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Alumni News, continuedCortney Healy graduated from AUR in 2008 with a degree in Art History. She recentlyfinished serving with the Peace Corps in Morocco. During her time in Morocco Cortneyworked on a documentary entitled You Can Dream: Stories of Moroccan Women Who Do.The film can be viewed here: http://womensvoicesnow.org/watchfilm/you_can_dream_stories_of_moroccan_women_who_do/Cortney writes:“Things are well here. Peace Corps is great. I finish my service this Friday. I can’t believe it.Such an amazing experience. I’m planning on going back home, to Boston and after, well Ihope to find a job. Ideally I will start Graduate school in the fall but that all depends on a variety of things. I wouldlove to go back and study Human Rights and Media studies. I wish I could make it back there.Hopefully in the future.”Filmmaker Bliss Holloway is an AUR alumnus who put the AUR International RelationsDepartment in touch with the Director of the Kokrobitey Institute, Renée Neblett Kokrobitey,and made the Ghana Scholarship program possible in the first place. Bliss is now sponsoringthe scholarship winner’s allowance in Rome. Many thanks, Bliss.Catherine and Geoffrey Maita were Study Abroad students atAUR in 2002. The couple met on the island of Capri, and weremarried in 2007. Four of Catherine’s roommates from AUR attendedthe wedding. “We often think of our wonderful time in Romeand hope to return some day,” says Catherine.Sascha Kugel graduated from AUR in 2005 with a degree in Communication. Saschahas taken on a job in marketing and booking at a sailing school in the island of Elba. Hehas moved back to Italy and lives on the island.Shortly after graduating from The American University of Rome in 2008 with a BA in Communication Michael Mauryaccepted an internship in sales and marketing at Los Angeles Confidential Magazine, a regionalluxury publication in Los Angeles, California. After nine months of tedious office work and redcarpet events, Michael received a job offer from a young entertainment marketing company,Hollywood Branded Inc. Already familiar with the glitz and glam of Hollywood, he easily carriedthese experiences and his degree to an agency specialized in product placement. The agencycreates marketing campaigns for brands, TV and film production companies alike. A few of theagency’s clients include: BlackBerry, Dearfoams, Harman/Kardon and Keurig. Michael alsovolunteers at Best Friends LA, a dog rescue organization where he couldn’t resist adoptingLayla, a Labrador mix. He plans on pursuing his career in marketing and brand managementand furthering his education at a graduate program in the near future.Collin McCanna was a Study Abroad student at AUR through the ISAprogram in fall 2009. Collin exhibited his art and photography November12-21 at the Mudd Art Gallery at the Seeley G. Mudd Library inAppleton, Wisconsin. The exhibition was entitled “Pieces of Rome.”Alexia Pilleris, who graduated in 2010 with a degree in Communication,has been accepted into a master’s program in Florida at NovaSoutheastern University in mental health counseling, beginning withthe winter semester.17