![headshot of Desi Gallegos MA Class of 2013]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1619044766/maorg/h2kbdbbz4fndv9yzzy7b/Picture1.png","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1619044766/maorg/h2kbdbbz4fndv9yzzy7b/Picture1.png","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_3/v1619044766/maorg/h2kbdbbz4fndv9yzzy7b/Picture1.png","width":800},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1619044766/maorg/h2kbdbbz4fndv9yzzy7b/Picture1.png","width":936}])
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about Q&A With Medical Student Rio Beardsley ’04
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about Marine Biologist, Erika Woolsey '02, Uses Virtual Reality to Share the Ocean With Everyone
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about Q&A with M.D. and Assistant Professor Anika Backster ’98
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about Q&A with Former Family Physician Hope Becklund ’80
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about Q&A with Ram Kaundinya ’15
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about Q&A with Author Avery Monsen '02
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about Q&A with Newly Published Author, Claire McNear ’07
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MA’s Director of Alumni Engagement, Heather Sammons, recently caught up with and interviewed Bella Bromberg '19 about her growing tutoring company, Summus Tutoring, as well as pursuing her dream to be a musician all while attending Barnard College at Columbia University.
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During the months of being sheltered-in-place, Marielle Lyons '17 has been going through her old high school assignments. She found this love letter she wrote to San Rafael when she was a senior at Marin Academy.
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The Director of Alumni Engagement, Heather Sammons, recently caught up with and interviewed Cherise Hall about her new company ChereesieCup Cakes.
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MA Alum Ethan Strull '18 Discusses Affordable Housing
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Terry Castleman '12 was just named a Pulitzer Prize finalist, MA sat down with him to help process this big news.
![Thoughts surrounding the death of George Floyd by Savala Trepczynski '98]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1591300040/maorg/jobsn67rvbubixswc65v/BLM_GorgeFloyd-protest.jpg","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1591300040/maorg/jobsn67rvbubixswc65v/BLM_GorgeFloyd-protest.jpg","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1591300040/maorg/jobsn67rvbubixswc65v/BLM_GorgeFloyd-protest.jpg","width":720}])
Savala Trepczynski is Executive Director of the Center for Social Justice at UC Berkeley School of Law. Her book about race, gender, and the body will be published by Simon & Schuster in 2021.
![Dylan Fisher '10 Wins the Clay Reynolds Novella Prize the First Time He Gets Published]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1586388623/maorg/jhasquptnq1jx0l54dok/DylanFisher.jpg","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1586388623/maorg/jhasquptnq1jx0l54dok/DylanFisher.jpg","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_3/v1586388623/maorg/jhasquptnq1jx0l54dok/DylanFisher.jpg","width":800},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_4/v1586388623/maorg/jhasquptnq1jx0l54dok/DylanFisher.jpg","width":1200},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1586388623/maorg/jhasquptnq1jx0l54dok/DylanFisher.jpg","width":1440}])
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NEXUS Magazine
Each year Marin Academy publishes the NEXUS magazine.
The annual NEXUS magazine contains feature articles, alumni profile(s), campus news, reflections of the past year of community life, lists of graduates and colleges, alumni classnotes, and the annual report. Produced by the Office of Institutional Advancement, each fall the publication is sent to every member of the MA community: current families, the Board of Trustees, alumni, alumni parents, faculty and staff, other educational institutions, foundations, and friends of the school.
NEXUS Now
NEXUS Now is a digital complement to NEXUS Magazine that is provided twice a year: in the winter and spring. Featuring stories on MA's academic and social life, student profiles and alumni news, athletics, arts and events, and more. NEXUS Now, along with NEXUS Magazine, is a timely way to stay up-to-date with all that's going on at MA!
Winter 2020 issue of NEXUS Now. Download it here.
Voices of MA
"I volunteer for the MA alumni board because MA played a large role in shaping who I am today. By staying active in the community I hope to give students a little bit of what I gained at MA."
—Brittany Ouyang '07