Emily Dove (Class of 2010) is a sophomore at Hobart & William Smith College. Emily came away from high school thinking she would follow a humanities path in college, but because she was engaged and enjoyed the sciences in high school, she was willing to try chemistry when she was placed in it her first semester. She's now planning on majoring in chemistry and dance. Dance is an interest she carried over from FALA and chemistry is a new found love!

Rose Haag (Class of 2010) was recently awarded an internship in the Community Service office at Whitman College (and is the youngest intern). Her position is to help coordinate and plan community service trips all around the Pacific Northwest and New Orleans during Spring Break. Each trip focuses on a different social issue. Rose has been both a participant and a leader of these trips and states that they are an incredible hands-on learning experience. She also lives in the Writing Interest House, for which she helps coordinate events for the Whitman student body and acts as an active part of their small living community.

Rose recently declared a combined major of Environmental Studies and Sociology with plans of a minor in Economics. To supplement this, she plans on studying abroad for a semester next year in Kenya, doing hands on work with wildlife conservation on a reserve that crosses the border between Tanzania and Kenya.

Ryan Lawrence was recently featured on the cover of the University of Arizona's Master of Fine Arts dance brochure. Ryan started dancing while a sophomore at FALA and currently lives in New York.

Katie King (Class of 2006) After studying in Switzerland, London, New York City, Hollywood, Costa Rica, and The Gulf Coast, Katie King received her BA from The Evergreen State College, creating her own interdisciplinary degree and focusing on performance and photography. She now owns her own photography business, A Sense Of Place Photography as well as a touring one woman show. Her self-published poetry book, The Breath Between Whirscapes & Landwinds is available at your local library. She is currently writing songs and doing freelance work in the Mariana Islands. She wants to thank all the FALA faculty for the immense support they gave her.

Erin Joyce (Class of 2005) Erin has just been named the inaugural Art Editor for Aslan Media Inc.
Founded by Reza Aslan, author, professor, and Middle East expert, Aslan Media, Inc. provides news and information about the Middle East to global English speaking audiences. The company has multiple entertainment and media holdings, including BoomGen Studios and Appovation, LLC., with products and services such as mobile phone applications, independent movies, and a news wire service via Twitter (taken from their website)
 
As the art editor, she is responsible for all art content - visual, performing and literary for Aslan Media and their global communications outlets. She will be serving as acting Art Editor throughout her graduate work in the history of art.

Marja van der Loo (Class of 2004) With no desire to leave FALA, Marja bid farewell to Flagstaff and attended Smith College. It was too cold in Massachusetts, so for her junior year Marja studied abroad in Brazil. She majored in Portuguese and Brazilian Studies and Art History. For two years she worked in museums in the States and in The Netherlands, but the Flagstaff vortex pulled her back. She now works for Flagstaff Cultural Partners at the Coconino Center for the Arts-very close to the FALA campus. This is wonderful because she sometimes gets sneak peeks of the celebrities of her past like Ando-man, the ever patient Ms. Bell, the notorious Levin, the stop-your-crying-you-can-do-it Henes or in Marja's day, the tapping storm- Mr. Bowie!

Kristin Robyn (Class of 2002)  Kristin graduated from NAU in May 2010, and is a member of the Peace Corps.  She left for Mali in Africa on June 30, 2010 and will be there for 2 years working in education, health education, and will be teaching English to French speaking students.

Karen (Feinsinger) Hackler (Class of 2000)  Karen graduated from Oberlin College. At Oberlin, she created her own interdisciplinary major in Irish Studies, comprised of the study of Irish history, literature, language, sociology, archaeology, anthropology and politics. She also created a new study-away program in Ireland, and attended the National University of Ireland, Galway, for a year and a half. After graduating in 2006 with a Bachelor of Arts in Irish Studies and a minor in English, she attended and graduated from the Denver University Institute of Publishing. She returned to Flagstaff to be the Marketing and Sales Director of Salina Bookshelf, Inc., a publishing company specializing in children's books. While at Oberlin she had developed an interest in social work, education and sexual health, and so when an opportunity opened at Northland Family Help Center to be a community educator, she was excited to be offered the position. At Northland, she works within the broader Northern Arizona community to educate youth and youth-affiliated adults on the primary prevention of sexual assault. Last year I was the coordinator of The P.E.A.C.E. Project, a joint project between NFHC and Theatrikos Theatre Company that trains local high school students in the primary prevention of sexual assaults. These teens then create skits and use other creative expression techniques to educate their peers on these important issues. This year she is creating and coordinating a new program, the P.E.A.C.E. Club, a program with goals similar to those of The P.E.A.C.E. Project, but aimed at middle school-aged students. Karen returns to Ireland frequently to visit friends and take classes, and plans to live there permanently some day soon.She’s a stepmother to eight year-old twins and had her first child earlier this year. Her family lives happily with their two dogs.

Julia Fiske (Class of 2000)  Julie is the Director of Performing Arts at the Emerson Umbrella Center for the Arts in Massachusetts.

Kari Barton (Class of 1999) After graduating from FALA, Kari attended NAU. Her sophomore year at NAU, she studied abroad in Limerick, Ireland. She returned to NAU and then transferred to Columbia College Chicago to complete her undergraduate studies in Performing Arts Management in 2004.

Kari returned to Flagstaff and NAU in fall of 2004 to pursue her Master of Music in Violin Performance and Suzuki Pedagogy. She graduated in 2006 and has remained in Flagstaff, teaching a studio of 40 violin and viola students. She performs with the Flagstaff Symphony and Verde Valley Sinfonietta and is a member of The Knockabouts. She also runs two companies, Living Traditions Presentations (founded in 2004), which promotes concerts of Celtic music, and the Grand Canyon Celtic Arts Academy (founded in 2009), which brings in instructors of Celtic arts to Flagstaff each summer.

In her spare time, Kari enjoys hiking with her dog, camping, river rafting, and enjoying the company of friends and family.

Elizabeth (Markle) Solinga (Class of 1999) Elizabeth is working in Boston and completing a masters degree in Museum Studies through the Harvard Extension School).

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