Hope everyone had a wonderful holiday season!


Nick Ware recently left his analyst position at Neighborhood Diabetes to start a nonprofit with Genius of Flexibility author Bob Cooley. The Types Project is committed to advancing the genetic understanding of human personality traits and characteristics to improve lives globally.


After an internship and some freelance work with Rolling Stone Chris Barth started as a full-time reporter at Forbes, writing for both the web and the magazine. He is living with Craig Breslawski and Brian DeGrazia in New York City, and tells us that Craig recently ran the N.Y.C. marathon. He’s completed two so far and he’s trying to run one on each continent before he’s 30!


Dexter Mackie recently decided to attend law school and is planning to take the LSAT soon; he asks us to keep our fingers crossed for him! Also, he had dinner with Zainep Mahmoud recently at Asian Spice and highly recommends it to any ’08s who are ever in the Washington, D.C., area.


Zaneta Thayer recently advanced to candidacy for her Ph.D. in biological anthropology at Northwestern, and will be headed to New Zealand for about a year starting next summer to conduct her dissertation research. She invites anyone who wants to visit to come down!


A story that will melt your heart is the engagement of Elise Braunschweig and Zak Kaufman. Elise, living in South Africa, and Zak, living in London, met up in Paris exactly five years from the day they met. They spent the day strolling around the romantic city and then, with the Eiffel Tower in the backdrop, Zak asked the question. Of course she said yes, and we wish the best to you both!


Back from a two-week adventure Leo Ospina tells us that he had a great time traveling to the Red Sea, Egypt and Jordan—look for pictures on Facebook!


Dave Glovsky writes in to tell us that Haley Morris visited him for the holidays and they had a great time hanging out on the beach. They rang in the New Year seeing Akon in St. Louis, Senegal, and good times were had by all.


There was another international New Year’s celebration when Jenna Sherman and Sheila Dunning visited me in India for the holidays. We spent New Year’s on the beaches of Goa, and then traveled through Rajasthan, went on tiger safaris in Ranthambore and finally met up with Julia Hecht to visit the Taj Mahal. In Dave’s words, good times were had by all.


Here’s to an awesome 2011!


—Yasmin Mandviwala, 6 Nollet Drive, Andover, MA 01810; yasminm@gmail.com