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said....Jon Stange earned a Ph.D. from Temple Univ. and started a postdoctoral fellowship in neuroimaging at the Univ. of Illinois at Chicago....Dar Vanderbeck works as CARE USA’s first chief innovation officer. She joined the board of MicroVest where Gil Crawford ’80 is the CEO.... Ethan and Caitlin McKitrick Warren ’10 welcomed Nora Gertrude Warren on Oct. 7, 2016. Nora’s grandmother is Rosemary Duggan McKitrick ’75, and her uncle is Charlie McKitrick ’14. Ethan’s indie feature film West of Her, which he wrote and directed, premiered at the Scruffy City Film and Music Festival in Knoxville, Tenn., where it won five awards, including Best Narrative Feature, Best Director, and Best Screenplay. It also won Best Narrative Feature awards at the Santa Cruz and Intendence film festivals. Ethan says the film, about two young strangers who participate in a mysterious guerilla street project and travel the country in search of connection, will be widely released in 2017. A play he wrote, Why Are You Nowhere?, had a staged reading at the Midtown International Theatre Festival in Manhattan and will have its first full production this spring at Southeastern Louisiana Univ....Eleanor Yee lives in Shanghai, China.
2009 Reunion 2019, June 7–9 class co-presidents Timothy Gay timothy.s.gay@gmail.com Arsalan Suhail arsalansuhail@gmail.com
The Massachusetts Commission on the Status of Women named Emily Levine ’09 one of the Commonwealth’s Unsung Heroines of 2016. Beth Billington is now the academic program director at The Traveling School. Based in Bozeman, Mont., the school offers girls 15–18 the opportunity to explore the world and learn about themselves through academic, physical, and cultural challenges....Erin Bonney Casey and Brendan welcomed Analise Casey on Oct. 21, 2016. Analise is also enjoyed by grandparents Mike ’80 and Alison Grott Bonney ’80 and great-grandfather Wes Bonney ’50....Leah Citrin was ordained as a rabbi and now works as an assistant rabbi at Temple Beth Or in Raleigh, N.C. She and Brian Nelson, also a rabbi, were married Nov. 12, 2016....Sarah Codraro now lives in Oakland and works for 76
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IDEO in San Francisco. She and Ben Latham ’11 are engaged.... Sam Evans-Brown and his wife Aubrey Nelson ’08 moved into a new, net-zero house they are building. She’s finishing a master’s in educating for sustainability at Antioch of New England. He helped launch and hosts a new radio show and podcast at New Hampshire Public Radio called “Outside/In.” He is also the new coach of the Concord High School Nordic ski team....Kelly Griffin and Dan Hutchinson were married June 18, 2016.... Slightly elevated levels of lead found in water at two Yarmouth schools show the need for broader testing of drinking water in schools statewide, Emma Halas-O’Connor told the Press Herald. She’s the campaign manager for Environmental Health Strategy Center, a Maine-based organization that advocates nationally for the elimination of toxic chemicals....Tara Higgins graduated from medical school and is now an ob/gyn resident at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center....Stephanie Howson and Jordan Williams ’08 live in Seattle with their two cats.... The Massachusetts Commission on the Status of Women named Emily Levine one of the Commonwealth’s Unsung Heroines of 2016. The honorees are nominated by state legislators as a means of recognizing women for their previously unnoted yet valuable community contributions. Emily is director of policy and advocacy at Horizons for Homeless Children in Roxbury, which seeks to ensure that vulnerable children in her community have a strong foundation for a successful adulthood....Jared Levy had two short stories published, “Perpetual Motion” in The Quotable and “Sheep” in Apiary Magazine.... Anna Levy Prager and husband AJ welcomed a daughter, Daniella Maayan, on Feb. 17, 2016. On Sept. 28, 2016, Anna welcomed Jason Brander to her family with his marriage to her sister Rachel Levy....Ariane Mandell is a breaking-news editor at The Jerusalem Post and an instructor of public speaking at Shalem College. She lives in Tel Aviv and still misses Ronj chai....Meredith Miller and Ben Stein were married April 23, 2016....Chris Morrell lives in Jackson Hole, Wyo. In 2016, he started High Alpine Anglers, a fly fishing guide service. In winter, he coaches the Jackson Hole freestyle ski team.... Anne Mueller earned a Ph.D. in French and Francophone studies from UCLA. Her dissertation was entitled “Memorializing the Genocide of the Tutsi through Literature, Music, and Performance,” and her work was inspired by her studies with Alexandre Dauge-Roth at Bates. She now teaches French at Foxcroft School, a girls boarding high school in Middleburg, Va.... Lauren Patz was promoted to head distiller at Spirit Works Dis-
