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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-
miere of Big Tex by Angela Hanks. Shelives in Brooklyn with fellow CA alumStephanie Bowen. Jenna Hoffstein is inher first year of a graduate program atIndiana University working on an MS intelecommunications. Her focus is ongame design and virtual worlds, and aftergraduation she would like to move backto Boston to continue working as a gamedesigner. This fall Whitney Leonardmoved to the “super awesome” town ofBozeman, MT, where she is working foran environmental organization and skiingevery chance she gets (which is a lot).“Life is wonderful here in the mountains.”David Miller is in his second yearteaching humanities, marine ecology,and SCUBA diving at the Island Schoolon Eleuthera in the Bahamas. He lovesteaching and hopes that CA starts sendingstudents. This past year, HeatherReid traveled to San Francisco, Spain,and Morocco. She continues to work inCambridge and over the summer movedto a new apartment on Beacon Hill. Inher free time she enjoys sailing, playingher cello in friends’ weddings, and running.Heather ran three 5Ks and the TuftsWomen’s 10K and is hoping to completea half marathon this spring. Enjoying lifein San Francisco with her boyfriend anddog, Alex Worgaftik has completed hersecond year of law school at UC HastingsCollege of the Law. She took part ina national moot court competition inMadison, WI, was a TA for a first-yearmoot court class, and worked on sanityrestoration hearings on behalf of forensicallycommitted clients so they couldstand trial for their alleged crimes. In herfree time she enjoys being a wine clubmember in Napa and walking her dog inGolden Gate Park. Charlie Smith andtwo partners established CMK Entertainmenttwo years ago, a leading eventplanningcompany in Philadelphia. Lastyear the company launched PhiladelphiaFashion Week, which fuses Philadelphia’sfashion elite, local and nationaldesign talent, as well as up-and-comingstudent designers, and provides a forumto promote and showcase the best ofPhiladelphia’s arts and culture. Charliesays it’s dedicated to giving back to thelocal and global community—somethinghe learned from his years at CA. ChristieWilcox is living it up as much as she canwhile seeking her doctorate in cell andmolecular biology from the University ofHawaii. Her dissertation proposal isgoing well, and she’s excited to be workingon Coconut Island with the HawaiiInstitute of Marine Biology. She spendsher limited free time blogging at observationsofanerd.blogspot.comand nutritionwonderland.com;her writings have beenpublished in The Open Laboratory, ayearly anthology of the best scienceblogging, and in newspapers. She can’tbelieve how the time has flown since CAand can’t wait to see everyone at the10th reunion in a few years. If anyoneends up on Oahu, they should be sure toshoot her an email.2004Class Secretaries: Elena Mead,Elena.mead@gmail.com; Samantha Siegal,ssiegal08@alumni.amherst.eduChas Andres graduated from EmersonCollege in May 2008, moved to Hollywood,and has spent the past two yearsworking in the entertainment industry asa freelance editor for DVD special features.(Check out the ThirtysomethingSeason One DVD box set or the upcomingNew Hollywood box set and you’llfind some of his work, including a feature-lengthdocumentary on the earlyfilms of Jack Nicholson). After drivingcross-country from California to Bostonand traveling through Southeast Asia,Megan Hansen finally entered the “realworld,” working on energy projects inLatin America at the World Bank inWashington, DC. She loves living in DCand is happy to be back on the eastcoast. Jon Kleiman resides in Rwandaand will be working at a brand newschool for young women called theAkilah Institute. The school is designedto provide women who graduated fromsecondary school with leadership trainingand the business skills to help developthe emerging hospitality industry ofRwanda. Jon will be teaching a class onhealth and nutrition and will help producevarious marketing materials. Louis Lobelis in the Peace Corps working in theKingdom of Tonga on a community educationproject. He is teaching form 5 and6 English (11th and 12th grades) and oneclass of computers. Louis also rewrotethe computer curriculum and expandedthe film program at his school. For moreinformation visit his blog at louisgoestotonga.wordpress.com.Elena Mead hasfound a wonderful excuse for spending afew more years in Boston—the pursuitof her MFA at Emerson College, whereshe studies alongside fellow CA alumShaun Clarke ’03. Outside the classroom,Elena works in the documentaryfilm field and at a post-production studio,travels when she has the time, and bikesto and fro. “I love grad school.” BrandonPeters decided to stay in Los Angelesafter graduating from Occidental College.He lives in an aptly named part of thecity, Palms, just three miles from LarissaBorofsky ’03. He has been working withfilm festivals across the country in hisposition as contemporary art house filmdistributor for Strand Releasing. One ofStrand’s recent projects is Toe to Toe, afilm by CA alum Emily Abt ’93, whichfeatures a performance by former CACelie Hart ’06 with mentor Kenn Elmore, dean of students at Boston Universitylacrosse coach Sam Eustace. In his freetime, Brandon plays on a coed dodgeballteam in West Hollywood and entertainshouseguests like Rebecca Pattersonand Martha Desta. In May 2009, NickSullender graduated summa cum laudefrom Columbia with a BS. Concurrently,he earned a bachelor’s in engineeringfrom Oberlin College. After his graduations,he spent a month in a NationalOutdoor Leadership School program, hikingglaciers in the isolated WaddingtonRange of British Columbia. Upon returningto Boston, he packed his Corolla andheaded west to hike and camp innational parks, ultimately ending up inCalifornia. He is now a graduate studentat the University of California, Berkeley,studying scientific computing, andenjoys running in the hills, skiing, andplaying on soccer and Frisbee teams.Jessie Rothstein had an incredible yearon a Fulbright in Argentina. While thereshe pursued health education volunteerwork, conducted research on denguefever, and taught English to universitystudents. “It was a year full of incredibleadventures, challenges, and relationships.”Since returning home about twomonths ago, she started working againat Boston Medical Center as a patientnavigator. Two members of the class of2004 received the David W. Miller Awardfor Young Journalists from the Chronicleof Higher Education. StephenKolowich, a 2008 graduate of BowdoinCollege, was recognized for three articlespublished during an internship. Thecommittee cited Stephen’s “investigativetalent, dogged and thorough reporting,and flair for writing.” Ben Terris wasalso recognized for three articles publishedduring his fall internship. The committeecited Ben’s “dogged and balancedreporting, topical range, and artfulprose.”2005 5th reunionClass Secretaries: Emily Hoppe,williehoppe@gmail.com; AmandaMacLellan, acmaclellan@gmail.comSeveral members of the class of 2005reported on life after college. CatherineDown is moving to Italy. Sophie Lubinhas been traveling, tramping, canoeing,surfing, and swimming her way all overNew Zealand in a rented and dented car.Reporting from Brooklyn, AmandaMacLellan graduated from Barnard inMay 2009 and became a certified NYstate public school teacher in February2010. She works for the CommonwealthFund and is entertaining the idea of movingto San Francisco in the fall. NickGilman graduated from Boston Universityand has moved to Los Angeles.Rather than consider himself unemployed,he wants everyone to know thathe is actively pursuing a career in theentertainment industry. Taking a year offfrom graduate studies at Harvard,Ehjeen Kim is experiencing what life canbe like when you’re not a student oremployed. If she craves employmentsometime within the next year, she mayopen a bakery (in cyberspace). LewisSeton lives in the Boston area and ishappy to announce that he has a job,with Partners HealthCare. Matt Deitchgraduated from the University of Pennsylvaniain May 2009. He is living the lifeof a young professional in Manhattan77C O N C O R D A C A D E M Y. O R G S P R I N G 2 0 1 0
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