Class Notes 2020

—Katie Goldstein, 263 W Santa Inez, Hillsborough, CA 94010; katie.e.goldstein.20@dartmouth.edu

Hi, ’20s—happy holidays! I hope you all are experiencing—or looking forward to—the joy, rest, and generosity of the holiday season. In that vein, here are some of the wonderful endeavors from our fellow classmates:

Sam Zarkower was elected to serve a full two-year term as a Democratic Party district leader in Westchester County, New York, having been initially appointed to fill a vacancy. He also served as an alternate judicial delegate at the 2024 Democratic Party Judicial Convention for New York’s 9th Judicial District to nominate candidates for the New York Supreme Court. Finally, he was admitted to the New York Bar in July!

Devon Kurtz has released a new book, Sketches from Behind Prison Walls. It is a collaboration between Devon; Rein Kolts, an artist incarcerated at a prison in Springfield, Vermont; and a number of other incarcerated men. It offers an unflinching but varied view of prison life from the inside, mediated by the incredible portraits sketched by Rein. The book grew out of Devon’s ministry work at the prison under the auspices of Hanover Friends Meeting and with grant support from New England Yearly Meeting (a regional Quaker organization) and the Quaker Institute for the Future, which published the book. All proceeds go to a charitable fund to provide scholarships to the Correctional Ministry Institute’s prison ministry certificate program.

Congratulations to both Devon and Sam. Happy holidays, ’20s!

—Katie Goldstein, 263 W Santa Inez, Hillsborough, CA 94010; katie.e.goldstein.20@dartmouth.edu

Hi, everyone—short column this month as we focus on some exciting news from my classmates! From my seat as secretary, it’s clear how much time, thoughtfulness, and intentionality everyone is putting into their lives and relationships. I am excited to highlight your hard work in future columns.

Allison “Allie” Carey moved to Dublin, Ireland, this fall to pursue a curatorial fellowship with a local museum as a Fulbright scholar. Says Allie: “I am looking forward to working on a project that will re-examine a crucial modern art collection in a contemporary light through collaboration with local Irish youth. I will rely heavily on the foundations I learned in both my art history and education classes at Dartmouth!”

Catherine Cable and yours truly moved to San Francisco. We are both so excited to explore the surrounding nature and enjoy the sun, whenever it appears!

Erik Jones and Hari Meyyappan have started a company, Hall of Fame Bets—the sports betting analytics platform for player props, parlays, same game parlays, and game lines.

Congratulations to all our classmates and thank you for sharing such updates! As always, if you are interested in being featured, penning a guest column, or featuring a friend, please reach out to me at dartmouth20classnotes@gmail.com. See you in the new year (and the next column)!

—Katie Goldstein, 263 W Santa Inez, Hillsborough, CA 94010; katie.e.goldstein.20@dartmouth.edu

Hi, friends, happy summer! Welcome to another edition of Class Notes, highlighting the amazing, interesting, and random achievements of our classmates. Please remember to reach out to me at dartmouth20classnotes@gmail.com if you would like to include any updates in future Class Notes columns.

Nick Shade will be spending his summer in Los Angeles working for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Jet Propulsion Lab. Nick is pursuing his Ph.D. in electrical engineering at Thayer, where he is developing advanced camera technology for outer space applications.

Courtney Stump is celebrating her engagement to Rakeeb Kureshi. After a private proposal, they celebrated with friends (including several Dartmouth alumni!) at a dinner in Boston. The couple met while working in an immunology research lab at Harvard and are now students in the same Ph.D. program there. They look forward to a wonderful future together.

Kristie Chow founded Hauteline, a tech and logistics platform powering shared circular commerce for retail brands. By bringing customers access rather than ownership, Hauteline is harmonizing the constant newness that is built into the fabric of fashion with the growing need for meaningful sustainability. Kristie is based in Brooklyn, New York.

Caroline (Allen) Wiser and her husband, Woods, welcomed a baby boy, Brooks, in March. Here’s to hoping he’ll be a ’44!

