2024

  • March

    The Equity and Engagement team includes, from left, Director of Community Engagement Lucas Malo, Associate Director of DEI Katie Henderson, Global Education Director Andrea Villagrán, and Director Jenny Jun-lei Kravitz.

    Rivers’ Equity and Engagement Team: Innovation in Action

    This is the first year that the Equity and Engagement Department has been reorganized and expanded to oversee DEI, community engagement, and global education under new director Jenny Jun-lei Kravitz, but the impact is already being felt throughout the school, with enhanced programming, a sweeping vision, and an emphasis on the kind of environment and community Rivers values.
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  • February

    Rivers Celebrates Year of the Dragon with Community and Lion Dance

    Last night’s Lunar New Year celebration at The Rivers School was a vibrant event, full of dragons, dancing lions, traditional crafts, and great food. Rivers welcomed Gund Kwok, the nation’s first female Lion and Dragon Dance troupe, as well as members of the AAPI affinity groups from the Noble and Greenough and Buckingham Browne & Nichols schools. Nobles had hosted Rivers at a joint AAPI affinity space recently for all three schools. More than 200 attendees of all ages came together to celebrate the Year of the Dragon.
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  • Ale Paez Peñaloza ’24 (far left) and Arianna Martinez Cavero ’24 (far right) moderated a panel that included Victoria Mizzi, Andrea Villagrán, Jenny Jun-lei Kravitz, Julian Willard, and Yassine Talhaoui.

    US Assembly Turns a Personal Lens on Immigration

    Behind every immigrant, there’s a story. At last Friday’s Upper School assembly—the second session of programming created around this year’s DEI theme, Engaging Across Differences—attendees had a chance to hear immigration stories from a perhaps-unexpected quarter: Members of Rivers’ professional community who are themselves immigrants or who have close ties to the immigrant experience.
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