Hope all is well, ’05s! Quite a bit went on since our last full column was published, so let’s get to it.


Matt Heineman and his documentary Cartel Land starred at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival in February. Matt took home the Best Director, U.S. Documentary award, while the film also received a Special Jury Award for Cinematography in the same category. The film went on to receive rave reviews at the Tribeca Film Festival and will debut to the public in theaters on July 3. Congratulations, Matt! Speaking of awards, our own Kabir Sehgal won a Grammy Award in February for Best Latin Jazz Album for The Offense of The Drum by Arturo O’Farrill & The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra. Kabir served as the album’s executive producer and wrote the liner notes. Kabir and Arturo actually met at Dartmouth, when Arturo was the resident musician with the Barbary Coast. 


Neel Shah and Skye Chatham recently published Read Bottom Up, a New Age novel about falling in love, or like, in the digital age, told in an inventive, creative style. Told essentially through emails and text messages, the story should resonate with any recent Dartmouth alum. Congratulations, Neel!


In other news, after successfully building and managing a development program for the performing arts at Stanford, our own class treasurer, Kyle Polite, has left the continent. Kyle embarked across the Pacific in January to oversee the fundraising for and opening of a new art museum at the University of Sydney in Australia. Continued best of luck, Kyle!


Courtney Chandler recently started a new business. After two years of learning the trade she opened a dog training business called Waggly Dog (wagglydog.com) serving Queens, Brooklyn and Manhattan in New York City. If you’re in the area definitely head over and check it out!


Kevin Goldstein wrote in to let us know that he and his wife, Sarah Fox (not Dartmouth), welcomed a daughter Madeleine Jean Goldstein on August 9, 2014. They have also recently relocated from New York to Washington, D.C., and are having an amazing time as parents. Congrats, Kevin!


Speaking of kids, Micah Dortch and family welcomed Maya Josephine Dortch to the world on April 4. Micah’s mom, Bonita, made the trip from the states to Shanghai and word is that baby and family are all doing well.


Send more updates and be well, everyone.


—Matt Nicholson, 4545 MacArthur Blvd. NW, #201, Washington, DC 20007; mtnicholson3@gmail.com