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Joshua Nightingale ’09
Maine
Josh knew he wanted to work in the sports industry dating back to his days at YHS where he was an ardent fan of the New England Patriots, Boston Red Sox, and Boston Celtics. Even though Josh spent countless hours playing the video game “Madden” and studying the box scores, he knew it would require more than just pure fandom to “break in” to the industry.
In order to begin to gain a competitive edge, Josh attended Syracuse University and graduated with a B.S. in Sport Management. He then got his start working in the sports biz when he interned at a pro baseball agency and was responsible for creating a statistical model that evaluated minor league baseball players using advanced metrics. After some more sports agency work and a J.D. from Villanova University, Josh accomplished his dreams when he went to work for the Kraft Group as an Analyst. While at the Kraft Group, Josh was responsible for providing marketing & analytics services for the Patriots, Revolution, Patriot Place, Gillette Stadium, and other Kraft businesses. His work coincided with the Patriots’ 3-year Super Bowl run where he played a role in helping to automate and deliver digital marketing communications to their fan base and analyzing subsequent engagement.
Josh has since moved back to Maine where he works remotely for a digital marketing & analytics agency. He is excited to be back home and return to “the way life should be.”
Amanda Murray ’17
United States Coast Guard
Amanda Murray currently attends the United States Coast Guard Academy in New London, Connecticut. This is her last semester here and will receive her assignment on March 3rd, 2022. Ms. Murray began her journey to become a Coast Guard officer in 2017 when she attended the preparatory school Marion Military Institute (MMI) for a year through the CGAS program. The CGAS program is a way to develop students academically, physically, and militarily.
After attending MMI she began her journey as a 4/c (freshman) at the Academy by completing Swab Summer. She also made the Women’s collegiate soccer team as a freshman. She is a recipient multiple times for silver, bronze, and gold stars which represents excellence in military acumen, physical fitness, and academics. After the 2018 academic year she sailed around Europe on the tall ship Eagle. Then in the 2019 summer she gave back to the program where her journey started and was in a leadership position for CGAS training. In her final summer she went to Panama City Beach, Florida on a Fast Response Cutter (FRC) and Special Mission Training Center (SMTC) in Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. She will graduate as an Ensign in the United States Coast Guard on May 18th, 2022, with a bachelor’s degree in Marine Environmental Sciences.
Casey Austin ’14
New York, New York
Casey Austin graduated from Yarmouth High School in 2014 and moved to the UK to pursue her passion for entertainment and publishing at the University of the Arts London. While studying in London she found her niche as a food writer, founding her schools chapter of Spoon University, taking it international, and editing the blog for 2 years. Upon graduating she moved to NYC to work at Food Network on their social media team as a writer/vlogger for their daily Snapchat Discovery stories, as well as being regularly featured as talent in digital video series and managing the Food Network social handles. People around the world were reading Casey’s humorous and pop-culture driven stories daily, averaging between 500k-1mil views a day. Her daily roles included posting on the brand socials, attending food festivals and shooting digital content at restaurants around NYC.
In 2019 Casey decided to pivot from food media to her real passion in entertainment media by accepting a position at ViacomCBS, recently renamed to Paramount, as a Social Media Producer and Coordinator for MTV Entertainment shows. For 3 years she has worked across various networks at the parent company including MTV, VH1, Paramount Network, CBS and Paramount+ on all things digital marketing. Notable shows that Casey has worked on are MTV staples like Jersey Shore and Ridiculousness, as well as Paramount Network’s Bar Rescue and CMT’s Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders: Making The Team. The umbrella of jobs under her role include editor, producer, graphic designer, copy writer, publicist and countless others. With the social media landscape changing every day, she loves the challenges and excitement of never knowing what’s around the corner.
Conner Pearl ‘17
Los Angeles, California
After graduating from YHS in June 2017, Conner attended the University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles, where he graduated with a degree in Communication and a double minor in Music Industry and Marketing. During the summer of his Sophomore year, Conner interned at Reservoir Music Management as a creative sync licensing intern, helping place music for film and TV. Subsequently, Conner interned at Decibel Entertainment, an artist management company with major clients such as Ricky Reed. After college, Conner began working on the Amazon account at Initiative, an ad agency based in Los Angeles. He and his team are in charge of running all of Amazon’s ad campaigns on over 30 different video streaming services such as Hulu, Disney+, YouTube, and Peacock. Conner is also a passionate songwriter, and has released three singles, available on all streaming services. Although Conner is career-oriented professionally, his artist career is where his true passion lies, which he intends on continuing to pursue in the coming months.
