Class Notes 2013

Hi, ’13s.

Lots to catch up on here! Ashley Blum married Chris Esposito on July 29, 2023, in Estes Park, Colorado. They live in Los Angeles. Alice Lloyd married Will Rahn on December 2, 2023, in New York. Madi Gamble and husband Jonas Cole welcomed son Asa Cole Gamble on November 15, 2023. Madi writes: “He’s a super-smiley little guy and would love to meet you, so reach out if you find yourself in the Upper Valley! And if you find yourself looking for a fun way to get outside, consider booking an electric bike rental or brewery tour from our 4-year-old small business, Vermont Bike and Brew, located on Thetford Hill [Vermont]!” Sarah Rutter Vermeer writes: “Gordon Vermeer ’12 and I welcomed our son, Peter, in early June. Big sister Libby adores him!” Nora (Hodgson) and Roland Mansilla welcomed a baby boy, Xavier Alejandro, in February. They live in San Francisco and can’t wait to introduce Xavi to other Bay Area Dartmouth alumni and their kiddos. (“I know there are some around his age!” writes Nora.) Katie De La Rosa also welcomed a baby in February, and she reports the newborn is taking up most of her time with husband Matt Garton ’12. They live in New York City, where Katie is a family medicine doctor.

Speaking of doctors, Vaidehi Mujumdar completed her ob-gyn residency in N.Y.C. last August and is now through her first year of a gynecology-oncology fellowship at Atrium Health Levine Cancer Center in Charlotte, North Carolina. Nerina DiSomma is finishing her interventional radiology residency at Indiana University and has accepted a job to stay on as faculty at IU. She lives in Indianapolis with her husband and 2-year-old son. Alexis (Monroe) Lightner earned her doctorate in December of 2022 and now is, predictably, a humanities professor at Villanova University. She, her husband, and their almost-2-year-old daughter have been living since 2023 in Philadelphia, where they bought a house last Christmas and love spending time with other Dartmouth alums in the area.

Shannon Draucker’s first academic book, Sounding Bodies: Acoustical Science and Musical Erotics in Victorian Literature, was published by SUNY Press in July. Laura McFeely works as an appellate public defender and lives in N.Y.C. with her husband, Lee-Or Ankori-Karlinsky ’11, and their daughter, Alma, who crossed the stage with Laura during her law school graduation last year! After three years at Boston Consulting Group, Emily Fletcher started a new job as associate vice president at Challenge Seattle, an alliance of 23 organizations that represents many of the Seattle region’s largest employers and tackles some of the region’s pressing civic challenges, such as housing and transportation. Noam Rosenthal is in San Jose, California, where she works on medical devices for stroke with Stryker and excels at climbing and spike ball. Melissa Gordon lives in Oakland, California, and works for CA FarmLink, an organization that helps farmers find and afford farmland. She says, “I have visited Yosemite National Park three times (with Dartmouth ’13 and ’15 friends) since moving here and two to three times have coincidentally run into a Dartmouth alum or current student.”

Two classmates wrote in from Colorado: Hazel Shapiro lives in Denver and recently finished her M.B.A. (yes, you read that right) at CU Boulder. She works in Arctic research policy and loves being an aunt to her five niblings. Amanda Wheelock is in Summit County and now works for the U.S. Forest Service after finishing her master’s in environmental policy at the University of Michigan.

Congratulations, everyone. Keep the news coming!

—Svati Narula, 2038 Hopi Road, Santa Fe, NM 87505; svatinarula@gmail.com

Hi, ’13s, Svati Narula here taking over as class secretary.

I’d like to introduce the other members of our new executive board: head agents Jackie Donohoe and Colin S. Harris, alumni councilor Jay Webster, treasurer Katherine Lindzey, vice president Yon-sue Choi, and president Ashley Afranie-Sakyi.

Here is a note from Ashley: “Hi, class of 2013. Writing to you from the heart of charming Clinton Hill, N.Y.C.! Proud to step into the shoes of class president for our class of 2013 executive council. Ready to collaborate with this fantastic team and connect with our awesome class. Beyond the presidential duties, life in New York is an ever-changing adventure. Whether I’m running Dungeons & Dragons one-shots, queer country line dancing, or enjoying open streets on Vanderbilt Avenue, there’s always something brewing. Professionally, I’m a year into my role as team lead at a payments company, occasionally jetting off to Amsterdam—which, while lovely, doesn’t compare to New Amsterdam. With spring around the corner, let’s catch up. Share your thoughts on class events, what you’d like from the exec council, or just to catch up. Warm regards, Ashley Afranie-Sakyi, your class president.”

And a few updates from the rest of us: Jackie lives in London and works at film company Maven Screen Media. Colin lives in Alexandria, Virginia, with his wife, Calynn, and their 3-year-old daughter, Audrey. He is a litigator in the Washington, D.C., office of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP. Katherine finished her M.B.A. at the University of Texas McCombs School of Business in May and is now in Bentonville, Arkansas, for Walmart’s finance leadership development program. Currently, she is on the energy transformation finance team evaluating proposed solar and storage projects, as well as community electric-vehicle chargers, to power Walmart’s 2040 zero-emissions targets. As for me, I’m still working remotely for Dartmouth as the digital editor of this magazine.

—Svati Narula, 219 Miramonte St., Santa Fe, NM 87501; svatinarula@gmail.com

Hello, ’13s, and happy start to summer of 2022! Several great updates this time around—let’s get to them.

Anna Leah Bernstein Simpson writes in that she is living in Jerusalem and finishing an M.A. in English and creative writing at Bar-Ilan University. Ben Turner wrote in to let us know that Radelys German completed her degree from the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth—congratulations!

Cameron Orth recently moved to Columbus, Ohio, to do research and development work on PFAS chemistry in the environment at Battelle Memorial Institute. He is also starting an online master’s in civil engineering program with Norwich University.

Finally, by the time you read this, Jen Jaco-Whitaker will have graduated with her M.B.A. from Northwestern Kellogg School of Management! She and husband Jeremy Whitaker ’15 are celebrating with a trip to Norway, Sweden, and Finland in late May. She is also transitioning in April into a new role at Uber, where she’ll be manager of people operations for North America.

So much to celebrate across the board! Thank you all for writing in and hope to hear from everyone again next time.

—Aly Perez, 104 Ivy Drive, Apt. 8, Charlottesville, VA 22903; alyp625@gmail.com

Hi, 13s.

Happy New Year! We hope everyone is doing well. Only a few quick updates this edition, but wonderful ones nonetheless.

First, Benjamin Turner graduated with his M.B.A. from Georgia State University in 2021—congratulations!

Second, Sarah Wildes writes in that she is on the board of the Dartmouth Outing Club of Northern California and heading up a capital campaign for the club’s rustic gem of a cabin near Truckee. Check out docnc.net to learn more, and if you’re on the West Coast and like having fun in the Sierra Nevada, go join them at a future work weekend!

See you in our next edition!

—Aly Perez, 104 Ivy Drive, Apt. 8, Charlottesville, VA 22903; alyp625@gmail.com

Class of ’13s!

Stay tuned for the mid-year newsletter (thank you, Libby Sax) and some potential events to come in the next few months! Happy summer!

—Aly Perez, 104 Ivy Drive, Apt. 8, Charlottesville, VA 22903; alyp625@gmail.com

Hello, ’13s.

Before we get to this edition’s updates, we wanted to reiterate once again how great it was seeing some of you earlier this year for our first-ever fireside chat with Dartmouth professor David Blanchflower with our very own Annis Sands as moderator. We hope you all enjoyed it and we’re looking forward to hosting similar events in the future.

With that, let’s get to this edition’s life updates. Maya Herm wrote in to say that—aside from being supremely thankful for the class executive committee and their support in making the fireside chat happen—she’s now been in London for a full year! She’s been able to see fellow ’13s Lawrence Anfo-Whyte, Stoian Nedlechev,and Robbie Maycock so far. Kelsey Byrd just made the move to Portland, Oregon, and started working full time as a product manager at Microsoft on its tech for social impact team, where she has reconnected with Ali Oberg. If there are any other Dartmouth alumni working at Microsoft or living in Portland, reach out to them! After living and working in Michigan since graduation, Michael Ouyang has moved to warmer climates in Jacksonville, Florida. Moving about 1,000 miles for a new job during the pandemic was quite an experience, he says, but he is settling in and looking forward to catching up with any alumni in the area.

