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Class Notes as, respectively, Co-founder/CEO, Co-founder/ Director of Marketing, and Creative Director of Mainland Media. As the company's name and logo denote, The Bronx is the only New York City borough connected to the mainland U.S. But that is not why the classmates, together with Anthony's brother Paul Ramirez, who attended HM from 6th through 10th grades, are working to promote The Bronx: They believe the borough has a lot to offer New Yorkers and the world. Having left The Bronx for college (Columbia for Anthony and Greig; Binghamton and St. John's Law School for John) their combined experience includes social service, youth and political work, as well as corporate and commercial enterprises, several of which the partners founded individually. Today their Mainland Media group connects people, organizations, and businesses with those interested in engaging with Bronx residents, customers and stakeholders. Mainland Media also promotes products found on its fromthebronx.com website stocked with cool Bronx T-shirts, posters, books and Bronxmade (from locally-grown peppers) Green Market Hot Sauce. One Mainland Media enterprise that's drawing visitors is The Bronx Beer Hall the partners opened with famed Bronx chef David Greco in February 2013 in the Arthur Avenue Retail Market in the borough's Belmont section. It's a perennial "best bar" winner. In October 2015 Anthony and Paul Ramirez were named recipients of El Diario NY's prestigious EL Award, which celebrates the achievements and contributions to community of Latino Men in the tri-state area. The alums have become involved with HM's Upper Division Service Learning Team's Bronx-based service-learning work. They invited the Team to their venue in Nov. 2015 to present their own service activities and returned to HM for Service Learning Day in April 2016. Visit http://www.mainlandmedia.net, and follow @fromthebronx and @bronxbeerhall. 1997 Asher Price's book Year of the Dunk: A Modest Defiance of Gravity was published in May 2015 (See p. 38). Asher has covered energy and the environment for the American Statesman in Austin, TX since 2006. The Society of 54 Horace Mann Magazine Summer 2016 Environmental Journalists twice named him a finalist for its beat reporter of the year award. He spent the 2011-12 academic year at Columbia University's business and journalism schools as a Knight-Bagehot fellow. In 2013 he co-authored The Great Texas Wind Rush: How George Bush, Ann Richards, and a Bunch of Tinkerers Helped the Oil and Gas State Win the Race to Wind Power. 1998 Erica Zeichner Siena and her husband Craig Siena became the parents of Elizabeth Bailey Siena, sister of Charlie Siena HM 2030, on July 24, 2015 at 4:09 p.m. In this picture baby Elizabeth accompanies her brother Charlie to his HM Nursery Division visit before he began his first day of school in the "3's" at the ND in September 2015. Biology from Yale College. She has been awarded the Google Climate Science Communication Fellowship and the Academic Council on the United Nations System Dissertation Award, and is a Switzer Fellow, Teresa Heinz Scholar, and Udall Scholar. Her publications can be found in Climate Policy, Global Environmental Politics, the Journal of Natural Resources Policy Research, International Forestry Review, and Policy Sciences, among other journals. Sasha Issenberg's latest book Outpatients: The Astonishing New World of Medical Tourism was published in February 2016 and has garnered rave reviews and brought Sasha to speaking engagements at Columbia University and the UN among other venues. (The book will be covered in the next issue of Horace Mann Magazine.) The author of The Victory Lab: The Secret Science of Winning Campaigns (2012) and The Sushi Economy: Globalization and the Making of a Modern Delicacy (2007) Issenberg is the Washington correspondent for Monocle and a contributor to Bloomberg Politics. He covered the 2008 election as a national political correspondent for The Boston Globe and the 2012 election as a columnist for Slate. His work has also appeared in The New Republic, The New York Times Magazine, and George, where he was a contributing editor. 1999 Dr. Kelly Levin spoke via Skype with HM students and teachers during a SciTech night, where Upper Division students displayed and demonstrated their science and technology research projects. Dr. Levin, a participant in the 2015 Climate Change Conference (the 21st Session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, or "Paris 2015") previewed for her audience some of the major conference issues. Dr. Levin is a senior associate with the World Resources Institute (WRI) who leads WRI's Measurement and Performance Tracking Project, which builds capacity in developing countries to create systems that track emissions reductions associated with low-carbon development goals. Dr. Levin holds a PhD and Master of Environmental Management from Yale's School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and a B.A. in Ecology and Evolutionary Chris Nakamura and Casey Baritz Nakamura became the parents of Ryan Shizue Nakamura on January 14, 2015. Chris wrote: "Frankly we owe it all to HM! There will always be a special place in our hearts for HM. We have made incredible lifelong friends and are happy to be a part of the HM family." Eric Todrys and Katherine Wiltenburg Todrys welcomed Elizabeth Sayre Todrys to their family on August 20, 2015. She joined proud brother Alexander Welch Todrys. http://www.fromthebronx.com http://www.mainlandmedia.net

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