MothWorks x Barnard - 6_4 program

& BARNARD REUNION REIMAGINED present:
A Special
Event with
The Moth
Live (Stream)
06/04 2021

Digital Program
Welcome by:
Cyndi Stivers ’78
Hosted by:
Dr. Marilyn Stocker ‘70
Stories by:
Patria Baradi Pacis ‘71
Susan Jacobson ‘81
Wendy Rosov ‘86
Ritu Goswamy ‘96
Jenn Pamela Chowdhury ‘06
Music by:
Dayren Santamaria
Directors:
Jodi Powell
Bonnie Levison
Producers:
Amanda Garcia
Anna Roberts
Executive Producer:
Kate Tellers

This year’s Barnard Alumnae Reunion show follows stories of
true life experiences or events alumnae had while at Barnard
that kept a piece of the College in their hearts and minds. The
stories you will hear today are a reflection on the past, but also
an exploration of the present.
Our Host:
DR. MARILYN STOCKER ‘70 (she/her) is a leadership
consultant, executive coach and former dean, whose work
addresses navigating change in the workplace and leadership
development. Her firm Wisdom Work’s client list includes
ComEd, LA Care, the Shedd Aquarium, Harpo Studios, Inc.,
the American Red Cross, Transunion, Shure Microphones,
McDonald’s Corporation, Allstate Insurance, BP Amoco
and over two hundred Fortune 500 firms. Dr. Stocker was
formerly Associate Dean for Executive Education at the Loyola
Graduate School of Business as well as Associate Professor of
Management. She currently serves as the Senior Leadership
Lecturer and professor at the Loyola of Chicago Law School.
She was the founder of the School for New Learning at DePaul
University, an innovative college for adults, where she was Dean
and Associate Vice President for Lifelong Learning. She taught
in the graduate school at Northwestern University for over 16

years, as well as at the University of Chicago. Her doctorate is in
Organization Behavior and Adult Learning, from Northwestern
University. She is the co-author of a book on leadership, called It
Still Requires Humans, which is forthcoming from Prentice Hall
Publishers. Her own mantra is: “Live as if you will die tomorrow;
learn as if you will live forever.” (attributed to Gandhi) as well as “Do
to another what will advance his or her growth, even as it advances
your own.” She is passionate about learning, leadership and finding
your authentic self in life and work.
Our Musician:
DAYREN SANTAMARIA (she/her) was fated to be an entertainer.
Born in Matanzas, Cuba to a professional musician father and
an actor mother, she opted for a musical life and chose to study
violin at age 7. Her passion for music has taken her on a journey
around the world and across musical styles. She was a member
of the National Symphony Orchestra of Havana and later the
concertmaster of the female string ensemble. Since relocating to
Los Angeles in 2007, she has worked extensively with four-time
Grammy Award Winner Oscar Hernandez, as well as performances
with Jose Rizo’s Latin Jazz band Mongorama, and actor, musician,
producer Andy Garcia’s band Cineson All Stars.

In 2015 she formed her band Dayren Santamaria & Made in Cuba
with some of the best musicians in Los Angeles. She is currently the
Musical Director for a TV show Noches Con Platanito for which she
composes, arranges, plays the violin, and conducts the band.
Our Storytellers:
PATRIA BARADI PACIS ‘71 (she/her) is a diplomat’s daughter
who was born in Manila and grew up in Africa. Her love of travel,
languages, and the arts led her to a career in the airline industry.
A graduate of Barnard College, Pacis is a founding member of the
Montauk Writers Group who published a book called On Montauk:
A Literary Celebration and is a monthly contributor to a local paper
as a writer and a photographer. She lives in Montauk with her
husband and adopted black, labrador, Princess Penguin of Kauai
and is currently working on her memoir.
SUSAN JACOBSON ‘81 (she/her) recently played Eleanor
Roosevelt in the one-woman show Eleanor (Moses Gunn Play
Company) and Sook in Capote’s Christmas Memory (Greenwich
Theatre Company). Her video, Broken, was accepted into the 2020
People, Politics and Planet Exhibition in CT and she received the
2019 United Solo Award for Best Physical Theater for her onewoman
show, Collecting Driftwood, which sold out at the Theatre

