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ALUMNI NOTES
CLASS OF 1997
Marian Hart lives in San Diego, CA and is an English as a
Second Language Instructor in the English Language Institute
at the University of California San Diego. She teaches English
to international students from around the world. Previously
she worked in the same field at ELS Language Services in
Bristol Rhode Island and in San Diego, CA. She also worked
at Survivors of Torture, International in San Diego, CA as
a Development Coordinator, among other positions. She is
married and the mother of twins, living the good life in the
land of endless sunshine and fish tacos, and has been growing
her own tomatoes for a few years. Excellent results!
College: BA International Relations and Spanish, 2001
University of the Pacific. MA Applied Linguistics, Georgia
State University.
International Experiences: Studied abroad in Managua,
Nicaragua and studied abroad in Havana, Cuba.
Josh Ladau lives in San Francisco, CA.
Melissa Pritchard lives in Barcelona, Spain and is a
Grade 2 teacher at The Benjamin Franklin International
School.
College: BAFA, 2001 Alfred University. Contemporary
Jewelry, 2005 Escola Massana. MA Education, 2008 Oregon
State University.
International Experiences: Has lived abroad in Europe
since 2002 and traveled extensively throughout Europe and
Africa. Became trilingual with Catalan and continues with
her Spanish.
CLASS OF 1998
Hunt Allcott lives in Cambridge, MA and is an Assistant
Professor of Economics at New York University. He is an
Energy and Society Fellow at MIT Department of Economics.
He is also a Senior Researcher with ideas42, a think tank that
works with companies and government agencies to apply
insights from behavioral economics to policy and business
problems. They work on problems in finance, international
development, health care, and energy and environment.
College: BS 2002, MS 2002, Stanford University.
PhD, 2009 Harvard University.
International Experiences: Lots! He did work in India,
Nicaragua, Venezuela, Chile, and London, etc. He also studied
drumset and hand drums in Cuba for about five weeks, which
was a dream come true.
Reflections: “My best and worst memory of IHS is when we
tried to start an IHS Newspaper, which ended up with me in
somebody’s office (Mrs. Cooper?) getting a lecture on how
real newspapers don’t include swear words. Sorry.”
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Rayne Gaisford is married in lives in New York, NY. He
is the Senior Vice President, Risk Management, at Plural
Investments where he works in an oversight and advisory
role within a multi-manager long/short U.S. equity hedge
fund and also oversees the build out of risk management and
trading infrastructure. Previously he worked as a Senior Risk
Associate at Pequot Capital Management, a leading multistrategy
hedge fund with $7 billion under management, where
he worked on a tight team of risk professionals to evaluate,
monitor and minimize risk for a variety of funds including:
long/short fundamental equity, focused equity, credit, short
credit, event-driven, emerging multi-manager and market neutral.
He also worked within Goldman Sachs Equity Research
on single stock equity options, evaluating implied volatility as
a pricing instrument to understand inefficiencies in the options
market. He recently climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro: http://picasaweb.google.com/gaisford/201008TanzaniaBest#.
College: BS Finance, 2004 University of Oregon
International Experiences: Lived in Japan in college.
Traveled all around Europe, Asia, South America, and recently
Africa.
Andrew Heid is the Principal Licensed Architect at NOA,
Architecture in New York, NY (www.noarchitecture.com).
He previously worked as an Architect for Rem Koolhaas/
Office for Metropolitan Architecture, in New York and
Rotterdam (www.oma.eu).
College: BA, 2002 Yale University. Master of Architecture,
2006 Princeton University.
Jake Klonoski is married and lives in Menlo Park, CA. After
serving in the U.S. Navy for several years he is now attending
Stanford Law School in Palo Alto, CA.
Graham Mowday is engaged and lives in Hamilton Township,
NJ and works through a public interest fellowship through
Northeastern University, working on foreclosure defense and
consumer bankruptcy with South Jersey legal services.
College: MA, 2002 University of California, Berkeley.
J.D., 2010 Northeastern University.
Class of 2004