by VickiLee on December 17, 2011
Creativity, community, and critical thinking are strong threads running through Hannah Sarvasy’s life. They were nurtured at Walden, and although completely intertwined, each dominates in one of three central activities in Hannah’s adult life: art, the Conservation Corp, and field linguistics. Running through it all is Hannah’s love of adventure. I had the opportunity to [...]
by VickiLee on June 19, 2011
The graduation speech given by Walden alumna (2005) Grace Mungovan at her Berkeley High School graduation ceremony was published in the Huffington Post on June 6, 2011. Grace’s mother Joanne had this to say, “Thank you to Walden for instilling great values not to mention superb public speaking skill!” Congratulations to Grace and her family [...]
by VickiLee on November 29, 2010
Katy Goodman and Anna Godbersen have been friends since they were in Jo Brownlow’s kindergarten class at Walden in 1985. They both attended Walden through sixth grade, and went on to graduate from Oberlin and Barnard Colleges, respectively. Katy currently lives in Houston where she cofounded the nonprofit Workshop Houston; Anna lives in Brooklyn and [...]
by VickiLee on August 31, 2010
Reyna, soon to be a senior at Berkeley High, has spent several hours each week learning about how fund-raising works at Walden and helping with numerous projects this summer as Walden’s first fund-raising intern. She has done everything from interviewing alumni, to finding lost contacts for our database, from designing the sandwich board for our [...]