Class Note 2011
Issue
Jul - Aug 2018
It’s April now, and the class of 2011’s executive committee will be hopping on a conference call in May for a planning session headed up by our class president, Christine Souffrant. Would you like to see a mini-reunion in your area? Drop us a note at dartmouth classof2011@gmail.com so we can pass it on to our regional chairs!
Sydney Thomashow sent me an update to say that she and Chris Barth ’08 met and collaborated on a panel at SXSW, where they discussed “design thinking” and how it can be applied to branding, marketing, and other creative endeavors.
Ida Sargent and Rosie Brennan were mentioned in the Valley News for Ida’s third-place and Rosie’s fifth-place finishes in the six-athlete final of the women’s sprint of the U.S. Ski and Snowboard SuperTour at the Craftsbury (Vermont) Outdoor Center on March 23.
Alice Bradley also sent a note to say that she’ll be starting a faculty position as an assistant professor at Williams College this summer. Alice writes, “I’ll be in the geoscience department, where I’ll teach classes related to climate and continue my research in how to measure changing Arctic sea ice environments.”
Brandon Aiono is stateside for a few months while transitioning between jobs in China. Say hi to him if you’re in the Bay Area! He’ll be here until August, so hurry up before you miss him. After August you can find him in Shanghai. Adam Reed has also recently relocated to the Bay Area to work at an accounting firm. He just successfully completed the firm’s usual probationary internship and received a fulltime offer! Now you know who to contact for your taxes.
Raj Majumder is currently in an M.B.A. program at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, and will be in Thousand Oaks, near L.A., for his summer internship at Amgen. He and Tom Lane will be doing a week-long road trip from Nashville out to the West Coast!
Speaking of L.A., Marco Chu just completed another stair-climb and fundraising effort for the American Lung Association’s Fight for Air Climb here, involving 1,391 stairs and 63 floors.
Whenasked for an update, Gabriel Lopez, who is now an attorney, said, “I left my beloved Connecticut and took my talents down to South Beach to work at White & Case’s bank finance practice.”
Conrad Whitaker has had an exciting 11 years out of college in places quite far from Hanover. He writes, “Since graduating, I’ve spent most of my time abroad (except for a brief stint in San Francisco). I studied Arabic in Egypt, lived in a tent on the Nile in South Sudan while working for a research company, and in 2014, I moved to Nairobi initially to work as a consultant supporting renewable energy companies in East Africa. For the past three years I’ve been managing operations and distribution for a PayGo solar company, Azuri Technologies, where we distribute integrated solar home systems (solar panels, batteries, lights, etc.), coupled with new mobile money-enabled financing solutions to allow some of the 600M Sub-Saharan Africans who are not connected to the grid to affordably adopt solar technology as an improved way to access energy. (If you are interested in this topic, you can learn more on the ‘The East Africa Business Podcast,’ where I discuss the distributed economy as a development thesis.) For anyone making their way through East Africa, give me a shout; I am always looking to catch up!”
—Hillary S. Cheng, 16013 Legacy Road, #304, Tustin, CA 92782; (603) 546-8452; hillary.s.cheng@dartmouth.edu
Sydney Thomashow sent me an update to say that she and Chris Barth ’08 met and collaborated on a panel at SXSW, where they discussed “design thinking” and how it can be applied to branding, marketing, and other creative endeavors.
Ida Sargent and Rosie Brennan were mentioned in the Valley News for Ida’s third-place and Rosie’s fifth-place finishes in the six-athlete final of the women’s sprint of the U.S. Ski and Snowboard SuperTour at the Craftsbury (Vermont) Outdoor Center on March 23.
Alice Bradley also sent a note to say that she’ll be starting a faculty position as an assistant professor at Williams College this summer. Alice writes, “I’ll be in the geoscience department, where I’ll teach classes related to climate and continue my research in how to measure changing Arctic sea ice environments.”
Brandon Aiono is stateside for a few months while transitioning between jobs in China. Say hi to him if you’re in the Bay Area! He’ll be here until August, so hurry up before you miss him. After August you can find him in Shanghai. Adam Reed has also recently relocated to the Bay Area to work at an accounting firm. He just successfully completed the firm’s usual probationary internship and received a fulltime offer! Now you know who to contact for your taxes.
Raj Majumder is currently in an M.B.A. program at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, and will be in Thousand Oaks, near L.A., for his summer internship at Amgen. He and Tom Lane will be doing a week-long road trip from Nashville out to the West Coast!
Speaking of L.A., Marco Chu just completed another stair-climb and fundraising effort for the American Lung Association’s Fight for Air Climb here, involving 1,391 stairs and 63 floors.
Whenasked for an update, Gabriel Lopez, who is now an attorney, said, “I left my beloved Connecticut and took my talents down to South Beach to work at White & Case’s bank finance practice.”
Conrad Whitaker has had an exciting 11 years out of college in places quite far from Hanover. He writes, “Since graduating, I’ve spent most of my time abroad (except for a brief stint in San Francisco). I studied Arabic in Egypt, lived in a tent on the Nile in South Sudan while working for a research company, and in 2014, I moved to Nairobi initially to work as a consultant supporting renewable energy companies in East Africa. For the past three years I’ve been managing operations and distribution for a PayGo solar company, Azuri Technologies, where we distribute integrated solar home systems (solar panels, batteries, lights, etc.), coupled with new mobile money-enabled financing solutions to allow some of the 600M Sub-Saharan Africans who are not connected to the grid to affordably adopt solar technology as an improved way to access energy. (If you are interested in this topic, you can learn more on the ‘The East Africa Business Podcast,’ where I discuss the distributed economy as a development thesis.) For anyone making their way through East Africa, give me a shout; I am always looking to catch up!”
—Hillary S. Cheng, 16013 Legacy Road, #304, Tustin, CA 92782; (603) 546-8452; hillary.s.cheng@dartmouth.edu