Class Note 2009
Brendan Anderson completed a Ph.D. in paleobiology at Cornell University. Brendan, Katie, and Eliana moved to Long Island, where Katie has taken a new (post-M.B.A.) job. Karen Woolley Bell and Erik Bell are proud new parents. Allison Jean Bell was born on August 8, and they couldn’t be more thrilled-terrified! They live in the Washington, D.C., area, if anyone’s headed that way.
Eben Bein has been teaching high school biology and environmental action for six years, mostly at Revere (Massachusetts) High School and Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire. He took a break from teaching to get an M.S. in science writing at MIT and loves writing about science and environmental solutions for the likes of YES! Magazine, NOVA PBS, and The Atlantic. He is the Northeast field coordinator for a small nonprofit called Our Climate, which empowers young people to advocate for effective climate policy. If you know students who might be interested, they can email him at eben@ourclimate.us. The FasterSkier podcast profiled Dakota Blackhorse-Von Jess.
Grace Chua ’07 and James Bramante just had their second child, Irene Bramante! Nanette Cedeno moved to Denver! Taylor Dryman Wilmer married Harry Wilmer in Atlanta in October 2017 with many alums in attendance. Taylor graduated with her Ph.D. in clinical psychology this summer and started her new position as a postdoctoral fellow at McLean Hospital in August. She and her husband live in Somerville, Massachusetts, and look forward to connecting with Dartmouth alums in the area.
Amber Gott Steel moved with her husband and 2-year-old son to Richmond, Virginia, this summer.Tina Harrison is working on post-doc research in a UC Davis pollination ecology lab. Lindsay Maitland Hunt moved to Berlin, Germany, a few months ago after a three-month trial period there last year. It was great hanging with Zeke Turner and Pete Mathias last fall, and she is missing them now that they are off on other adventures. Lindsay’s first cookbook, Healthyish, came out in January, and she is now working on a second cookbook, called Help Yourself, which includes recipes for gut-health, as well as memoir and scientific reporting. Let her know if you’re coming through Berlin!
Kimberly Kruge’sbook comes out after the new year through Carnegie Mellon University Press. It is a full-length collection of poetry titled Ordinary Chaos. This summer she hosted the second annual Comala Haven retreat, a program she founded in Mexico for female writers. Rob Pritchard married Samantha Ebata on August 25 in Whistler, Canada, and celebrated with fellow alums including groomsmen Connor Shields and Alex Castrodale.
Jordan Rose married on August 11 at Waterloo Village in New Jersey. She had an amazing group of friends and family, including Dartmouth folks Mike Knapp, Adam Schoenfeld, Ruslan Tovbulatov, Ryan Moody, Natasha Pakravan ’08, Dave Hollenberg, Uday Seth, Elias Tapley, Ry Sullivan, Owen Roberts, and Alex Cushman ’08.
Haley Wauson Rosowsky, husband Ahmed, and 2-year-old son Phoenix welcomed a little girl, Luna Rae, on March 5. Haley spent the summer learning how to balance life with two kids, working as a senior marketing manager in Accenture’s Industry X.0 practice—and trying not to melt in the Houston heat. Kimia R. Shahi continues to work toward a Ph.D. in art history at Princeton University. This year she relocated to Washington, D.C., as the Wyeth Foundation predoctoral fellow at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. She would love to reconnect with ’09s living there!
—Liz (Doolittle) Kahane, 7 Chatmoss Road, Henderson, NV 89052; (617) 909-7669; elizabeth.d.kahane@gmail.com
