class notes from New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program, a graduate design and technology program. “I’d really like to move to San Francisco in the next year, but I’ve also been saying that for the past five years! I’m lucky to have my Casti friends nearby in both cities.”
Jessica Chen and her husband, Tom,
’00 Navreet Raju Kamdar and her husband, Biren, with their new daughter
’00 Jessie Kornberg’s new baby, Asa Kenneth Lowenstein
welcomed their son, Bailey Elliott McCafferty, on May 14. Born at eight pounds, six ounces, Bailey grows stronger by the day and keeps mom busy!
Julia Desmond is still living in Seattle. She works for Starbucks corporate certifying stores around the world to be green. She enjoys seeing Casti classmate Jessica Chen and her baby.
2003
Jenny Nichols Cook jennifernicholscook@gmail.com
’00 Casti girls from the Class of 2000 help Emily Crane celebrate her marriage to Adam Freund
’01 Ethan Fritz, son of Liz Rowen Fritz
many years on the East Coast for Biren’s new job at UCLA. They welcomed their daughter on August 12 and are enjoying parenthood! If anyone is in the area, they would love some visitors!
’02 Jessica Chen’s baby boy, Bailey Elliott McCafferty
home mom. We lived in San Antonio, TX for four years while Seth went to dental school, and we currently live in Prescott, AZ, where he practices as a general dentist. We now have four children (two boys and two girls) that are age five and younger. Life is full and crazy and sweet.”
2000
Anjelika Deogirikar anjelika@gmail.com Claire Cummins clcummins@gmail.com Jessie Kornberg and Aaron Lowenstein welcomed their new baby, Asa Kenneth Lowenstein, on August 19, 2013, making Sophie Kornberg ’02 and Zoe Kornberg ’08 aunts! Navreet Raju Kamdar and her husband, Biren, moved back to California after
78 | full circle
Jessie Kornberg, Megan Kelly, Maggie Kennelly Hazelrig, Andrea Davila, Katie Dugan, Megan Jones, and Cassie Meresman had a mini-reunion while celebrating Emily Crane’s wedding to Adam Freund on June 8th at the Berkeley City Club.
2001
Send News to School Erin Holler recently moved to the Atlanta area and is working in the lab at Cancer Treatment Centers of America.
2002
Whitney Brown whitneyalexisbrown@gmail.com Jacqueline Nguyen is currently a second-year orthopedic surgery resident at St. Mary’s Medical Center in San Francisco. “After living on the East Coast for four years, I am happy to be back in the Bay Area. I don’t have a lot of free time, but when I get a chance I enjoy exploring San Francisco and meeting up with some Casti alumnae.” Elizabeth Khoo has been living in New York City the past four years and will be graduating next spring
After nearly six years at Sunrun in San Francisco, Sydney Larson left her job in July to relax and travel before beginning her MBA at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. Trip highlights included hiking the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu with 27 future classmates, exploring the Peruvian Amazon, and eating her way through Lima with classmate Emily Williams Cornejo and their husbands.
Alison Chan is currently living in Hong Kong and working as an Area Manager leading the duty-free business for L’Occitane en Provence. In June, Courtney Yin Duke, Katherine Li, and Elizabeth Wright traveled to Hong Kong to visit Alison and they had a fantastic mini-reunion while exploring all that Hong Kong has to offer! Elizabeth Wright lives in Somerville, MA and works for the NGO Conflict Dynamics International on governance and peacebuilding in South Sudan, with a focus on increasing women’s participation in politics. In addition to her Casti mini-reunion this summer in Hong Kong, she also made her first trip to Juba, South Sudan. Karen Ring graduated from the UCSF Biomedical Sciences Ph.D. Program in August 2012. Her thesis research was published in the journal Cell Stem Cell in 2012, and the subject was generating neural stem cells directly from mouse and human skin cells using a process called “cellular reprogramming.” She is now a Postdoctoral Fellow in Dr. Lisa Ellerby’s lab at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging. She is using human stem cells to model Huntington’s Disease.