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Grad Talks With Terps at Alumni Association’s Masterclass Series

This year marked the dance’s return after a 12 year hiatus.

In honor of the return of the Alumni Association Valentine's Dance for the first time in 12 years, we are Shell-ebrating Terp love!

Sue Bredekamp ’72, ’76, Ph.D. ’85 is the primary author and editor of “Developmentally Appropriate Practice in Early Childhood Programs,” the National Association for the Education of Young Children’s (NAEYC) text that continues to inform educators about the most effective teaching practices for children from birth through age 8.

Rick Marving Tamno ’17, ’20 is making sure that no child misses a chance to excel.  He’s the co-founder and executive director of Readers All, which targets first through third graders at an underperforming elementary school in Greenbelt, Maryland.

The granddaughter of Eastern European immigrants, Dorothy Weinstein ’84 learned from an early the age the importance of transcending challenges to rise to her potential. 

Courtney Grimes Ph.D ’21 is rallying environmental justice communities to advocate for their own health and welfare.

Summer Bazemore MS ’02 is bucking the trend in engineering by launching her own systems engineering and cybersecurity consulting firm, Ey3 Technologies.

Daniel Flynn ’81 created Flynn Biotech Consulting, which helps biotech companies, and research institutions, including universities, develop and commercialize intellectual property in areas such as virology and cancer research.

William Ryan ’90 is now president of the board of directors at Building African American Minds (BAAM), a local nonprofit organization that provides academic and social help to at-risk youths.

Thanks to Tyler Denk ’16, more than 25,000 newsletter creators are sending out in excess of 2 billion emails every month with the click of a key. Denk is the co-founder and CEO of beehiiv, a software company that gives businesses big and small templates for creating newsletters that communicate information and drive sales.

It was Dubin who, in 2007, created the world’s first vertical advertising network, called Intergi (which he renamed to Playwire in 2014), tailored initially to online video game websites.

Catalina Mejía ’18 is a content manager at Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, Threads and WhatsApp, whose AI Studio allows users to create customized chatbots that can do everything from generate memes to give travel advice.

Fang-Zhen Teng Ph.D. ’05  has taken isotopic understandings to new pinnacles. He’s a pioneer in non-traditional isotopes, which considers elements beyond the more commonly analyzed materials: hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen and silicon.

Joshua Jeffries MBA ’11 is helping lead efforts to cut healthcare costs. The entrepreneur, health reform strategist, and employee benefit professional is pioneering what’s known as direct contracting.