After a few months of living in Italy and working in a startup, Paula Kutschera moved to Munich, Germany. There, she’ll be working as a product manager for MAC Cosmetics at Estée Lauder. She’s very excited for the summer in Munich to explore the many lakes and Alps that are just a train ride away!

A hearty thanks to all those featured. Big hugs.

—Katie Goldstein, 263 W Santa Inez, Hillsborough, CA 94010; katie.e.goldstein.20@dartmouth.edu

Hi, everyone.

Happy almost spring! This column is a short one filled with updates on all the incredible things our classmates are doing.

Sloane Sambuco, Morgan Sobaro, Samantha “Sami” Burack, and I (Katie Goldstein) attended a charity event supporting the Bowery in N.Y.C. in December. It was so fun to catch up, get ready together, and then dance the night away! We ran into Juliana McCombe and Abby Meyers on the dance floor.

Speaking of Abby, she wrote an article about how important it is for companies to have thorough supply-chain traceability to manage costs and avoid disruptions, particularly amid recent labor shortages, Covid, and geopolitical challenges. You can read the article at BainCapitalVentures.com by searching “Supply Chain Traceability as a Climate Imperative.”

A hearty congratulations to Andrew “Sosa” Sosanya, who became a security fellow of the Truman National Security Project this past November. Security fellows are policy experts, academics, and thought leaders who anticipate and articulate new global challenges and opportunities. Many work within the U.S. national security legislature, the international community, or an expansive network of private organizations. Sosa is an incredible technologist with a background in artificial intelligence (AI), the natural sciences, tech policy, and national security. He explored artificial intelligence, physics, and national security at length at Dartmouth, earning an honors A.B. in physics and government modified with computer science (artificial intelligence focus). His senior thesis on the rise of autonomous weapons and militarized AI won Dartmouth’s Chase Peace Prize and was subsequently published in the Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice.

Currently, Sosa is a machine-learning engineer at SandboxAQ (part of Marble Labs, a technology-backed nonprofit focused on building public goods). Previously, he worked as a national security consultant, advising on areas including AI and digital transformation with policymakers across the U.S. Department of Defense, National Security Council, National Institutes of Health, and State Department to advance innovative ideas. He also worked as a policy analyst for the Federation of American Scientists Day One Project, where he built a platform for science and technology policy ideas. At the Day One Project Sosa helped develop ambitious and actionable policy ideas on issues such as reforming the $700 billion defense budget, electrifying the aviation ecosystem, and training diverse scientists. We’re excited to see all he does next to better our world as a Truman National Security Project fellow—congratulations again, Sosa!

Thank you all for reading and especially to those featured! If you have any news to share with the Dartmouth community or would like to pen a guest column, please write to me at dartmouth20classnotes@gmail.com.

Hugs.

—Katie Goldstein, 263 W Santa Inez, Hillsborough, CA 94010; katie.e.goldstein.20@dartmouth.edu

Happy holidays, all! This issue, please enjoy a special reflection from Nayeli Diaz de Bonilla on how her time at Dartmouth has shaped her work, life, and being. Thank you for sharing your story, Nayeli—and for bettering our world!

This past month has been one of celebration: first with our Commencement ceremony and then with my two-year work anniversary at Sequoia Consulting, where I was recently promoted to project engineer. Since leaving Hanover I have been involved in the launch of three different pharmaceutical manufacturing facilities, all of which relate to the manufacturing of products to meet demands for Covid-19 vaccines. The current project that I am leading has taught me an incredible amount not only about the industry but also about myself and who I am outside of the Dartmouth bubble.

In my 2018 winter women and gender studies class I heard the quote, “Beauty is whatever inspires love in us. Whatever inspires us to spend more time with it, to learn from it, and to partake in its existence is beautiful. When we love a thing, we always hope it will become part of our lives and make us better people.” This quote stuck with me and shaped the person I would become.