Benji Kessler finished his Ph.D. in environmental science, policy, and management at UC Berkeley, where he studied vision and behavior in different webless spiders. Since then he founded Joy Tutoring (joytutoring.com), through which several other ’13s are tutoring, including Amy Van Scoyoc, Milo Johnson, Frances Davenport, Maddie Lesser, and Robin Costello. Joy Tutoring is based in the San Francisco Bay Area, operating remotely, and accepting new students!This past October Nick Valentini got engaged to his girlfriend of almost two years at Pyramid Point near Traverse City, Michigan. They met in his final year of medical school while she was working at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center and they will be getting married in spring 2022 in Maine—congratulations! Luisa Sperry is finishing her internal medicine residency at Mount Sinai in N.Y.C. this summer and will be staying there for another year as a palliative care fellow. After that she plans to do further fellowship training in pulmonary and critical care medicine. She and Michael Adelman ’10 also finally gave in to pandemic pressure and are getting a puppy this spring!

Last but not least, Jessica (Gagner) Binnington shared that she recently illustrated her first children’s book, titled Georgie Shark and COVID-19. Aimed at helping to explain the pandemic in a simple and approachable way, the story details things such as hand washing, wearing masks, and the emotions surrounding staying distant from family and friends. Jessica developed the book alongside friend and Canadian physician Dr. Stephanie Liu (also known as “Dr. Mom”). The book is available through Liu’s website and blog bydrmom.com. Huge congratulations, Jessica!

That’s all for this edition—thank you all; stay well and safe!

—Aly Perez, 104 Ivy Drive, Apt. 8, Charlottesville, VA 22903; alyp625@gmail.com

Hello, ’13s, and happy new year!

Everyone on the class executive committee wishes you a safe and happy holiday and the warmest wishes for more, safe, in-person interactions. With that, let’s get to some of our updates this edition!

Jack Boger wrote in to say that he was on a cross-country road trip from San Francisco to Atlanta. When he wrote in, he was in Starkweather, North Dakota, visiting the Berg family farm, where Isaiah ’11 and David ’15 grew up. Emmaline Berg recently started as the new athletic director at St. Thomas Aquinas High School in Dover, New Hampshire, and is excited to be back in our alma mater state! She also got married in December in a Covid-safe micro-wedding in New London, New Hampshire, to Ned Emerson Jr.

After working as a corporate paralegal, environmental advocate, startup founder, career advisor, and baker—making English muffins from scratch at a local bakery—Priscilla Nguyen is taking her many talents to a new adventure: screenwriting! When she wrote in October, she was wrapping up a coming-of-age feature script and starting her next project, a TV drama series. She would love to connect with other alums working in entertainment! We can’t wait to see your work!

Anna Leah Berstein Simpson completed a year on the Dorot fellowship in Israel and decided to stay in Israel to pursue an M.A. in creative nonfiction. She will be studying at Bar-Ilan University. Joshua Lee has recently moved to San Diego to clerk for a federal judge for a year. He looks forward to catching up and reconnecting with friends and alumni in the area (socially distanced, of course!).

Reilly Bertasi graduated from Tuck Business School in June and has been working for the Connecticut Governor’s Office in Covid response, mostly around K-12 reopening. She will head back to Bain & Co. in December. She and Chris MacNaughton were married in October! Special shout out to Camilla Rothenberg for arranging their marriage! In some additional wedding news, Tyrone DeSpenza wrote in that he and Rachel Nelson got married in October in New Haven, Connecticut. The two met five years ago as first-year medical students at Yale. Huge congratulations to you all!

Finally, our last biannual newsletter featured some of our entrepreneurial talent, and we have one more to share with you this issue. Taylor Garner recently launched a consumer financial-tech venture called Card Curator. It had its soft launch on both the iOS App Store and Google Play store in early November, and they have their eyes set on a hard launch sometime around early summer of 2021. To check out more information on the app and venture, check out www.cardcurator.com; we wish Taylor and the team all the best!

As always, thank you to everyone who wrote in, and we look forward to hearing from you again in a few months!

—Aly Perez, 104 Ivy Drive, Apt. 8, Charlottesville, VA 22903; alyp625@gmail.com

Hello, ’13s.

I hope this will find you, your family, and your friends safe and well. As I write this, we remain in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic and the incredible changes and uncertainty that it has brought. We are also in the midst of the continued cries for racial justice that urge us all to both reflect and take action in a myriad of ways. Though these are difficult times, we hope you will continue to lean on your Dartmouth community for both support and action.

We have a few updates this edition, so let’s get to them. First, we received a note about our classmate Allie Young, who is a Navajo tribal member and creator of “Protect the Sacred,” a social media campaign calling on youth to protect their elders, their language, and their culture. You can check out Allie’s work in numerous outlets, including NBC News, the Tamron Hall show, and The Hollywood Reporter. Incredible work, Allie!

Courtney Karol recently graduated from the University of Arizona College of Medicine and has traded the desert of Tucson, Arizona, for the mountains of Denver to start her pediatric residency at Children’s Hospital Colorado. She also writes that she’s found a beautiful Big Green coincidence in that Julia Hudnut Bueller will be her chief resident! ’Round the girdled earth we roam! Sarah Aronson Fischell graduated from her Ph.D. program in neuroscience. She pursued a partnership program between the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM). She will be returning to medical school at UMSOM to finish her clerkships. Reese Ramponi has been working as a psychiatric advanced practice nurse and just got grant funding to start a multidisciplinary program that includes both mental and medical health for transgender teens. 

Maggie (Conners) Deforge got married in May 2019 to Robby Deforge. They just bought a house in Durham, North Carolina, with a big back yard for their dogs Rugger and Skipper. She will be starting a yearlong geriatric psychology occupational therapy fellowship at the Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center in September. Alexis (Monroe) Lightner and her husband, Jacob Lightner, recently moved to the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Washington, D.C., where she’ll be doing dissertation research for her Ph.D. in art history. She would love to connect with other alums in the area! Finally, Teo Larsson Sax, Libby (Hamlin) Sax, and 2-year-old Eva welcomed Emma into the family in late April. Congratulations!

Thank you everyone for your submissions, and we hope to hear from you again soon!

—Aly Perez, 104 Ivy Drive, Apt. 8, Charlottesville, VA 22903; alyp625@gmail.com

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

Hello, ’13s, and happy fall-to-almost-winter! Lots of great updates to share, so let’s get started.

First, a huge congratulations to Trevor Horan, who recently got engaged to marry Elizabeth Ballantyne ’12!

In the category of friends in advanced degrees, Ali Essey graduated from Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management in June and is moving to Los Angeles to work at Disney in September. Maha Malik graduated from Harvard Business School and Harvard Kennedy School with an M.B.A./M.P.P. this May. After a decade in beautiful New England, she is excited to move to Manhattan, where she’ll be returning as a consultant at Bain & Co. Tanisha Panditharatne recently moved to Austin, Texas, to start at the University of Texas McCombs School of Business. Melanie Wilcox graduated from Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism, where she specialized in business reporting and documentary filmmaking. This summer she will have completed her third documentary film, which will be released sometime next year. Stay tuned! Olivia Korostelina graduated from University of Chicago Booth School of Business and has moved to New York to resume work in management consulting. If you’re passing by NoHo, let her know!

Next, we have some classmates making moves around the country. Jenna Kaplan moved to New York City at the end of August to start a job at New York Presbyterian-Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital, where she works as a speech pathologist. Svati Narula is leaving her job at Outside magazine in Santa Fe, New Mexico, to move back to…Hanover! She will be starting her new gig as an editor at the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine in September. Finally, Blaine Johnson just moved to San Francisco in June to start a new job at Boston Consulting Group; she would love to catch up with any ’13s in the Bay Area!

