CARYN SHUSTEK '99 TEAMS WITH ACTOR ANDREW SHUE
AND OTHERS TO PROMOTE TEACHING THROUGH SCREENING
OF THE FIRST YEAR IN LERNER HALL, APRIL
22
New
York, N.Y., April 19, 2002 – Caryn Shustek
’99, an associate at the hedge fund Himalaya
Capital, is involved in a slightly unusual company—all
its employees are Barnard and Columbia graduates.
In addition to Shustek, Himalaya Capital employees
include graduates from both Columbia College
and Columbia Business School.
Supplementary to their day-to-day fund activities,
the employees promote causes of various non-profit
organizations. Their current project is the
screening of Davis Guggenheim's Peabody Award-winning
documentary, The First Year, in the Cinema
at Alfred Lerner Hall, Monday, April 22, at
6 p.m.
The documentary chronicles the determination
and commitment of five novice teachers as they
struggle to survive their first year in America's
toughest schools. The film cuts through the
rhetoric about education to remind us what is
real: the powerful relationship between a teacher
and a student.
A discussion will immediately follow about how
candidates for the next generation of great
teachers can be reached and recruited. Panelists
and sponsors include: Wendy Kopp, Founder and
President of Teach For America; David Levin,
Co-Founder of KIPP Academies; Andrew Shue, Actor
and Co-Founder of Do Something; and Li Lu, Founding
General Partner of Himalaya Capital
Teach For America has been a major supporter
of The First Year and of the screening at Columbia.
The organization is a corps of outstanding recent
college graduates, of all academic majors, who
commit two years to teaching in public schools
in low-income communities. Over the past 12
years, Teach For America has placed 8,000 corps
members in sixteen urban and rural areas. They
have helped more than one million children gain
the opportunities they deserve. And well beyond
their two-year commitments, alumni have assumed
leadership roles both within and outside of
the field of education - in the fight to ensure
that one day all children in our nation have
an equal chance in life.
Contact:
Petra Tuomi, Public Affairs, 212-854-7907
Laura Whitlock, Public Affairs, 212-854-2037
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