Class Notes 2016

Hi, ’16s! Leehi Yona writes in that she recently moved to Ithaca, New York, and would love to connect with any alums in the area. Leehi is an assistant professor of law at Cornell Law School.

I have a personal class note for all you avid readers! Yours truly had a whirlwind three-day reunion with Cindy Sun, Katie Zhang, Vivian Chen, Vivian Hu in February. Shoutout to Khizar Hussain and his partner, Bailey, for hosting all of us for a “crafternoon” that morphed into a Single’s Inferno watch party. Thank you to Khizar for walking through the rain to get us not one but two delicious pizzas. This year has felt all too full of change, and I am so thankful for the friendships that still feel like the same cozy sweetness. I hope everyone is taking care of themselves.

We’re still looking for a reunion head to lead planning our 10-year reunion in July 2026. Please reach out to dartmouth.class.of.2016@dartmouth.edu if you’re interested.

—Lynn Huang, 4610 Altha St., Raleigh, NC 27606; lynnshuang94@gmail.com

Happy New Year! Our Q&A with author Morgan Talty continues. Morgan is a citizen of the Penobscot Indian Nation and author of Night of the Living Rez and Fire Exit. His recent article, “Essential Fiction, Nonfiction, Memoir and Short Stories by Native American and Indigenous Authors to Add to Your List,” appeared in People magazine.

Q: I started reading your short story collection, Night of the Living Rez. Could you tell me about the inspiration for those stories?

A: “Thanks for reading it, and I hope you’re enjoying it! In the beginning, the inspiration for it came from family and memories. But the more I wrote and rewrote and revised it, the more it moved away and became mostly fiction. There are parts that are autofiction, but the book really is fiction. But the emotion, the pain, the happiness, all of it, is true.”

Q: Could you tell me about the inspiration for your debut novel, Fire Exit?

A: “The idea came in 2015. I was taking either professor N. Bruce Duthu’s Law and Lit class or his Federal Indian Law class at the time. It was the former that perhaps planted the seed and then the latter that watered it. I was sipping my Novak coffee in front of Sanborn, calming down after one’s usual encounter with Novak staff, when I thought about Louise Erdrich’s The Round House, which we had read. I thought about how she looked at the law and used it as a means to create an incident, something to set the story in motion. It got me thinking, ‘What incident could I find or use to start a book that came from federal Indian policy?’ And it really was this quick—I was like, ‘Blood quantum is messed up…what if a Penobscot citizen who only has a quarter Penobscot blood in her—the minimum to be considered a member or citizen—what if she had a child with a non-Native man and lied and said the father was Native so her daughter could be enrolled [in the Penobscot nation]. What must that feel like for the father?” I didn’t do anything with it except write it down. A few years later I wrote the first draft.”

Secretary Note: The Native Governance Center describes blood quantum as a controversial concept that “refers to the amount of so-called ‘Indian blood’ that an individual possesses.” It is not an Indigenous concept but derives from white settlers in the 18th-century who imposed it as a way of limiting the rights of Native people. The federal Dawes Act of 1887 broke up communally held Native lands into allotments, which were parceled out based on blood quantum. Today, about 70 percent of federally recognized Native nations in the United States still use it as a metric for citizenship.

Q: What’s the first memory that pops up when you think about Dartmouth?

A: “I found a ditched 30-rack of Keystone Light under the bushes one early morning in front of Sanborn, and the friend I was with took it and I didn’t see him for some time.”

And now for some (really old) class news that missed the July/August issue: Renata Hegyi-Hoeger, Th’18, and her husband Lars-Olaf Hoeger ’14 welcomed a beautiful baby boy in February. Their new family of three is now in Ithaca, New York. To any alumni in the area, please reach out and reconnect!

Bria Grangard and her husband, Dan Giordano, also welcomed a beautiful baby boy, Jack Giordano, in January. Congratulations, and you’re killing it with new parenthood!

—Lynn Huang, 4610 Altha St., Raleigh, NC 27606; lynnshuang94@gmail.com

Happy fall, y’all!