Last but not least, a host of classmates are off doing amazing things around the world. Lin Bo finished the acting program at Second City Chicago and will be performing as Hastings in the Eclectic Theater production of Shakespeare’s Richard III this fall. Damayanti “Dimpy” Desai writes in that she is done with her clerkship in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and will be traveling through India, Nepal, and Europe for the fall! She is trekking to Everest base camp and has a variety of other outdoor adventures set up. If anyone finds themselves in those areas, please reach out to her! Post-trip, she’ll take a road trip up to D.C. with her giant dog to start her job at a litigation firm. R.J. Griffin writes that he has been growing his real estate development business in Philadelphia during the last three years, looking specifically for value-add projects in under-served, working class communities. He is a licensed real estate agent and has built a team that is capable of fully rehabilitating properties into income-producing rentals or new homes for retail buyers. He hopes to scale up his business moving forward—great work, R.J.! Joe Schwappach, with two other cofounders, recently launched Eliqs, a company offering custom-designed beers for all types of events. They’re currently serving California and will be expanding into new geographies and beverage types in 2020! Rolland Mansilla spent his summer building a company in Y Combinator’s summer 2019 startup batch in Silicon Valley. They were covered in TechCrunch recently after presenting at demo day, pitching to top investors around the world. They’re growing quickly and hoping to find introductions to partnership opportunities with banks and law firms. Their website is www.safelydeposit.com if you’re interested!

And that’s all for this edition—see you next time!

—Aly Perez, 104 Ivy Drive, Apt. 8, Charlottesville, VA 22903; alyp625@gmail.com

Hello, ’13s! I hope this finds you doing well and enjoying the peak of summer in a location slightly less swampy than my current residence in Washington, D.C. We have lots of class news this edition, so let’s get to it.

You may have seen this a few months back, but this was the year that many of our aspiring doctors were matched to their residencies! Gaby Sauza matched at University of Washington, Seattle Children’s for pediatrics residency. Jennifer O’Donnell is moving to San Francisco to start her orthopedic surgery residency. Cecil Qiu is moving to Baltimore this summer to start residency at Johns Hopkins in plastic and reconstructive surgery. Nerina DiSomma graduated from University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria this year and will be moving to Indianapolis for her interventional radiology residency at Indiana University. Shanterian King also graduated from medical school and matched to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, for her physical medicine and rehabilitation residency. Elizabeth Hoffman is graduating this June from Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine, along with fellow ’13s Meghan Bunnell, Stephanie Castillo, and Brendin Beaulieu-Jones. A huge congratulations to all of you and the many more that will be transitioning to residency! Everyone wrote in that they are looking forward to spending time with Dartmouth friends in new places, so we can’t wait to get updates in the future.

We also have a few marriages and moves to celebrate! Sarah Aronson Fischell wrote in that she and her husband, Evan Fischell, were married last year in Baltimore and celebrated their one-year anniversary on May 5—congratulations on one of many more to come! Clau Becerra and her husband, Matt Weiss ’06, DMS ’12, are excited to move to Missoula, Montana, this summer and are looking forward to making local friends that will help them explore Big Sky country. Courtnie Bolden got married in Lake Tahoe, California, last summer and will be in Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, this summer with her husband and hopes to see some Dartmouth friends. Before that, she’ll be interning with a judge at the 3rd Circuit federal appellate court in Newark, New Jersey.

Finally, as always, we have classmates doing neat things that never fail to astound me. Danielle Jellerette participated in Annapolis Opera’s spring production of Carmen, her first opera performance, and will be attending the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in the fall to get her M.B.A. Sara Stone is continuing to pursue professional sailing and has been racing all over the United States and Caribbean this winter. This summer she is residing in Newport, Rhode Island, and would love to catch up with anyone in the area. After graduating from Harvard Business School, Brittany Yoon, moved to San Francisco last summer and joined Ethos, a life insurance startup. She was the 13th employee and they are already at 55; Jessica Yu ’14 and a recent ’19 grad are among their ranks, as well as investor Nate Niparko ’09. They are looking to continue growing their Dartmouth contingent! Matt Sturm is living his best artist life in Washington, D.C., where he just curated an art exhibition of 14 artists, up through June 14, as part of May Is All About Trans, a community-led month of events celebrating transgender community and culture. His own art will be featured in a two-person gallery show, also in Washington, D.C., up June 2-30. Reach out to him if you’d like to see either show!

Thank you all for sharing your life updates with the class and hope everyone has a great summer!

—Aly Perez, 104 Ivy Drive, Apt. 8, Charlottesville, VA 22903; alyp625@gmail.com

Fellow ’13s, by the time you read this, I hope the snow will be melting off the trees nearby, the birds will be signaling the arrival of spring, and you will be coming back from a spring break trip full of beaches and sunshine! There is no better way to kick off a new season than with a full review of your classmates’ happenings around the world.

As our first update, the class of 2013 officially welcomes Maya Herm as our new class president! Maya has been heavily involved with the College since graduation, and we could not be more excited to have her at the helm of our leadership team. In addition, she wants to let you know that she has moved to sunny Los Angeles. While she is sad to leave college coaching behind, she is looking forward to new challenges and adventures!

While we are on the topic of moving and travel, Harry Greenstone is moving to London with his wife, Sarah Rossow ’14, and their son, Charlie. He will be continuing his work with Deutsche Bank. Meanwhile Sarah Stone is travelling the world—from Florida to China—as she pursues professional sailing full-time! She is based out of Marion, Massachusetts, and if you are curious about what boats she is racing on, follow her on Instagram @floatlikesstone (very clever).

As always, we also have a host of classmates with great accomplishments to share. Priya Krishna has a book coming out called Indian-ish. She writes, “It’s a celebration of the hybridized Indian food I grew up eating, and it’s the perfect starter book for someone looking for an accessible entry point into Indian flavors.” Plus, it took a small ’13 village to taste test: She thanks Thea Stutsman, Edita Robinson, James Lee, Caitlin Ardrey,and many others for their participation! You can pre-order her book on Amazon or buy it wherever books are sold as of April 23. Renee Scott presented one of her research projects, “Black Child Breathing: Finding Freedom Through Black Normativity in Young Adult Fiction,” at the biannual Princeton African American studies conference in October and has launched her website, reneenscott.com.

Michelle Berlinger also writes in with an update on her business, Berlinger Jewelry. If you’re in the market for engagement or wedding rings, she has you covered! Michelle re-launched the company recently after getting her start during her senior fellowship creating jewelry in the Dartmouth jewelry studio. You can find more about her creations and business on her website, berlingerjewelry.com. Dennis Page passed the principles and practice of engineering certification exam in October and works for LTK Engineering Services in White River Junction, Vermont. In December he moved to Enfield Center, New Hampshire, with his girlfriend, Meaghan Warburton. From Chicago, Lin Bo let us know that he has finished up his basic improv comedy program at Second City. Congrats, Lin!

Finally, in case you missed it, our classmate Jeff Butler was named to Forbes’ “30 Under 30” list! Jeff is an investment analyst at Viking Global Investors, where he has seen great success across investments in the industrial, business services, and energy sectors. Jeff, if you’re reading this, please let me know your finance tutoring availability.

Last, but certainly not least, are our recent engagements: Danny Zhang and Jillian Dunne got engaged in Hawaii in September 2018 and Lisa Berreman and Justin Foley have proven that love can be found in the Gamma Delta Chi pit (R.I.P.). After having met over “a lovely game of pong,” they got engaged in Chicago in the fall of 2018. Congratulations to all!

—Aly Perez, 104 Ivy Drive, Apt. 8, Charlottesville, VA 22903; alyp625@gmail.com

Hello, ’13s! Lots of updates this issue, so let’s get started!

First, we have classmates celebrating the wonderful news of engagements, marriages, and family additions! Trisha Murphy married Carl Van Doren in Connecticut. Twin brother Luke Murphy was a groomsman, and Alex Lucas was a bridesmaid. Eva Petrow and John Burden ’11 recently got engaged. Camden Nogay is engaged to Dylan Smith, and they are enjoying life in Los Angeles. Andrea Baer and Jorge Pelaez tied the knot in April and have since moved to Chicago. There was a squad of ’13s in attendance, including Lauren Vespoli, Hannah Kuhar, Julia Danford, Katharine Pujol, Tanay Ganga, Paul Wagdalt, John Yoon, Roberto Guerrero, Kimberly Mendez,and Hannah Decker. Caroline Francis and Tim Brown got engaged alongside their two pups, Dakota and Sadie. Medha Raj and Anirudh Jangalapalli ’09 got engaged and will be getting married next summer. Tommy Das and Olivia Martin were engaged in December 2017. Finally, Rachel Yang and her husband moved to Santa Monica, California, in 2017 and welcomed a baby girl in July! Congratulations to all!

