class notes art installations. Now that school is finished, she is living in Portola Valley for a few months and performing in a small production of the Wizard of Oz as Glinda. She is super excited to be going to Burning Man this year, and after that she hopes to find an interior design internship abroad for a year or so.
Rachel Zeldin will receive her Ph.D. in organic chemistry from Berkeley this May. She is excited to be moving to New York City, where she will be a Health and Life Sciences Consultant with Oliver Wyman. Though sad to be leaving the Bay Area, she is looking forward to this new adventure!
Samia Rogers is currently in her first year of law school at the University of Texas, working through the required firstyear courses and focusing on water law. She lined up a job for the summer doing water rights and environmental law work in Austin, and she is looking forward to the break from school to get to know this new city. Austin is a fantastic place, and she would love to see anyone who wants to visit! Lynsey Barkoff will be moving to the East Coast next year to attend a masters entry nursing program. In September 2010, Rashida Bridges (now Rashida Ilegbodu) married the love of her life, Ben Ilegbodu, whom she met at Stanford. While juggling her job at a workplace strategic firm in San Francisco called DEGW (where she has been for the past 3 years), she spent most of 2010 planning the wedding held at her church in Mountain View. In attendance at the wedding were her sister, Naima Bridges ’02, Malavika Kumar, and Seema Sharma! Ben and Rashida are now enjoying married life while continuing to live in the Bay Area. When we heard from Sydney Larson this winter, she was still working in San Francisco and planning for her wedding in March. She was excited to celebrate with quite a few Castilleja alums in attendance! She and her husband, Brian, were planning their honeymoon—skiing at Whistler—right after the wedding. Stay tuned for more news on how the big day went.
Elizabeth Wright is living in Boston, and despite the incredible amount of snow this year, is still enjoying living on the East Coast. She is almost halfway through completing her master’s degree in International Relations at the Fletcher School at Tufts University, where she is studying conflict resolution and the role of women in peace building processes. Elizabeth is also studying Arabic and planning for her summer internship—we hope she found somewhere warm!
Nicole Stasio continues to work at NASA Ames Research Center on the Aviation Cognitive Engineering (ACE) Team, which conducts human factors research to help design the integrated workstation for the Next Generation of Air Transportation System (NextGen). She just completed her first Triathlon (the Stanford Treeathlon), where she placed 4th in her age group, and spent the spring training for the Wildflower Long Course (1.2 m Swim, 56 m Bike, and 13.1 m Run). She recently sold her car and is now commuting from San Francisco to Mountain View on her bike. Come join her for a ride on the weekends!
2004
Caitlin Cameron cjcameron86@gmail.com Rachel Marder is in her second semester at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, where she is earning a master’s degree in Conflict Research, Management and Resolution. Out in New York City, Paz Hilfinger-Pardo is making theater with the TEAM, working with an educational therapist in Manhattan, and tutoring kids with learning disabilities while hanging out with Lauren Sloss and Carey Jones. They had a Casti Karaoke night in December, which was pretty well attended with around 12 people showing up! Nobody wanted to do karaoke, but they ended the night by singing Alva Henderson’s song “Make me a willow cabin at your gate” from Twelfth Night. Next time she’s going to call the event “Casti Skydiving,” so people will feel like karaoke isn’t such a big risk to take.
Kate Thorman is also living in NYC, working as a freelance travel writer. Genny Orr is enjoying her last few months in NYC before returning to the Bay Area! She’ll be spending a relaxed summer at home and starting her MBA at Stanford GSB in September. Also in NYC, Selina Troesch is at Barclays Capital and is still enjoying learning about valuations in her third rotation. She is also in the midst of studying for the third level of the CFA and preparing to apply to business school. Out on the other coast, Emily Dennis is in her first year of her neuroscience Ph.D. and still absolutely loving it. She is rotating in a lab right now working on structural and functional connectivity in autism, and is looking forward to officially joining a lab in July. She was initially not too excited about moving to LA but has been pleasantly surprised and hopes to get in touch with other Casti grads in LA.
Gianna Giancarlo is working at Aruba Networks in Sunnyvale. She is having a great time and keeping busy by taking another round of thrilling standardized
tests. She loves being back home in the Bay Area! In Texas, Yasmin Radjy is still working as an organizer for the Industrial Areas Foundation in San Antonio. In South Bend, IN, Caitlin Cameron is working for the Alliance for Catholic Education through the University of Notre Dame to strengthen curriculum and instruction in Catholic schools across the country.
2005
Ashley D’amour ashley.damour@gmail.com
2006
Chelsea Ono Horn onohorn@fas.harvard.edu Meg York margaret.alice.york@gmail.com Kate Powell graduated from Stanford last June. Kate worked as an intern in the Castilleja Advancement Department for two summers. She also finished up a fivemonth internship with the Council on Foreign Relations, where she performed research for a book on Egyptian history and politics which will be published in September 2011. She then started a full-time job at The Investment Fund for Foundations (TIFF) as an analyst working on alternative investments. TIFF is a non-profit investment firm that works solely with foundations, endowments, and other 501(c)(3) non-profits. Their website is www.tiff.org.
2007
Blakely Strand bstrand@uoregon.edu Barbara Kang Kang104@chapman.edu Courtney Chang is currently a senior at Georgetown majoring in International Health. She just got back from a semester abroad in Ghana doing research for her senior thesis. She is currently looking for a job in global health either in DC or in the Bay Area!
2008
Roark Luskin roarkster@gmail.com Elise Fabbro Elisemarie73@gmail.com Anne Warner is very excited about her research project with a German non-profit called “Violence Prevention Through Urban Upgrading,” which is taking her deep into one of the Cape
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