victims of violent crimes and domestic abuse obtain various types of legal status here in the U.S. Anne-Constance Mulliez-Nixon
married Jeffrey Nixon last fall, with Tess Panzer in attendance as a bridesmaid. She lives in Atlanta and is finishing her Masters as a nurse practitioner in Emergency Medicine at Emory University. For the past five years, she has been working as a RN in the Emergency Room at Atlanta Medical Center. Nic Malta-Bey and Chantal Day
live in South Africa, where Nic works in the restaurant industry and Chantal raises their son, Julien.
Karsten Moran has been living in New York City since 2007, where he works as a freelance photo editor and editorial photographer. He is happy to count Newsweek/The Daily Beast (for photo editing) and The NewYork Times (for photography) among his regular clients. Corey Pray works for the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality in Austin, Texas.
CLASS OF 2002 Sarah Rivard ran the Leukemia and
Lymphoma marathon, graduated from Georgetown University Law Center and will join a DC firm as soon as she finishes up work for the Organization of American States (OAS).
CLASS OF 2003 Gregory Braunfeld is living in
Long Island City, Queens, a short walk from his year-old job at FreshDirect.com. FreshDirect is one of the country’s largest online grocery stores, delivering fresh food overnight to over 60,000 customers a week in the NYC metro area. Gregory is a grocery buyer and the lead buyer for the dairy department. Otherwise, Gregory will be enjoying a NewYork City summer and an August trip to Atlanta and Graceland.
Chris Lowell, who starred on Private
Practice and played a male lead in The Help, is set to make his feature directorial debut with the indie drama, Beside Still Waters. Lowell co-wrote the script and will co-produce the film.
Carla Weeks’ handbag company, Piccadilly Weeks, completed its first wedding commission of eight bridesmaid purses.
CLASS OF 2004 Vicki Rokhlin has been balancing work
with play at a fervent pace since moving to NYC 2.5 years ago. After visiting Jerry Tolochko last year while backpacking Colombia, she landed a new job at a top media firm in NYC and promptly took off three weeks to backpack Thailand with her sisters. Upon coming back from Honduras in April, she moved into her new apartment by Columbus Circle and enjoys runs through Central Park much more often now. Some of the best NYC nights are those when the whole AIS crew reunites, often at Brian McElhaney’s Britanik shows at UCB! Jerry Tolochko (formerly Jerry Tracy) married fellow UGA grad Robin Wertheim Tolochko in the fall of 2009 with many members of the classes of 2004 and 2005 in attendance. In 2010, they quit their jobs in Washington, DC, and moved to Bogotá, Colombia, where they started out teaching English but have since both landed interesting, permanent jobs. Jerry is the Colombia Country Manager for the American communications and research company, Leonie. His main project in Colombia is to implement a counter-recruitment program designed to help prevent children from joining illegal armed groups. Robin is the director of a mapping lab at the Bogotá-based think tank, CEELAT. They have started a leather export business, Restrepo, and already had a number of AIS visitors: Vicki Rokhlin, Lamya Khoury, and Armand Leblois (all class of 2004), Stephan Leblois ’05 and Ben Leblois ’07. They keep a couch open for welcome visitors! Sian Miranda Singh O’Faolain
married Brig Walker on September 30, 2011.
CLASS OF 2005 James Brindley is in Tashkent,
Uzbekistan, working as a communications assistant for the UN. He was a journalist and radio announcer in Australia until December, 2010.
Brianna Carbonell worked for the
Atlanta Braves in the Game Entertainment department, a full-time internship from January to November 2011. Afterwards, she moved to Oak Island, North Carolina to assist her father with new business venture (a wine shop in Southport, NC). She will begin a dual-degree program - a Master’s in Business Administration and a Master’s in Sport Administration - at Ohio University in Athens, OH, this fall.
Sarah Leff has graduated from the
Parson School of Design in New York City and partnered with friend/fashion designer Jonathan Cohen to start the Jonathan Cohen Collection.
Jake Levinson married Nora Kizer
on March 10, 2012.
CLASS OF 2006 Alexander Akhavan lives in New
York City and works as a legal assistant in mergers and acquisitions at a law firm.
Will Branch lives in Washington, D.C.
and works as a Human Capital analyst for Deloitte Consulting’s Federal Practice.
Gabriel Callol lives in Boulder, Colorado, where she is a part-time student, restaurant critic, bartender/server and “overall beverage expert.” Aria Curtis, who received her undergraduate degree from Emory University, has graduated from the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies in Portland, Maine, where she studied Documentary Photography and produced photo essays and multimedia pieces on the local Latin Evangelical community. Her work was published in The Portland Phoenix, The Portland Forecaster, and The Common Language Project. She has joined the Pulitzer Center from the Carter Center Americas Program, where she began as an intern and eventually worked as an Assistant Project Coordinator. Aria is excited to Global Exchange
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