Cecelia Shao married Brian Marrone in upstate New York on June 1. The couple was happily celebrated by close family and friends, including several Dartmouth alums: Veronica Burt, Shagun Herur, Briana Williams, Sophia Pedlow ’15, Alexandra (Hannam) and Max Hannam,and Elijah Turner. The weather was phenomenal, as was the Meinklang rosé!

Stay tuned for our next column, which will feature a Q&A with author Morgan Talty. Morgan is a citizen of the Penobscot Indian Nation and author of the short story collection, Night of the Living Rez. His debut novel, Fire Exit, was published June 4.

—Lynn Huang, 4225 Larchmont Road, #922, Durham, NC 27707; lynnshuang94@gmail.com

Happy spring, ’16s! Hope everyone has been keeping up (or joyously ignoring) new year’s resolutions! It’s been a slow season for classmate news, so I hope that means everyone is too busy having fun and will write in soon.

—Lynn Huang, 4225 Larchmont Road, #922, Durham, NC 27707; lynnshuang94@gmail.com

It’s fall, y’alls! I hope everyone is doing appropriately fall-themed things such as pumpkin photoshoots and apple picking (with apple cider donuts).

Victoria Li writes in that she’s beginning her M.B.A. as a Forte fellow at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business evening program. For fun she’s also started posting content on body positivity and uplifting petite mid-size women on Instagram @vickytoriali.

I have some personal news for all 1,000-plus of you who rabidly follow Class Notes. Vivian Hu, Cindy Sun, and I recently backpacked the Laugavegur and Fimmvorduhals trails in Iceland. It took us four days of solid hiking to cover the 48.2 miles of trail through beautiful rainbow-colored rhyolite mountains, smoking and egg-perfumed geothermal hotspots, and a last day full of constant sideways rain and scrabbling over ash-covered ice fields. We also saw an exceedingly large number of sheep in strange places—on ledges, next to hot springs, literally on the trail. This was bucket list backpacking for me, and I’m so proud to have done it with fellow ’16s. I’m also now looking for planning advice if anyone’s done the Torres del Paine ‘O’ Circuit in Patagonia. Cheers!

—Lynn Huang, 4225 Larchmont Road, #922, Durham, NC 27707; lynnshuang94@gmail.com

Hello, ’16s!

I’m feeling a little nostalgic as I write this column. Can you believe it’s been seven years since graduation?

If anyone else is feeling the nostalgia, check out Andrew Nalani’s contributions to Black Matters: African American and African College Students and Graduates Tell Their Life Stories by professor emeritus Andrew Garrod and Robert Kilkenny. Andrew will join Vanderbilt University this fall as an assistant professor of human and organizational development. Congrats, Dr. Nalani!

Amanda Fritz is one of 14 business students chosen for the 2023 business program of the Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics (FASPE). Fellows participate in a two-week program in Germany and Poland, which uses the conduct of business professionals in Nazi-occupied Europe as a way to reflect on business ethics today. Amanda is currently a second-year student at Columbia Business School, where she is co-president of the gourmet club. Prior to Columbia, Amanda worked at Abrdn on its U.S. private equity team.

Maggie Finn and Matthew Barnes are celebrating their one-year wedding anniversary on August 27. They were married last summer at Ohana Family Camp in Fairlee, Vermont, while surrounded by friends, family, and many wonderful Dartmouth and Geisel classmates.

Robbie Herbst writes in from Chicago about recently deciding to pivot careers to Morgan Stanley. He joins a new division focused on “identifying (very) alternative asset investment opportunities.” Work hard, play hard, Robbie! Robbie is also an amazingly talented violinist with the Chicago Civic Orchestra.

Victoria Li has launched Victoriously Vulnerable, her new podcast in which she and her guests share stories about topics such as mental health, body image, speech impediments, and more. This project is a continuation of her work with the Miss Chinese Chicago pageant, where she won second princess and talent for her flute performance. Tune in on Spotify. If you’d like to be a guest, please reach out to victoriously.vulnerable.media@gmail.com.

