Class of 2007

Ashley Satterfield wrote in from Memphis, Tennessee: “After practicing employment law for 13 years I recently started my own consulting business, ClearWork Consulting, focused on providing human resources compliance services to startups, nonprofits, and small businesses. I live in Memphis with my 10-year-old son and spend most of my time driving him around to baseball and basketball practices but am looking forward to a getaway trip with Whitney Cunningham, Sherry Marrs, and Amanda Brown that should rival spring break 2005. Would love to connect with any classmates and if you’re ever in Memphis, please let me know! Oh and I recently started doing standup comedy!”

Jacques Hebert chimed in from Minneapolis, where he currently lives with his husband, Graham, and 4-year-old chow chow Winifred Pearl. Jacques leads communications and public affairs for the McKnight Foundation, a Minnesota-based family foundation that advances a more just, creative, and abundant future where people and planet thrive. The foundation supports work on equitable communities, a clean energy economy, global food systems, artists and culture bearers, and innovative neuroscience research. Jacques has enjoyed building his own community in Minnesota, playing team sports, and spending time outdoors.

He shared that the closest he’s come to a Dartmouth reunion is when Amanda Greenberg popped up on his screen thanks to his company using the Balloon software, but he has loved staying in touch with folks such as John Valdez, Jesse Shaw, Derrick Smith, and other wonderful alums!

I caught up with Celeste Griffin-Churchill,who shared some awesome Dartmouth connections. She writes, “I am starting my fifth year in Dallas, which is much hotter and flatter than the New Hampshire mountains! It was fun to reconnect with another ’07 Dallas-ite, Derek Hernandez, who was a good friend in the Choates our freshman year. He had some fond memories to recall of Sandi Beutler, Skye Zeller, Dan Cook, Michael Presti, Christine Terada, Lauren Blum, and Jen Crombie—and said to say hi to our class! I moved here in 2019 for a private equity role (and in the process, also reconnected with Russ D’Souza because the investment focus area was tangent to the amazing business he and Jack Groetzinger have built at SeatGeek!). I left to go to a fin-tech startup in 2023. We are building a financial exchange that bridges Web2 and Web3 and are ramping up hiring if any classmates are interested in that space.”

Nicole (Mahr) Cannizzaro shared, “I had a blast on the Breckenridge ski slopes with Blair (Burgreen) Chan, Ludi Chow, and Sarah Markus. We had perfect weather and great conditions for skiing, and a great time was had by all!”

Finally, Rudy Chounone wrote from D.C., where he works as general legal counsel for the D.C. fire and EMS departments: “Hello from D.C., where I live with my wife, Megan, and our two children, who are 5 and 18 months—both of whom love their Dartmouth swag and can’t wait to crash our next reunion! Recently I had a couple of impromptu Big Green gatherings here—the first was in December with Amanda Brown Lierman, Ashley Satterfield, and Jordan Page. The second was with Milan Williams ’09, Jonathan ‘J.’ Lesesne, and Jordan again. Also, while my 5-year-old was on a playdate with her dear friend, whose dad happens to be an ’06, I ran into one of my trippees, Laura Glickman, and it was wonderful catching up with her. Other upcoming D.C. ’07 mini-reunions will include Jon Meyers and Michelle Davis—I love my Dartmouth family.”

—Sam Routhier, 543 W 122nd St., Apt. 25B, New York, NY 10027; samrouthier@gmail.com