1970s
Wade Hinkle
(1977, Consumer Information Services) lives in Annandale, Virginia. He worked for three years as a Madison House volunteer helping direct the Consumer Information Service. Then as a fourth-year student, served as special assistant to then-head honcho Rick Noble, helping Madison House apply for government grants. Went on to a doctorate from Maryland, service in the Pentagon as a senior policy offical, and as a professor at Maryland, GMU, and the Air War College. Currently, he is a member of the Institute for Defense Analyses, a Pentagon think tank, helping US security partners around the world to improve management of their defense minsitries and make them more democratically accountable. He still loves to drive by Madison House when he is in C-ville and explain to his wife Mary what it does and why it is so special.
Kathy Rhyne
(1977, Youth Recreation Program Director) lives in McLean, Virginia with her husband Chuck Axten and their friendly black Lab, Shawna. They spend time in Charlottesville whenever possible. Kathy heads the Tort and Environmental Litigation practice in the Washington office of King & Spalding, where her legal practice focuses on chemical risk assessment and mass tort litigation.
David Birdsell
(1979, Day Care) is Dean of the Baruch College School of Public Affairs in New York City. Over the last several years he has devoted his volunteer efforts to technology and civic culture with a particular emphasis on bringing technology resources to historically underserved populations. He serves on the advisory boards of several nonprofit organizations and on New York's Citywide Broadband Advisory Committee.
1980s
David Gogal
(1985, Big Sibling) is an attorney with Blankingship & Keith, P.C. in Fairfax, Virginia and married with three children. He has continued volunteering with youth programs, including leading a local youth sports club while coaching soccer, baseball and basketball, serving as a scout leader and teaching religious education. He has also served as a guardian ad litem for children who have been victims of abuse and for 10 years taught trial advocacy to high school students involved in Model Judiciary. He has been fortunate to have had the opportunity to keep in touch with his "Little Sibling" over the past 25 years, a grown man now of 30 years with his own 5-year-old.
Joe Gill
(1988, HELP Line (formerly Open House Hotline) Volunteer, Big Sibling Head Program Director, and member of the Board of Directors) spent fifteen years in leadership consulting and investment banking, after which he started a home remodeling and repair business in 2006 to spend less time on the road and more time in Short Hills, New Jersey, with his twin sons (HIP program directors and other MH volunteers interested in paid summer internships should contact Joe at jgill@debshandyhusband.com). Joe currently volunteers as the Cubmaster of his local Cub Scouts Troop and as lead facilitator and trainer for the Stamp Out Hate Coalition, an organization which brings teenagers together from different backgrounds to explore issues of race, religion, gender, socio-economic status and identity in an environment of respect. Joe has also volunteered as a coach for a co-ed soccer team and for 20 years as a leadership trainer for the Boy Scouts.
1990s
Tracy Delgado
(1992, HELP Line, formerly Open House Hotline) serves as the 2007-2008 Chair of the Board of Directors for International Women's House, a non-profit domestic violence shelter for immigrant and refugee women and their children. She lives in Atlanta with her husband, Joe; daughter, Jenna; and puppy, Ellie.
Jeff Doyle
(1992, Adopt-a-Grandparent volunteer and Madison House graduate assistant) is now working as the Director of Residence Life at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina. Jeff and his wife, Kim, are the proud parents of Jed and Sam, twin four year old boys.
Andrew Feldman: (1992, Group/Greek) continues to work in volunteer coordination. With his master's degree in student affairs, he took a role at the University of Vermont working with their student volunteer program. Currently he works for the United States Tennis Association as manager of volunteer development, helping improve the volunteer piece of many tennis initiatives, including the US Open Tennis Championships.
J. B. Mayo
(1992, 1993 Big Sibling, Boosters, Holiday Sharing, and Program Director for Group Projects) continues his research, focusing on social justice, diversity, and GLBT issues within the Social Studies. His latest study looks at identity development among GLBT youth, grades 9-12, and the role that Gay/Straight Alliances (GSAs) play in this process. He is also involved in an evaluative study of the GLBTA Mentor Program, run by the U. of M.'s Office of Equity and Diversity. As a result of his efforts, Mayo has been hired as an assistant professor at the University of Minnesota in the College of Education and Human Development. The new position began in August 2007.
Tonia Sanborn Anderson '93
Tonia lives with her
husband, Scott (also '93), and their two sons, Ben (6) and Sean (3), in
Memphis, Tenn. They both work at St. George's Independent School, Tonia
as a part-time Latin teacher, Scott as Director of College Guidance. Tonia draws on the leadership training and commitment to community
service she received through Madison House daily in her job and in her
personal life. Thank you for all you do!