Some personal notes: I had an all-too-brief catch-up with Vivian Chen, Vivian Hu, Cindy Sun, and Katie Zhang in New York in March. We ate our weight in hot pot, real lox bagels (New Yorkers, I understand the hype!), and onigiri. It was so sweet to see the ways our friend group has changed and the ways we’ve stayed the same. Wishing everyone a sweet reunion with their friends too.

I recently attended an alumni networking event in the “Triangle,” which had everyone from a ’22 to an ’82. There was even talk about a pong tournament!

—Lynn Huang, 4225 Larchmont Road, #922, Durham, NC 27707; lynnshuang94@gmail.com

Happy New Year, ’16s! Due to a mix-up by yours truly, I have some old Class Notes to report first.

Congratulations to Alumni Council representative Soyeun Yang for graduating from Columbia Business School in May 2022. Hope your return to consulting at Bain & Co. in Boston went smoothly!

Nancy Wu graduated from the University of Michigan Ross School of Business and is working at Dell in Austin, Texas. Nivi Nagaraj graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business and joined Chroma Medicine in Boston. Congrats, M.B.A.s!

Samantha Smith and Michael Masciandaro are engaged! They met on their first day at Yale Law School, and she said yes in front of Diego Rivera’s Liberation of the Peon at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Sam and Michael live in Philadelphia.

Mariel Wallace moved to N.Y.C. in August 2022. Say hi, fellow New Yorkers! If you like boba, please check out XingFuTang’s brown sugar milk boba—my Lactaid-worth-it fave.

Now onto new notes!

Bryan Thomson and Addie Himmelberger ’15 welcomed son Theodore into the world on October 22. Congratulations!

Cameron Lee writes in that he got engaged to his girlfriend, Madie Nastala, in Cold Spring Harbor, New York. They first met in N.Y.C. in the fall of 2019, a month before the Dartmouth vs. Princeton football game at Yankee Stadium. Cam and Madie live in N.Y.C. Hope you two get to root for more Dartmouth games at Yankee Stadium!

Nancy Wu and Sam Fogg got engaged at Pike National Forest in Colorado. Wishing you lots of beautiful hikes together!

Nicolas and Vivien (Rendlemen) Tejada wed on September 10, 2022, in Richmond, Virginia. The couple first met in their freshman writing seminar and started dating a few months after graduation in 2016. Josh Koenig officiated the wedding in front of family and many beloved Dartmouth friends.

Jared Boyce just started his first year at the University of Wisconsin’s medical scientist training program. I can’t imagine how much determined work it took to get there, but I’ll keep an eye out for that M.D. and Ph.D. in a couple of years!

Laura Stacey captured her second gold medal at the 2022 International Ice Hockey Federation Women’s World Championships. Laura was also part of the gold-medal Team Canada at last year’s Olympics in Beijing. Cheers!

Logan Briggs, who captained the Dartmouth swim team 2015-16, qualified for the Kona Ironman World Championships in October 2022. The Ironman will be 2.4 miles of swimming, 112 miles of biking, and 26.2 miles of running. Extra props for Ironman training while completing a urologic surgery residency at the Mayo Clinic in Arizona! Logan will also be representing Medicine in Motion (medmotion.org), the nonprofit he cofounded while at Harvard Medical School. Medicine in Motion aims to reduce burnout in the medical field through fitness and philanthropy. Congratulations on growing Medicine in Motion to more than 40 chapters at medical institutions worldwide, including Dartmouth.

Please don’t forget we have an Instagram account @dartmouth16s!

As always, excited to cheer you in the new year!

—Lynn Huang, 4225 Larchmont Road, #922, Durham, NC 27707; lynnshuang94@gmail.com

Happy holidays, ’16s!

We have engagements, weddings, and graduations galore in this edition of Class Notes.

Ryan Amos writes in that he graduated from Princeton University with a Ph.D. in computer science. His dissertation focused on studying consumer protection issues on the internet with longitudinal web measurements. In September Ryan started a job as a senior software engineer at Panorama Education in Boston. Congrats, Ryan, and have fun in Boston—try the hojicha latte at Ogawa Coffee!

Axel Hufford and Matt Krantz both graduated Stanford University with their J.D.s in June. Congratulations!

