[The Stage is on Fire] is a page-turner in which, much like life, there are no easy answers and yet each step of the journey yields insight and hope. This work of heart must not be missed!
Katie Steedly’s first-person piece [The Unspeakable Gift] is a riveting retelling of her participation in a National Institutes of Health study that aided her quest to come to grips with her life of living with a rare genetic disorder. Her writing is superb.
In recognition of receiving the Dateline Award for the Washingtonian Magazine essay, The Unspeakable Gift.
I thank you … It is the authenticity of your “class notes”; and it is the delicacy and skill with which you present the nuances of classroom life and the actuality of your students’ and fellow teachers’ lives.
Roslyn Wertheimer graduated from Skidmore College in 2016 with a BA in Psychology and a minor in Music. During her time in college, she served as a social media intern for Skidmore’s Marketing & Communications offices, where she maintained and created content for a variety of the college’s official social media platforms and implemented an initiative for tracking new alumni social media engagement. From this experience, Roslyn realized that her passion for social media lay in the potential for community building–even when it happened online. Just two days after graduating, Roslyn became the marketing coordinator for Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, in Katonah, New York, where her role focuses on social media management, digital and print advertising, and digital photography.
A classically trained trombonist, Roslyn spent a majority of her time in high school and college participating in a variety of music groups. In her free time, she continues practicing her love for digital photography, and on the weekends, you can usually find her supporting friends’ music careers in small venues around New York City. Roslyn is on the board of the Youth Wind Ensemble of Westchester serving as their head of marketing, and currently resides in her hometown of Ossining, New York.
