—Marina Liot, 10 Liberty St., New York, NY 10005; marina.liot@outlook.com
Class Notes 2021
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As I prepare this issue of our Class Notes, it is clear that our class is “on the move”—starting new jobs, moving across the country, pursuing graduate degrees, and many more exciting adventures on the horizon. With the hustle and bustle of life, we can truly appreciate the sentiment that “Tho’ ’round the girdled earth they roam, Her spell on them remains.”
Give a rouse for our classmates and their recent achievements!
Daniel McClafferty is preparing to run the 2024 TCS New York City Marathon. He is running to support Homes for Our Troops, a nonprofit organization that builds and donates specially adapted custom homes nationwide for severely injured post-9/11 veterans to enable them to rebuild their lives. Daniel noted that, “As someone who deeply values the sacrifices made by our servicemen and women, I am passionate about supporting this cause.” I think I speak for our entire class when I wish you the best of luck with the marathon and thank you for your commitment to such a worthy cause. You represent the class of 2021 well!
Caroline Cook was invited back to Dartmouth during reunions to share her research at an event with the Women of Dartmouth focused on gender equality in higher education. Caroline published her debut novel, Tell Them to Be Quiet and Wait, based on the life of the first female professor at Dartmouth. During reunions Caroline led a conversation with Barbara Will, the vice provost for academic affairs at Dartmouth. Congratulations on the publication of your book, Caroline, and all of the work you are doing to bring these conversations on gender equality in higher education to the forefront!
Jennie Rhodes iscurrently pursuing an M.S. (environmental science) at the University of Michigan. This past summer she worked as a climate resilience intern at the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES). Jennie worked on a project with the C2ES’ Climate Resilient Communities Accelerator to advance efforts to boost wildfire and heat resilience in Colorado’s North Front Range. During her internship Jennie traveled to Colorado to work with North Front Range communities on developing resilience hubs and microgrids in the region!
After three rewarding years at McKinsey & Co., Jolie Kemp and Steven (Xiaoqiu) Li will continue their education at Harvard Law School this Fall!
Armond Dorsey has recently started pursuing an M.Div. at the Harvard Divinity School! Armondnoted, “I will continue my work in developing music interventions for Black communities while pursuing training in chaplaincy and ministry in order to create arts interventions that promote physical and spiritual health.”
In Philadelphia Steven Adelberg and Fred Ames are starting graduate school programs! Steven will matriculate into the M.B.A. class of 2026 at the Wharton School after working for three years at BlackRock. And Fred recently started his J.D. at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School.
Bradley Fox has recently started as an M.D. candidate at the Duke University School of Medicine!
And congratulations to Michael Green for receiving the highly competitive NIH F99/K00 “Transition to Aging Research for Predoctoral Students Fellowship” with the National Institute of Aging! This program supports graduate students as they complete their dissertation research and will provide an additional three to four years of support as Michael pursues a postdoctoral position and develops an independent research program. Michael is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in population health sciences at the Duke University School of Medicine. His research focus is primarily on social determinants of health, racial health inequities, and cardiovascular health outcomes research.
Please feel free to send any updates for the next edition to me at marina.liot@outlook.com!
—Marina Liot, 10 Liberty St., New York, NY 10005; marina.liot@outlook.com
Hi, ’21s! I hope you all are enjoying the fall season and will be able to enjoy the spirit of Homecoming, either at home or back on campus. It is hard to believe that we ran around the Homecoming bonfire almost seven years ago!
Give a rouse to Peter Green, Julia Bonzanini, and Kyle Hartin for starting new jobs and graduate school programs!
In April Peter Green started a new role as an equity research associate at LifeSci Capital—a biotech-oriented investment bank in N.Y.C. He moved to the N.Y.C. area after two great years living in Boston, where he was able to stay connected with fellow ’21s Henry Foster, Anna Wilinsky, and Jack Gourdeau.
Julia Bonzanini started a Ph.D. at the University of Washington on computational protein design and cancer immunotherapy. And Kyle Hartin is moving to California to pursue an M.F.A. program in the arts.
Best of luck to you all!
Class of 2021, please send through any updates, awards, promotions, or moves—it would be wonderful to feature you in the next edition of Class Notes! In addition, please be encouraged to send an update about a friend in the class.
—Marina Liot, 10 Liberty St., New York, NY 10005; marina.liot@outlook.com
Hi, ’21s! As the winter season approaches, I am reminded of our winter terms at Dartmouth—filled with snowball fights on the Green, ice skating on Occom Pond, and trudging through the New Hampshire snow on the way to class. I wish you all a peaceful and joyous holiday season and am happy to share with you all a few updates from our class!
In January, after graduating with her M.A. in museum studies, Claire Green Young began work for her tribe as the curator at the Choctaw Cultural Center in Calera, Oklahoma! Since then, she has worked with the community to curate her first solo exhibition Bok Abaiya: Practiced Hands and the Arts of Choctaw Basketry, an exhibition that features more than 60 Choctaw bas-kets, 14 contemporary Choctaw artworks, and various other pieces related to Choctaw history and culture. Claire noted that, “It’s been incredibly rewarding to start work in this field at my dream job, within my community, and so near my family once again. Yakoke!” Congratulations on your first solo exhibition, Claire, we wish you all the best in your future artistic and community-building endeavors!
