April 2012 - Alumni News - Williams College

Jenny Coronel ’10 (left) traveled to Istanbul to visit Burge Abiral ’11 in
November. The two rode the ferry from Asia to Europe and had dessert
by the Bosphorus Strait.
upcoming Paranormal Activity
4 movie! Pei-Ru Ko is living
a new life as a yoga teacher
and therapeutic chef in San
Francisco! And, Avalon Gulley
is living in Durango, Colo.,
as a nanny and energy/sound
healer. Ms. Gulley also started
a project called Light University
(www.thelightu.net).
Wendy Li lives in Brooklyn
and works at Red Line Films,
a production company where
she was the key production
assistant on a Bravo show that
premiered in December, Chef
Roble & Co. Since then she has
been a production assistant/
coordinator on a few other Red
Line projects, including a TLC
show about Italian-American
men in the Bronx and an
investigative discovery crime
recreation show. Watch for her
as “the nurse” in one of the episodes—they
ran out of extras.
Julian Mesri is working as an
educator at the Lower East Side
Tenement Museum giving tours
and opening up minds about
immigration. Mr. Mesri is also
in the “Playwright Spotlight”
for Magic Futurebox, a New
York theater that will produce
three of his plays this year.
Visitors include Lindsay Millert,
who stopped by NYC to
celebrate Christine Cohen’s 25th
birthday with friends Stefanie
Williams, Bibi Metsch-Garcia,
Chris Doyle, John Szawlowski
and Meghan McGowan. NYC’s
Naya-Joi Martin is still the
development associate at the
Ethical Culture Fieldston School
and has fun with Bryant Lewis,
Nailah Wilds, Alicia Santiago,
David Edwards and Kelly
Smith but planned to take some
time off and work at the NBA’s
Jam Session/All-Star Weekend
in Orlando in February!
Finally, because love is
everything, let us take a second
to get Victoria Williams’ take on
becoming Victoria Stanton. Back
in October, supported by her
Eph bridesmaids—Lisa Sloan
(maid of honor), Emilie Voight
and Amanda Montano, Ms.
Williams married her longtime
partner, Patrick Stanton,
University of Maine. The guests
in attendance were Kenny Yim,
David Edwards, Anthony Molina,
Alicia Santiago, Morgan Phillips-
Spotts, Josh Goldberg-Sussman
and Amanda Santiago ’08. Good
luck to the happy couple. Till
the next, YCS.
2010
Ethan Timmins-Schiffman
907 Washington St., Apt. GN
Evanston, IL 60202
2010secretary@williams.edu
Arjun Ravi Narayan continues
to study computer science at
the University of Pennsylvania,
“which mostly means I get
to procrastinate all day,” he
wrote. When not indulging
in TV tropes and “Wikipedia
binges,” he teaches undergraduate
students. “Then I feel smug
about the quality of my undergraduate
education, reopen the
25ish tabs that were previously
keeping me busy and get back
to procrastinating.” Arjun is
happy that his work allows
him to travel to conferences,
enabling him both to present
work “that I most certainly
n 2008–10
did not do” and catch up with
fellow Ephs.
Lizzie Brickley is finishing up
her MPhil in epidemiology at
the University of Cambridge
with a focus on health in
developing countries. She enjoys
hanging out in the U.K. with
Asheque Shams, Leah Katzelnick,
Ruthie Ezra, Scott Oleson,
Nathan Benaich, Jun Liu, Susan
Tan and Jose Martinez.
At Nevsehir University in
Turkey, Jenny Coronel is a
conversational English teacher.
Jenny teaches undergraduates
in the tourism department
the meanings of hip
English colloquialisms such as
“hands down” and “way out
of your league.” Jenny spent
Thanksgiving visiting Burge
Abiral ’11 in Istanbul: “It was
great to catch up as we rode the
ferry from Asia to Europe, and
as we enjoyed dessert by the
Bosphorus Strait.” When she
wrote, she was looking forward
to meeting up with Ambika
Thoreson and Gean Spektor in
January. Jenny sends the following
message to those visiting
Turkey: “Hit me up!”
Daniel Gura lives just down
the street from Mount Greylock
High School, in a cottage that
faces the Waubeeka Springs
Golf Course. He resides with
Leah Lansdowne ’11. “We’ve
got a meadow behind our
house and a patio with a fire
pit. It’s basically awesome.” In
December Dan started working
at the studio of Jenny Holzer, a
conceptual artist whose work
is featured in our very own
Science Quad. “I spend my days
archiving her art, prepping it
for places that want it, filing
correspondence and random
documents, etc.” Dan works at
Mezze on the weekends, occasionally
hikes with Kelsey Levine
and took yours truly on a hike
on New Year’s Day.
Whitney Hitchcock is loving
life as a second-year medical
student at Dartmouth. She still
finds time to play volleyball,
brew beer and even teach a
yoga class. She looks forward
to getting some chickens in the
spring. “I wish that I could have
a goat, but ç’est la vie.”
Sy Schotz spends his days at
Manda Farm, an organic farm
in Plainfield, Mass. There he
works with the goats for which
Whitney yearns but also with
many other animals. He is
especially happy to tend to the
three llamas and three sheep
that he acquired in the fall. The
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