Classes & Obits

Class Note 2021

Issue

July-August 2023

Hi, ’21s! Hard to believe that it is almost two years since our graduation. I am happy to share some exciting professional and personal updates from the class of 2021! Congratulations to all and best of luck with your future endeavors.

Give a rouse to Tamy Gomez-Ortigoza!She got engaged in October and will be getting married to Bruno Korbar ’18 in Tepoztlan, Mexico, this September. They met in a class her freshman fall and the rest is history.

Marina Cepeda moved to Los Angeles to pursue directing. She was a production assistant for Netflix’s Your Place or Mine—and was on set with Ashton Kutcher!

Matt Magann is currently working in the Arizona desert as an exploration geologist, where he focuses on defining and sustainably developing the Santa Cruz copper deposit. In the past two years he’s managed to travel often and climb hundreds of peaks around Colorado, California, Utah, and the Southwest—of course always writing “TOR” in the summit register. Matt plans to move to the Bay Area in August to study for his J.D. at UC Berkeley Law.

Olivia Goodwin is in her last semester of completing an M.P.H. at the Yale School of Public Health. She is working on her master’s thesis and gearing up to bike from Virginia to Oregon this summer. She will be riding with Bike & Build to build affordable housing: two and a half months, about 4,000 miles biking, and 15 build days!

William Owen left behind the world of corporate finance in N.Y.C. and has started working in northern Maine for the Frog Barn, a mom-and-pop shop that specializes in all things amphibious. He is eager to spend all day outside collecting specimens and taking care of his green friends!

Alexander Rauda started a new job at Actum, in its D.C. office as an associate. The role consists of lobbying for clients across a variety of fields, including science, space, energy, and defense.

Though ’round the girdled Earth they roam, many of our classmates are starting graduate school programs! Seysha Mehta is finishing her first year of medical school. Justin Gi is starting graduate school at the Harvard Graduate School of Education in June. And Akosua “Kos” Twum is heading to Harvard Law School this upcoming fall.

Thank you for the updates. Class of ’21s, please send through any updates, awards, promotions, or moves—it would be wonderful to feature you in the next edition of Class Notes! In addition, please be encouraged to send an update about a friend in the class.

Marina Liot, 10 Liberty St., New York, NY 10005; marina.liot@outlook.com