Veronica Burt performed in and directed Legally Blonde: The Musical at The Muny, a historical theater in St. Louis, Missouri, with the largest outdoor venue in the country. Veronica is the first intimacy director in The Muny’s history. Thanks, Jalisa Clark, for the tip!

Stay tuned for Mary Liza Hartong’s debut novel, Hot Chicken, which will be published by William Morrow in the winter of 2024. The book follows P.J., a Ph.D. candidate turned fry cook, as she navigates a work-mandated beauty pageant in her Tennessee hometown.

In August Zachary Kratochvil got engaged to Allison Faraclas at Kent Falls in Connecticut. They live together in the Boston area. Zach also graduated with his master’s in data science from Tufts in May.

Molly Shapiro and Brad Schierhorn married on August 19. The intimate ceremony was in front of the Knik Glacier at Lake George, Alaska. In true Dartmouth fashion, Molly and Brad met on their freshman floor in Russell Sage 3.

Corey DeLaney and John Abraham got engaged at the Green Sands Beach on the Big Island of Hawaii in May. They completed the Kona 70.3 Ironman a week later. They plan to get married down the Jersey Shore next summer. Like Molly and Brad, Corey and John also met in Russell Sage 3 their freshman year!

Victoria Li competed in Miss Chinese Chicago on August 27, a pageant focused on Chinese community and heritage. After eight months of preparation, making great friendships with fellow contestants, and volunteering with the Chicago Asian American community, she was awarded Miss Chinese Chicago Second Princess and Miss Talent (for her flute performance)! Victoria ran on the platform of body positivity; as a title winner, she looks forward to creating a podcast to share body image stories from Asian American women. Tune in when the podcast launches!(Read more about her on page 54.)

My freshman floormate Alexandros Zervos is dodging scorpions with his cowboy hat on after moving to Austin, Texas. Stay safe, Alexandros!

—Lynn Huang, 4225 Larchmont Road, #922, Durham, NC 27707; lynnshuang94@gmail.com

Hello summer, ’16s!

Big thanks to Jess Ma for staying on top of our many recent medical school graduates who will begin residency training all over the country! Congratulations graduates and good luck on the rest of your journey: Nikhil Arora (otolaryngology at UCSF), Aniksha Balamurga (pediatrics at UCLA), Justin Halloran (psychiatry at Cambridge Health Harvard Medical School), Julia Isaacson (emergency medicine at Boston Medical Center), Sumner Kilmarx (thoracic surgery at NYU), Jess Ma (internal medicine at Boston University Medical Center), Silpa Raju (radiation oncology at Washington University in St. Louis), Anne Strong Caldwell (ophthalmology at University of Colorado), and Hersh Trivedi (urology at UNC-Chapel Hill).

But wait, there’s more!

Stephanie Roff got engaged to her partner, Andrew Hopen. They met in Brooklyn in 2017 and now live in Austin, Texas, with their dog. Congratulations, Stephanie!

—Lynn Huang, 4225 Larchmont Road, #922, Durham, NC 27707; lynnshuang94@gmail.com

Hello, ’16s! Welcome to spring 2022! May your new year be blessed with no spring allergies and the fulfillment of all those New Year’s resolutions you did (or did not) make. I have some quick updates from classmates.

Caitlin Zellers writes that she joined Jaki Kimball, Anna Driscoll, Mick Zloof, and Zachary Kratochvill and returned to Dartmouth for Homecoming and a five-year reunion. She, Anna, and Mick helped carry the class of 2016 flag in the class parade.

Please keep any stories about life updates or mini-reunions coming!

—Lynn Huang, 4225 Larchmont Rd, #922, Durham, NC 27707; lynnshuang94@gmail.com

Hi, ’16s! I’m writing this in June, so happy five years since graduation! During these past five years I’ve greatly enjoyed hearing from you all, writing this column, and gracing your inboxes with exciting life updates from our classmates. This is my last Class Notes as secretary but I’m leaving you in the good hands of Lynn Huang (my first-year trippee!).

Let’s get to the exciting set of updates from our classmates.

