STAYING Connected
Alumni Class Notes 1992
the country. Their daughter, Emilia, was born in Berlin on July 21, 2014. They plan to go abroad again for work in the next year but are “excited to keep learning as new parents every day until then.”
1997 Kytle and Josh Gunneman during his visit from California.
1999
Claire Ramsay Wan has moved to
Vicky Plaut was a presenter at this year’s
World Economic Forum in China. She was nominated for the honor by Scientific American magazine, in which she recently published an article on diversity (October 2014). Vicky visited AIS in December to speak to students and in January to speak to the board and faculty/staff.
1994
Dr. Francesco Checchi spent six weeks this fall in Sierra Leone, where he led a Save the Children emergency team at an Ebola treatment center in Freetown. His family and sister live in London.
Boston, where she works as a physician’s assistant.
Ori Carmel and his wife, Fiona, wel-
comed Sophie Grace Carmel into their family on October 14, 2014. They live in New York, where he is a marketing manager for Twitter. Saila Hannan is an account executive in ad sales at Turner Sports. She lives in New York City.
1996
2001
Charlie Carstens is in Burma for a year doing research for his dissertation. Tess Panzer currently writes for
Yahoo DIY. Paige Davis Turbeville gave birth
to a daughter, Julianna Hart Turbeville, also in October.
Valerie Seefried Henderson
1998
celebrated the christening of her son, Max, with fellow AIS alum and godmother Chiara Visconti di Modrone Pervanas in September. Brother Paul Seefried ‘01 was also in attendance.
2002
Sara Mizell is enjoying law school at
Georgia State, including torts classes!
Lydia Toomer passed the Georgia bar
exam and was sworn in by her mother, Judge Pinkie Toomer.
Felipe Oliveira is currently working on a Ph.D. in Sweden.
2003
Daniel Karkoska is working as a flight superintendent for Delta Airlines. Akiko Goto has finished her medical Tini Bennett and her husband, Luke,
gave birth to a son, Teo, in June. They live in Dar Es Salaam. Tini recently visited her with sister, Nicki ‘96, and brother Steven ‘96, and their families. Nicki Bennett and her husband, Thomas, left South Sudan in April after two fascinating and exciting years of working in AIS Global Exchange / Winter 2014-2015
Arun Wiita visited AIS to discuss his
academic career from the IB to his MD/PhD work. He also met up with classmates Val-
entin Lemoine, Tyler Hume, Beth
training in Japan and is now working at a hospital there in the ICU and ER departments.
Camille Stabler earned her Master’s
degree from Tulane University in Emergency Resilience, a program which focuses on how people rebuild after an emergency. She is currently living in Oregon and learning about the wine-making industry.