Next, a number of folks have become masters of subjects and industries. For example, Lexi Campbell completed her M.F.A., concentrating in photography at Brooklyn College CUNY. Tom McQuillan finished up medical school in the Bay Area and has now started his orthopedic surgery residency at the Harvard hospitals. Dan Marcusa finished medical school and is now an internal medicine resident at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. Parnian Parvin-Nejad is starting his residency in general surgery at Rutgers. Mike Jacobs alsofinished medical school at Jefferson Medical College and has started an internal medicine residency at University of Chicago. Remy Franklin has finished his master’s in human geography and is moving to Santa Cruz, California. Chris Zhao graduated from Tuck and has moved back to N.Y.C. Natalia Agredo completed her master’s in teaching at Relay Graduate School of Education and has adopted two adorable cats named Hall and Oates. Awais Malik completed his Ph.D. in civil engineering and urban informatics from New York University. Great accomplishments all around!

In other graduate school news, Joe Chance is pursuing a Ph.D. in economics and public policy at Tufts University. Melissa Gordon is starting her master’s at Tufts’ urban and environmental policy and planning program. Stephanie DeCross is starting her Ph.D. in clinical psychology at Harvard. This fall Angie Yang and James Lee will be pursuing their M.B.A.s at Ross (Go Blue), where they will join Emily Fletcher. Ayda Ramadan is starting her M.B.A. at NYU Stern, and Shea Smith is pursuing his M.B.A. at Darden School of Business. Yours truly (Aly Perez) will also be at Darden.

Last but absolutely not least, here are the classmates doing other really cool and impactful things! Casey Aylward started work at an early-stage enterprise fund as an investor. She would love to connect with anyone who is interested in working in tech-venture. Jules Sarkar is starting his own law practice, Sarkarlaw, in San Francisco. Svati Narula ran a 32-mile ultramarathon in Wyoming—I have no words. Congrats, girl. Ally Armstrong just moved to Berkeley, California, where she is working as a pediatric nurse practitioner. In March Callista Womick and her co-defendants were found “not responsible by reason of necessity” for an act of nonviolent civil disobedience blocking construction of a natural gas pipeline in West Roxbury, Massachusetts. The finding set a national precedent for other activists and was covered through multiple news outlets.

Wow…go, team. Thank you for being wonderful, impressive classmates. Enjoy the fall weather!

—Aly Perez, 104 Ivy Drive, Apt. 8, Charlottesville, VA 22903; alyp625@gmail.com

Lots to report this month–thank you all for sharing updates!

Emmaline Berg writes in, “This fall I finally (sadly!) left Dartmouth, where I was a volunteer assistant for the track team, to move to Burlington, Vermont, as the new track and field coach at the University of Vermont.”

Larissa Russell transformed her food startup Green Pea Cookie into a new venture, Pod Foods, which is modernizing wholesale food distribution. She wrote an article in the Huffington Post—check it out to learn more about what Pod Foods has been up to.

Torey Barrett started working on the sales team at Pinterest in October.

Millen Abselab was recently accepted to the Robert Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont and will start in the fall as a member of the class of 2022.

Paige Elliott,along will fellow alumnae Eileen Carey ’04 and Kristina Trygstad-Saari ’07, headed to the Winter Paralympic Games in Pyeongchang in March as part of the support staff for the U.S. Paralympic Nordic ski team.

Clark Moore is portraying the character Ethan in the new film, Love, Simon, an adaptation of a popular young adult novel. Catch him at a theater near you!

Matt Sturm had two photos in a gallery show in Oregon and got to catch up and hike with Morgan Wharton while visiting.

Jen Jaco is getting married to Jeremy Whitaker ’15 in May 2019 outside Chicago.

Kate Comee and Benjamin Rowe got engaged in October in California.

Teni Oyo-Ariyo will be attending Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business this fall and would love to connect with any alumni in Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina!

Ali Oberg is graduating from Tuck School of Business in June and moving to Seattle in August to start as a product marketing manager at Microsoft.

Last fall Scott Lacy spent seven weeks in the Ethiopian jungle kayaking 916 kilometers down the entire length of the Blue Nile in what became the first successful expedition to navigate the Nile and the Northern Gorge. What was originally supporting a documentary film crew on the last 300 kilometers of the river—to be flooded this summer by a dam—became a trip about survival and endurance when everything went wrong. Back in the United States, Scott is recovering well and has some stories to share.

Callista Womick is releasing her first book, 1: Nectar Collector, as a serial on Medium.

Angela Gauthier matched to the Wilmer Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins University for ophthalmology residency.

Charlotte Williams now works for Amazon in Los Angeles.

Zack Doherty is a public affairs officer in Okinawa, Japan, and has been traveling all over Asia. Jack Boger is finishing active duty this spring and moving to San Francisco this summer.

Joel Malkin is currently serving a three-year tour as an instructor at the Basic School, the Marine Corps’ six-month course in Quantico, Virginia, training Marine lieutenants in the fundamentals of platoon tactics, officership and leadership.

Emma Smith Cain and husband Peter Cain recently welcomed the newest member of the Dartmouth class of 2039. Asher Jeffery Cain was born on Feb. 11, 2017, weighing in at 7 pounds, 6 ounces, and measuring 19 inches of perfection. He can’t wait for his first trip to Hanover!

Sean Darrow and Margot Farrell (UMass Amherst ’14) got engaged over Thanksgiving, and their wedding will be in late August.

Amanda Wheelock moved to Golden, Colorado, to work for the Continental Divide Trail Coalition as its marketing and communications specialist. She would love for people visiting Colorado to say hi!

Dimpy Desai graduated from University of Michigan Law School in December. After studying for the bar in Houston, she will move to Albuquerque, New Mexico, to clerk for a federal judge.

—Emily Fletcher, 822 South Main St., #4, Ann Arbor, MI 48014; emilyefletcher@gmail.com

First and foremost, huge shout out to our five-year reunion chairs Caitlin Ardrey and Maya Herm! With the help of many of you, they’re putting together an amazing reunion in Hanover June 15-17. I’m looking forward to seeing many of you there!

Congratulations to Jessica Gagner and Matt Binnington, who got engaged in August.

Sending warm wishes and congratulations to Ian Martin-Katz and Lauren Willoughby, who got engaged in Stowe, Vermont, in September.

In other romantic New England news, Dan Rosengard and Kate Burns got married in Boston in October with many classmates in attendance. Congratulations!

Michael Burbank celebrated his 30th birthday last summer and planned a get-together for the entire Dartmouth Club of Los Angeles.

After spending the last year in China working at Alibaba’s Hangzhou headquarters, Qian Zhang moved back to the United States to join Alibaba’s New York City office, where she is responsible for developing strategic partnerships with North American brands and helping them sell to Chinese consumers.

Max Sloan recently got a job on Amazon’s Kindle education team and will be moving out to Seattle at the start of 2018 with his girlfriend, Jessica Ost. He writes in, “I’ll be sad to leave Chicago (and my wonderful roommates Angie Yang and Ben Page ’12), but I’m looking forward to new challenges, new community and much bigger mountains.”

Sean Derrow and Sahil Joshi started business school at MIT Sloan School of Management.

After four years selling craft beer throughout the Midwest, Rob Bathe moved back to Minneapolis to open a coffee roaster called Folly Coffee to rave reviews. You should all check out his delicious coffee!

Max Hunter recently finished up a month of theater residency in New York City through his theater company Bride Production Group, which featured plays written by Maia Matsushita and Carol Brown ’12.

In the fall Jill Dunne and Danny Zhang both moved from Boston to Chicago, where Danny started business school at University of Chicago Booth School of Business and Jill is working remotely at her job in healthcare consulting. Olivia Korostelina is a fellow first-year M.B.A. candidate at Booth.

Kate Sullivan completed her time as a company commander and finished her active duty tour as a Marine officer in November. She is planning to move to Los Angeles or New York City to pursue arts, entertainment and writing. She writes in, “I’m still learning how to surf and I recently purchased a bunny whose name is Mars. He is just like a dog, only he’s actually a bunny.”

After finishing his master’s in Latin American studies at the University of Texas at Austin, Francisco Herrera began working as a college counselor in the Mile High City at KIPP Denver Collegiate, where he is supporting students through the college admissions and financial aid process.

Melanie (Parnon) Guyer, her husband, Martin, and their three little ones recently moved to Wylie, Texas, a suburb of Dallas, for Martin’s job.

After three years in New York City working for Quartz, Svati Narula moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico, in July for a job as an assistant editor at Outside Magazine. She promptly adopted a puppy and got a season pass at the local ski area. She reports that life is good in the land of enchantment, but she does miss New Hampshire.