In April Bria Grangard got engaged to Dan Giordano in Jupiter, Florida.

Bryan Thompson graduated this year with a master’s in public administration from Princeton University and a law degree from Stanford Law School.

Roger Lu graduated from Columbia Law.

Anne Reed-Weston graduated from Columbia Medical School and is starting an obstetrics/gynecology residency.

Hui Cheng started a new job in healthcare venture capital investing at Town Hall Ventures.

Invo Chami has been living in Nairobi, Kenya, for the past two years and has recently been promoted to chief of staff for Deloitte’s East Africa practice. She’s welcoming all ’16s to wave hello if they’re ever in East Africa!

Juhi Kalra started a new job at Heirloom Carbon Technologies as a mechanical design engineer. The company is an early-stage startup focused on direct carbon capture.

Francis Slaughter graduated with an M.P.H. in epidemiology from the University of Washington and will begin his Ph.D. in epidemiology at the University of Washington. He’s hoping to focus on the intersection of infectious disease surveillance and big data.

Mary Decker and Colby Ye were engaged on May 31 in Helena, Montana. They first met at Dartmouth almost nine years ago and live together in Boston while attending graduate school at Harvard.

Miguel Pena just finished his first year as a master’s in public policy candidate at the Harvard Kennedy School. He is currently working as a health policy summer intern in the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions under Sen. Murray (D-WA). This upcoming fall he will be applying to radiology residency and start the second year in his master’s.

Thank you all for writing in for this issue and over the past several years! That’s all from me (for now). Wishing you all the best in the coming years and hope to see you at our 10-year reunion!

—Feyaad Allie, 212 Pine Hill Court, Apt. 103, Stanford, CA 94305; feyaad.allie@gmail.com

Hi, ’16s.

When you receive this issue, it will be just about five years since we graduated. And while I wish that we could all convene in Hanover this June, I hope you all are finding other ways to stay connected with our fellow classmates!

I have a few updates.

Victoria Li launched a podcast called Dear Bronx Science, where she interviews alumni from her high school, the Bronx High School of Science. The podcast provides an opportunity for alumni to share their insights with current students and other alumni. Since the launch she has interviewed several alumni, including a theatre company founder, dessert kit founder, and medical student. You can listen on anchor.fm/dearbronxscience and if you are also a Bronx Science alumnus and want to be on the show, reach out via Instagram on @dearbronxscience.

Since January Hannah Chung has been working as an assistant manager at Korea Foundation for Advanced Studies in Seoul, South Korea. At the foundation she designs and implements various educational corporate social responsibility projects targeting the youth and juvenile population in Korea.

Natasha Maldi and Nick Bernold were engaged in January at Natasha’s family home in San Diego. The couple met during first-year orientation week in 2012. Nick purchased the ring in 2018, when Natasha was living in Morocco, but quarantine disrupted the proposal plans. No wedding date or location yet—they are waiting until the pandemic settles.

Thanks for reading. Feel free to email me with any and all updates!

—Feyaad Allie, 212 Pine Hill Court, Apt. 103, Stanford, CA 94305; feyaad.allie@gmail.com

Happy new year, ’16s!

Wishing you all a great year to come and, I hope, one with a little less social distancing! A few exciting updates from our classmates:

Renata Hegyi and Lars-Olaf Hoeger ’14 were engaged this past summer. They are currently living in New York City and excited to get married in May in the White Mountains with a Zoom ceremony and a handful of close family and friends physically present. 

Maggie Finn and Matt Barnes got engaged on top of Mount Garfield in the White Mountains in October.

Kelly Leonard and James Verhagen got engaged in October in Big Sur, California.

Thanks for reading and feel free to reach out with any news that the new year brings!

—Feyaad Allie, 212 Pine Hill Court, Apt. 103, Stanford, CA 94305; feyaad.allie@gmail.com

Hi, ’16s. I hope your summer is going well and you’re staying healthy! A few updates from our classmates.

During the Covid-19 quarantine, “The Trolling ’16s”—which included Hui Cheng, Juhi Kalra, Er Li Peng, and I—came in third place in a virtual Zoom trivia game organized by ’17s. We competed against teams of other Dartmouth alums and were excited to have done so well.