Dartmouth has had such a strong impact on our lives: the way we understand ourselves, how we learn to interact with the world, and the feeling of such a strong shared experience with such an exceptional group of people. I want to remind you all that you have, in some direct or indirect manner, influenced and shaped our time in Hanover, which has rippled out through interactions across the globe since our abrupt departure.

I am incredibly grateful to be able to do such important work remotely, which allowed me to move to Costa Rica for six months. From the tropical rainforest I was able to engage in work during business hours and explore the intricacies of the jungle in my free time. While hiking to waterfalls, exploring desolate beaches, and navigating the understory of the jungle, I often thought of my Dartmouth classes. I thought of questions I would have asked my teachers, noticed things my peers would have found interesting, observed stuff that I had only ever heard about in lectures. I often miss the comfort and resources that were available to me. Mostly, I miss my peers, who shared an inquisitive mind and a passion for a deep interdisciplinary understanding of the world.

I was fortunate to graduate with a degree in biological sciences and a concentration in evolutionary ecology. I sought to understand how the natural world shapes itself—and therefore, us—through interactions across time. Understanding the world around me and recognizing our ability to shape and influence the environment around us is what brings beauty and meaning to my life. This beauty is one that has only deepened since leaving Hanover. I would not be the person I am today if it were not for my experiences at Dartmouth, and I have to thank you all for that.

Dartmouth was a beautiful and impactful time of my life and revisiting for graduation allowed me to reflect on the amount of growth and change my time there spurred. Despite a two-year delay, so many of us returned to celebrate our class. To me, that is a testament to the strength of the impact that this school had on us all. Thank you all for the shared experience, and I wish the best for all of you. Until our next reunion!

—Katie Goldstein, 263 W Santa Inez, Hillsborough, CA 94010; katie.e.goldstein.20@dartmouth.edu

Hi, ’20s! I hope you all are doing well and enjoying the fruits of summer. Personally, I am excited for us all to come together in Hanover this August for our Commencement celebration. While some might think this an event to commemorate our efforts at the College, I think it will also be a time to celebrate what we have achieved in our young adulthood, including after graduation. This column, Emma (Sampugnaro) Velicky penned a beautiful piece about just this, finding herself after Dartmouth.

“At Dartmouth we were told almost constantly to step off the beaten path, to think outside the box—not just with our studies, but with our lives. Yet in many ways attending Dartmouth is part of a narrow but well-worn path toward social mobility. On campus the sense of belonging and togetherness made it easy to dodge questions of purpose. The future, far away from cramped dorm rooms and stolen Food Court plates, was always bold and beautiful and bright.

“Well, my friends, the future is now. I hesitate to reference current events, knowing that the moment I do a new variant will show up before the ink dries. Instead, I will report on how things have been for me since March 2020, after getting stuck in Seattle with one carry-on suitcase in my now husband’s 400-square-foot studio apartment.

“I am a continuation of everything I was before, but sometimes it feels as though the proportions are all drawn wrong. I am 23 and married—a peculiarity for college-educated, non-religious Gen-Z women, but for a girl who used to chase boys around the playground, it hardly comes as a surprise. If I had double-majored at Dartmouth it would have been for a Mrs. degree. By all standard metrics of success, Dartmouth has catapulted me onward and upward. I work for Microsoft as a product manager. I bought a house in central Seattle. My family is all very impressed. But what keeps me up at night is the fear that I’m not living up to my potential.

“If someone had told me that I would spend my 20s pouring coffee and fetching dry cleaning to support a glamorous writing career in my 30s, I’d say, count me in. However, one might describe my current situation as staring at a computer monitor all day while money pours down my throat. I was prepared for hustling and struggling to make my dreams come true, not trudging through a lucrative but incredibly boring 9-to-5.

