Class Note 1998

Hello, ’98s! This issue I’m sharing a few professional updates from our hard-working classmates.

Marisa Howe is currently a deputy director for program development and performance quality at Kids In Need of Defense (KIND). She represents unaccompanied children in their deportation (removal) proceedings, works on issues affecting immigrant children at the southern border, and advocates for immigrant children on the policy front. Marisa informed me that Shirley (Sperling) Paley serves on KIND’s Boston advisory committee and that Laurie Carafone ’99 is senior director of legal services and Marisa’s boss. Marisa has been an immigration lawyer since graduating from law school in 2003 and has been at KIND since September 2015. She is also married to Kyle Marchesseault ’99—they have two kids, a daughter, 12, and son, 9.

Jennifer (Matthews) Stewart runs the fraud investigation department for Blue Cross of Massachusetts. She has a skilled team of attorneys, medical professionals, former law enforcement, and coders that works across the country and even internationally to track down fraud in the healthcare system. The team also partners with prosecutors and law enforcement to take on fraudulent actors attempting to take advantage of the system.

In October Jennifer met up with Ann Marie Nee in N.Y.C. to catch up and get their kids together. For the holidays, Jennifer is spending Christmas with family in Boston and then heading to Maine to ski and snowmobile. Speaking of Maine, Abby Gordon has landed in Portland, Maine, after several years of splitting time among Maine, France, and New York. She joked that the move singlehandedly lowered by 20 years the average age at Dartmouth Club of Maine luncheons. Abby is starting her eighth year as a senior director with Lateral Link, where she matches attorneys with law firms and in-house roles around the world.

Thank you for the updates. You never know what a ’98 will be doing 21 years out, and I love hearing all about it.

—Gabe Galletti, 4000 Utah Ave., Nashville, TN 37209; galletti@gmail.com