ALLISON HENZE COLEON & LUCAS COLEON The story of Allison Henze Coleon ’10 (Global Communications) and Lucas Coleon ’09 (Finance) started some years after their student days. Allison, who grew up in the US, stayed in Paris after graduation and did marketing and public relations for a shoe brand. Meanwhile Lucas, who grew up in Paris, transferred to the Stern School of Business at NYU and was hired by a French private equity firm based in New York. They didn’t meet until Allison moved back to NY several years after graduation when a mutual AUP connection suggested she practice her French with Lucas. “Although we didn’t know each other at AUP, it became quite clear that we had common experiences, memories and friends from our respective years there. Soon after our first meeting, we became inseparable.” In 2016, the couple were married at Allison’s parents’ house in Connecticut in the presence of 180 guests from all over the world. “Like many other AUPers, we had a vast family of friends who had spread out across the globe. From our years at AUP, we developed a love for travel and felt at home anywhere in the world, which is undoubtedly why after our wedding we took a mini-moon and two honeymoons to Asia.” Allison and Lucas still live in New York. Allison is now studying interior design at Parsons and Lucas continues to work in finance. “We are both grateful that the unique experience that is AUP formed such a strong bond between us and that we were able to share it with each other years afterwards and thousands of miles away from Paris.”
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