“Yet I am learning that these small, conventional steps require the most belief, the most discipline—the most therapy. In therapy I am learning to trust myself and my process. I push for professional recognition even though I don’t see myself in this career in the long term. I went part-time at Microsoft to make more space for my writing. I just published my historical bondage, dominance, and submission/sadomasochism romance novel, Caribbean Reign (Amazon). Maybe one day I’ll adapt it into a screenplay and try to sell it to Netflix. Maybe one day I’ll open an Italian bakery in Seattle or a flagship West Coast location for Dunkin Donuts. Right now I am learning to accept what I have and still strive for better. I am not complacent. I am letting my experiences shape who I am and who I want to be. Not every step will be unique, not every step will be perfect, but I am growing up. We are growing up.”

See you all soon (I hope)! Until then, wishing you all health and happiness.

—Katie Goldstein, 263 W Santa Inez, Hillsborough, CA 94010; katie.e.goldstein.20@dartmouth.edu

Hi all, and welcome to another edition of Class Notes! This issue I asked some of our classmates working in the government, public service, and education sectors to share the incredible things they are doing. I know this is but the beginning for all those listed here—and all those reading!

Ellie Mitchell is in her first year at Fordham Law. She writes: “My favorite class is legal writing, and I am hoping to pursue a career in litigation. For this upcoming summer I am applying to intern for a judge or work in public interest.”

Tyler Baum was recently elected to serve a four-year term on the borough council in his hometown of Irwin, Pennsylvania, making history as the youngest person ever elected to this office. When asked why he ran, Tyler said: “I am very passionate about revitalizing rural areas and small towns throughout Appalachia, so I decided to move home after college to make a change.” A volunteer firefighter and member of his town’s zoning hearing board, Tyler’s core priorities include combating population loss, creating a summer civic fellowship program to engage youth, establishing a recycling program alongside garbage service, and improving personnel retention within the police department.

During the day Tyler works on the corporate strategy and mergers and acquisitions team at U.S. Steel. Hailing from a long line of union steelworkers, he is proud to continue his family’s legacy in the metals industry. He also dearly misses time with his peers at Dartmouth, particularly studying at Rocky and Sanborn.

After getting out the youth vote on a U.S. Senate campaign and promoting civic education in schools, Jennifer West now serves as a paralegal at the U.S. Department of Justice in the civil rights division, where she works on issues involving enforcement of the Voting Rights Act.

Finally, an update from Mary Tobin, who is currently teaching English in a small town in the Bavarian Forest (Roding, Germany) with her Fulbright grant. She is living with a host mom and an 11-year-old host daughter and enjoys exchanging Bavarian and American culture both at home and in school. She is particularly interested in comparing German and U.S. attitudes toward sustainability and plans to apply this knowledge in a career focused on green building design and energy. Says Mary: “This opportunity is an absolute dream come true for me! It has been a pleasure living with a family and experiencing their traditions. I have also had the opportunity to travel to cities throughout Germany with other Fulbrighters and meet people from all over the world.” When asked about her time in Roding, Mary shared a fond memory from her first weekend in Bavaria: “I went hiking with my host family and family friends and spent the whole trip talking about my home and teaching English words to the kids. It was a gorgeous day, and we could see up and down the valley. At the top, we arrived at a traditional Bavarian gasthaus that bordered the Czech Republic. We enjoyed traditional Bavarian cuisine like goulash soup and weisswurst while listening to an accordion! I am incredibly grateful for this experience and am excited to spend another six months here.”

Thank you all for your service. We appreciate you and your drive to make the world a better place through your time, energy, and passion!

—Katie Goldstein, 263 W Santa Inez, Hillsborough, CA 94010; katie.e.goldstein.20@dartmouth.edu

Hi, everyone, and happy holidays! Curl up this season with three stories from our classmates on pandemic hardships and gratitudes.

Yi Fei Yan writes: “The past year was a difficult year for me for various reasons, but I feel grateful that I found solace in the discordant states of both solitude and community. This hyper-connected era that we live in has made solitude a less attractive, if not heretical, proposition, but it is precisely this nature of the modern world that makes it valuable to seek refuge from time to time in order to preserve mental sanity and integrity. Meditation was an infallible companion during these times, and I highly recommend everyone incorporate such practices into their quotidian lives, pandemic or not.

