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ALUMNA PROFILE resides in Pikesville with her five-year-old daughter, Kennedy. Stephanie Sufczynski is engaged to Steven Barsotti and the couple is planning to get married on Oct. 1, 2016. 2012 Jean Goldberg and her husband, Howard, are excited about the arrival of their granddaughter, Samantha Jean, born on Dec. 7, 2015. Proud parents are their daughter, Briana Goldberg Pipitone ’04, and her husband, Greg. Renae Hunter is the Art Director at Plank Industries. Robert Jackson ’12 ’14M is a high school science department chair and biology teacher in the Anne Arundel County School System. He also teaches online and online hybrid classes in anatomy and physiology and in forensic science at Harford Community College. Krystal Sharp graduated from the University of Scranton in May 2015 with a Master of Science degree in Human Resources. She works at Holiday Inn Club Vacations in Orlando, Fla., and in January was promoted from HR Coordinator to Talent Acquisition SpecialistMarketing Call Center. 2013 After graduation Yanita Boayue pursued her passion and joined Kennedy Krieger Institute working with children with autism. After moving closer to D.C., she continued that goal of helping and working with children and is now a therapist at B.A.C.I.C.S. ABA Therapy. She received her certification and became a Registered Behavior Technician and is interested in continuing her education with plans to pursue a master’s degree in clinical and behavioral psychology. Creating Community It’s fitting that Shervonne Cherry ’05 has the job title Community Manager—the word “community” seems to be a common thread in her life. For one, it’s a top reason she chose to attend then-Villa Julie College. Cherry knew that she wanted to pursue a degree in art or design and VJC was a prospective school. “I had a friend who was a freshman there, so I shadowed her for a day,” she says. “I’d had the image of college from the movies where it showed an auditorium with 200 students in a class. That scared me but then I came here and saw that it was like a community. President Manning was there greeting people, which impressed me. And when I decided to attend, it didn’t disappoint. It was a small community where I could grow, and I could tell people cared about me.” Fast-forward 11 years later to her position at Spark Baltimore, located at Power Plant Live!. Spark is described as a collaborative co-working space, and its clients are entrepreneurs, creators, and innovators. “We’re the next step after a company has graduated from an incubator, we’re about the growth,” Cherry says. “It’s expensive, you’re trying to build your brand, Leah Cornett was married to Brad Nelson on May 13 and the couple relocated to North Carolina. Earlier this year Leah passed the School Psychologist Praxis and, after completing an internship in Falls Church City Public Schools, was licensed as a Nationally Certified School Psychologist. She graduated with the Certificate of Advanced Graduate Studies in School Psychology in May. find a place—Spark focuses on the scalability of companies trying to grow. A lot of Tracy Imm ’13M was named the