Marlboro College
Alumni Council History
History of the Council
In October 2020, the Association held an election for nine positions to establish the next Alumni Council. The then elected council was installed in November 2020. You can learn more about that Council below.
In January 2021, the Council adopted and approved operating procedures that included the election of three officers from within the Council to fulfill the roles of Moderator, Clerk, and Treasurer. The Council elected the following members.
Moderator – Melanie Gottlieb ‘02
Clerk – Ellie Roark ‘12
Treasurer – Mark Genszler ‘95
The nine alumni comprising the 2020-2022 Alumni Council.
Amy Domrad Tudor ‘01
Amy’s life is a 360° commitment to and advocacy for self-directed lives. After first being introduced to self-directed education at Marlboro College, she went on to study the subject more deeply when marrying into the family of artist, illustrator and lifestyle icon, Tasha Tudor, who resettled in Marlboro after her son Seth Tudor graduated from Marlboro College in 1966. Amy’s young children are supported in their preference for a self-directed educational experience, a lifestyle which has been featured in two 90-minute documentaries produced by Japan’s NHK network. Amy is a 1999 graduate and Marlboro town resident.
Bess Lyons Poehlmann ‘92
Bess is a native Texan living in the Pacific Northwest. She graduated from Marlboro in 1992 and completed her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at Brandeis in 2004 with a focus on mixed-race identity. She taught at the University of Texas at El Paso. During the last nine months she has served as the co -chair of the Marlboro Alumni Association Archives Committee.
Christian “CJ” Churchill ‘91
CJ graduated from Marlboro College in 1991. Since then, he has been involved in education as a teacher and housemaster (The Deck House School, 1991-93), graduate student (Brandeis University, 1994-2000), professor (St. Thomas Aquinas College, 2001-2019), and administrator (Director of the Psychoanalytic Training Institute of the Contemporary Freudian Society, 2019-present, where he trained as an analyst). He has published in sociology and psychoanalysis. CJ lives in Westchester County with his husband, Jody, and continues to write.
Dagmawi Iyasu Eminetu ‘98
Dagmawi is an entrepreneur, public health practitioner, and coffee researcher with over two decades of experience and a passion for domestic consumption and coffee tourism in Ethiopia. He holds two Master degrees in Biotechnology (USA) and Coffee Economics and Science (Italy). He currently works for Grounds for Health (Vermont, USA) as the Program Manager for Africa, and YA Coffee Roasters (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia) as the Research and Innovation Advisor. As a coffee researcher, he continues to explore the value and potential of domestic consumption and coffee tourism in Ethiopia and other African countries.
Ellie Roark ‘12
Ellie is an environmental scientist, outdoor enthusiast, musician, runner, hiker, birder, and occasional baker. Most weekends she can be found running long distances through a valley filled with sheep.
Kate “Katie” Hollander ‘02
Kate (or Katie, which is how most folks knew her at Marlboro! And should feel free to keep doing so!) lives in Somerville, MA, with her partner, John Coakley ‘02, and a large and gentle tabby cat called Henry. She is a poet and historian who has taught creative writing and history at the college level for the past ten years. She holds a master’s degree in creative writing and a PhD in modern European history, both from Boston University, and has taught undergraduates and grad students at the University of Hartford, Simmons University, Boston University, and Colby College. She regularly publishes historical scholarship and literary criticism, and her first book of poems, My German Dictionary, won the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize and was published in the fall of 2019, just in time to for a reading in the Apple Tree on a cold night in January, 2020. She joins the council eager to work to build the foundations of an Association that may hope to give us all back some of Marlboro’s magical, essential, courageous spirit and unique life of the mind in democratic community.
Mark Genszler ‘95
Mark has spent time at Marlboro in a variety of roles and time periods, and enjoys working across those boundaries and eras in friendship and common purpose. His term as college alumni director introduced him to alums of all eras, living across the world. His current work as an Episcopal priest lends itself well to what he calls a need for healing mixed with a need to speak the truth. While he lives and works in Brooklyn, NY, Mark and his husband own a house in Brattleboro (which they share with housemates), and spend time there. Mark advocates that the alumni council work needs to combine an international ‘placelessness’ of a widespread community with an emphatically ‘placed’ advocacy for and assumed stewardship of those acres in Vermont.
Melanie Gottlieb ‘02
Melanie (Knight) Gottlieb has worked in higher education for nearly 23 years with experience in Records & Registration, Enrollment Management and International Recruitment and Credential Evaluation. She currently serves as the Deputy Director of the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admission Officers, overseeing marketing, communications, content development and the international aspects of the association. Melanie earned an MA in Information Science from the University of Missouri - Columbia and a BA in History /American Studies from Marlboro College in Vermont. She has two lovely daughters and lives in Bethesda Maryland with her partner, Jim.
Pamela Nye ‘93
Pam was part of the World Studies Program while at Marlboro College, and thus has a joint degree with Marlboro College and the School for International Training. Her master’s degree is in Library Science at Clark-Atlanta University, where she graduated in 1995. Starting in 2001, she began work at the Georgia Archives, choosing in 2003 to spend more time with her family. After working on several part-time projects, she returned to full-time archives work in the fall of 2012 in her current position.
Interim Council – 2019-2020
With great appreciation and much gratitude, we acknowledge the contributions of the Marlboro College Alumni Association Interim Council who guided the reconstitution of the association in advance of the closing of the college. It was a challenging transition and we cheer your successes in keeping the association on course during the college’s closure. Thank you for your efforts on behalf of the Marlboro College community.