Grace Mallett ’14
West Hartford, Connecticut
Grace Mallett completed her undergraduate education at Bowdoin College with a double major in Computer Science and Hispanic Studies. During the summer after her sophomore year, she worked for Girls Who Code, a nonprofit organization which aims to equip young women with technical skills to pursue education and careers in computer science. After this positive experience, Grace and several of her peers at Bowdoin helped start a local Girls Who Code club at Brunswick High School. The following summer, Grace worked for a tech startup in Boston where she discovered her passion for frontend web development. One of the highlights of Grace’s college experience was during the fall of her senior year when she attended the Grace Hopper Celebration, a conference that connects thousands of women technologists from across the globe. It was at Grace Hopper that Grace secured her full-time role after college as a frontend software engineer at The Walt Disney Company. In her role, Grace works on innovative features and solutions across various Disney branded websites, such as ESPN.com, ABCNews.com, and NationalGeographic.com. Currently, Grace’s focus is on features for Disney’s sports portfolio on ESPN.com.
Andrew Gabrielson ’10
Yarmouth, Maine
Andrew Gabrielson is a Yarmouth based gardener and tree expert who is currently the owner/operator of Sticks & Stones Landscaping. His business focuses on designing and installing residential ornamental gardens in coastal Cumberland County. These projects have included planting trees, shrubs, and perennials, building stone walkways and patios, and creating outdoor spaces ie. Sculpture gardens.
His love of garden design began in the STEAM Room at Harrison Middle School during the “Dream Home” project which coincided with the discovery of Landscape Architecture as a career. After job-shadowing three Landscape designers for the YHS CEP, Andrew attended the Landscape Architecture department at University of Rhode Island. To be closer to family and get more hands-on experience, Andrew moved back to Maine, worked as a Nurseryman at Estabrook’s Nursery, then opened Sticks & Stones Landscaping. 2022 marks the 10th season for the business that has grown to support a 5-person seasonal crew and an office staff. Andrew is looking forward to bigger installation projects with new equipment in the coming year.
Alex Malcolm Mills ‘06
New York City
Malcolm Mills (aka “Alex Mills”) is a NYC-based actor & filmmaker. His directorial debut film, VR Food, stars comedian John Early (HBO’s Search Party), and is currently touring film festivals internationally. In addition to directing the film, Mills also served as its screenwriter, production designer, soundtrack composer, and lead actor. Mills is currently in post-production on two new shorts he’s directed, a horror-comedy involving his cats, Strange with Cats, and Oh, for a Pack of Gum, a ghost story with Stonestreet Studios.
As an actor, Mills plays an evil wizard in an upcoming fantasy feature film, The Spine of Night, starring Patton Oswalt and Betty Gabriel (Get Out). Other acting credits include Fox’s Tenured with Kate Flannery (The Office), and They Remain with William Jackson Harper (The Good Place). At YHS, Mills played the lead in the Footloose musical, alongside your English professor, John Russel, who played the surly gym teacher. Mills also twice-won the YHS spirit week improv-comedy challenge, which he considers his peak.
Carolyn Highland ’08
Truckee, California
Carolyn Highland is a writer and teacher with over 50 published essays in print and online, in publications such as Backcountry Magazine, The Ski Journal, A Worthy Expedition: The History of NOLS, Misadventures Magazine, The Leader, and the websites of Teton Gravity Research and the Outdoor Women’s Alliance, among others. She is a regular contributing writer to the Deuter blog and the NOLS (National Outdoor Leadership School) blog. Her writing has also been used in course readers on expeditions through NOLS, the Prescott College Outdoor Program, the Second Nature Wilderness Program, and NatureBridge. Carolyn received a BA in creative non-fiction writing from Northwestern University in 2012. Her first book, Out Here: Wisdom from the Wilderness was released in September 2020 by Rocky Mountain Books, and is available in the YHS Library. She lives in Truckee, California.
Catherine Bickford ’82
Yarmouth, Maine
Catherine Bickford founder of Artascope in Yarmouth, is a painter and teacher. Catherine asserts that teaching and practicing art can be healing. “I imagine my paintings as moments when the universe is winking through me. I am drawn to abstraction, keeping the paint alive and spontaneous so that the process remains visible. I embrace the juxtaposition between rendering form and building composition with playful color and strong brushwork.” Catherine embodies Artascope’s mission in her own life, using creativity to buoy her spirit and bring her closer to others. “My closest friends are artists and I love having their artwork in my life.” Painting often feels like active meditation which has been particularly important during the Pandemic. Getting together to paint with my students, even on zoom, has been a life-saver this year.