“Yet sustained solitude becomes seclusion and finding communities that accept us for who we are is just as important as self-reflection. Fortunately, when I moved to San Francisco I stumbled upon welcoming communities: local Dartmouth alumni, company new grads, climbing pals, and many more. The magic of great communities is that they make even the most foreign land feel like the promised land. Special thanks to mushroom queen Anna Dodson for spores of new friends!

Shae Wolfe writes: “When Covid-19 disrupted my post-graduation plans to join the Peace Corps in Peru, I thought I would have to settle on a different path. Instead I’ve spent the last year bursting with passion and motivation, discovering interests I didn’t know I had. I work at Boston Medical Center conducting research on harm reduction and opioid overdose prevention. Our study aims to understand how a counseling intervention may impact the risk and rate of opioid overdose.

“I spend my days recruiting participants, introducing them to our study, screening them for eligibility, and interviewing them about their substance use, witnessed or experienced overdose events, and more. I feel extremely grateful for the opportunity to get to know my participants so deeply and to listen to such intimate stories.

“I’ve always known that I wanted to be a doctor, but I was unsure what I wanted to choose as a specialty. My experiences this past year have not only solidified my interest in addiction medicine, they have also given me the opportunity to model the kind of care provider I want to be: someone who doesn’t speak for those who are voiceless, but instead gives people their own mic.”

Adam Riegler writes: “Before March 2020 I expected to leave Dartmouth with purpose, but when June came around, I felt confused. I spent four years studying theater only to find the live arts extinguished overnight—and their future uncertain. I moved home and spent almost a year reflecting on my path and wondering if I had made a wrong move somewhere.

“The result was an understanding of the value of what I learned in Hanover. I was too caught up on the minutia; what Dartmouth had truly taught me was how to create my own path and pursue success despite limitations.

“I refused the idea that theater needed to be paused and created a plan to safely build the life for which I had prepared. Leveraging the immense talent of Dartmouth peers (Holden Harris, Gray Christie, Sophia Kinne, and Max Samuels ’15), the connectivity of Zoom, and the available room in my parents’ house, I directed and filmed a live play: Albert Names Edward by Louis Nowra.

“I feel grateful to Dartmouth for teaching me how to overcome obstacles in order to fulfill my passions and giving me the resources to take back control in my life.”

Hugs.

—Katie Goldstein, 263 W Santa Inez, Hillsborough, CA 94010; katie.e.goldstein.20@dartmouth.edu

Happy summer, everyone! I hope you all are doing well and staying safe. With warm weather and the promise of vaccinations on the horizon, there’s lots to smile about. In this column I reflected on the July-August of our Sophomore Summer—lazy afternoons spent by the river, escaping the Hanover humidity with a smoothie on the Collis patio, and many, many Dartboard emails. Accordingly, the theme of this column is direction. There is a cliché that Dartmouth pushes students to pursue certain career paths, so I asked some of our classmates how they found their ways onto roads less taken. Interestingly, while classmates discovered their directions at different points in their Dartmouth education, each noted unique academic experiences as key influences in the post-college direction.

Alex Sasse always knew she wanted to study government in college. At Dartmouth she narrowed her focus to foreign policy and international human rights. She found a direct route to these subjects through classes on human rights in Latin America, a study abroad in Argentina, and a summer internship at the U.S. Agency for International Development—all of which helped her to realize her desire to enter the field through law school. She took a year after graduation to study for the LSAT and work at Love at First Bite Bakery (the “best cupcake shop in Berkeley, California”). While cupcake decorating is not “the most direct route” to a human rights law career, it allows her to live in “the most beautiful place on earth” and sculpt fondant Ferraris, Yodas, sloths, and more for custom cakes on a daily basis! She will be attending law school next year.