Ben Southworth recently completed his Ph.D. in applied mathematics at the University of Colorado Boulder.

Yuan “June” Shangguan moved from Seattle to California to work for Google’s embedded speech team. She reports that she is enjoying the challenges of her research and catching up with Bay Area Dartmouth friends.

—Emily Fletcher, 822 South Main St., Apt. 4, Ann Arbor, MI 48014; emilyefletcher@gmail.com

Thank you all for making Class Notes possible! I am continually reminded why I am so proud to be a member of the class of 2013. Please do not hesitate to reach out and email me any time if you have a note you would like included in the next edition. I look forward to hearing from you all!

Vivian Deng and Victor Tsui plan to put an end to a three-year long engagement with a wedding at the United Services Recreation Club in Hong Kong in December. Both are currently working in private equity, in Hong Kong and Shanghai, respectively—Victor spends his free weekends drinking whisky and playing poker with Frank Wang ’14 and Henry-Paul Xu. Congratulations!

Priya Krishna reports that Kate Taylor is becoming one of the top voices on fast food as a senior retail reporter for Business Insider (her article on unicorn fraps was featured on Colbert). Lauren Vespoli is working for Ink Global and she recently wrote a cover story for Hemispheres on Allison Williams, the star of Girls.

Yuan “June” Shangguan writes in, “We have a very tight-knit Dartmouth group in Seattle and we are getting more and more active together. A few months back we had a ‘Thinking and Drinking’ wine and beer and presentation event in Vipul Kakkad’s place and many Dartmouth alumni showed up! Personally, I bought a small house in the Greenlake neighborhood and adopted a dog named Dory. I am looking forward to friends and families visiting!”

Owen Peter Scannell will be moving back up to Hanover in the fall to start business school at the Tuck.

Maan Singh Tinna is moving on up in the theater industry. He started as a contracts administrator at 321 Theatrical Management, working on Wicked (Broadway and second national tour), Fun Home (national tour), War Paint and the upcoming Broadway musical Spongebob Squarepants.

There are several Dartmouth alumni working at Major League Baseball, including Peter Kim, who works in the MLB international department and recently went to Seoul, South Korea, for the World Baseball Classic Tournament, along with Joyce Fu ’03 and Shane Weisberg ’16. All had a great time!

Vaidehi Mujumdar, a third-year medical student at Wake Forest School of Medicine, received the 2017 Excellence in Medicine Leadership Award from the American Medical Association Foundation. Vaidehi created a teen cancer prevention program focused on HPV vaccinations, cofounded Wake Forest’s Medical Students for Choice chapter and works as a freelance journalist. The AMA Foundation’s Excellence in Medicine Awards program recognizes physicians who exemplify the highest values of volunteerism, community engagement, leadership and dedication to the care of underserved populations. Congratulations, Vaidehi!

And finally, for a quick personal update: After a summer of traveling and spending time with family in Seattle, I am moving to Ann Arbor, Michigan, to begin a three-year master of business administration and master of public policy dual-degree program at the University of Michigan. If you ever find yourself in Michigan, please don’t hesitate to reach out!

—Emily Fletcher, 545 North 70th St., Seattle, WA 98103; emilyefletcher@gmail.com

Hello, ’13s! Thank you, as always, for making Class Notes possible. Keep sending in updates so we can hear how you’re doing!

First and foremost, I am in awe of this (slightly belated) update from our very own Olympian: Josh Konieczny and his rowing partner Andrew Campbell Jr. placed fifth for Team USA in the lightweight men’s double sculls finals at the Rio Olympics. Although the pair finished two spots shy of earning a medal, Konieczny and Campbell became the first Americans to compete for a medal in their category of the sport. Wow! We are very proud.

Happy thoughts and congratulations go out to Thomas Prewitt and wife Tiffany Colvin on the birth of their daughter, Riley Wolf Prewitt, on September 27. Facebook indicates Riley is already a dedicated, if sleepy, Broncos fan.

In October Kim Rose married Drew Dillingham in Washington, D.C., followed by a honeymoon in Greece. Congratulations, you two!

Sophia Schwartz, a member of the U.S. ski team and one of the coolest people I know, writes in, “I am living in Steamboat Springs, Colorado—still skiing moguls and loving it! I traveled to Australia and Switzerland this year for training camps. I’m excited for the competitive season to start in December. In April I am rafting the Grand Canyon—woohoo. Life is full of adventure!”

Jack Boger reports, “I just returned from a deployment to Australia and, in an incredible moment of serendipity, I ran into Esty Yanco at the top of Mount Sorrow in Queensland while on a few days of R&R—one of the craziest small-world moments of my life. Esty was on vacation for a few weeks in Australia, where she has been doing ecological research.”

As for other Dartmouth Marines, Charlotte Williams is deployed in Sicily, Kate Sullivan qualified as an airborne logistics delivery officer (got to go to airborne school and jump out of planes!), Joel Malkin just returned from a deployment to the Middle East and Zach Doherty is in Quantico, Virginia, doing infantry officer training.

Congratulations to Angie Yang and Chelsea Hassett for completing the Chicago Marathon in record times! Lina Monsalve, Max Sloane, Ben Paige and Aly Perez also made a fantastic cheer squad.

In September Elliot Kastner, Th’14, shared his experience developing a robotic tackling dummy prototype, known today as the Mobile Virtual Player (MVP), at a free public talk as part of Hawaii Preparatory Academy’s alumni speaker series. Dartmouth football coach Buddy Teevens banned tackling at practice during Kastner’s time as a defensive tackle on the team to reduce the risk of concussion and other injuries.

Teevens tasked Kastner and other engineering students with creating a replacement for tackling other players, and the MVP was born. The MVP has garnered substantial media coverage, and Kastner and other members of the MVP team have been brainstorming ways to expand the product to other sports. The MVP is currently being used in NFL training camps, and I know I speak for many when I say we’re excited to see where the MVP goes next!

—Emily Fletcher, 1375 Fairmont St. NW, Apt. 809, Washington, DC 20009; emilyefletcher@gmail.com

Lots of wonderful updates (thank you for writing in!) so let’s get to it.

In March Phil Royer finished first in the Nina Brekelmans Memorial Scholarship 5K in Washington, D.C. The race raised money for a scholarship at Georgetown University’s Center for Contemporary Arab Studies in honor of Nina Brekelmans ’12, who ran track at Dartmouth and had earned a master’s in Arab studies from Georgetown shortly before being killed in a house fire in June 2015.

Chase Womack married Columbia University alumna Sara Perles in November. Chase is working as the chief investment officer of the Brewer Group and explains, “We invest in companies that are making a social impact. We manage athletes’ money, help them run their businesses, help them analyze investment opportunities and get them access to further education options.”

Congratulations also to Sara Rutter Vermeer, who married Gordon Vermeer ’12 in Woodstock, Vermont, on May 29! If the pictures are any indication, it was a lovely event attended by many Dartmouth friends. We are so happy for you both!

On June 11 Nerina DiSomma married Ned Matuszak at St. James Episcopal Cathedral in Chicago. The couple met in Peoria, Illinois, and Ned proposed to Nerina in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., last year. Sounds like a lovely event!

If anyone else is looking for wedding and engagement rings, Berlinger Rings, founded by Michelle Berlinger, builds rings exclusively for men. Michelle launched the company after completing a senior fellowship studying and creating jewelry at Dartmouth. Her website is berlingerrings.com.

Matt Nichols is now working as the air quality and climate change program manager at Fort Benning, a major military installation in Georgia.

Eliana Ramage is moving to Iowa City, Iowa, in September to start an M.F.A. in creative writing at University of Iowa.

After two awesome years in Jackson, Wyoming, Rob Collier, Lorin Paley ’15 and Max McClorey ’11 are moving down to Park City, Utah. Max and Rob are working for Alces Technology, a 3D-scanner startup that is relocating from Jackson to Park City.

Sara Stone has finished up her M.Sc. control of infectious diseases degree in London. Jill Lyon, Caitlin Ardrey, Heather Beatty, Alyssa Boehm ’12 and Anna Harty ’14 visited and toured the city (and pubs)! Afterward, Sara headed south to the British Virgin Islands to work as a sailing director teaching big-boats sailing, marine science and marine conservation to teens.

