing, directing and editing documentary film for over 20 years. Feature-length producing credits include Sundance premieres like “Finding Fela!” (2014), 99% – “The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film” (2013), the HBO feature “Gun Fight” (produced with Academy Award winner Barbara Kopple), “Even Though the Whole World is Burning” (PBS 2016) and “Giuliani Time” (2006). His directing credits include “Rebel Rossa” (2017) and “Barney’s Wall” (2018) and a series of shorts. He filmed in cities around the world for the Rockefeller Foundation’s “100 Resilient Cities” initiative and produced over 60 short profiles of writers for Open Road Integrated Media. He was a Fulbright Scholar at the London School of Economics and a founder of the Brooklyn Rail.

Christian Parenti ’87, is Professor of Economics at John Jay College, CUNY. For many years he was a reporter working primarily for The Nation covering conflict In Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere. He has published five books, the most recent being Radical Hamilton: economic lessons from a misunderstood founder (Verso 2020).

Jessica Grindstaff ’96 is a New York City-based artist, playwright and director. She has been grappling with how to make a concrete difference throughout her entire artistic career from visual art to playwriting and directing.

For the past decade, Jessica has committed herself almost exclusively to the work of creating a trilogy that explores human relationship to nature or the environment, through several different lenses. This work has taken her to Antarctica, on an expedition to discover the oldest living tree in the world and finally to Fukushima, where the tsunami and subsequent nuclear meltdown of 2011 have devastated a tremendous area of Northern Japan to this day. She is currently at work on a new commercial piece of theatre centered on climate injustice and live action philanthropy. Jessica is co-founder and artistic director of Phantom Limb Company.

Jessica Neptune ’98 is Director of National Engagement for the Bard Prison Initiative and leads BPI’s Consortium for the Liberal Arts in Prison at Bard College. She is the founder of the Women’s College Partnership at the Indiana Women’s Prison. Prior to her return to BPI, an organization she helped start as an undergraduate, she was an ACLS Public Fellow where she worked on criminal justice reform with the Obama administration’s Federal Interagency Reentry Council.

She holds a Ph.D. in American History from the University of Chicago. Her scholarship is on the making of the carceral state and the policies and politics of punishment. She lives in Chicago and teaches history for the Moreau College Initiative at Westville Correctional Facility in Indiana.

Brian Ford ’09 created Scholar & A Dream in 2018, which is a nonprofit organization dedicated to enhancing the lives of students of color through career development, scholarship, and college retention.

Scholar & A Dream envisions a community that prioritizes the importance of educational attainment. One that takes necessary steps to ensure that positive educational outcomes are accessible to all students, regardless of socioeconomic circumstances. Scholar & A Dream aims to close the achievement gap by ensuring that postsecondary education is a viable option, giving students the potential to succeed.

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Grame Fincke ’61 is an associate professor of health services at Boston University School of Public Health. His main research interests are related to the care of patients with diabetes, organization of medical care and health outcomes. He is the founder and past chief of the General Internal Medicine Section of the Boston VA Health Care System. He attended Harvard College and received an MD from Yale Medical School, followed by a residency in internal medicine and a fellowship in infectious diseases at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston.

David Bluestein ’08 has a BA in Biochemistry and an MAT in Secondary Education, both from Earlham College. David returned to Buxton as a science and math teacher in 2016, and has taught Algebra 2, Biology, Chemistry, and various electives. Pre-medical studies in college led him to work as an EMT prior to teaching at Buxton, and to serve on the COVID-19 Task Force for the school this past year.

Linda Burlak has been teaching science, with occasional forays into math and other areas, at Buxton since the fall of 1988. Having lived in the Gatehouse and Main, she now lives above the library, in what was originally Ben and Magda Finckes’ apartment, since 1994. Along the way she has sung in chorus, played in orchestra, and helped lead the all school trip for many years. For the past 13 years she has served as the academic dean, helping students pick classes, and creating the semester schedules.

Lindsey Wyatt is Buxton’s School Coordinator Extraordinaire. She grew up in Jericho, Vermont and attended St. Lawrence University for undergraduate studies. Lindsey has experience in healthcare, working as an EMT and attending medical school at Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont for a few years before a career change. Navigating Buxton through the COVID pandemic has been no small task, but she’s been glad to be part of the team!