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She is proud that she has worked hard to get where she is. We believe in you, Meribeth! Delmarina Lopez, J.D. '17 has been appointed by the Chicopee City Council to serve as a commissioner to represent Ward 3 on Chicopee's Charter Review Commission. Delmarina is also an adjunct professor at Bay Path as part of the Justice Studies program. And on a personal note: Delmarina is engaged! She is excited to become Delmarina Lopez-Wiliams in 2022. Meredith O'Brien G'17 has joined our MFA faculty and is now teaching our mentorship lab sequence. Meredith's fifth book, Uncomfortably Numb, about living with multiple sclerosis was published by Wyatt-MacKenzie Publishing in the spring of 2020, prompting Meredith to form a group of Lockdown Authors to support and cross-promote their work. * Heidi Fettig Parton G'17 is a contributor to an anthology this year. Her essay, "Exorcism of the Exhausted Mother" is featured in Her Path Forward: 21 Stories of Transformation and Inspiration, published by PublishHer. * Jessica Golio Roosth '17 recently graduated with a master's degree in Health Science Informatics from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. 2018 Kristin Lewis Haight G'18 was named executive director of the Kennebunkport Historical Society. Kim MacQueen G'18 has a book coming out in fall 2022. She describes her forthcoming book as a "family memoir," but tells us the title is still under wraps. It's scheduled for release by Feral House/Process Media. * Aprell May Munford '18 G'21 recently started working as a reporter at the Springfield Republican Newspaper Company and MassLive. Aprell is a curator at the Springfield Library and Museum for an upcoming exhibit, and is on the Board of Directors at the Art for the Soul Gallery. She is also in collaboration to work on a theater project at OSV with another Bay Path alum. * ** Kahntapaht Suksamiti Wilson G'18 has recently taken over as owner of the family business, Mr. C's Sauce and Marinade. She expanded sales all over western Massachusetts to Geissler's, Arnold's Meat, and Atkins Farm, and is now expanding in Boston. ** 2019 Wren Bellavance-Grace G'19 published "Hunger," an essay she drafted in one of her Bay Path classes, in Farmerish. "Not Living But Dying" appeared in Carcosa, a gorgeous journal created and edited by her classmate, Kate Benson G'19 G'21. * Christine Brooks G'19 released her debut book, The Cigar Box Poems, in February 2020 from Clare Songbirds Publishing. Her second edition of poetry, beyond the paneling, was released in April 2021 by Finishing Line Press. * Aeishya Jackson '19 G'22 is now Board of Trustees Vice President at Martin Luther King, Jr. Family Services. She has previously held positions as the chair, finance committee and executive committee board of trustee. Aeishya is a business manager for the City of Springfield's library department and has more than 15-years of financial services experience. 2020 Loree Griffin Burns G'20 is teaching two courses at Montserrat College of Art, including "Observing the Natural World," a course she developed. She also is on the MFA faculty at the Vermont College of Fine Arts in their Writing for Children & Young Adults program. Adding to Loree's growing collection of books for children on environmental issues and the natural world, her newest, Honeybee Rescue, will be published by Charlesbridge in Spring 2022. * Kim Livingston G'20 has recently signed a contract with TouchPoint Press to publish Walks Like a Duck: A Family Brain Memoir in 2023. Through stories of a psychologist father, schizophrenic brother, obsessive husband, and absent-minded mother, Livingston explores nature vs. nurture as the source of her own brain maladies. * Rebecca Day Whitten '20 is working on her master's degree in Couples and Family Counseling at Antioch University New England. She was recently hired as a counselor at Recovery Connection of America, a MAT suboxone clinic. ** 2021 Megan Griffin '21, former editor of Bay Path's own Network News, is attending Bridgewater State University working towards a master of arts in English. She also had her first piece of creative writing, entitled "Survivor of Suicide Loss," published in Months to Years. ** Lee-Ann Liles G'21 is releasing a book of poetry, This is What We Call Home, and The Hunger, about her writing practice. * Jasmin Rivas G'21 is the director of diversity, equity, accessibility, and inclusion at Old Sturbridge Village, a living history museum focused on rural 19th-century New England daily life. Along with enhancing DEI&A initiatives for staff and visitors, Jasmin is working with museum curators to enlarge the lens of history, bringing to light the stories of women, African Americans, and Native Americans during this complex, often whitewashed, and seemingly male-dominated period in New England's history. * Jennifer Trovato G'22 is the permanent human resources manager for the Town of Hadley. Although it is her first time working in municipal government, Jennifer has many years of experience in HR, including 15 years in general and operations management, hiring and coaching, and restaurant management. Congrats, Jennifer! *reprinted from the MFA email newsletter **reprinted from Network News 34 Bay Pathway Spring/Summer 2021 Aeishya Jackson '19 G'22 Jennifer Trovato G'22 ALUMNI PROFILES

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