Many updates—straight to it!

Christine Chang and Philip Song were married on September 30 in Philip’s hometown of Princeton, New Jersey. They met in kindergarten and reconnected after college in New York City. Many ’10s were in attendance, including Jenny Qian, Sisi Yao, Yacoba Annobil and Sooyeon Kang.

Xiao Lin is marrying Andrea Choi ’11 in Manhattan on September 23. They moved to Geneva, Switzerland, one and a half years ago after four years of dating long distance. Andrea is from Hong Kong, so they’ll have another wedding banquet in Hong Kong in early 2019.

Lou-Lou Igbokwe wrote in to share that Deja Kemp is marrying her fiancé, Anthony Lawrence, on April 7 in North Carolina. Yaa Obeng-Adusare will perform the ceremony. Other ’10s in attendance are expected to include Nichole Davis, Harmony Gbe, Jasmine Richards, Jessica Guthrie, Kristin Powell, Daria Waite, Charnice Barbour, Allen Odeniyi, Hamadi Henderson and Lou-Lou herself!

Ben Young and Briana Carroll Young welcomed their first child, Riley Helen Young, in November. Ben says that Riley’s grandmother, Suzanne Wiley Young ’77, is already planning on sending her to the Winter Olympics in the 2030s!

Chelsea Place Johnson and her husband, Chris Johnson ’09, welcomed baby boy Hartley Place Johnson on January 18.

Lucretia Witte writes, “I still live in San Francisco and work as the executive director of the expeditions program at Summit Public Schools. I’ve set a personal goal of visiting 30 national parks by my 30th birthday, and just completed an awesome solo trip through Utah’s Mighty Five this January. Got some great recommendations from Matt Applegate, which resulted in me getting lost in a slot canyon in Escalante (not his fault!). I had an awesome time celebrating Paula and Karen Sen’s 30th in the Berkshires during President’s Day Weekend and enjoyed staying in Jane Kurtzman’s uptown palace (Jane is a urology resident at Columbia). I also spent some time with my squash teammate Libbey Brown and her fiancé, Brendan Lane ’11, who are getting married in the Poconos this September.”

Krystal Palmers graduated from Rutgers Law School-Newark in January. In September she’ll start working as an assistant district attorney in Bronx County in New York City!

Jeff Friedman is still living in Boston and he was recently promoted to portfolio manager at GM. He’s now co-running the firm’s distressed credit investing business.

Matt Mukerjee finished his Ph.D. in computer science at Carnegie Mellon University. He, Sophie Hood ’09 and their corgi Brock will be heading to the West Coast for new adventures.

Rufaro Makanda is back in N.Y.C. after graduating from Harvard Business School in 2016 (with many fellow alums, including section-mate Annie Rittgers ’09!). She has been working at Bank of America in investment banking ever since. Rufaro gets to spend time with lots of Dartmouth classmates throughout the year, and is looking forward to mini-reunions at Dartmouth weddings in 2018!

Jeremy Teicher was selected to be an artist-in-residence at the South Korea Winter Olympics, where he directed a feature film starring Alexi Pappas ’12 and Nick Kroll. The film was shot on location in the Olympic athlete’s village and inside several Olympic sport venues—an unprecedented level of access for a fictional film project. Jeremy and Alexi will be getting married this June.

Be well!

—Jennifer Chong, 7A Marine View, 19 Middle Lane, Discovery Bay, Lantau, Hong Kong; jenniferashley chong@gmail.com