FINAL Turbo Talk Bios
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Alumnae Turbo Talks Class of 1985 Class of 1985 Black at Brearley Working Group. We came together in summer 2020 over a shared desire to hold a conversation with former classmates around the racism experienced at Brearley by Black students, and to explore all of our roles in that history and beyond. In the past nine months we have met often to develop ways to implement this mission, and have initiated three meetings open to all members of our class. For this Turbo Talk, the group wanted to share this work with the wider Brearley community and to talk about how we see it contributing toward accountability, action and ally-ship. We are: Caroline Bicks, Lisa Downing, Janet Reich Elsbach, Alison Green, Victoria Guest, Monica Lengyel Karlson, Marie Elizabeth Mali, Dawn Simmons and Penny Wilson. Carolyn Bernstein ’86, EVP, Scripted Content and Documentary Films at the National Geographic Channel Carolyn Bernstein is EVP, Scripted Content and Documentary Films at the National Geographic Channel. Under Carolyn’s leadership, Nat Geo premiered its first-ever scripted anthology series, Genius, which garnered 17 Emmy nominations in its first two seasons, and The Hot Zone starring Julianna Margulies, Nat Geo’s highest- rated scripted series in channel history. Carolyn also oversaw The Right Stuff on Disney+, based on Tom Wolfe’s eponymous best-selling book, and Genius: Aretha, the most recent installment of the Genius franchise starring Tony, Emmy and Grammy award-winning and 2020 multi-Oscar nominee, Cynthia Erivo. After the success of Oscar and multi-Emmy Award-winning Free Solo in 2019 and Oscar- nominated and Emmy-winning The Cave, National Geographic’s current doc films slate includes Fauci, from Oscar-winning producer Dan Cogan, Cousteau, from Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winning director Liz Garbus and Thai Cave Rescue, from Free Solo directors Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin. Carolyn is a magna cum laude graduate of Brown University and resides in Los Angeles with her husband and two children. Kathy Braddock ’75, Managing Director & Real Estate Broker, William Raveis Kathy Mayer Braddock is an entrepreneur in every sense of the word. She delights in the opportunity to bring innovative real estate businesses to life, particularly ones that fill unanswered needs and to helping them achieve market dominance. As both managing director at William Raveis New York City and co- founder of Braddock + Purcell, a residential real estate consulting firm, she has continued that mission. A 35-year industry veteran with a passion for working closely with brokers, Braddock uses her business acumen to understand what it takes to get a deal done. Braddock is no stranger to success. During her venerable career in real estate, she helped form and build some of New York's most distinguished real estate firms. She co-founded Rutenberg Realty and was formerly executive managing director at Douglas Elliman. Prior to joining DE in 2000, Braddock turned Intrepid New Yorker, which she founded in 1982, into New York City's premier destination services company. She co-authored two books about living in New York and navigating daily life in the area. Her wealth of industry knowledge has made Braddock a sought-after source by the media. She is regularly quoted in The New York Times, New York Post, The Real Deal, and is seen on-air as a guest commentator on NY1 News and Fox News. Braddock is a New York City native, educated at Hunter and Brearley. She received a BA from Vassar College. Ann Carmel ’61, Financial Advisor and Chair of The Untermyer Gardens Conservancy Ann Erdmann Carmel retired in March 2020 from a 50+ year career in finance. She continues to consult for D.C. Capital Advisors, a small private investment firm. Ann also manages money for a small group of investors—FOA Partners—friends of Ann. She spent most of her career in risk arbitrage at two successful Wall Street firms before starting a firm and then joining DC Capital. Ann has served for decades on the board and as Chair of Ramapo for Children, an organization that runs a residential facility in Rhinebeck, NY, and provides training to teachers, caretakers and others in dealing with children with special needs. She has also served on the board and as Chair of the Adirondack Council, an organization that advocates for the protection of the Adirondacks and for vibrant communities within the Adirondack Park. Ann is currently the chair of the board of The Untermyer Gardens Conservancy in Yonkers. Ann’s greatest joy is spending time with her three grown sons, their wives and seven grandchildren ages 10 to 14, all of whom live in NYC or close by. They spend much of our time together at their family farm in Brant Lake, NY and, in fact, retreated there for 10 months during