In June Hamza Abbasi graduated from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and began internal medicine residency at Scripps Green in June.

David Clossey graduated in May from Harvard Medical School and is now a resident physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.

Although he is a neuroscientist by training, in early April Jared Boyce began volunteering in Dr. Viviana Simon’s laboratory at Mount Sinai to study SARS-CoV-2 (the virus responsible for the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic). He wrote in with the following, “The experience has been both exciting and humbling. It is a privilege to play a role in this fight.” He also continues to serve as co-chair for Children of Bellevue’s junior board. The team ran a fundraiser throughout May for Mental Health Awareness Month, complete with self-care events such as yoga, meditation, and a comedy event.

Victoria Li founded Meals for Chicago, an initiative to reinvigorate restaurants by routing bulk orders to them, which are then delivered to feed and nourish essential workers. As of April 29 it had fed more than 100 essential workers and was scheduled to feed another 100 essential workers at grocery stores, banks, and medical facilities. You can learn more and donate at mealsforchi.com and follow the initiative on Instagram @meals_for_chicago.

Thanks to everyone who sent in updates. Feel free to email me with news at any time—I love hearing from you all!

—Feyaad Allie, 212 Pine Hill Court, Apt. 103, Stanford, CA 94305; feyaad.allie@gmail.com

Hey, ’16s!

We have a few updates from our classmates.

Maryama Diaw is getting her master’s in public health at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.

After finishing her master’s program in Germany, Claire Park has moved to D.C. to be a professional thinker—please reach out and say hello!

Emily Tregidgo recently moved to Denver to work in project finance at a solar financing firm.

Thanks for reading. Feel free to reach out with any news about you and your friends—I love hearing what you all are up to!

—Feyaad Allie, 212 Pine Hill Court, Apt. 103, Stanford, CA 94305; feyaad.allie@gmail.com

Happy holidays, ’16s! I’m writing this at the end of August after wrapping up a research trip to India. While there, I visited Angad Kapur in Mumbai! It was great to hang out and catch up with a fellow ’16! At the start of the summer Angad wrapped up an externship with India’s Congress Party in the war room under former cabinet minister Jairam Ramesh before returning to Bain & Co.

Cecelia Shao started a new job as a staff product manager at Bowery Farming and started a dumpling business. Reach out to her if you are in New York City and want to buy some delicious dumplings!

Shia Li Lum started a joint international studies degree and M.B.A. at Wharton this past fall.

Natalie Cantave was promoted at work and is now the marketing and events manager at MassChallenge HealthTech.

David Cordero started a Ph.D. in communications this fall at University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication.

Bridget-Kate McNulty moved to Washington, D.C., and is now teaching at KIPP DC Heights Academy.

Mitch Huang is engaged to Ashlyn McRae. The couple will be getting married in New Orleans in May.

Lakin Roland started a full-time assistant coaching position for Dartmouth’s women’s basketball program this past summer.

Thanks for reading and please continue emailing in news about you and your friends. I love hearing about what you all are up to!

—Feyaad Allie, 212 Pine Hill Court, Apt. 103, Stanford, CA 94305; feyaad.allie@gmail.com

Hi, ’16s!

Hope you all are having a great summer!

Just one quick update: Evelyn Fernandez graduated with an M.A. in Hispanic linguistics from the University of New Mexico and will be starting a Ph.D. in linguistics at Stanford University this fall.

Thanks for reading. Feel free to email me with any and all updates!

—Feyaad Allie, 212 Pine Hill Court, Apt. 103, Stanford, CA 94305; feyaad.allie@gmail.com

Hi, ’16s! We have only a few updates for this issue, so I’ll get right to them!

After finishing his service with major general’s distinction in the Israel Defense Forces, Jordan Kastrinsky is pursuing a film project. Through the Reynolds Scholarship he is working on a documentary about the Druze in northern Israel.

Victoria Li got engaged to Xiang Siow on December 15 in Barcelona, Spain.

