Class Note 2016

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