Class Note 2013
Hello, ’13s, and happy summer! We have many updates this edition, so let’s get to it.
Matt Nichols moved to Copenhagen, Denmark, in September to enroll in the one-year M.B.A. program at Copenhagen Business School. He has also joined a startup there called Amodo Associates, which provides human resource analytics and people strategy consulting. If that sounds like something that could benefit your organization, reach out to him on LinkedIn! Ben Southworth received a Nicholas C. Metropolis Postdoc Fellowship at Los Alamos National Lab and will be moving to Los Alamos, New Mexico, this summer. If you are in the area, please reach out! Svati Kirsten Narula and her dog, Cabot, are continuing to settle in as Upper Valley community members living in Lyme, New Hampshire, and working at DAM’s office in downtown Hanover. When they’re not in one of those two places, they are training for a 50k trail race that Svati plans to run in Stowe, Vermont, in June or hanging out at Still North Books in Hanover.
Danny Freeman began hosting Politically Speaking, a weekly politics show for NBC San Diego. “June” Yuan Shangguan writes in that she is still working on speech recognition research, pushing the boundaries of on-device artificial intelligence. She’d also like to give special shout-outs to ’13 ladies Rachel Wang and Annie Chen, who are working hard to build amazing careers in STEM and who consistently inspire her. Callista Womick appeared on the cover of the catalog for watercolorist Wendy Artin’s latest show, Révèle, and achieved her highest FICO score yet: 817! Sophia Schwartz is still living in Jackson, Wyoming. This winter season she worked on a ski project that entailed landing a double backflip and skiing the Grand Teton and Cody Peak’s Central Couloir.
We also have many peers graduating from different grad school programs! Emily Fletcher, James Lee, and Angie Yang graduated with an M.B.A. from the Ross School of Business. Emily also earned an M.P.A. from the Ford School of Public Policy. Lexi Kellison and Elizabeth Fleming graduated with their M.B.A.s from the Wharton School of Business and Elise Smith graduated with her M.B.A. and master’s in education from Stanford. Maia Matsushita graduated from NYU with her master’s in education and is staying in New York City to teach. Robbie Hoffman, Shea Smith, and Aly Perez also all graduated from the Darden School of Business. Chloe Teeter graduated from law school in May and has headed to Brownsville, Texas, to clerk for a judge for a year. If anyone is in the area (or knows anyone in the area), please let her know! Congratulations to everyone and best of luck in the next step of your journeys!
Finally, we have multiple friends with big life changes! Chelsea Hassett married John Brunda, Tu’14, in February with many ’13s (Lina Monsalve, Elizabeth Fleming, Angie Yang, Dimpy Desai, andAly Perez) in attendance. Karoline Walter got engaged to her partner, Lucia Martino, in a treehouse in the woods in December. Though Lucia didn’t go to Dartmouth, she fit right in at reunions and we are so happy to welcome her to the Dartmouth family! Delanyo Kpo ’14 and Richard Asala got married in December 2019 in Accra, Ghana. Delanyo is a Ph.D. candidate at Princeton University, while Richard is an associate at Morgan Stanley. Last but certainly not least, as of mid-January Shannon Draucker and Matthew Boyas have a new addition to their family: a mini Australian labradoodle named Hazel! She’s already met a bunch of Dartmouth alumni and you can follow her adventures and her Dartmouth leash on Instagram at @ladyhazel_thedood.
—Aly Perez, 104 Ivy Drive, Apt. 8, Charlottesville, VA 22903; alyp625@gmail.com
