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CCT class correspondent Michelle Oh ’06 and Alan C. Sing were married in January in Rockleigh, N.J., in front of
enough Columbia alumni to fill a stadium. Cheering the couple were (back row, left to right) Albert Kim ’03E, Timothy
Kang ’06E, Bernard Lin ’04E, Edward Kim ’08, Paul Yoo ’06E, William Kang ’06E, Spencer Chang ’06, Andrew
Lichtenberg ’06 and Jukay Hsu; and (front row, left to right) Bori Kang ’06 Barnard, Jamie Yoo ’07 Barnard, Christine
Kwak ’07, Irene Kwon ’06 Barnard, Joo Lee Song ’07, Jee hae Yoon ’04, Jennifer Kim ’06, the bride, the groom, Jessica
Lee ’06, Christine Chung ’06, Josephine Kim ’06, Angela Lee ’06 Barnard, Michelle Lee ’06 and Sarah hwang ’07.
PhOTO: MINNOw PARK
ers as well as high-impact animation,
the pieces will spool out online in the
following months. Jeremy is proud
that the feature film MONOGAMY,
which he co-produced and co-
edited, played in theaters nationwide
starting in March. Everyone
put it in your Netflix queue or watch
it on-demand!
talibah l. newman completed
her Kickstarter.com fundraiser
for her next short film, Busted on
Brigham Lane, which will shoot in
May and needs a savvy producer.
Talibah is in her second year at the
School of the Arts, aiming to obtain
an M.F.A. in film directing. She also
is working on her first children’s
book, Olayinka’s Beaded Comb.
Matt smith will graduate in May
from Duke Law and will begin a
one-year clerkship with Judge
Rosemary Barkett of the U.S. Court
of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
in Miami in September.
andrew stinger is wrapping
up a year-long stint in Google’s
Cambridge, Mass., office, where he
enjoyed working alongside Meredith
Fuhrman ’05 and running
into the recently engaged caroline
guidry ’06E as well as Colleen
Myers ’07 and Kwame spearman.
Andrew headed back to the Bay
Area in April as he moved into
product development for Google
TV and Video Ads.
The following is a nice prelude
to the following three submissions:
Victoria baranetsky writes
from Cambridge, Mass., with her
bimonthly haiku: “Engagements
abound / from our dear class of
’0 - 6 / welcome adulthood.”
paul fileri and Kinara flagg
are happy to share that they got
engaged in November. Right now
they’re living together in New York
City as Paul works on his dissertation
and teaches in the Department
of Cinema Studies at NYU and
Kinara finishes her final year at
the Law School and keeps busy
as editor-in-chief of the Columbia
Human Rights Law Review. After
almost a decade in the city, both are
moving to New Haven in August,
where Kinara will begin a two-year
clerkship with the federal district
judge Janet Bond Arterton.
Emily ross started her second
semester back at Columbia, working
toward an M.P.A. at SIPA. She
enjoys being at school again, especially
seeing all the familiar sights
on campus and hanging out with
old friends. Over break, she not only
got married but also went to Egypt
on her honeymoon. Emily and her
husband, Ryan, had an amazing
time and luckily left just days before
the protests started. She swears that
she played no role in their instigation
... The Democracy Promotion course
is only offered to SIPA second-year
students (joking)! Emily will intern
in Washington, D.C., this summer
and looks forward to rejoining the
D.C. alumni group.
And to close, a happy announcement
of my own: Michelle oh and
Alan C. Sing ’05 Dartmouth were
married on January 8 in Rockleigh,
N.J. The celebration was made all
the more memorable by the many
Columbians in attendance (see
photo). This month, Michelle will
graduate from Columbia’s dual
masters’ program at SIPA and the
Journalism School and will join
Alan in Philadelphia, where he is a
pediatric resident at the Children’s
Hospital of Pennsylvania.
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As we celebrate four years since
graduation from Columbia College,
see below for some exciting CC ’07
updates!
Robert Half Legal announced
that bryan lee is the 2011 Minority
Corporate Counsel Association
scholarship winner and the new
Robert Half Legal scholar. Currently
a first-year law school student at
UCLA, Bryan will receive $10,000 to
use toward tuition.
leni babb writes, “I love Salt
Lake City. I’ve skied more than 15
days already, and it’s only February.
And law school is going great.
I recently spoke with Kori gatta,
and she and her boyfriend, John
Estrada, are living the dream in
Manhattan, working hard in the
hedge fund industry.”
Katerina Vorotova recently left
her consulting role at Thomson
Reuters and now is a strategic and
financial planning associate at
Weight Watchers International. She
also became a board member of
Columbia College Women (CCW;
college.columbia.edu/alumni/com
mittees/ccw), an alumna network
at the College.
carolyn braff shares, “I am both
thrilled and sad to say that I will be
leaving New York this summer to
move to Chicago, where I will start
business school at the University of
Chicago in the fall. Anyone in the
Chicago area, or anyone who has
recommendations for brunch places
in the Chicago area, please get in
touch!”
andrew russeth recently began
working at Metro Pictures Gallery in
New York and received a Creative
Capital/Andy Warhol Foundation
Arts Writers Grant for his blog
about contemporary art, 16 Miles of
String (16miles.com). One weekend
in February, he had the pleasure of
dining on Porchetta’s famous pork
sandwiches with avi Zenilman and
david chait. Afterward, the trio
repaired to the apartment Russeth
shares with Marc tracy.
siheun song left Ava Luna last
year and missed her chance to tour
Europe with the band, which continues
to record and tour (featured
as “Indie Band Crush” by Nylon
Magazine in November). She filled
the void left by the excitement of her
rock band days by shifting more of
her time to CCW, serving as board
secretary and chair of the membership
committee. On February 1,
Siheun was elected the chair-elect
of CCW, succeeding chair Claire
Shanley ’92. Siheun’s two-year term
will begin in September. During the
day, she is building her four-year-old
financial practice as a consultant at
AXA Advisors in Midtown.
samantha feingold is excited to
be graduating from Fordham Law
in May. She won her trial advocacy
competition sponsored by the A.B.A.
and as regional champion competed
at the national competition in Texas
in April.
Eric bondarsky and Nina Co-
bryan lee ’07 is the 2011 Minority corporate counsel
association scholarship winner and the new
robert half legal scholar.
hen ’09 Barnard recently hosted a
delicious dinner featuring all-stars
Rebecca Schmutter-Kornecki ’04,
’07L, Adina Bitton ’08 Barnard and
Michael Emerson ’09. The intellectual
discourse ranged from a
new restaurant in Williamsburg
to the new profession known as
“man coach,” or as they coined
it that evening, “moach.” More
importantly, more chili than can be
humanly imagined was consumed
thanks to Nina’s culinary skills.
adam brickman writes, “Dur-