Covid-19 along with two horses, three goats and 18 chickens. Ann is married to Daniel Wolk, a retired Rabbi. Ondine Cohane ’90, Travel Writer and Editor Ondine Cohane published National Geographic’s Always Italy with Frances Mayes in March of 2020 which received the Robert Lowell award for guidebook of the year as well as the North American Travel Journalists Gold medal. She is a Contributing Editor at Conde Nast Traveler, and a frequent writer for the New York Times travel section, as well as the London Telegraph newspaper and other international publications. In 2006 she moved to Pienza in Southern Tuscany and with her ex-husband designed and opened two boutique hotels, La Bandita Countryhouse and La Bandita Townhouse, which includes a destination restaurant. She has been on camera with the PBS Conde Nast Traveler’s Insider Guide as well Good Morning America and the Today Show, and is now working on a memoir. She lives with her son Jacopo in the UNESCO protected Val d’ Orcia, and travels all over the world for articles (in normal times). Juanita Dugdale ’70, Dugdale Projects Juanita Dugdale is a consulting editor, writer and art director. After serving as a founding partner of the public information design firm Two Twelve in New York, she formed Dugdale Projects to research articles and advise on books about art, design and private histories. Sister of Shirley Dugdale ‘66, Juanita attended Brearley from first grade until graduation in 1970. At Wesleyan University (BA 1974) her portrait photography was presented as the first one-person student show at the new arts complex. Her public sector positions included a stint at the Smithsonian’s Bicentennial Festival of American Folklife before work at a NYC branding and naming firm. At Yale University (MFA 1980) she became immersed in typography and the emerging field of information design, later serving on a search that recommended the School of Art’s first female program director. As a contributor to design magazines, she covered subjects ranging from wayfinding to architectural inscription and emigre designers. During the pandemic she wrote Art Called: The Sculpture of Don Justin Meserve, a tribute to her late husband, a master stoneworker in Maine. She is a member of the Brearley Alumnae Board. Rozella Kennedy ’81, Founder & Owner, Brave Sis Project Rozella (Rozie) Kennedy is the Founder and owner of Brave Sis Project, which she describes as a “message and a movement of wellness and intercultural sxsterhood.” Over the years, Rozella has worked across the nonprofit spectrum, holding executive and fundraising roles in the arts, environmental, and social service sectors. In her early career in media, she worked for magazines ranging from Paris Passion to Sports Illustrated, Mothering, and Oxygen.com. A first-gen collegian and a Woman of Color, Rozie is as comfortable in community spaces as in the C-Suite. She has always striven for results, whether in starting a new venture; coaching or training others; introducing new people into circles of allyship and partnership; or serving as a thought- leader, consensus-builder, and when necessary, passionate catalyst for understanding, mutuality, and growth. She is also a published essayist, ghost writer, and copyeditor. When she is not attending to Brave Sis, she works to build philanthropic partnerships at the intersection of climate innovation and equity with Elemental Excelerator. A proud graduate of NYC’s Brearley School, Rozie earned a double degree in English and French from Tufts University, and completed her M.A. in French Caribbean Women's Literature at the Université de Paris, Sorbonne. She is a devoted friend, colleague, life partner to her husband, composer/conductor John Kennedy, and mother to two young adult daughters, and one adored Caribbean Potcake Dog, Pippa. Aska Langman ’06, Director, Aska's Animals Aska has spent most of her life working with and caring for animals. While getting her B.S in Animal Science from The University of Vermont, she spent a year in South Africa working with a wildlife veterinarian caring for injured wildlife. After college, she moved to Victor, ID and traded in working with lions and elephants for cats and dogs. Aska has been involved with the local animal welfare groups and participates in the Animal Adoption Center’s Spay/Neuter program on the Wind River Reservation as well as trapping feral cats for PAWS of JH. In order to spend more time caring for all the rescue animals, Aska started her own dog boarding business, which allows her to stay at home with all the animals and with her son, Leo. Aska’s husband Will has accepted that his life now revolves around the animals and you can find him building and fixing anything and everything here at the farm. Hope Moeller ’91, Teacher and Director, Middle School Theater at The Ensworth School Hope (Stearns) Moeller ’91 received her B.A.