class notes Jenna Reback moved to Los Angeles three years ago with the intention of becoming a screenwriter. After spending a year working at a talent agency to learn the ins and outs of “the biz,” she’s thrilled to say that she has a great mentor, with whom she is also writing (Melissa Rosenberg, writer of all the Twilight movies and former Executive Producer of “Dexter”), and is being represented by her former boss. She’s in the process of writing a book, with an eye towards adaptation for the big screen.
Blythe Austin is in her last year of law school at Stanford. Katharine Wulff just moved from Washington, DC, where she worked as a fellow in the National Institute of Health Department of Bioethics, to pursue a Masters of Public Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Genevieve Orr reports, “After seven years on the East Coast, I’m now back in Palo Alto. I just joined the Class of 2013 at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where I plan to focus on public management and education. I’m looking forward to reconnecting with those of you who are still in the Bay Area!”
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Ashley D’Amour ashley.damour@gmail.com
studying engineering at Berkeley, and I spend my summers teaching calculus to underprivileged high school students from Oakland and Richmond.”
Joyce Ho writes, “I’m taking a year off of medical school at Stanford to do the Stanford-NBC News Global Health Media Fellowship. To learn how different media outlets can be used to promote global health issues, I will be doing a series of internships at the World Health Organization in Geneva and NBC News in New York, taking journalism classes at Stanford, attending a photography bootcamp in Northern India, and working for social media platform Ning in Palo Alto. It should be an interesting year!”
Josie Menkin will be starting a Ph.D. program in Health Psychology at UCLA this fall. Iris Schimandle McLeary is blissfully married: “My husband and I celebrated our one-year anniversary in June. I’m still
’05 Iris Schimandle McLeary ’05
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Andrea Chin recently moved to the Seattle area. “After graduating with a Master’s in Gerontology from USC, I’ve been doing marketing and usability consulting for a socially responsible startup, Anti-AgingGames.com.” Seana McNamara graduated from
Chelsea Ono Horn onohorn@gmail.edu
Pomona College this past May with a BA in Studio Art. “I went to Europe (England and Ireland) this summer and now I’m back in the Bay Area as a freelance graphic designer. My updated art and design portfolio is at SeanaMcNamara. com. I had a show at the Peju Winery in Napa through the end of October—which was very exciting. Life is good.”
Meg York margaret.alice.york@gmail.com
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Ashley Schoettle Zlatinov and Metodi Zlatinov were joyfully married on August 7, 2011 in Los Gatos, CA. They met as undergraduates at Princeton University and now live and work in Cambridge, MA. Although Metodi is from Bulgaria and grew up in Beijing, China, he has been won over by the Bay Area, and Ashley and Metodi hope to move to California in a few years—perhaps after spending a year traveling or living in Bulgaria.
Nicole La Fetra Broder shares some happy news: “I got married to Alexander Broder on August 20, 2011 in Portland, OR. Noelle La Fetra ’12 was the maid of honor, and Shreya Ramachandran ’12, Becky Chan, and Jessa Lee were also in attendance. I am also working at a delightful olive oil and vinegar shop in downtown Portland and am in my final year of nursing school at the University of Portland!”
working as an Interaction Designer at frog. She also went to Burning Man with Chris Skieller! “Hit me up if you are in San Francisco and want to grab a bite to eat.”
Rebecca Strickfaden is starting her second year in Maine as an intern with Lifelines, a Christian outdoor guiding group. Based at the University of Maine in Orono, she leads outdoor group bonding and character development trips for groups of college students like sports teams, sororities, and freshmen residence halls. Leading white water rafting, rock climbing, hiking, and skiing trips is a really fun job! Rebecca still enjoys geology and earth sciences (her college major) as a hobby right now, and is pondering going to grad school after this year. Suelyn Yu is back in the Bay Area living in the Mission in San Francisco and
’05 Nicole La Fetra Broder ’05 with her husband, Alexander
Blakely Strand blakely.strand@gmail.com Barbara Kang Kerry Zweig is a research analyst with Knowledge Networks in Palo Alto after graduating magna cum laude from the University of Southern California in May. At USC, Kerry was a Psychology major, President of Psi Chi, and a student researcher in the Psychology and Business Lab of Provost Professor Dr. Wendy Wood.
’06 Ashley Schoettle Zlatinov ’06 with her husband, Metodi
’06 Seana McNamara ’06 having fun outside