Row Studio Theatre in NYC. Susan has been shooting episodes for
the HBO series The Gilded Age, but her favorite roles include Sister
Aloysius (Doubt), Nat (Rabbit Hole), Martha (Who’s Afraid of Virginia
Woolf?) and Mom. A soloist with Mary Anthony Dance Theatre and
Susan Jacobson & Dancers, she choreographed and performed in
Letting Go which premiered at Lincoln Center’s Dance on Camera
Festival. She is a member of AEA, SAG/AFTRA and The Theatre
Artists Workshop.
WENDY ROSOV ‘86 (she/her) Founder and Principal of Rosov
Consulting, a mission-driven company dedicated to informing and
improving Jewish education philanthropy and practice. Wendy
brings more than 25 years of experience as a senior-level consultant
to individual philanthropists, community and family foundations, and
communal nonprofit organizations. Over her career, she has worked
with over 100 different North American grantmaking and operating
foundations and their grantees. Through Rosov Consulting’s Israel
office, Wendy and the team serve as evaluation consultants for the
Government of Israel’s Ministry of Diaspora Affairs and work with
other Israel-based clients. Prior to founding Rosov Consulting,
Wendy served for 10 years as senior staff at the Jewish Education
Service of North America (JESNA). Wendy holds a PhD in Education
from Stanford University, an MA in Jewish Education from the
University of Judaism (now AJU), and a BA from Barnard College,

Columbia University. Wendy is an alumna of the Wexner Graduate
Fellowship Program. Wendy lives in Berkeley, CA with her partner Peg,
who is Head of School at Brandeis Marin (a K-8 Jewish day school just
outside of San Francisco) and is about to become an empty-nester.
After too many sports injuries, Wendy now enjoys swimming and hiking
on a daily basis, and spending as much time as possible at a place
called The Sea Ranch along the beautiful Northern California coast.
RITU GOSWAMY ‘96 (they/them), Barnard Class of 1996, is a lawyer,
social worker, ayurvedic health counselor, writer, speaker, coach, and
activist. They authored three books for lawyers: The New Billable
Hour, The Holistic Lawyer, and The Lawyer Leader (to be released this
summer). Ritu is on a quest to use her own lived experiences to create
change in the legal profession, currently through leadership coaching
and DEI strategy. Connect with Ritu at www.ritugoswamy.com.
JENN PAMELA CHOWDHURY ‘06 (she/her) is a Liberation Coach
and the founder of In Full Bloom Coaching. As a first generation
Bangladeshi American, she helps other freedom-seeking immigrant
women of color who have been taught to sacrifice in service to others,
listen to their deepest selves with love and respect so they can honor
the “yes” within themselves. A veteran of the social impact space, her
experience in the nonprofit industrial complex as a woman of color
led her on a powerful self-healing journey involving sacred practices

to look within from a place of deep self awareness, curiosity and
care. Jenn is also a writer, storyteller, and artist and has performed
her pieces on topics such as mental health, social justice and
immigration at the Bowery Poetry Club and other venues.

About The Moth
THE MOTH is a nonprofit dedicated to the art and craft of
storytelling. Since launching in 1997, The Moth has presented over
40,000 true personal stories, told live, without notes, to standingroom-only
audiences around the globe. Renowned for showcasing
a broad range of human experiences, The Moth produces
approximately 600 live shows each year and has an ongoing
presence in 30 cities worldwide. Additionally, The Moth runs
storytelling workshops for high school students, teachers, adults and
advocates from around the world through its Education, Community
and Global Programs, and MothWorks which uses the essential
elements of Moth storytelling as an empathetic communication tool.
The Moth Podcast—the 2020 Webby People’s Voice Award Winner
for Best Podcast Series—is downloaded over 77 million times a year,
and each week, the Peabody Award-winning The Moth Radio Hour,
produced by Jay Allison at Atlantic Public Media and presented
by PRX, The Public Radio Exchange, is heard on over 550 radio
stations. The Moth has published three critically acclaimed books —
international bestseller The Moth: 50 True Stories (2013), All These
Wonders: True Stories about Facing the Unknown (2017) and The
New York Times Best Seller, Occasional Magic: True Stories About
Defying the Impossible (2019). www.themoth.org