Brian Bensch founded SnowSchoolers.com, a peer-to-peer startup connecting ski and snowboard coaches directly to students, providing affordable private lessons, while paying their freelance instructors double market rate and simplifying the lesson-booking experience. Diane Cheney graduated from UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine in May and moved to College Station, Texas, for a one-year small animal rotating internship at Texas A&M University. Will Chen got a postdoc at the Institute for Advanced Study. Ryan Church graduates from his dermatology residency in July and is looking into post-grad job options. Meanwhile, he’s rock climbing and enjoying southern California weather. Diana Dinescu’s master’s thesis, “Is Marriage a Buzzkill? A Twin Study of Marital Status and Alcohol Consumption,” was published in the Journal of Family Psychology and benefited from an unexpected amount of attention from the press. Now she’s working hard to finish her dissertation! Emily Eichenberger is in her final year of an internal medicine residency at New York Presbyterian-Cornell and in July she will be chief resident at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Taylor Holt wrote that he left the great group of Jeff Crowe ’78, Casper de Clerq ’84, Ed Yip ’04, Jared Hyatt ’06 and Dave Kellenberger ’12 and joined John Huelskamp ’06 at Flexport. Christian Kiely started a new job at Todd & Weld LLP. He and Kristen Kiely recently moved to Charlestown, Massachusetts. After her short film haunt premiered in the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival, Lilian Mehrel made another virtual reality film, Invisible, and is writing a virtual reality sci-fi series as well as a comedy TV show. DeVon Mosley lives in Dallas and works for an investment company. He is working on his master’s in public and business administration and is probably going to get married soon. Emily Esfahani Smith moved to Washington, D.C., with Charlie Dameron ’11, and her book, The Power of Meaning: Crafting a Life That Matters, will be published by Crown in January.

Dan Romero and Julia DeWahl married in June, complete with Rocks and Aires voices at the ceremony and reception. With startup Opendoor for two years, she currently works as interim general manager of its Phoenix operations. Nathan Empsall married Diana Church (Sweet Briar ’01) in Washington, D.C., on July 23. The Rev. John Shellito ’07 officiated, Max Bentovim ’08 was a groomsman and, together with other alumni, Brian Chao, Rob Cousins, Kaili Lambe, Alessandra Necamp and Cinnamon Spear attended. Nathan and Diana will be in New Haven, Connecticut, for the next three years. Kaitlin Gallup married and is now Kaitlin Licato.Labor Day weekend Yoko Matsumoto married Andrew Gerba at the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina, and will travel through Asia this fall on an extended honeymoon. Virginia Deaton Ryan and Milo Rodriguez were two of her bridesmaids. Luke O’Halloran married Laura Gardner ’10 on August 6 in Sonoma, California. Kate Harney officiated and Nick Weir, Adam Frank, Catey Pease, Maggie Goldstein ’10, Katy Briggs ’10 and Steph Lee ’11 were in the wedding party. Kate Schmidt moved to London with her fiancé, whom she met at a Filligar concert. They marry next June in Virginia.

Chris McCune wrote that Garrett Lee McCune was born on July 29! Chris continues to work in finance at M&T bank and is in the middle of his M.B.A. at the University at Buffalo.In May Virginia Deaton Ryan, C.J. Ryan ’08, Taylor Hedrick, Grace Colloton, Tommy Albright and Martha Boyd Albright met in Munich for beer gardens, biking and late nights at Club Sheraton. Haoxiang Cai wrote that he “is now a chartered financial analyst charterholder and has his life back.”

—Liz Kahane, 7 Chatmoss Road, Henderson, NV 89052; (617) 909-7669; elizabeth.d.kahane@gmail.com