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Party Photos: Meet the Teachers Night

At mb Offices in Soho, June 17, 2005

Posted June 24, 2005

Our semi-annual Meet the Teachers cocktail hour was packed! There were students mixing it up with instructors, mb's education department bustling around talking to everybody, mb staffers mingling, delicious food (did you snag something from the dessert tray?), and tunes spinning off the iPod.

A special thanks to all the instructors who came out: Sara Austin (Magazine Editing), Christa Bourg (Nonfiction Proposals), Melissa Clark (Cookbook Writing), Alan Cross (Writing Comedy for TV), Steve Friedman (Boot Camp for Journalists), Mary Lisa Gavenas (Beauty & Fashion Writing), Jill Hamburg Coplan (Boot Camp for Journalists), Wendy Knight (Travel Writing), Polly Kreisman (Interviewing Techniques), David Leite (Food Writing), Malcolm Lightner (Photography Career), Fiona Maazel (Fiction Master Class), Michael Martinez (Business Writing Boot Camp), Celeste Mitchell (Magazine Writing; Stiletto Book Camp), Alana Newhouse (Arts Journalism), Matt Roshkow (The Art of the Film Pitch), Howard Samuels (Tax Guidelines for Freelancers), Christopher Scapelliti (Boot Camp for Magazine Editors), Sue Shapiro (Memoir Workshop), Dylan Stableford (Humor Writing), James Sturz (Travel Writing; Pitching for Dollars), Precious Williams (Memoir Writing, Women's Mags), and Manoush Zomorodi (Television News Reporting; On the Air Training)

Photographs by Brian Van Nieuwenhoven.

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mb's East Coast director of education Carmen Scheidel with Boot Camp for Magazine Editors instructor Christopher Scapelliti.	mb's assistant directors of education Melissa Mandel and Amanda Barrett.
Writer Lauren Levin, mb memoir writing instructor Sue Shapiro, and Art of the Film Pitch instructor Matt Roshkow.	TV News Reporting instructor Manoush Zomorodi, Jacquelyn Moore-Hill, and Interviewing Techniques for Journalists instructor Polly Kreisman.
Our business and tech instructor Michael Martinez with the AP's Jason Atkins.	Humor-writing instructor Dylan Stableford totally does not think it's funny. With freelance writer Shari Waxman.
Travel teachers James Sturz and Wendy Knight.	Cookbook-writing instructor Melissa Clark with television producer Jane Sangster and Willis Baxter Johnson.
Shelley Kehm and Katherine Ainsworth.	Thomas Buczkowski and Noelle Ashley.
Freelance reporter Sarah Poehlmann with HWH PR's Norman Iannarelli.	mb uber-instructor Steve Friedman with television narrator Jeff Colt and freelance writer Elizabeth Stull.
Freelance writer Roxana Ramirez with How to Be an Arts Journalist instructor Alana Newhouse.	mb office DJs: deputy editor Jill Singer and community coordinator Greg Bloom.
Editorial assistant hopeful Julia Grathwol with freelancer John Davidson.	Freelancer Sue Karlin with mb's Melissa Mandel.
Organic Style's Jessica Lothstein with Cooking Lounge's Willis Baxter Johnson.	Stiletto Boot Camp instructor extraordinaire Celeste Mitchell.
Bookspan's Angela Barbuti with mb's operations and finance assistant Amy Flauck.	Dennis Publishing's Melissa Noble.
Sue Shapiro and travel-writing instructor Wendy Knight.	Elizabeth Stull, mb founder Laurel Touby, and freelance writer Sue Karlin.
The party was packed fifteen minutes in!	Education intern Hillary Nammack, very psyched to attend her first Meet the Teachers night.