Happy holidays, ’16s! We’ve got a ton of updates for the end of the year, so I’ll get right to it!
This past June David Cordero and Andrew Kingsley got engaged in the City of Brotherly Love, where they will reside come this fall to study at the University of Pennsylvania. David will start his Ph.D. and Andrew will complete his master’s. They look forward to starting a new chapter in Philly but can be found in Boston in the meantime.
In August Ham Sonnenfeld and Amanda Fritz rode in the Pan-Mass Challenge from Wellesley, Massachusetts, to Provincetown, Massachusetts, totaling 168 miles. The ride raised money for the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
Our classmates are also up to exciting things in the workplace. Vickie Pan has kicked off her career as a DJ-producer! She’s open to collaborations, sound projects, and new music opportunities!
Cecelia Shao moved into her new apartment in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn (still close to her original Dartmouth crew with Veronica Burt, Vickie Pan, and Sophia Pedlow ’15) and is ramping up for the fall machine learning and big data conference season as product lead at Comet.ml.
Ali Dalton is flourishing in her new role on The Atlantic’s data team as a software engineer. Reilly Johnson started her new job on the recruiting team at the D.E. Shaw Group.
Several ’16s are on the move! Franklin Dickinson is headed to Washington, D.C., to start his new exciting role as an applied data scientist at Civis Analytics, where he’ll be focusing on analyzing election data. Max Hannam and Lulu Riley made the move to Boston, where Lulu has begun a great new buying job at T.J. Maxx.
Henry Arndt was in New York for an externship at Momofuku and is returning to Bain & Co. in Boston. In more international travel, Natasha Maldi is moving to Morocco as part of her Fulbright Scholar program and Ryan Strain is heading to Copenhagen with Google.
A bunch of ’16s are also headed back to school! Kelly Bach started medical school this fall at Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. She’s excited to be in Philly and to hang out with fellows ’16s Julietta Gervase and Jingya Qiu!
Luke Wallace started medical school at the Boston University School of Medicine. Esther Wu started medical school at Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University.
Nikhil Arora started medical school at Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California. Kent Lamar “K.J.” Booze is also headed to USC to join its Peter Stark producing program.
Charlie Rafkin started a Ph.D. in economics at MIT. Emma PeConga is kicking off her Ph.D. after a year in Copenhagen as a Fulbright scholar. Lacey Jones started her Ph.D. in English at Yale. Carly Schnitzler started her Ph.D. in English at UNC Chapel Hill this fall.
After graduating from Duke with a master’s in management studies, Jess Barfield has moved to Madison, Wisconsin, where she will be starting a Ph.D. in marketing at the Wisconsin School of Business.
Alex Weinstein finished working as a legal assistant at GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) this summer and started law school at Boston University in the fall.
Wow! Congrats to everyone on all these impressive and exciting updates! A special thanks to Cecelia Shao for helping me collect news!
Don’t hesitate to email in updates—big or small—about you and your friends. I love hearing from you all!
—Feyaad Allie, 144 Ayrshire Farm Lane, Apt. 104, Stanford, CA 94305; feyaad.allie@gmail.com