DA ALUMNI
2009
Collin Burks collin.burks@gmail.com
ABOVE: Members of the Class of 2010 gathered recently at Bald Head Island. Bottom row (from left) Tyler O'Neal, Emma Hart, Rob Stevens, Will Lindsey, middle row David Fowler, Wilkins Zollicoffer, Louisa Mounsey, Caroline Few, Paige Anna and top row Stephen Sotolongo, Sarah Edwards, Oliver Short, Ellie Preyer and Frank Elliot.
wife continue to enjoy life with their dogs, while traveling as much as they can. Will Ramsey moved to Alexandria, VA. He left a fundraising role with the Washington National Opera to rejoin the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz, which is the lead NGO responsible for coordinating UNESCO’s annual International Jazz Day celebration on April 30. His team just returned from Havana, Cuba, where they coordinated a culminating weeklong music education and performance program with local schools and musicians. Jenny Denton Bodnar is still in the Durham area and loving it. Life for Jenny and husband Nick has been made all the more wonderful with the arrival of their second son, Tedford “Ford,” at the end
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of April. This January made for three years of work at World Relief, one of the local refugee resettlement agencies, work that has been fascinating, enriching and particularly poignant this year. It was sad but good to step away from that upon Ford’s birth in order to be more present with family for a season. She is looking forward to seeing DA friends at several weddings in the next year! John Lindsey is living in Durham, on the board of directors for the National Self Storage Association and recently launched a self-storage management company with his brother, Alan Lindsey ’12; they now have 14 locations from Virginia to Louisiana. Until next year Class of 2008, and the big 10-year reunion in fall 2018 — wow!
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Hello from the Class of ’09! While collecting updates this year, one of our classmates sparked a whole-class email chain that resulted in 20+ classmates emailing selfies of themselves out to the class. Alumni from all over the world in our class sent in pictures of themselves, often with fellow DA classmates with whom they live or are friends with in the same city. Two classmates each pledged to donate $10 for every person that participated in the selfie chain, which resulted in $800 being donated to two charities. It was amazing to see how so many people are still in touch with their fellow DA classmates and how generous our class continues to be! On to the individual updates, Kevin Ji is still living the dream of being a high school math teacher. This summer, he’ll be teaching in a new arena: as the instructor of a handson, international cooking class for little kids. Noah Katz followed in the footsteps of many in the DA crew and moved out to San Francisco, where he is currently still running his 3D printing business, as well as helping build cutting edge medical devices and designing for an online factchecking/civil discourse media startup called Fiskkit. Check it out! He still dreams of space, and is encouraged by recent achievements by SpaceX and others. Sustainable development, good food and new technology are constantly there to inspire him and all of us. Peter Gudaitis has left the supportive embrace of his DA classmates in foggy SF and moved to sunny LA to work for Netflix as
a member of their content strategy team. He spends his free time exploring Southern California by bicycle (and watching movies of course!). Natalie Gallo is working as a licensed professional counselor candidate in the Child Trauma Services Program at the University of Oklahoma Department of Behavioral Pediatrics. She provides evidencebased therapy for children and teenagers with PTSD, depression, anxiety and other emotionalbehavioral disorders and conducts research on these populations. She loves living in Oklahoma City alongside her brother, Nick Gallo ’06. Back on the east coast, Adrianne Soo is moving to Charleston, SC, to start her emergency medicine residency. She is looking forward to learning how to surf while she is down there. Mitchel Gorecki is a Duke MBA student who is pursuing a real estate tech startup. Also in Durham, Kyle Mumma is a firstyear MBA candidate at Duke’s Fuqua School of Business. He will be consulting for Deloitte’s Human Capital practice in Atlanta over the summer before finishing up business school in 2018. In NYC, Laura Haynes is finishing the fourth year of her Ph.D. program in geology and climate science. She lives with her fiancé, Alex, and her cat, Coco. She’ll return to Durham to get married in October of this year. Gargi Bansal is also loving life in NYC! She is currently a software engineer for the Stern School of Business at New York University. Outside of work, she enjoys exploring the various cultural neighborhoods around the city. Across the pond, Claire Burridge is about halfway through her Ph.D. at Cambridge. Her research is focused on the