(1995, HELP Line, formerly Open House Hotline) works for the Legislative Analyst's Office of the California Legislature, serving as a budget and policy analyst on labor, retirement, and gambling issues. While living in New York City from 1997 to 2005, Jason was a long-time volunteer for the University's Jefferson Scholars Regional Selection Committee there. Now living in Roseville, California, he has volunteered for local environmental quality and clean-up efforts.
Evan Goldman
(1997, Big Sibling) After U.Va., Evan moved to Japan as a cultural representative and high school English teacher in a Japanese school in the suburbs of Tokyo and traveled extensively through Asia. He worked in sales and marketing for Yupi.com in Miami from 1999-2001 after which he moved to San Francisco, California. There he worked for the San Francisco Conservation Corps, a non-profit which gave young adults the opportunity to turn their lives around through paid jobs and education. The kids helped with community service projects four days per week and were educated one day per week towards their high school diploma. Evan recently moved back to Miami, FL and works in residential real estate sales.
Amy Morton
(1998, Open House Hotline PD) Amy Morton lives in Los Angeles, California most of the time. After putting in her dues at a few dotcoms, an ad agency and MGM, she went freelance as a copywriter in 2005 so that she could have a portable career and indulge her wanderlust. (Visit www.amymorton.com for details on her writing services.) Today she writes movie taglines, marketing brochures, web content and all sorts of things from wherever in the world she is. Recently, it was Nicaragua. Before taking the entrepreneurial leap, Amy was a volunteer mentor for two years with WriteGirl (www.writegirl.org), a LA non-profit that pairs professional women writers with at-risk teen girls who aspire to write.
Sara Daniel Shaylor
(1999, Medical Services and Day Care) is currently in her first year of Radiology residency at the University of Pennsylvania and is newly married to Jay Shaylor '99. (Madison House Board of Directors) After U.Va., Sara pursued biochemistry research at the University of Florida, focusing on protease inhibitors for AIDS therapy. She then applied to medical school at MCV in Richmond and became the director of a program that paired medical students with pediatric cancer patients and their siblings. The program allowed out of hospital outings for patients and their siblings including rock climbing, ice skating, going to sports games, etc. Jay Shaylor is working on a fellowship he won while a graduate student in journalism at Columbia.
2000s
Kevin Cunningham
(2000, Youth Mentoring/ Boys & Girls Program) is attending Columbia Business School and previously worked in private equity. He volunteered at the Boys & Girls Club in Boston in 2004 and 2005. Kevin also spent a week earlier this month helping to rebuild destroyed homes in New Orleans through the Rebuilding Hope in New Orleans (RHINO) program.
Stacy Fleck Cunningham
(2000, Tutoring/Boys & Girls Club) is currently a Vice President in Equity Research at Merrill Lynch, has volunteered with New York Cares and a GED tutoring program in NYC.
Kisa Pendergrass Jackson
(2000, PD for Teens GIVE) After U.Va., Kisa attended the University of Maryland, College Park and received a Masters of Education in Counseling and College Student Personnel Administration. From there she worked for three years at the University of Florida's Career Resource Center as the Assistant Director for Diversity Programs. In December of 2004, Kisa got engaged to a Madison House Big Sibling, Dr. Joseph Jackson Jr., and moved to Durham, NC where they were married on October 8, 2005. She works at Duke University with a Lilly Endowment, grant funded program called PathWays at Duke, which creates opportunities for students to think theologically about vocation, calling and career choice, and also assists students with finding internships in local faith-based/non-profit organizations.
Patrick Barry
(2001, Big Sibling) is serving his second year as the President of the U.Va. Club of New York. During his involvement with the organization, he has seen significant change in the community service agenda, where it has become a focal point of the program thanks to efforts of the Community Service Committee. Patrick is planning to move back to Charlottesville in July and is applying to law school for next fall. He still maintains occasional contact with his little sibling who now lives in Richmond and he looks forward to reuniting with him once he moves back to Virginia.
Virginia Simms
(2006, Youth Mentoring - Boys and Girls Club) After graduating in May 2006 from the College, Virginia stayed in Charlottesville for the summer to work for the Institute for Public History. She then moved to Washington D.C. in August to work for the Atlantic Media Company, the parent company for The Atlantic Monthly, the National Journal, the Hotline, and several other publications. The company maintains a strong commitment to service; there, Virginia has been involved with the community through food preparation for the homeless, becoming a pen-pal with a local 3rd grader, and plans to participate in the upcoming Help the Homeless Walkathon in DC. Still in Charlottesville though, is Virginia's little sister, who matriculated as a first-year in 2006 and is now one of the over 3,000 current Madison House student volunteers!
