Classes & Obits

Class Note 2015

Issue

July-August 2023

Elena Karis and Randall Reynolds (UVM ’14) got engaged in April while snowboarding at Copper Mountain Resort. They met through a dating app in October 2020, only to find they’d both been working on the same street in Hanover for months. The couple resides in White River Junction, Vermont, and looks forward to a Vermont wedding next year. In the meantime, please welcome Randall to the Dartmouth family as he begins his Ph.D. in electrical engineering at Thayer this fall!

Funmi Badejo is graduating from Creighton University School of Medicine and moving to Chicago to start an obstetrics and gynecology residency. 

Aaron Ellis graduates in May with his Ph.D. in cultural anthropology and food studies. He will be the first Black male to graduate with a Ph.D. in anthropology from Indiana University and will have his degree before he turns 30! Congratulations and happy birthday to Aaron!

Zach Queen isfinishing eight years of active duty service in the Marine Corps in June. He will pursue an M.B.A. at the Northwestern Kellogg School of Management starting in August.

Lorenzo Carlisle isoperations lead at Fair Square Medical, a startup that is simplifying Medicare and empowering seniors across the country. Forbes recently wrote about the company’s $15-million Series A financing. Lorenzo was recruited to join Fair Square by Ben Schenk, a fellow alum of Dartmouth and Bones Gate.

Asher Mayerson recently left his job as a consultant at BCG, where he worked with U.S. regional banks and global corporate and investment banks on climate finance, to work at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, where he is helping to design and implement a $27-billion grant program that will leverage additional private capital for clean energy and clean air investments across the country.

Sarah Ruhland, 450 Folsom St., San Francisco, CA 94105; (307) 413-3055; sarahlucasruhland@gmail.com