Morgan Hamre ’16
Seattle, Washington
After graduating from YHS, Morgan attended Hobart & William Smith Colleges, where she majored in computer science and minored in environmental studies. Throughout college, Morgan completed several internships, including a web development internship at Big Room Studios, a software development internship at Unum, and a software development internship at Citi. Currently, Morgan is a Software Engineer at Nordstrom, where she uses her love of problem-solving to implement technical solutions that drive a positive customer experience.
Daniel King ’07
New York City
Daniel King graduated Yarmouth High School in 2007 before attending Syracuse University. Though he entered college as an Architecture major, he eventually graduated with a degree in Physics with both Architecture and Computer Gaming as minors. After college and a brief stint as a temp, Daniel moved to New York to pursue a career in game design. In the ensuing 8 years he has lived in a variety of apartments and had a variety of jobs in and around game design. Currently, Daniel is the Games Lead at Move38, a startup that makes a digital tabletop technology called Blinks.
Erik Fisher ’05
Greenville, South Carolina
Erik attended Yarmouth Schools for K-12 and then completed his undergraduate education at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY with a major in Microbiology. Erik moved to Manhattan for medical school at Weill Cornell Medical College. After graduating medical school, he completed residency training in Emergency Medicine at Yale University and completed medical training with a fellowship in Medical Toxicology at Banner Health and the University of Arizona College of Medicine in Phoenix. Erik is currently an Emergency Physician and Medical Toxicologist at Prisma Health and an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine in Greenville.
Alex Brewer ’08
Avon, Connecticut
Alex Brewer began his career in media attending Syracuse University (’12) after high school. His focus entering college was to work in sports media, majoring in Communication and Rhetorical Studies. After stops in Albany (radio sales) and New York City (Nickelodeon), his lifelong dream to work for ESPN came true in December of 2013. He was hired as a Production Assistant and worked on shows such as College Gameday and SportsCenter. Alex shifted his career from production after realizing he had a passion for business, negotiation, and operations. He currently supports the ESPN+ original content operation as an Associate Manager working within a Business Affairs group.
Ted Guastello ‘02
California
Ted Guastello is a behavioral healthcare executive and counselor who currently serves as Chief Strategy Officer for AMFM Healthcare. Previously Ted was Vice President of Operations for Newport Healthcare, the nation’s largest provider of adolescent mental health treatment. Ted has had the opportunity to present on behavioral health issues on CNN, CBS, HLN, and ABC as well as conferences nationally.
Ted studied at Boston University and received his counseling credential (CATC) from the Institute of Chemical Dependency Studies in Los Angeles, CA. Ted is passionate about the helping professions and about spreading the word that you can ‘do well by doing Good’. The beauty of behavioral healthcare is that it transforms lives, patients and staff alike.
Ted lives in Southern California with his wife, Abigail (who is a nurse and healthcare executive), their infant daughter, Grace and their dog, Tyson. Though he identifies as a ‘Mainer’, Ted has proudly forgotten how to shovel snow after 11 years of living in California.”
Allie Smith ’07
Lewiston, Maine
Allie Smith has been designing, delivering, and managing nonprofit programs for 7 years; she currently works for two nonprofits in Lewiston, ME. At New Beginnings, she runs the Educational Support Program, where she helps homeless and at-risk youth reconnect to and succeed in educational environments. At Healthy Homeworks, an organization focused on safe housing that she helped her mother found in 2016, she serves as Director of Education, creating and delivering educational programs focused on home ownership and home maintenance skills. In this role, she designed the curriculum for the award-winning “Build a Bed” program, which teaches participants carpentry skills while they build free new beds for themselves and others; she is currently co-designing a new program that helps Lewiston residents purchase their first home while improving the safety and quality of housing in the downtown. She was named one of Lewiston/Auburn’s “40 Under 40” in 2018 and was appointed to the City of Lewiston’s Housing Committee in 2020, where she advises the City Council on issues related to housing in Lewiston. In 2017, she purchased and rehabilitated a condemned three-unit apartment building in Lewiston’s downtown, where she now lives and provides affordable housing to two other families. She graduated from Yarmouth High School in 2007 and from Dickinson College in 2011 with a degree in English Literature.
Samuel Adams ’07