Class Notes

C O N C O R D A C A D E M Y M A G A Z I N E S P R I N G 2 0 1 0transition” he has found a place to liveand doubled down on work. “Our smallcompany is one part events-based communicationsconsulting and two partstech startup as we continue to developand license our ticketing software. Anyand all in DC should drop a line.” SiuPing Chin Feman is graduating frommed school in New Orleans, after whichshe plans to go into psychiatry. MikeFirestone is living in Washington, DC,where he works for U.S. Sen. JeanneShaheen from NH. “It was great to seeso many classmates and other recentgrads” at the CA young alumnae/i eventin Boston.” Caitlin Grasso is in her secondyear at Suffolk Law School andpreparing to run the Boston Marathon forthe Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. EmilyHuston is finishing graduate studies atTufts’ Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy,where she is working withrefugees, mainly Somalian. NickSchuller and Emily Whiston finally gotmarried this past August. Nick recentlystarted a new job, managing a nonprofit.Emily and Nick are still enjoying sunnyCalifornia. Carey Tinkelenberg has beenbusy running her skating school andtraining skaters full-time after quittingher university research job earlier thisyear. Her business was named “modelprogram” by Skating magazine, and shehas been hired to write the skating directorhandbook for U.S. Figure Skating.Carey trained with Pete Biver, her pairs’partner, to compete in the U.S. AdultNational Figure Skating Championships.Stephen Lloyd moved from Portland,OR back to the east coast and began amaster’s program at MIT in environmentalplanning. After a little back and forthabout what to do next, Annie Mancinidecided to stay in Portland, OR for thetime being. Last fall, she got a job as aspecial programs manager with theDoernbecher Children’s Hospital Foundation,where she manages fundraisingevents for Oregon Health & Science University’schildren’s hospital. She finallygot her own apartment and is lovingsinging in a choir, getting up to themountains and out to the coast whenshe can, and generally loving life. ChloeTemtchine is still busy making music;Not Receiving Emailsfrom CA?If you are not receiving eNewslettersand other emails fromCA, please check your spam,bulk, or junk folders and allowconcordacademy.org as asender address.76check her out on iTunes! Laura Twichellis teaching French and English at CA andcoaching JV soccer and volleyball, tutoring,writing, and working in Admadjaja asa house affiliate. Kate Liebesny is busyapplying for a psychiatry residency,enjoying the last year of medical school,and hanging out with Siu Ping ChinFeman in Chicago.2002Class Secretary: Natalie A. Krajcir,Nerli315@gmail.comAdil Bahalim left behind the world ofcorporate slavery last summer to volunteerwith Informaticiens Sans Frontières—IT Without Borders—based at CERNin Geneva. He has been working on aproposal to set up computer assemblyschools in Africa. Simultaneously, Adildecided to travel to as many new countriesas he could in 2010. His goal is notto stay put for more than one month inany place. Thus far Adil has traveled toBrazil and Peru and is planning a trip tonorthern Africa. He would love to know ifany CA alums want to join him. TaylordeLench spent the last year and a halffilming and producing his first movie,Sick. Climbing in New England, whichhighlights rock and ice climbing. Taylorpremiered the movie on January 30 andsaid it was well received. Check out Taylor’sproduction company, StartMotionProductions. Sam Donovan spent thefirst three months of 2009 finishing hiswork on renovations at Boston’s MFAand the last nine months travelingthrough Asia, Europe, and South America.He stopped briefly in Africa to visitSarah Antos in Tunisia, where she isworking for the UN. Becky Fellman isfinishing her second year of a schoolpsychology doctoral program at the Universityof Wisconsin. She visited CAwhile she was home over winter breakand reports that it was fun to walkaround campus and see what has andhas not changed. Lisa Field is now LisaField, RN, BSN. She lives in North Carolinawith her boyfriend James, also anew nurse. Lisa works at Duke UniversityHospital’s orthopedic unit, andJames is in the burn ICU at UNC ChapelHill. She hopes to pursue her master’s innursing in order to become a nurse practitionerin women’s health. The pathseems long, but in the end, it will all beworth every minute. Annie Kalt is workingtoward a premedical studies diplomafrom the health careers program at theHarvard University Extension School.She was awarded a Marshall Scholarship.From Stanford University’s newsservice: “Anne Kalt . . . plans to studyhealth policy, planning, and financingunder a joint program offered by theLondon School of Hygiene and TropicalMedicine and the London School ofEconomics and Political Science duringher first year as a Marshall Scholar.During her second year, she will studypublic health in developing countries atthe London School of Hygiene and TropicalMedicine.