Lynette Long currently works jointly for National Geographic and the World Bank BioCarbon Fund to create social impact and enable sustainable development. She noted that her experience on the environmental studies foreign study program largely directed her career: “Because we collaborated with local environmental nonprofits and research institutes to perform fieldwork and deliver management recommendations, I felt in touch with and responsible for the practical implications of my academic outputs for the first time.”

Anna Whitney hasspent this year teaching at the Horace Mann School in New York City, teaching environmental science to eighth-graders (mostly) and leading team-building activities in the Bronx. Anna notes her path changed senior year—while she was initially set on returning to consulting, she found this opportunity right before the pandemic began and “jumped on it!” She credits Dartmouth for preparing her for the unique aspects of pandemic-era teaching, such as instructing in outdoor classrooms. Anna notes she “draws inspiration from professors who often brought their classes into the community and the outdoors—on the environmental studies foreign study program, in social impact practicums, and beyond!” Anna is looking forward to applying “everything I’ve learned during this unprecedented year as I shift to teaching fourth grade at the Brunswick School next year and, I hope, pursue a master’s in education.”

Finally, it wouldn’t be Class Notes without some updates from our classmates. Elizabeth Nguyen celebrated her 23rd birthday outdoors in San Francisco with Alex Sasse, Jenna Salvay, and some socially distant pong. Iliana Godoy says aloha from Las Vegas! She recently started working at Droisys Inc., an amazing Asian American and Pacific Islander technology company, where she is learning from gaming tech industry leaders. She’s also been meeting up with fellow ’20 Elizabeth Simms as she prepares to leave for New England for her Ph.D. program at Brandeis University. Emma Guo booked a trip for two to Bali in 2022 and she’s recruited Alexandria Chen to join her. Hugs.

—Katie Goldstein, 263 W Santa Inez, Hillsborough, CA 94010; katie.e.goldstein.20@dartmouth.edu

As this issue of the magazine looks toward spring, this column will do the same. I am privileged to hand this Class Notes over to Luke Bienstock for our first-ever guest column! In it he documents a newfound appreciation for the New Hampshire wilderness we know, love, and miss as senior spring came to a close. Enjoy!

Hi, ’20s! As I’m writing this at the end of 2020, I’ve been thinking back on two main things from this year: graduating from Dartmouth and adapting to the changes around me. I wasn’t sure what to write for the guest column when a friend suggested describing how the outdoors influenced my time at Dartmouth. That idea broke my writer’s block.

At the end of the winter quarter I remember realizing that my senior spring rugby season would be canceled. The disappointment I felt was overwhelming, as I was looking forward to the spring tour in Louisiana and competing at nationals. The outlook of spending the upcoming quarter in isolation in my off-campus apartment in Hanover was depressing. I momentarily found solace in the idea of skiing at the mountains, where I had a season pass, but that was lost when they all shut down.

Driving up to Hanover I couldn’t imagine that I would spend my last few months at Dartmouth in front of a computer. I decided to focus my free time on getting in peak physical condition for Navy officer candidate school, which I will be attending this February. I started to go on long runs in the area, which I hadn’t done at school before as most of my time had been spent training at the rugby pitch. That’s when I discovered the wealth of outdoor opportunities that were hiding in plain sight. I quickly got into trail running, hiking, and backcountry skiing.

During spring term I discovered the larger community outside the Dartmouth bubble. I started running in the trails along the Connecticut River, frequently hiking hills in the Upper Valley, and trekking empty ski hills in the area to ski down became daily activities. I began going to the Norwich, Vermont, farmer’s market after running by one morning and ordering from places outside of campus on my way back from hikes.

