Hello, ’09 classmates! I hope you’re enjoying the summer. I have some exciting updates from our classmates to highlight. Julia DeWahl wanted to share that after seven years in the Bay Area, she and her husband moved to Los Angeles and had a baby boy, Torkild, in May! Arran Forbes was named an Alaska “Top 40 Under 40” for young professionals and community leaders. Arran works in the neonatal intensive care unit, but this award was for her volunteer nonprofit work as president of Arctic Entries, an organization that hosts live storytelling events around the state featuring true stories from everyday Alaskans. She wrote, “It started as a wacky event in the basement of a brewery but has grown to a 2,000-seat concert hall with national broadcasting on public radio. Ticket sales go to teen support programs in Alaska, with nearly a half million dollars donated. People seem to thirst for stories and human connection outside of a screen, and it’s been a wild ride to watch this little show explode into a major production.” This month Arran also published a magical realism novel, Pluto Cove, set in the north gulf of Alaska. She shared that she wrote it after her daughter was born in 2018, while traversing the alien landscape of postpartum, then finished rewrites and edits between shifts at the neonatal ICU. Outside of bookstores in Alaska, you can find e-reader and hardcopy versions on Amazon. Andy Han married Harmony Barker in a pandemic prequel wedding on April 24! Oliver Townsend officiated and Chris Han ‘11 was best man. It was essentially family only, but he can’t wait to get that Dartmouth banner picture in a year when they get to celebrate with friends. Britni Jackson and Samuel Jackson ’06 were married at Dartmouth in June 2020 and are expecting their first child this August. Quinton Klabon completed his master’s at Harvard University and made sure to wear his Dartmouth hoodie on Zoom constantly in defiance. He now advances education policy for a U.S. House of Representatives member, though he is able to remain in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He continues to mentor students from his former workplace, Saint Marcus Lutheran School and is excited to resume visits with them to Dartmouth. Marley McMillan just graduated with an M.B.A. from Vanderbilt University and will be starting as a consultant at Deloitte in October in Austin, Texas. Kareem Niazi will be moving to Richmond, Virginia, this July with his wife and two daughters to join a private practice as an interventional cardiologist. He looks forward to exploring the area and meeting nearby alumni! Kimia Shahi completed a Ph.D. in art history at Princeton University in June and started as an assistant professor in the art history department at the University of Southern California in August. She will be on leave from 2021-23 while completing a postdoctoral fellowship at the Harvard Center for the Environment. Kimia looks forward to connecting with fellow ’09s in the Cambridge and Boston area and (eventually) on the West Coast as well! Emily Esfahani Smith is expecting a baby boy in September and is in the second year of a clinical psychology Ph.D. program. She is still writing articles and is working on a new book. Jesse Victor and his wife, Daniela, are finishing their two-year assignment at the U.S. embassy in Vientiane, Laos, and will be back in New England for a few months before starting a three-year assignment at the U.S. embassy in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, around October 1. They would love to connect with any Dartmouth alums in New England or Latin America or who might be interested in visiting Honduras!

—Liz (Doolittle) Kahane, 1023 Park Blvd., Baton Rouge, LA 70806; (617) 909-7669; elizabeth.d.kahane@gmail.com