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1994
1996
1999
Kristan Coday Mayor and her husband, Christian, welcomed their first child, a baby boy, on July 5th. Kristan could not be more thrilled to finally be a mom! She will be returning to teaching Pilates in a few years, after Caleb is ready to begin school. “Finally I can join the Casti PlayDate Circuit! Yeh!!!”
Sone-Serae Harper Batten is still residing
Kate Stober kestober@hotmail.com
Subena Mahal Tilley is working as a family medicine physician in private practice with her husband and parents in Fremont, CA. “My husband, Barrett, and I joined my parents’ practice five years ago after meeting during residency in Denver. We are truly a family practice. I have two children, four-year-old Maya and one-year-old Spencer. They are my most rewarding accomplishment. I still keep in touch with Pratima Sethi, Lisa
Courtney Carter Charney ccharney@apr.com
Jennifer Cady Logan skinbyjennifer@gmail.com
Anna Beattie Wilson annawilson@gmail.com
Kitayama Wallgren, Suzan Huang Grisanti, and Christine Lin Patel ’95. The Casti girls catch up with each other as our children run in circles playing.”
Sehba Zhumkawala Ali, Superintendent of KIPP Houston Public Schools, is enjoying Texas. “Life in Houston is treating us well. We have 22 schools now in Houston, and we are hoping to grow! Family-wise, my oldest daughter started kindergarten this year, and my threeyear-old and one-and-a-half-year-old are doing very well!”
1995
Erin Beattie erinbeattie21@hotmail.com
in Nashville, TN with her husband and three children, who are now eight, five, and four. “We loved visiting the Bay Area this past summer. I am working as the Assistant Director of Mid Cumberland Head Start.”
1997
Yuriko Tse tse.yuriko@gmail.com
1998
Lindsay Austin Louie lindsaylouie@stanfordalumni.org Kimmy Morris Rosen kimberley.morris@gmail.com Leyna Cotran Zimdars married Andrew Zimdars in September 2012. Leyna and Andrew welcomed their baby girl, Farah, on August 9, 2013. Leyna also completed her Ph.D. in Software Engineering from UC Irvine in June 2013. Kimberley Morris Rosen and her husband, Chad, are delighted to announce the birth of their daughter, Charlotte Frances Rosen, born February 25, 2013 in Palo Alto.
Kristen Leep is still close to Casti. “I’m in my second year of teaching pre-K at Stratford’s Palo Alto campus, at the same location where I attended French elementary school! I enjoy working with such great people and such wonderful children and families! I’ve been living back in Menlo Park for seven years, so I drive by Castilleja every day on my way to school. I love seeing those blue skirts! In June I got to watch Brenda Cachay ’17, one of my third-grade students from five years ago, graduate from Castilleja’s 8th grade. It was such a special way to be on the other side of graduation!!” Jeannie Ensign-Lewis Larson has been busy since leaving Casti in 1999. “After graduating from Castilleja I went to Stanford with several Casti classmates. Soon after graduating, I left everything to serve a full-time eighteen-month mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. There, I met my husband, Seth Larson. He wrote to me while I finished my mission and was at the airport when I arrived home. We were married just three months later! We moved to Arizona for school, and I received a Master’s in Social Work from Arizona State University just two weeks before the birth of our first child. Since that time I have enjoyed being a stay-at-
Lisa Vocker Lofberg lcvlteach@mac.com Sarah Nissen, her husband, and her six-year-old son, Zane, have been living in Colorado for the past ten years. Sarah is selling her doggy-daycare business of nine years. She’s starting a real-food blog at sarahnissen.com and her husband is going to start a home-rehabbing business. They are planning trips to Hawaii, Costa Rica, Southern California, and the Bay Area. They are also schooling their son, who loves everything Lego, mechanical, or animal.
’94 Kristan Coday Mayor’s new baby, Caleb
’95 Sarah Nissen with her husband, Tim, and son, Zane
’98 Charlotte Frances Rosen at five months old during her first trip to Hawaii
’96 Sone-Serae Harper Batten with her beautiful family
’99 Jeannie Ensign-Lewis Larson with her smiling family
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