Maan Tinna has transitioned from nonprofit to commercial theater, working as an executive assistant at Richards/Climan Inc., a general management agency that managed three shows on Broadway this season, including Fiddler on the Roof. He is currently managing Anastasia at Hartford Stage before it transfers to Broadway next season.

Alfredo Velasco recently stopped pursuing a Ph.D. at Duke University to work for Ticketmaster in Durham, North Carolina, doing Android development. Additionally, research that he and Reed Harder coauthored and published in an open-source journal got reviewed in the online version of The Atlantic.

Natalia Agredo is currently living in Brooklyn and working as a sixth-grade special education teacher for Uncommon Schools and she will be pursuing a master’s in teaching at Relay Graduate School of Education this fall.

Maya Herm is now the assistant field hockey coach at Tufts University. 

After two excellent years in Mumbai, Caroline Liegey is moving to Geneva for summer and fall 2016 to continue working for Vera Solutions.

Blaine Johnson writes in that she has finally given up the itinerant grad school life and moved to Washington, D.C., to work for a think tank, which promptly sent her overseas again. She says hello from Beijing!

—Emily Fletcher, 1375 Fairmont St. NW, Apt. 809, Washington, DC 20009; emilyefletcher@gmail.com

It’s always such a joy to hear what you all are up to, so thank you for making this column possible issue after issue. Please keep sharing your updates so your classmates and fellow alumni know what you’re up to and where to find you. Without further ado, your updates for this issue.

Andrew Park is excited to (finally) start his first year of medical school at University of California, San Diego, this fall. As an aspiring physician-writer, he regrets not having taken any creative writing classes at Dartmouth. Brittany Yoon is currently working for Uber and will be going to Harvard Business School in Boston for an M.B.A. in the fall. Congratulations, Brittany! Helena Witte reports that she has no major life updates, except that she has the best dog ever. He’s a six-year-old German shepherd and actually came from the Upper Valley Humane Society, so he too has the still north in his heart. She also shared the news that John Kline in November started a new job at Evolent Health, where he focuses on improving healthcare delivery systems. Vaidehi Mujumdar is currently a first year at Wake Forest University School of Medicine and has been continuing to write and publish in all the “spare” time she can find! Diana Lim ’11 is also a fellow first-year classmate, and Vaidehi also reports that Analiza Rodriguez is a first year at the University of Houston Law School.

Chidi Anyadike and Marion Ruan wrote in with the following dispatch: “Gabby Mezochow just got one step closer to dethroning Meredith Grey as ‘Dartmouth’s most famous alum in the medical profession’—she heads back to New York City in the fall to attend Cornell Weil Medical School!” Svati Narula is still working for Quartz in New York City and she is one of the main writers/editors behind the new Quartz iPhone app, which is quite an experiment in mobile news delivery. She writes in, “I’m about to move into a new apartment in Brooklyn with Davey Barnwell, who’s moving to N.Y.C. for the first time from Portland, Oregon. Now if only we could get Nerina DiSomma to come out here so we could recreate our living situation from senior year! Alas, Nerina is happily settled and busy with medical school in Illinois.” Angie Yang is currently working for Uber in Chicago and she and Olivia Martin recently completed the New Orleans Rock ’n’ Roll Half Marathon. Congrats, ladies!

Brad Reynolds recently moved to Austin, Texas, and would love to meet other Dartmouth grads in the area. Feel free to contact him at brad.l.reynolds.13@gmail.com. Shawn Hawk moved to the Bay Area and works as a data analyst at McKesson Specialty Health. This spring Mike Fancher also moved to San Francisco. Karla Verkouw will be attending the Commonwealth Medical College this fall in Scranton, Pennsylvania. She will be moving there in August and is hoping maybe someone else from Dartmouth might be attending the same program. Patrick Healy moved from Washington, D.C., to Boston and is now working at HBX, the online education startup at Harvard Business School, and studying part-time.

As always, thank you for your updates! That’s all for now—happy almost summer! And congratulations to the class of 2016, the last class we overlapped with in Hanover, on their graduation!

—Emily Fletcher, 1375 Fairmont St., NW, Apt. 809, Washington, D.C. 20009; emilyefletcher@gmail.com

Happy New Year, class of 2013! It’s always such a joy to hear what you all are up to, so thank you for making this column possible issue after issue.

First and foremost, congratulations to Kim Rose on her engagement to Drew Dillingham!

Sara Stone moved to London and is living in the city and completing a master’s in the control of infectious diseases at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She says, “Dartmouth alumni in London—let’s get together!”

Chelsea Hassett and Aly Perez completed their first marathon in Key West, Florida, on October 10. Well done, ladies!

In September Sara Marcus moved to Denver for a new job at Earthbound Farm (an organic salad company) and she is living with fellow ’13 Whitney Fitzpatrick.

Lauryn Overton is pursuing a master’s in human resources at the University of South Carolina Darla Moore School of Business in Columbia.

Luke Murphy recently started a new job at UTA (an entertainment agency) on a comedy desk and is working directly with an agent with clients on many popular shows, including Saturday Night Live and Broad City.

Benji Kessler is in a Ph.D. program at the University of California, Berkeley, studying the evolution of color vision.

Camden Nogay recently moved to Los Angeles to work for the private equity firm CIM Group. He is living in Santa Monica and would love to meet up with any fellow Dartmouth grads either living in or visiting L.A.!

In December “June” Yuan Shangguan graduated with a master’s from the University of Michigan and she is now working on the Amazon Echo Research team in Seattle. She is looking forward to reconnecting with old friends on the West Coast!

Joanna Schneider is a first-year student at University of North Carolina School of Medicine and she recently got a dog named Odie. Although we, unfortunately, can’t publish pictures in Class Notes, Joanna sent me some photos and I can vouch for Odie’s adorableness.

Thank you as always for making Class Notes possible! Please do not hesitate to send me updates and share your big news!

—Emily Fletcher, 1375 Fairmont St., NW, Apt. 809, Washington, D.C. 20009; emilyefletcher@gmail.com

Ruthie Welch is serving in the Peace Corps in Costa Rica and writes in to say she is living super close to the airport, so if anyone happens by Costa Rica before June 2016 they should stop by for a visit.

Whitney FitzPatrick moving to Denver for a new job teaching special education at a charter school. John Guo moved back to Hong Kong in late April to start working at a private equity shop. He says everyone should come visit! Jessica Gagner moved from Boston to Toronto and started a new job in marketing at a biometrics software startup.

Several members of our class are also moving from Korea to Cambridge to start graduate school. After two years Marissa Lynn has left Korea and started at Harvard Medical School in August. While she will miss Korea greatly, she is looking forward to catching up with ’13s in Boston.

Joshua Lee finished his Korean military service in May and then traveled around Spain for a month. He headed back stateside in July to catch up with everyone, and this fall he started at Harvard Law School. Jennifer McGrew recently graduated from Boston College Lynch School of Education with her master’s in education and has a job teaching eighth-grade social studies at Davis Leadership Academy in Dorchester, Massachusetts. Eliana Ramage just finished a master’s in creative writing and works as an English teacher and content writer in Tel Aviv. She says she would love to host any visiting ’13s!

Joel Malkin recently reported to 2d Battalion, 7th Marines in Twentynine Palms, California, and was assigned as a rifle platoon commander in Fox Company. He says, “In layman’s terms that means I’m now in charge of training a group of 40 or so Marines in preparation for a deployment overseas sometime next year.”

Congratulations to Alfredo Velasco, who got his first coauthored publication into MEMSYS, a memory systems conference for computing. The article will be published in the proceedings of the conference, and he and his team will give a talk at the conference in Washington, D.C., in October.

Aurelia Solomon moved to Boston in the spring and is working for Enernoc, a business started by Tuck School of Business graduates.

Deidra Willis was recently promoted to a systems engineer position with General Mills after completing a two-year engineering rotational program. Deidra moved from South Jersey, where she was working with Progresso Soup, to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where she works in the fruit department as the engineer for Fruit by the Foot.

Deidra isn’t the only ’13 working in the food industry—Juan Sanchez worked at the Pillsbury research and development group of General Mills in Minneapolis this summer and he’s now back at Purdue University to finish his master’s in food science. Sam Ticker also recently moved to Pittsburgh to work for Heinz. Maan Singh Tinna writes in, “I finally escaped the world of theater internships and landed a marketing associate position at New York Theatre Workshop! We are gearing up for a very exciting 2015-16 season and our company takes residence at Dartmouth every summer, so maybe I’ll get to put in a visit.”

