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free time, he enjoys mountain and road biking. Ben Preston is finishing grad school and moving to Colorado Springs to work for Lockheed Martin. He is going to be doing flight control systems engineering for the GPSIII satellite constellation. Maggie Ramsey is enjoying living and working near her siblings in the DC area after completing her master’s degree at the University of Tennessee. She lives in Arlington, enjoys cantoring at Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle, singing with Opera on Tap DC Metro and teaching private voice, piano, group ukulele, group piano and group general music lessons with District Music Academy. Julia Kelsoe is in the penultimate year of her Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge and continues to enjoy her research in legal history. She has decided, however, not to pursue a career in academia and will instead practice law at the London office of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton after she completes her degree. In spite of its gray and rainy weather, Julia has enjoyed living in England and plans to stay for the foreseeable future. Josh Erb will soon be moving back to Durham to begin teaching high school English at Camelot Academy! Over the past year, he has been working on transitioning from his role as a research scientist in Duke’s neurobiology department to that of a secondary liberal arts teacher. He has spent the past year in Providence studying and teaching through Brown University’s Master of Arts in Teaching program, which he will graduate from in May. Tatum Pottenger
retired from the classroom in June 2016 (shout-out to all the teachers out there — you all are forever my heroes!) and is back in the Charlotte area working in fundraising for Davidson College. Jennifer McMorrow is completing a rewarding two years working with Carolina Livery Service (the family business), splitting her time between North Carolina and New York, and hopes to transition into teaching over the next couple of years. She and her fiancé are in the process of relocating to the Durham area full time, and are excited to be getting married here on New Year’s Eve 2017. Tevin Wilson recently accepted a position with the Federal Emergency Management Agency and completed training at the Center for Domestic Preparedness in Anniston, Alabama. He also became an ambassador for the Arthritis Foundation after advocating on Capitol Hill during an Arthritis Foundation summit in Washington. He has also enjoyed returning to DA to practice with the varsity tennis team during their historic season. Sam Jones is in the process of moving out to California to pursue his MBA at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He is sad to be leaving BCG, where he has enjoyed his time in the Dallas office for the past few years, but excited for a few months of travel with friends and his fiancée, Tayler Smith. After business school, Sam will return to BCG for a year in his hometown of Melbourne, Australia. Nick Marek recently wrapped up his third season broadcasting for the Lone Star Brahmas
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hockey team in Texas, winning the national championship along the way. This summer, he is getting married to his fiancée, Amanda Lane, and planning a trip to Europe. Josh Zoffer left McKinsey & Company’s New York Office in the fall to work for Hillary Clinton’s transition team, briefly returned to McKinsey after the election and has since left again to pursue a JD at Yale Law School this fall. He and his fiancée, Shira, will be married in October and are keeping busy with wedding planning this summer. Robert Kindman will be the best man. Kevin Heyer has been working for two years as a systems engineer with RoviSys, an automation and information solutions contracting company based in Ohio with a brand new office in Holly Springs, NC. He has primarily been working on projects for a variety of pharmaceutical companies located in the Triangle. On the personal side, Kevin married his wife, Samantha, last July, and they have recently purchased a house in Apex. Ansilta De Luca is living in Shanghai, China. She is an assistant manager of an adult English teaching center, where she gives business English classes to Chinese professionals. The position gives her the opportunity to lead a team of international teachers and to train them in ESL teaching methodologies. Shanghai is a vibrant city where she can explore culture and get into a lot of new activities including painting, yoga and learning Chinese. Ansilta will be living in China for the foreseeable future, as she works her way to becoming an international teacher trainer.
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