Lila spent many years in New York, where she worked for Oxford Univ. She has also taught at the Asian Institute of Management, the Ateneo School of Government, and the Univ.

Prior to this, she was assistant secretary and head of communications of the National Anti-Poverty Commission and deputy director of the Museum of Philippine Humanities at the Cultural Center of the Philippines. She was also spokesperson of the Inter-Agency Council Against Trafficking. During the Aquino administration, she was assistant secretary and head of communications of the Human Development and Poverty Reduction Cabinet Cluster, which covered 26 Philippine government agencies dealing with poverty and development. Secretary General Lila Ramos Shahani heads the Philippine National Commission for UNESCO. Ravi writes: “ Facebuddha: Transcendence in the Age of Social Networks is a combination of rich modern memoir, state-of-the-art exploration of the psychological research on social media, and introduction to Buddhism.” Send your news to the BAM at Chandra’s first nonfiction book was published in October. They streamed the musical starting May 20 for four days as a fundraiser for the Actors Fund.” The actors are also all from Brown and include Lisa Loeb, Julie Bowen ’91, JoBeth Williams ’70, Josh Hamilton ’91, Ann Harada ’85, and Rhonda Ross ’93 among many other talented folks. In the spirit of O nce Upon A Weekend, a playwriting festival that Paula Vogel created at Brown years ago, we got 10 different playwrights, matched them with composers and directors, all from Brown, and created 10 seven-minute complete musicals, all taking place from March to November 2020, all on Zoom, and all about finding connection with other people while isolated because of the pandemic. A bunch of the other people in the reunion agreed it was a great idea and so we did it.

Beth Wishnie writes: “ Lisa Loeb ’90 and I were on a Brown theater reunion several months ago, which inspired her to want to write a musical about the pandemic experience with all the amazing Brown grads we were reconnecting with after all these years.

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