Alyssa and Jacob Hickson joined staff with Cru, a ministry organization. They will be in Washington, D.C., as part of the Epic Movement, which focuses on reaching Asian American college students. After this summer they will spend approximately a year raising financial support for their ministry and will then begin going to campuses.

Jen Jaco recently accepted a job in the Chicago suburbs and Jeremy Whitaker ’15 and Jen moved out there together in early August.

Brendin Beaulieu-Jones, John Mascari, Nirali Patel and Rajiv Raghavan completed their first year at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth and are looking forward to a few weeks off before starting second year.

—Emily Fletcher, 1375 Fairmont St. NW, Apt. 809, Washington, DC 20009; emilyefletcher@gmail.com

Our class never ceases to inspire me with their updates, and this month was no different. Thank you for the incredible response to my last-minute call for updates! Whether pursuing graduate degrees, playing professional sports, serving our country, starting companies, conducting research, jet setting around the world, working awesome jobs or bringing new life into the world, you all are truly amazing. Let’s get to the updates!


Grace Best gave birth to her first son, Parker Jayce Best, on January 23. Congratulations, Grace!


Michael Keenan is currently playing professional hockey, splitting time between the Orlando Solar Bears in the ECHL and the Albany Devils in the American Hockey League.


Matt Peterson bought a house in Houston—the class’s first homeowner, perhaps? Congratulations!


Evan Gray recently returned from a medical mission trip to El Faro, Guatemala, where she served four villages with a team of doctors, optometrists, dentists and spiritual leaders.


Ashlee Roberson’s first first-author research manuscript, “Antidepressant nonadherence in routine clinical settings determined from discarded blood samples,” will be published in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry in the coming months.


Phil Gordon is currently in his first year of medical school at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia and became captain of the Jefferson Medical College club hockey team. Dan Marcusa is working on his M.D. at University of Michigan Medical School and Annabel Frank is a first-year medical student at Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.


Racquel Bernard is currently a master’s student at the University of the West Indies in Mona, Jamaica. She recently presented a paper titled “Reclaiming Bumboclaat: Peter Tosh’s Subversive Speech Acts and Social Change” at the International Reggae Conference. She is currently considering offers from several Ph.D. programs.


Savannah Martin is finishing up her first year of a six-year Ph.D. program for physical anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. She would love for other alumni to contact her if they’re in the area! Blaine Johnson is writing her master’s thesis on waste management behavior in Shanghai’s residential communities and hopes to graduate this year.


Julian Sarkar is studying at UC Hastings College of the Law and clerking at the San Francisco district attorney’s office.


June Yuan Shangguan will spend the summer in Seattle conducting Amazon research. She says, “I am very excited to be able to put my Ph.D. studies into real products.” Casey Conway will be working at Apple in Cupertino, California, this summer.


Larissa Russell’s venture Green Pea Cookie is halfway through a Kickstarter campaign and doing great! She reports, “We reached our initial goal in seven hours, have since exceeded it by more than 500 percent and we’re aiming to reach our ultimate goal of mailing off 1 million cookies in Kickstarter rewards!”


Gregg Fox has been living in New Zealand for the past six months and exploring the North Island on the weekends. He and his girlfriend are next going to spend some time in the Cook Islands before traveling around the South Island of New Zealand before returning to the United Kingdom. Sounds like an awesome adventure!


Jeff Ledolter moved to Seattle in January and started working as an associate consultant for the Spur Group, a management consulting firm.


After living in New Jersey for almost two years, Yi-Jie Wang recently moved to Detroit to start a new position as an associate at the Boston Consulting Group.


Danielle Jellerette got a new job as a consultant at Deloitte in the greater Washington, D.C., area.


Benji Kessler moved to New York to pursue standup comedy and Zach Martinez recently moved to Philadelphia for a job in Camden, New Jersey. Raghu Vaidyanathan is currently doing macro research at Fidelity in the Boston area.


Chase Womack is working with Merriman Capital, an investment bank run by Jon Merriman ’82. Womack actively seeks investors for early-stage technology, healthcare and energy companies.


—Emily Fletcher, 1375 Fairmont St. NW, Apt. 809, Washington, DC 20009; emilyefletcher@gmail.com


Thank you as always to those of you who sent in updates! The more the better, so please don’t hesitate to send blurbs my way. I know lots of you are in the midst of applying to grad schools, so please send me updates on your plans when you find out where you’ll be headed next year. Best of luck to all of you!


And now to all of your impressive accomplishments, jobs, and athletic feats.


Jacob and Alyssa Hickson are proud to announce the birth of their son Levi in August. Congratulations to the happy parents! Maybe one day we’ll see him in Dartmouth green, running around the Homecoming bonfire with the class of 2036.


Joshua Konieczny finished 10th in the lightweight double sculls at the 2014 World Rowing Championships. He also finished fourth in the lightweight double sculls at the 2014 World Rowing Cup II and finished sixth in the lightweight four at the 2013 World Rowing Under 23 Championships. What fantastic accomplishments—congratulations, Joshua!


Over Homecoming weekend Aly Perez, Jamie Li, Liz Fleming, Chelsea Hassett and Angie Yang ran the Nike Women’s Half Marathon in San Francisco. Way to go, ladies! I know I’ve seen some other pictures of sporty ’13s who have run races floating around social media recently, so let me know for next Class Notes and I’ll be sure to include you, too.


Emma Smith recently completed her M.A. in human rights at University College London and moved to Bunia in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo to serve as the program development officer for Samaritan’s Purse, a Christian humanitarian relief organization.


Matt Nichols earned a master’s in international environmental policy from Middlebury College and completed a research fellowship in Denmark before taking a position at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Washington, D.C. He also ran the Chicago Marathon in October.


Katherine Shu sent in this fun update: Julia Harvey and Ramesh Govindan have moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, and are looking forward to celebrating the first birthday of their two cats, Winston and Jimmy (both girls).


Larissa Russell is working on an e-commerce business selling green pea cookies online and in stores. She says the cookies are sweet, salty and scrumptious and “don’t taste like dinner.” Sounds like a winning recipe! You can order yours at greenpeacookie.com and follow the company on social media (bonus: the cookies are a very Dartmouth-appropriate shade of green!).


Sara Stone is living in Fort Collins, Colorado, working for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and applying for a master’s program to begin in September. She made it back to Dartmouth for Homecoming with a bunch of other ’13s and said it was fantastic to be in Hanover pretending we never graduated!


Torrey Barrett moved to San Francisco in September to work at Twitter and is excited to connect with all the Dartmouth alumni in the Bay Area.


Joanna Schneider is serving as the Advisory Board Co.’s inaugural community impact fellow. She will spend six months working on a pro-bono project focused on hospital sustainability. She will be publishing best practice research, piloting waste management tactics at hospitals across the United States and building a waste-tracking toolkit for hospitals. As a fellow Advisory Board employee, I think I can vouch for all of us when I say how impressed and proud of you we are!


That’s all for now, class of 2013, but please stay in touch and let me know what you’ve been up to!


—Emily Fletcher, 1375 Fairmont St. NW, Apt. 809, Washington, DC 20009; emilyefletcher@gmail.com


I received a stellar number of responses to my call for updates, so thank you all! Let’s get to it:


On June 24 Peter Hill proposed to Evan Gray at the Myriad Botanical Gardens in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. At the end of the tour he surprised her with a letter and dropped to his knee. They plan to marry in June 2015.


Sarah Aronson started the medical scientist training program (M.D./Ph.D. program) at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, and she is focusing on schizophrenia research at the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center.


Melanie Guyer (Parnon) and husband Martin Guyer recently moved to Bloomington, Illinois, where Martin is working as a statistician at the State Farm headquarters.


After a year in San Diego working for the biotech company Illumina, Luisa Sperry returned to the East Coast to start medical school at Stony Brook University.


Christopher Rhoades moved to the San Francisco Bay Area and started working as a body systems engineer for Tesla Motors in June. Ali Oberg also moved to San Francisco to help open the first West Coast office of the Future Project. 


After finishing the first year of her presidential fellowship in finance and administration at the College, Jen Jaco decided to stay in Hanover as a second-year fellow.


Sophia Schwartz trained for freestyle skiing on the water ramps in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, this summer and headed to Chile in August to train on the snow.


