CHARTER DAY
Advancement Officer Chloé Kund ( BA ' 14 ) welcomes alumni and friends .
Becca Smith Becca recently graduated with a master ’ s in Arab Studies from Georgetown University . She worked for six years as a defense and national security analyst after obtaining her M . A . in international affairs from George Washington University . She spent four of those years with the Center for Strategic and International Studies and two years at the Pentagon , serving first in the Strategy Office and then in the Middle East Policy Office . She graduated from Bryn Athyn College in 2003 with a degree in French and English . Becca enjoys the challenge of raising three humans and is an active member of the Washington New Church . She runs the local Theta Alpha women ’ s volunteer organization and directs the Parent Service Program at the Washington New Church School . Her interests include U . S . history and foreign affairs , the Middle East , Islam and Muslim-Christian relations , Arabic , and sustainable agriculture .
Lincoln Smith Lincoln is helping create a shift toward forest agriculture , a farming approach modeled on the forest ecosystem and designed to restore environmental health while producing an abundance of food and supplies for people . Lincoln founded and runs Forested ( est . 2012 ), a forest garden company in Mitchellville , Maryland . He tests forestfarming methods , trains aspiring forest farmers , and designs new forest farms and edible parks . Produce from his 10-acre forest garden goes to farm share customers and to supplying chef dinners hosted in the garden . Lincoln is passionate about production ecosystems and lectures on forest gardening at a wide range of venues such as the US Botanical Garden , University of Maryland , PASA , and Bryn Athyn College . Lincoln grew up in Mitchellville , in the Washington New Church congregation where he now lives and works . He earned a bachelor ’ s in English at Bryn Athyn College and has been using the critical thinking and communication skills he learned there ever since . He then earned a Master of Arts in landscape design from the Conway School of Landscape Design and worked in high-end landscape architecture for five years before founding Forested . Lincoln ’ s work has been featured on National Geographic and various other media .
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