"Abintra taught me that, even as a child, my opinion mattered. The level of self-worth that comes from knowing your thoughts and feelings matter to the people who teach you is tremendous." -- Christy, Theatre Artist, Costume Designer, Director Christy graduated from Abintra in 2004 and continued her education at Nashville School of the Arts. She earned her BFA in Theatre Performance from Belmont University in 2011, and has been a freelance theatre artist in Nashville ever since. Since graduating, Christy has acted in several local commercials, as well as the Standardized Patient program at the Center for Experiential Learning at Vanderbilt University Medical School, a program that allows medical students to work on their bedside manner with actors instead of actual patients. Christy has also done costume design for Chaffin's Barn Dinner Theatre and Tennessee Women's Theater Project , and has been a stitcher for the Nashville Shakespeare Festival and the Ten...

Abintra   alumus and   Montgomery Bell Academy (MBA)   senior   Marcus Riley   was one of 3,100 students in the U.S. to be named an “Outstanding Participant” in the National Achievement Scholarship Program . These 3,100 students scored in the top three percent of more than 160,000 Black Americans who requested consideration for the program when they took the 2011 PSAT/NMSQT. The   National Achievement Scholarship Program   was initiated in 1964 specifically to honor academically promising Black American high school students. Marcus (right) with his friend Vincent, another Abintra alumnus and MBA student