In December Hersh Trivedi got engaged to Karen Monuszko in New York City.

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

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

Hey, ’16s! Hope your summer is going well! Many of our classmates have exciting news from moving to new cities to engagements so let’s get straight to updates!

Zonia Moore wrote in to say that she has moved to Brooklyn as of May.

Eric Siu will be moving to Boston in July to begin working at Stockbridge Investors.

Roger Lu is wrapping up his two years of teaching English in Japan through the Japan Exchange and Teaching Program. He will be starting at Columbia Law School this fall.

Frank Cunningham, after his tenure at BBDO Worldwide as an account executive for GE, is moving to a new role at Deloitte’s ad agency, Heat.

Lauren Martin has accepted an offer to attend Stanford Law School this fall.

Veronica Burt is making moves in the theater world with her latest role in Shakespeare Theatre Company’s production of Camelot. Cecelia Shao, who wrote in with the update, said that Veronica’s N.Y.C. family will miss her while she’s in D.C. but looks forward to buying tickets to see her show!

Preparing to leave Boston for medical school, Esther Wu crossed the pond to visit Lacey Jones and Claire Park, who are studying at Oxford University and the University of Hamburg, respectively. They had high tea, visited museums, and enjoyed an early spring. Saying goodbye to Esther, David Cordero will live with Andrew Kingsley come fall, as Andrew concludes his master’s in education, and David prepares to start a Ph.D. in communication next year.

This summer Axel Hufford is moving from D.C. to South Korea to begin a one-year Fulbright grant with which he will be teaching English.

Victoria Li wrote in to say that she is moving to Chicago to start working at L.E.K. Consulting. She hopes to keep food as a passion on the side and is excited to explore a new career. Victoria would love to connect if you’re ever visiting the area or if you’re currently living there.

There are also two Big Green weddings coming up! John Damianos and Vungelia Glyptis ’17got engaged in April in Hanover. Felipe Jaramillo and Ashley See also got engaged on April 13 in New York.

That’s it for a busy round of updates. Thanks for reading and congrats to everyone on their exciting updates! Feel free to send any news and updates my way. I love hearing from you all!

—Feyaad Allie, 202 Running Farm Lane, Apt. 201, Stanford, CA 94305; feyaad.allie@gmail.com

Hi, ’16s! We have only a few quick updates for this issue, so I’ll get right to them!

After graduating from Dartmouth in 2016 and from the Thayer School of Engineering in 2017, Matt Wheeler accepted a year-long fellowship with Grid Alternatives. Grid Alternatives is a non-profit solar installer that provides access to solar power and job training to underserved communities. Since beginning the fellowship, he has had the privilege of working all over California installing solar panels in low-income communities. Matt wrote in to say that he’s in the process of making a video with a fellow Dartmouth alum about his work with Grid Alternatives; it’s still in the process of editing, but he encourages you all to check it out here: https://youtu.be/pjqW0fH3AgM.

As I’m writing this in December, Laura Stacey will be playing for Canada’s women’s hockey team in the Winter Olympics in February! I hope that we are all able to tune in to cheer her on!

Thanks for reading, as always! And please feel free to send any news and updates my way. I love hearing about the exciting things you all are up to!

—Feyaad Allie, 202 Running Farm Lane, Apt. 201, Stanford, CA 94305; feyaad.allie@gmail.com

Hi, ’16s!

At the time that I’m writing this I have left my job in management consulting and I’m getting ready to move out to Palo Alto, California, to start a Ph.D. program in political science at Stanford. As I make this transition, other ’16s are also up to exciting new adventures.

Brittany Toffey got married to Ethan Fleming this past June. Since graduating she has been studying at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, where she completed her M.P.H. and first year of medical school.

Bryan Thompson starts his first year at Stanford Law School after spending a year with the Santa Fe Dreamers Project as a legal fellow.

Latrell Williams starts his first year at the University of Virginia School of Law.

Stephanie Alden has moved to Boston for her first year at Harvard Medical School. This past year she was conducting chemical biology research in Dr. John Schneekloth Jr.’s lab at the National Cancer Institute.