While the pandemic closed the door on my rugby season, it opened another one to the New Hampshire outdoors around me. That spring I tried to fit more than three years of outdoor activities into one quarter to make up for the time that I hadn’t been able to take advantage of it. My highlights that spring were staring down Franconia Ridge from the peak of Mount Lafayette, skiing down the steep face of Profanity Chute on Mount Mansfield, and seeing the Atlantic Ocean from the top of Mount Washington. I hiked Mount Washington the day before I left campus that spring—I find it fitting that I started my four years at Dartmouth on the peak of one mountain, Mount Moosilauke, during trips, and finished it on another.

While so much of my identity at Dartmouth was connected to rugby, I’ve loved finding a new athletic outlet that I will continue in the Navy. While I’m sad to have not been with friends and playing rugby during my last quarter in Hanover, the flexible online class schedule opened up opportunities for new experiences that I wouldn’t have had the time for otherwise. The outdoors was only a small part of my Dartmouth experience, but the lessons I’ve learned from exploring them have left a lasting impact on me. As I move onwards, viewing the unknown as an exciting opportunity to learn and grow will doubtless help me adapt to my new phase of life after Dartmouth.

—Katie Goldstein, 263 W Santa Inez, Hillsborough, CA 94010; katie.e.goldstein.20@dartmouth.edu

Happy holidays, everyone. Although the holiday season may feel different this year due to all that we are experiencing, I hope we all are able to find time to reflect on what brings us joy and what we are excited for in the future. As 2020 slips away, here’s to hoping that 2021 brings us good news and constructive changes from our present reality.

This issue focuses on the fresh starts that feel promised to us by a new year. Accordingly, I asked some of our classmates: What are you looking forward to in the next year? While answers ranged from starting new careers to growing existing ventures to exploring hobbies, all centered on hope, community, and self-discovery.

Many looked forward to new beginnings as they transitioned into their careers.

Erika Ogino said that she is excited to finally move to New York City, live with her friends, and start her job.

Catherine Cable shared, “It is incredibly exciting to have a relatively blank canvas before me and get to make the initial brushstrokes to the painting in my first job in a new city, meeting new people, and experiencing new things.” She is looking forward to her new job, where she will contribute to a problem-solving team that helps people and companies every day.

Hayley Soriano is looking forward to starting off the next chapter in New York City after working from home in her parents’ basement for several months. She is also excited to get back up to Hanover in the summer for our long-awaited graduation!

Says Shae Wolfe: “I am looking forward to discovering who I am and who I can be in a new city outside of Dartmouth. So many of the identities I held the last four years were shaped around what I learned about myself at Dartmouth, and I’m excited to welcome new identities and truths outside of that space.”

Mary Versa Clemens-Sewell will be moving to Baltimore in December, having worked remotely since August. In the meantime she is looking forward to Maryland farm produce and someday actually working at the office!

Others were excited about growing their own ventures.

Sanat Mohapatra is the founder of Unmasked, an anonymous, mental health social media app for college students, by college students. Currently Unmasked is live on five college campuses, and Sanat is eager to expand to 50 more during the next year. Sanat has been awarded the Dickey Center’s Lombard Public Service Fellowship to continue working on Unmasked this year.

Jesse Scanlon is looking forward to growing his business, Hampton Essentials LLC, which has already served hundreds of clients on the east end of Long Island, as well as spending time with his friends and family in Antigua, many of whom he hasn’t seen in more than eight years.

Finally, some of our classmates anticipated free time to learn new skills.

Andrew Sosanya said that he is looking forward to improving at guitar and learning how to play the same songs he grew up listening to.

Many thanks to everyone who responded! If you have any such updates to share, please send them to dartmouth20classnotes@gmail.com. One last logistical note: Please keep the alumni records office up to date with your addresses so that you’ll receive the magazine regularly. You can reach the office directly at alumni.records@dartmouth.edu.

I hope this holiday season brings you and your loved ones closer together, even though you may be physically far apart. Sending socially distant air hugs to all. To the end of 2020 and the start of a new year!

—Katie Goldstein, 263 W Santa Inez, Hillsborough, CA 94010; katie.e.goldstein.20@dartmouth.edu