class notes a proposal writer for TRI-COR Industries Inc. in Alexandria.
Jett Johnson (’12) is program manager at Healthy Living Healthy Suffolk, responsible for planning, management, promotion, implementation and reporting of all aspects of the Healthy People Healthy Suffolk plan – a long-term initiative developed by the Suffolk Partnership for a Healthy Community and the Obici Healthcare Foundation to address the obesity epidemic. Tara (McGinley) Ledford (’12) and Andrew Ledford (’11) married September 20, 2014, in Springfield, with a reception at the Springfield Golf & Country Club. They reside and work in Sterling.
international social and economic development from the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. She is currently interning with a large, international faith-based organization.
Robyn Parlett (’12) is a staff accountant with Mitchell, Wiggins & Co. in Richmond.
Jade Kolker ('13) earned a master’s degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications of Northwestern University in 2014. Upon graduation, she was hired by Akrete Communications as an associate account executive in greater Chicago.
Evelyn Riley (’12) works at the Thomas Day House, a nonprofit museum that tells the story of its namesake, a free African-American cabinetmaker and entrepreneur of the antebellum South in Milton, North Carolina. Riley is the museum’s outreach, education and public relations coordinator.
2013 Katlyn Craig (’13) will be the first Christopher Newport graduate to attend law school at Georgia State University.
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Jemal Harris (’12) owns his own consulting business, Multiple LLC, which provides solutions for small businesses and startups through direct mentoring, strategic planning, financial plan advising and other services. Last year he worked closely with the nonprofit HELP Inc. to start up an entrepreneurial/staffing program for individuals with barriers to employment, while still serving as a SCORE mentor. He is working closely with the Virginia Peninsula Chamber of Commerce to bring the Young Entrepreneurs Academy to the Virginia Peninsula and has joined the local AmeriCorps office at Alternatives Inc., engaging youth to foster a greater spirit of traditional and social entrepreneurship on the Virginia Peninsula.
Nathaniel Morris (’12) completed his two-year commitment with Teach for America and will remain in the classroom for a third year, teaching 11th-grade English at Nathan Hale High School in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He completed a principal internship at a summer school site and is pursuing a master’s degree in educational administration, curriculum and supervision from the University of Oklahoma. He also coaches swim at Booker T. Washington High School and is involved in Young Life.
Amanda (Rivera) Strawn (’13) and Tyler Strawn were married on October 11, 2014, in Stafford at Rock Hill Plantation. They reside in downtown Fredericksburg, and both work at Hilldrup Moving and Storage. Arrowood Photography
James Swindell (’12) is pursuing his master of arts management degree at Heinz College of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Kimberly Wenz (’12) graduated in 2014 with a master of social work degree and concentration in
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Elizabeth (Wendling) Lusk ('13) and Brandon Lusk married October 11, 2014, at Fort Belvoir. They live and work in Northern Virginia. Elizabeth will complete her master’s degree in higher education leadership this year.
James Swindell ('13) is pursuing a master of arts management degree at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and serves as program assistant for the master of arts management program.
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