-Kalt . . . said the trainingwill support her future goal of becominga pediatrician who helps develop policiesand programming in the field of globalchild and maternal health.” Annie hasworked in a refugee camp in Zambiahelping to implement a women’s healthoutreach and education program andwas managing director of FACE AIDS, anonprofit dedicated to fighting AIDS inAfrica. David Kenner returned fromBeirut, where he had been working fortwo years as a journalist and pursuing amaster’s degree. After a short interludeworking at a think tank, the WashingtonInstitute for Near East Policy, heaccepted an editor’s position at ForeignPolicy magazine in Washington, DC. Inhis spare time, he continues his losingstruggle to learn Arabic, and made it veryclear that he tries to convince Matt Bassettto stop watching Sex and the Cityand come drinking with him. NatalieKrajcir works at the Cleveland Clinic inpediatric and congenital neurosurgery. InSeptember 2009, her laboratory wasawarded a two-year, $1.5 million grant bythe National Institutes of Health. Her latehours of experimental surgery are ridiculous,but like other classmates, she istrying to travel whenever possible. Sofar, Natalie has spent a week in LasVegas, a weekend in Chicago, and hastaken a cruise to Costa Maya andCozumel, Mexico. Colin Levy is in hisfinal semester at Boston College lawschool, hoping upon hope to find a jobpracticing tax law in the greater Bostonarea. He says tax law is the perfect combinationof economics, law, and policy.Colin lives in Newton, MA and is tryingto take up an old hobby of his, writing. Atthe end of the day, he is very much anacademic at heart and loves to researchand write. Jake Lewis lives in Brooklynand works as a freelance sound engineerin the NYC area. He is the house engineerat Webster Hall and Jazz Standard,touring recording engineer withMedeski, Scofield, Martin, and Wood,and has had the opportunity to work withInfected Mushroom, Grand MasterFlash, Sasha & Digweed, Flight of theConchords, and TV on the Radio. In hisspare time, he plays drums in a rockband with some friends from Wesleyan.Jake is working on his first album andplays occasional gigs around NYC. Hetries to keep up with Nathan Keyes andLisa Field from time to time. Jake is verymuch looking forward to catching upwith CA friends at Harris Stewart’swedding. He frequently thinks of andsends his best to Keith Daniel, RossIan Zinn ’02 traveling in New ZealandAdams, Max Hall, and the entireextended CA family. Matt Ricci lives inNYC with his girlfriend Betsy. He is pursuinga master’s in divinity at Union TheologicalSeminary and will probably gointo teaching or counseling. Matt will beworking in an intensive chaplaincy programat Bellevue Hospital in NYC andexpecting it to be quite interesting.Sarah Wilkens graduated from SuffolkLaw School in Boston in May 2009. Shepassed the MA bar exam in July and isworking at a telecommunications firm.Ian Zinn lives in NYC and works at BernsteinGlobal Wealth Management, wherehe was promoted to senior private clientassociate. He took a two-week tour ofNew Zealand and highly recommendsthe country as a vacation spot.2003Class Secretaries: Stephanie F. Bowen,steph.bowen@gmail.com; Heather G.Reid, heathergreid@gmail.com; ChristieL. Wilcox, wilcoxclynn@gmail.comStephanie Bowen is working in NYC inthe editorial department at Doubleday,an imprint of Random House. She waspromoted to assistant editor in May2009 and edits history, biography, memoir,science, political theory, and currentaffairs books. She is on the board of theYoung to Publishing Group, part of theAssociation of American Publishers, andis also a member of Random House’sGreen Committee. Lucia A. Peters completedan MFA in directing at the NewSchool for Drama, where her thesis projectsincluded a successful production ofNormal by Anthony Neilson and the pre-