Jake Gaba has started working in London at WPP, a holding group of marketing, advertising, PR and media agencies. He’s a WPP fellow and he’ll spend the next three years in a rotational program working for a different WPP company on a different continent.

Annelise Sauter has moved to Edinburgh, Scotland, where she will be telecommuting and working with two Costa Rican organizations to combat poverty as she applies for jobs based in Edinburgh.

Earlier in July a group of ’16s got together to participate in the annual Trans Tahoe Relay, an 11-mile swim across Lake Tahoe, California. The race was swum in coed teams of six and took about four and a half hours to complete. The ’16s who competed in or were present at the relay included Charlotte Kamai, Maddie Wall, Laura McCulloch, Laura Hayes, Joe Kind, Aaron Athanas, James Verhagen, Katie Papa, Olivia Samson, Bri Williams and Kelly Leonard. The ’16s enjoyed running into so many other Dartmouth alums at the relay and staying with their teammate from Dartmouth swim team, Hayley Winter ’18.

George Boateng has been working on a science, technology, engineering and math program in Ghana this summer called Project iSWEST (Innovating Solutions with Engineering, Science & Technology). The program, modeled after Dartmouth’s introductory engineering class, is a three-week, intensive innovation boot camp for high school students in Ghana. This year’s program is the fourth annual edition. This past summer iSWEST has been training 27 students in computer programming, Arduino, innovation and entrepreneurship, while mentoring them to develop solutions to real-life problems in critical areas in Africa such as agriculture. You can learn more about iSWEST at facebook.com/project.iSWEST.

Thanks for reading! Feel free to send any news and updates to me—I love hearing from you all!

—Feyaad Allie, 202 Running Farm Lane, Apt. 201, Stanford, CA 94305; feyaad.allie@gmail.com

Hey, ’16s! As I write this, we are a couple days away from 2017, so send me an email or Facebook message if the New Year is bringing any changes for you! Or send me any updates on how you’re doing.

Now for this round of updates.

At the end of November Sarah Waltcher was one of 32 Americans to be named a Rhodes scholar, making her the 79th Dartmouth graduate to earn the honor. Since graduating in June Sarah has been teaching sixth-grade science at the Brooklyn Prospect Charter School. Sarah looks forward to continuing her studies in English at Oxford in September. Way to go, Sarah!

Laura Sim has started working as a producer on Crimetown—a new podcast series from Gimlet Media and the creators of HBO’s The Jinx. Every season the team investigates the culture of crime in a different American city, starting with organized crime in Providence, Rhode Island. When she’s not working in Brooklyn, Laura is living in a matchbox apartment with Claire Park under the Manhattan Bridge in Chinatown.

Penelope Williams moved to Boston to live with Emily Holt and Caitlin Zellers. She’s working at a healthcare analytics and consulting company. She also mentioned that she’s been reading a book each week on her T commute and has discovered scented candles.

Adelaida Tamayo is on a Dickey Center Lombard Public Service Fellowship working on a mural painting project in Bogotá, Colombia, called Color Alegría. She is combining her anthropology and studio art studies to conduct this socially focused project. Color Alegría is a house-painting project in a neighborhood on the outskirts of Bogotá. For the past couple years, along with the foundation Arte Sin Fronteras, local artists have been painting homes with the community. These vivid colors and committed citizens have offered a remarkable change to the neighborhood. She encourages anyone who is interested in supporting this project to donate at www.generosity.com/community-fundraising/color-alegria-2-0.

The New York City Dartmouth ’16s had their first (of many) official gatherings right before the holiday season. Everyone enjoyed lovely drinks at the ’16 happy hour at Turnmill—courtesy of the ’16 executive committee. The event had great representation from the N.Y.C. area along with a few classmates from Boston and Chicago!

The N.Y.C. class captains strongly encourage every ’16 to give their class dues of only $25 per year. You can do so by venmo-ing @Dartmouth-Sixteen. Thanks to all of those who have already done so!

That’s all for now, but I look forward to more updates from you all!

—Feyaad Allie, 26 Thompson St., Apt. 6A, New York, NY 10013; feyaad.allie@gmail.com