Sam McPherson recently began work as a product development coordinator at a stationary company called Punch Studios in Culver City, California. Emily Blackmer moved to Truckee, California, for the next year or so, so get in touch if you’re in the area!


After completing his B.E. at the Thayer School of Engineering, Rajiv Raghavan started medical school at the Geisel School of Medicine.


Ashlee Roberson and Jennifer McGrew recently moved to Boston, where Ashlee is working in clinical research at Massachusetts General Hospital and Jennifer is pursuing her master’s in education at the Boston College Lynch School of Education.


This summer Max Hunter acted at the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival in Boscobel, New York, with roles in The Liar and Othello.


Kyle Lawson is living in New York City working as a web developer and consultant at Silverline, a Salesforce implementation consulting firm located in Union Square.


Clau Becerra started her Ph.D. in biomedical sciences at Columbia University last fall and was published for the first time in May in the journal Cancer Cell.


Alfredo Velasco is going to Duke University in the fall for a computer engineering PhD, and Robin Costello is going to University of Virginia for a Ph.D. in biology.


Both Maddie Lesser and Kristen Colwell are going to the University of California, Berkeley, for Ph.D.s in the fall—Maddie for English and Kristen for chemical engineering.


Joy Piotrowski moved from Taiwan, where she was teaching English, to Hawaii to start medical school at the University of Hawaii.


Jack Boger reported for active duty in the Marines at the Basic School in Quantico, Virgina, and Kate Sullivan just graduated from Basic School as a logistics officer. Kate will be stationed with the 1st Transport Support Battalion, Combat Logistics Regiment 1 at Camp Pendleton, California, after attending logistics school at Camp Johnson, North Carolina. Kate also ran in the Marine Corps Historic Half Marathon as the first active duty female and took fourth overall.


Blaine Johnson moved to Arlington, Virginia, for a summer internship at the Foreign Service Institute and then headed back to Shanghai to finish up her master’s in public management at Fudan University.


—Emily Fletcher, 545 North 70th St., Seattle, WA 98103; emilyefletcher@gmail.com


Hello again, classmates! It was wonderful to see so many of you at our year-zero reunion during Homecoming. Thank you to those who updated me, and I want to hear from the rest of you soon. Here is a sampler of what your (terrifyingly accomplished and endlessly cool) fellow ’13s have been up to.
Congratulations are in order for Greg Buzzard, who competed on Jeopardy on October 11! His championship appearance netted him $26,000 overall, in addition to all of my awe and respect.
In September DOC trips director Chris O’Connell and assistant director Anneliesse Duncan wrapped up another wildly successful trips program. Good work, team!
While my diploma hasn’t even made it out of that cardboard tube they gave us at Commencement, a number of our classmates are already well on their way to earning advanced degrees. Blaine Johnson is living in Shanghai and working on her master’s in public management at Fudan University. She also recently bought her first bicycle—very exciting!—and is enjoying exploring the city.
Julie Campbell has finished her first semester of medical school at the University of Washington in a program that allows the Montana native to complete her first year of school in Bozeman. Andy Zureick is also currently in his first year of medical school at the University of Michigan.
Grace Afsari-Mamagani is as sleep-deprived as ever but is haunting other libraries now as a graduate student in English and American literature with a concentration in the digital humanities at New York University. She also teaches math and works at a small-cause marketing firm when she’s not in class.
Around the country and the world, other members of the class of 2013 are adjusting to exciting new jobs and cities.
Svati Narula is loving her work as an editorial fellow at The Atlantic in Washington, D.C., where she mostly writes and produces stories for TheAtlantic.com. She gets to see Catherine Treyz and Melody Zhang often, since they are both fellows at the Atlantic Media Co.-owned National Journal.
Sara Stone is working for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention out in Fort Collins, Colorado, for the next two years. Closer to Hanover, Jessica Gagner is working in Boston at DigitasLBi and living with Isa Guardalabene.
Caroline Liegey moved to New York City and is living with Rachel Abendroth and their fish Eleazar Wheelock. Caroline started work in corporate philanthropy with the Wildlife Conservation Society, headquartered at the Bronx Zoo.
In October Phil Royer and Jonathan Gault traveled to Japan as part of an Ivy League alumni team that participated in the Izumo Ekiden, a six-stage road relay race between Japanese universities. Phil is still running competitively as a grad student at the University of Tulsa, and the fleet-footed duo raced a 5k against Japanese runners.
After Sam McPherson finished Tuck Bridge and before Sara Marcus started work in October, the pair traveled to Europe for two weeks and uploaded the entirety of Oktoberfest. They also visited Maya Herm in Amsterdam.
Danny Freeman moved to Medellin, Colombia, at the end of August and is working as a political journalist for an online international newspaper called Colombia Reports.
Eliza Relman is working as a teaching fellow at the Asian University for Women, an international liberal arts university in Chittagong, Bangladesh. During her first semester she worked as a teaching assistant for comparative politics and social and political thought classes, a writing tutor and an assistant to the registrar.
That’s all for this installment of Class Notes. Email me or send a carrier pigeon with updates for next month!
—Emily Fletcher, 30 Lebanon St., Apt. 5, Hanover, NH 03755; emily.e.fletcher@dartmouth.edu



As we approach a year since Commencement (how is that even possible?!), some ’13s are starting to feel settled in jobs and graduate school, while others are looking for fulltime positions or considering a change of scenery. There is no better time to provide some fast and furious updates about what our classmates are doing around the country.


If you are interested in learning more about what your classmates are up to, many of them are on LinkedIn, so don’t be shy about reaching out!


And without further ado, here is a smattering of job updates from our impressive classmates. Proud cat owner Jamie Li is working as a marketing associate at Yahoo! in California. John Renehan is a project engineer at Riparius Construction in Baltimore. 


Elizabeth Evans is working in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, as an associate merchandise planner for American Eagle Outfitters.


In Boston Elizabeth Hoffman is working as a marketing and communications associate at OvaScience. Melanie Wilcox is a communications strategist at Luntz Global.


Chris O’Connell is now a full-time employee of the Dartmouth admissions office. Janet Kim is working as a squad-training specialist at MOUSE, an organization that empowers youth to learn, lead and create with technology.


Shloka Kini is a software developer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Deidra Willis is working as a manufacturing engineering associate at General Mills.


Ashley Blum is a paralegal at Storch Amini & Munves, PC, in New York City, while Kali Montecalvo is working as a paralegal at the U.S. Department of Justice. Annie Rendall works as a staff assistant in the U.S. House of Representatives.


John Biberman is an Africa program intern at Search for Common Ground in Washington, D.C. Kathryn De La Rosa is a City Year Corps member. Stella Safari is a 2013 Venture For America fellow at Invest Detroit.


Troy Dildine is doing social neuroscience research at Colorado University in Boulder. Angela Gauthier is a medical student at Yale Medical School. Megan Jang is a cardiovascular research technician at Massachusetts General Hospital. Kate O’Brien is working as a session assistant at Memorial Sloan-Kettering.


Richard Asala is an associate at Artisan Healthcare Consulting. Damayanti Desai is a federal analyst at Deloitte Consulting. Chelsea Hassett is an analyst at Quadrant Real Estate Advisors. Stephanie Pareja-Fernandez is a commodity merchant trainee at Cargill. In Philadelphia Hank Savage is working as a business analyst at Independence Blue Cross.


Jane Cai is working as a financial analyst at Goldman Sachs. Kevin Cox is a private equity analyst at the Audax Group. Bob Huang works as a financial rotation analyst at Capital One in the Washington, D.C., area. Albert Roth is a consulting analyst at Fidelity Investments. Eric Wu is working as an analyst at Morgan Stanley in New York City.


The class of 2013 also has strong representation in the Bay Area. Kate Comée is an associate at the Parthenon Group, while Suril Kantaria is working as a private equity analyst at TPG Capital. Cecil Qiu is an associate consultant at Bain & Co.


Congratulations to Jay Webster, who will soon be working at AlphaSights in New York City with fellow ’13s Jackie Donohoe, Joe Kim, Aurelia Solomon, Alexis Zavras and Chris Zhao.


I know there are more of you out there doing incredible things, so let me know what you are up to. Any and all updates are welcome. All of those still in Hanover hope to see you at Green Key the weekend of May 17-18!


—Emily Fletcher, 30 Lebanon St., Apt. 5, Hanover, NH 03755; emily.e.fletcher@dartmouth.edu