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’00 Sarah Dunagan DeVan and Stuart DeVan ’99 recently opened an inn, farm and restaurant in midcoast Maine. They couldn’t be happier about living in Maine, and they welcome Choate friends and family to come check out ”the way life should be” at The 1774 Inn. Otessa Ghadar launched her newest multimedia project, ”She So Crazy,” which incorporates web series, photography, and podcasts. The project focuses on the female experience in toxic work cultures in tech and traditionally male-driven industries. She also just wrapped the first part of a new TV show, hardDCcore. It’s the first scripted show about the rise of DC/DMV’s punk/hardcore scene, from a female point of view. ’01
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Jessica Fong, a pre-K teacher with Chicago Public Schools, is working on providing nature play for young, low income students. Nature play is how children react to natural environments versus more traditional playgrounds. Her work was recently written up for Chalkbeat. Through a grant from the Chicago Foundation for Education, she began a yearlong research-based education project on the value of nature play.
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’02 Amy Hellman is a co-author of two Amazon #1 bestsellers: Heal Thy Self, released in June 2017, and Empower Your Life, released last March. Yaminette Diaz Linhart has started a Ph.D. program at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University. She is an Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Fellow and a Health Policy Research Scholar. In September she was awarded a Boston University School of Social Work alumni award for outstanding contributions to the field of social work.
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band, Andrey, welcomed a daughter, Willa Rose Washington, on May 30, 2018. 2 Lydia Hawkins ’03, Reiko Okazaki ’03, Lydia’s wife Debbie, their son Oliver, and Debbie’s mother Marise. 3 Erica DeRosa ’95 and her husband Andrew enjoy seeing the world through the eyes of Violet, age 4, and baby, Winn, age 1.
band, Darrin, welcomed a son, Titus James, on July 18, 2017. 5 Jennifer Pupa Schwartz ’98 and her husband, Andrew, welcomed a daughter, Isla Dene Pupa Schwartz, on May 30. 6 Katherine Lucy Yared and Pierre Davis Yared, 11-month-old twins of Lucy Phillips Yared ’01, and her husband, Pierre.
7 Hugh Patrick ’02 and Megan Keefe wel-
comed Hugh John Keefe in January. Hugh is covered in kisses by his big sister CC. 8 Danapat ’99 and Thippawan Promphan welcomed a son, Markapat Promphan on May 22, 2018!
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Dr. Shannon DeVore and Lane Carpenter welcomed their second daughter, Cecilia Catherine Carpenter. Julia Fraser Washington and her husband, Andrey, welcomed their first child, Willa Rose Washington, on May 30. Matt DeSantis and Brian Partridge ’02 have been operating MyBhutan (www.mybhutan.com) a travel operation, technology and foreign advisory service – with His Royal Highness Prince Jigyel Ugyen Wangchuck ’03 to sustain the philanthropic activities of its nonprofit partner, Tarayana Foundation. As Bhutan’s longest residing foreigner (living in Bhutan since 2013), Matt has also been appointed the U.S. Warden to Bhutan by the U.S. State Department. Choate offers student summer programs to Bhutan (with the support of MyBhutan). This summer, Matt and his fellow Explorers Club colleagues spent three weeks in Mongolia’s Gobi Desert in support of Mongolia’s Institute of Paleontology and Geology.