Best of luck to Alexis Angulos, Ben Schelling, and Jasmine Butler, who have recently started new graduate school programs or a new job! Alexis Angulos started business school at Duke Fuqua. Ben Schelling is starting a Ph.D. program in biological oceanography at Old Dominion University. His research will focus on how tidal flooding (which is enhanced by sea level rise) affects algal blooms and phytoplankton populations in Norfolk, Virginia. And Jasmine Butler started a new job at Codepink: Feminists for Peace to fight the war economy and military industrial complex.
Class of 2021, please send through any updates, awards, promotions, or moves—it would be wonderful to feature you in the next edition of Class Notes! In addition, please be encouraged to send an update about a friend in the class.
—Marina Liot, 10 Liberty St., New York, NY 10005; marina.liot@outlook.com
Hi, ’21s! As Homecoming Weekend approaches, it is always a compelling time to reflect on our Dartmouth experience. I hope you all have good memories, friendships, and some knowledge to hold onto from our time at the College—with many more in the coming years.
If you make it to Hanover for Homecoming, make sure to enjoy the foliage and Lou’s apple cider donuts!
We have a lot to celebrate as a class! Give a rouse for Jared Cape and Anamika Shah, who became engaged in late June!
Jake Johnson and Mrinal Singh cofounded a company that was accepted into Y Combinator’s summer 2023 batch. And Maxine Perroni-Scharf graduated from Princeton University, receiving her M.S in engineering with a focus on computer science. She will start a Ph.D. program at MIT this fall!
Maryam Iqbal was awarded a Fulbright English teaching assistantship in Romania. She is looking forward to becoming immersed in the local culture, noting “I always spoke Romanian in the house until I was about 7.” The Fulbright program will further her aspirations to go to medical school. Maryam explained, “As a physician I hope to specifically work with immigrants and refugees, so it’s important to understand what makes English difficult for non-native speakers and be mindful of where and how miscommunication can occur.”
In addition, I am happy to announce that the class of 2021 and class of 2022 executive committees hosted our first mini-reunion at the Bell-in-Hand Tavern in Boston. Jake Maguire noted, “Turnout was great, with at least 15 ’21s and 25 ’22s meeting up at one of Boston’s best bars.” Our class was well represented with Peter Green, Luke Amen, Jacob Maguire, Jackson Rich, Eric Vaughn, Nina Kosowsky, Jack Gourdeau, Grace Chahyadinata, Nishi Jain, Lindsey Beaudoin, Chelsea Pike,and Rory Schadler in attendance!
Best of luck with all your future endeavors. Class of 2021, please send through any updates, awards, promotions, or moves—it would be wonderful to feature you in the next edition of Class Notes! In addition, please be encouraged to send an update about a friend in the class.
—Marina Liot, 10 Liberty St., New York, NY 10005; marina.liot@outlook.com
Hi, ’21s! Hard to believe that it is almost two years since our graduation. I am happy to share some exciting professional and personal updates from the class of 2021! Congratulations to all and best of luck with your future endeavors.
Give a rouse to Tamy Gomez-Ortigoza!She got engaged in October and will be getting married to Bruno Korbar ’18 in Tepoztlan, Mexico, this September. They met in a class her freshman fall and the rest is history.
Marina Cepeda moved to Los Angeles to pursue directing. She was a production assistant for Netflix’s Your Place or Mine—and was on set with Ashton Kutcher!
Matt Magann is currently working in the Arizona desert as an exploration geologist, where he focuses on defining and sustainably developing the Santa Cruz copper deposit. In the past two years he’s managed to travel often and climb hundreds of peaks around Colorado, California, Utah, and the Southwest—of course always writing “TOR” in the summit register. Matt plans to move to the Bay Area in August to study for his J.D. at UC Berkeley Law.
Olivia Goodwin is in her last semester of completing an M.P.H. at the Yale School of Public Health. She is working on her master’s thesis and gearing up to bike from Virginia to Oregon this summer. She will be riding with Bike & Build to build affordable housing: two and a half months, about 4,000 miles biking, and 15 build days!
William Owen left behind the world of corporate finance in N.Y.C. and has started working in northern Maine for the Frog Barn, a mom-and-pop shop that specializes in all things amphibious. He is eager to spend all day outside collecting specimens and taking care of his green friends!
Alexander Rauda started a new job at Actum, in its D.C. office as an associate. The role consists of lobbying for clients across a variety of fields, including science, space, energy, and defense.
Though ’round the girdled Earth they roam, many of our classmates are starting graduate school programs! Seysha Mehta is finishing her first year of medical school. Justin Gi is starting graduate school at the Harvard Graduate School of Education in June. And Akosua “Kos” Twum is heading to Harvard Law School this upcoming fall.
Thank you for the updates. Class of ’21s, please send through any updates, awards, promotions, or moves—it would be wonderful to feature you in the next edition of Class Notes! In addition, please be encouraged to send an update about a friend in the class.
—Marina Liot, 10 Liberty St., New York, NY 10005; marina.liot@outlook.com
