I hope everyone is enjoying the summer. Lots of ’09s on the move, getting married, and some newly minted doctors starting residency. If you’re visiting a new city, don’t forget to look up your classmates!


Lauren Caracciola is moving to Amsterdam this summer and teaching at an international school. Kat Carmody is in London for the summer doing an internship at McKinsey. Elena Del Real moves to Cambridge, Massachusetts, in August to pursue her M.B.A. at Harvard Business School. Starting in August Sam Kaplan is taking a year off of from medical school to head to Cape Town, South Africa, as a National Institutes of Health Fogarty fellow. She’ll be doing research on antiretroviral treatment adherence in HIV clinics in a township outside of Cape Town. Mike Knapp moved to the beach and lives with his roommate Ishmael (his golden retriever) in Pacifica, California. He is still coaching rowing and teaching high school. His team won the national championship in 2014. Justine Modica is moving to the Bay Area this fall to start a Ph.D. program in the history department at Stanford University. She’s excited to explore the San Francisco area, but sad to be leaving New Orleans and hopes to live there again someday. Raymond Rodriguez took a new job as the director of policy and communications for New York City Councilman Ritchie Torres and will be driving his legislative agenda and media goals. Emily Esfahani Smith is moving to Ann Arbor, Michigan, in August for a year. After five years in Washington, D.C., Zach Swiss moved to New York to begin working as a manager of strategic business intelligence at Heineken USA. Ashley Zuzek moved to Los Angeles for her job.


Liz (Ellison) Baron and Art Baron ’07 were married March 21 in Chicago. They had a fantastic day celebrating with their families and dearest friends, many from Dartmouth! The classes of ’07, ’08 and ’09 were all represented, and Andrew Kempler ’08 was the best man. Michael Holman proposed to Cassie Rendon, DMS ’17, on April 6 in Pine Park in Hanover, followed by a very short engagement as they eloped on April 9 in Claremont, New Hampshire. 


Abi Ashcraft received her M.D. from the Medical College of Wisconsin in May and moved to Billings, Montana, for a rural family medicine residency. Mark Harris graduated from medical school and moved to Boston in June to start an anesthesiology residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Katie Nash graduated from Columbia Medical School and started a pediatrics residency at Boston Children’s Hospital in June. She wrote, “Just had a big Dartmouth reunion at the wedding of Anna Krigel and Ben Weiner ’10”!


Andrew Lebovich is in the second year of a Ph.D. in African history at Columbia University. He’ll be spending the summer doing research in France, Algeria, Mali and Senegal. Molly Roy lives in Washington, D.C., works at the U.S. Department of Energy in the energy-efficiency area and finished up a master’s in energy policy from Johns Hopkins University in May. She still plays ultimate Frisbee on Washington, D.C.’s women’s team Scandal and they’re two-time national champions, trying to three-peat this year! 


Keep a look out for mini-reunions in your area and follow ’09s on Facebook (“Dartmouth College Class of 2009”), Twitter (@Dartmouth09) and Instagram (@dartmouth09). Share a picture with the class via dartmouthsocial@gmail.com.


—Liz Doolittle Kahane, 255 Patroon Creek Blvd., Apt. 2219, Albany, NY 12206; (617) 909-7669; elizabeth.d.kahane@gmail.com