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Commission on Civil Rights. This work involves collaborating with people in the District to address civil rights issues affecting the local community. For example, the committee brings light to issues involving sex trafficking and the lack of a vacatur statute to protect victims of trafficking who come forward to the authorities. Across the pond, Whitney Zimmerman “nerded it up” in March when he graduated from the University of Chicago’s London-based MBA program with high honors. He is dabbling in the startup world with a few classmates while still planning new model launches for BMW in Munich. He urges you all to think of him when you see the new BMW X3 on the road as of November.
2006
Imani Hamilton imani.hamilton@gmail.com I write after spending the weekend in Asheville for the awesome wedding of Jordan Schiff to Kendall Brobst, having had the pleasure of seeing Tyler Radtke, Peter Truskey, Andrew Liebelt ’05 and LaQuesa Gaillard. After getting the travel bug when we traveled together to Southeast Asia in 2015, LaQuesa lived in Ghana for 3 months in late 2016, enjoying learning through immersion. In January, she moved to Atlanta, and after visiting her in March, I can say she is absolutely flourishing. She is currently making her way in entertainment PR and, because I couldn’t possibly say it any differently, “forever trying to be superstar, adventuring, wizard of life who travels, loves and laughs a lot! Always missing my DA community and sending
you all well wishes!” Many congratulations to Drew Sutton! He and his wife welcomed their first child, John Andrew Sutton, into the world on April 7. “We are loving life as parents, but miss the sleep we used to have. We are enjoying life in Charlotte and I’m enjoying my job working for a small real estate investment firm focused on apartments. Life is good!” Michael Hutchings just wrapped up his first year of business school at Wharton. I’m looking forward to seeing what he does with a business degree. Heather Hoffman is practicing as a pediatric dentist in Waldorf, Maryland, and I imagine laughing a ton with her little patients. She and her husband, Mohamed, live in Washington, D.C., as he finishes his OMFS residency. Nico Bollerslev was married in July 2016 to Justin Fox. They met through mutual friends in NYC, when he came to her housewarming party. They had their wedding at D’Angleterre and Nimb in Tivoli, in Copenhagen, and look forward to going back for their one-year anniversary. Nico started a new job at Facebook in April, joining the Global Marketing Solutions team, focused on analytics of travel accounts. Finally, she is halfway through a quest for “world marathon majors,” the six biggest marathons around the world. She’s finished the three domestic (NYC, Chicago, Boston) and hopes to finish the three international (Berlin, Tokyo, London) this year before turning 30! Christine Sailer is completing her third and final year of internal medicine residency at Johns Hopkins. She will be a hospitalist at Johns Hopkins Hospital next year, and will then be applying into
cardiology! Kyle Sloate Kirkland is working as a PA in foot and ankle surgery at Duke. She and Rob Kirkland ’05 bought their first house and completely renovated it — real life! Rachel Pea is teaching 10th grade AP World History at a low-income charter school in Brooklyn. This past school year, she’s taken on a few new roles that have taught her a lot — and have kept her busy — from coaching the teachers in the history department to writing the APWH curriculum for the seven high schools in her charter network. She is really excited to attend senior signing day in a few weeks because watching her students “declare” their future college is such a rewarding and joy-filled moment! Another perk of the teacher life that she says she’ll never tire of is the endless opportunity to travel the world during the many school-year vacations! Conveniently, her husband works for the same charter school network, so they have enjoyed traveling to Spain and Mexico this year, and plan to travel to South Africa this summer! I, Imani Hamilton, would call 2017 a milestone year thus far and given what’s on the horizon. I spent two weeks in Japan in April with my fiancé and parents; highlights include celebrating my mom’s birthday during cherry blossom season in a 1,000-yearold Buddhist monastery. I am working in Google’s research and development lab for their new campus development, and I look forward to being able to share in a few years. This November, I’ll flip the 20-something page and turn 30, and maybe one day I’ll stop getting carded! And, most exciting of all, I am getting married to my
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love, Anthony Blout, this October in a historic train station in West Oakland. I’m already so looking forward to collecting family and friends, including plenty of DA alums, together for that weekend!
2007
Becki Feinglos Planchard rebecca.planchard@gmail.com The Class of 2007 is gearing up for our 10-year reunion in October — well, some of us are in denial, but that’s understandable. We’re spread across the country and the globe, so let’s get started with some updates first from the good ol’ North State, and move out from there. Kendall Bradley is finishing her second year of orthopedic surgery residency at Duke with another three years to go. In her vast amounts of down time, she added a rescue hound to the family. You can find Evan Donahue at another part of Duke’s campus, where he is in third year at the Computational Media, Arts & Cultures PhD program. Ashley Greenleaf just opened a new store for Triangle Cellular Repair not far from Duke’s campus on Ninth Street. She enjoys car racing, food, music and travel — she even got to visit Cameron Vann Davidson in Sweden! Sean Lee also enjoys traveling, but now he’s back in Durham full time after living in NYC for a year. He is working as a project manager in pharma. Caroline Wisner made the move back to Durham, as well, after having worked in graphic design in the Research Triangle. Alex Hearsey Barker and her husband welcomed their daughter, Dylan, in September 2016. Alex is currently working for Wake
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