tillery of Sebastopol, Calif....Grif Peterson serves as the learning lead for Peer 2 Peer Univ., helping libraries and community centers integrate free online courses into their programming with the goal of creating more equitable learning opportunities for communities around the world. He was appointed a fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard to keep up with this work....Nicole Ritchie was hired as graduate assistant women’s rowing coach at Temple Univ. An All-American at Bates who led the Bobcats to two NCAA national championships, Nicole won silver medals in both the W2x and W4x events at the Pan American Championships in 2015, finished second in the U.S. at the 2016 Olympic Trials, and was named the 2016 Schuylkill Navy Female Athlete of the Year....In a guest post for Global Risk Insights, freelance writer-researcher Winthrop Rodgers explored what Ireland’s example may foreshadow for Donald Trump’s pledge to lower the federal corporate tax rate, in an effort to bring corporations back from overseas. Winthrop said Ireland’s “central organizing principle (of a 12.5 corporate tax rate) is not applicable to the U.S. economy, nor will it benefit Mr. Trump’s most ardent supporters in the working class. Instead it will benefit the already wealthy and do little for the rest.”…Beth Rogers and Joe Sinkevich were married Sept. 10, 2016....Courtney Stachowski moved to San Diego for a job at a reproductive health nonprofit....Joseph Szerejko graduated from law school and is now an associate at Cohen and Wolf in southwestern Connecticut, working mostly in commercial litigation.... Tamara Wyzanski celebrated her two-year work anniversary at Vertex Pharmaceuticals working with patients on cystic fibrosis medications, and her fourth year living in Boston’s South End. Planning to join the march against Donald Trump’s inauguration, she thanked Bates and the Women and Gender Studies Dept. “for teaching us to never stay complacent.”
2010 Reunion 2020, June 12–14 class co-presidents Brianna Bakow brianna.bakow@gmail.com Vantiel Elizabeth Duncan vantielelizabeth.duncan@ gmail.com Kelly Gollogly is excited to be working as a visual development artist on a new show at DreamWorks TV. She got married in April 2016 to Mark Sperber, head of story of Sony Animation’s movie Emoji....Caty Green was promoted to managing editor of TheAtlantic.com after six months as a senior associate editor for the magazine’s web-
site....Connor Hogan is in his second year at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies pursuing a master of forestry degree....Ellen Patterson ’11 and Daniel LaFontaine were married July 9, 2016. She has a master’s in social work from Smith and is a medical social worker at Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, Mass. He’s a doctoral student studying physical therapy at Simmons College....William Loopesko runs his own startup, Go Pawsible, in Denver. It’s developing a product called the Pup Waggin’, designed to allow dog owners to safely leave their dogs in the car on even the hottest days....Alberto Means is now a senior strategist at SYPartners, a strategy and design consultancy that focuses on organizational transformation....Kat Moraros, in Chicago, has been training and acting professionally for such companies as GreatWorks Theatre, Murder Mystery Company, and Midnight Summit Ensemble. She understudied the lead role in the world premiere of Jake Jeppson’s Turtle at Redtwist Theatre....Graham Pearson started an MBA at Cornell’s Johnson School of Management....Ariela Silberstein and Simon Goldrick were married Oct. 30, 2016. They live in New York where she works for the Michael J. Fox Foundation.... Emma Sprague, director of The Franklin Forum, a political communications firm based in Washington, and David Longdon III ’14, an investment banking analyst at Barclays in New York City, were named to the Bates Board of Trustees. Their elections as young alumni trustees are the first such appointments in recent Bates history and were a response to the board’s desire to better understand the perspectives of recent graduates and to gain input on communication, engagement, and volunteer strategies....Lily Sullivan drew praise for her performance in Montreal’s annual Just For Laughs Comedy Festival. She appeared in its New Faces: Characters show. “The L.A. sketch comic, who got her start in Chicago, delighted the audience with her set, which was primarily an assortment of ridiculous twists on everyday characters,” the McGill Univ. Tribune said. After performing in Bates’ improv group, she performed with The Second City in Chicago. She’s now in L.A., “learning how to audition for TV and for movies, and that’s a whole other skill,” she said.
2011 Reunion 2021, June 11–13 class co-presidents Theodore Sutherland theodoresutherland89@ gmail.com Patrick Williams dapatch20002000@yahoo.com