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Investment Disputes. Her team represented El Salvador in the case Pac Rim Cayman v. El Salvador. She describes it as “an amazing experience which opened my eyes to international arbitration, which I hope to pursue.” At Mizzou Law, she is on track to obtain a certificate in Alternative Dispute Resolution to help meet her career goal. This summer she will be living in St. Louis for the first time and working at the law firm Thompson Coburn. Jamihlia hopes to gain more international experience by studying in London next spring through her law school. Sara Widmark Loeblein works in downtown Durham, making it easy to enjoy time with family and friends – including her seven nieces and nephews! She is working with fellow DA grad Mike Pisetsky ’96 at Mark Properties. Sara and Gray have been married for four years now, and their fondness for travel has taken them on a number of enjoyable trips outside the country. David Hutchings continues to teach Spanish at Stuart Hall boarding school in Staunton, Va., but perhaps his proudest achievement of the past year came as a cross country coach. His girls varsity team won the state championship for their private school league (VACA) in only their second year competing as a team. He recently returned from leading a trip to Madrid and Paris with a group of his students for spring break. It brought back many memories of his eighth grade trip with Señor Glass, and he described it as being “so much fun – possibly the best thing about teaching so far.” Tanyss Knowles has been living in Canada, recently moving to the Yukon after spending five years in Vancouver. In the territory she now calls home, she has a job with an environmental consulting firm working on aboriginal relations and traditional knowledge collection. Her own words can
only begin to describe this unique and amazing experience: “It was exciting to meet many interesting people and travel throughout the North. Being outdoors all summer meant I saw lots of moose, bears and mountain sheep. Luckily, no dangerous encounters! Now I’m working as a youth worker. I run youth programs in Whitehorse and travel to communities to do workshops. In March, I got to be on a team facilitating environmental workshops with youth in the Arctic Circle. We enjoyed bundling up for the -40 C [also -40 F!] weather and watching the northern lights after work. I’m really enjoying my life up here and encourage everyone to come for a visit!” Jeff Speir, who will be returning to school soon, reflected on the past few years, his time at DA and a similar fondness for being outdoors: “After three fantastic years in San Francisco, I will be moving with my cat to Portland, Ore., to study environmental law at Lewis and Clark Law School this fall. I’m returning to my lockerusing, backpack-carrying days thanks in part to my experiences at DA and the exceptional teachers I learned from there. Before my studies begin, I’m planning to camp in as many National Parks as I can and eat a bunch of granola.” Whitney Zimmerman moved from Greenville, S.C., to Munich, Germany, this spring for a three year assignment at BMW’s headquarters. Good luck to everyone in the Class of 2005 over the next year as they deal with the world of wild bears, legal disputes, middle schoolers, politics, new cities, camping and much more!
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Imani Hamilton Imani.hamilton@gmail.com Heather Olden has been living in NYC for the past two years,
working and enjoying all that the big city has to offer. In September, she will be attending the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor to get a master of public health in epidemiology and international health. Until she leaves for school, she has an internship with one of the top epidemiologists in the public health field, identifying the environmental factors that affect the rate of infection and transmission of HIV in New York City. She is excited to embark on this journey in public health and cannot wait to see where it leads her. Andrew Sutton is living and working in Charlotte, and is looking forward to his August transition to a job in private equity. Christine Sailer is starting her third year at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Now that she has finished her classes, she is starting full-time in the hospital; her first, two-month rotation starts May 29! Kyle Sloate has decided to change career paths and is in the process of applying to physician assistant programs. This spring (somehow) she took four prerequisite science courses, volunteered 25 hours a week to get direct care experience and worked full time. This summer she is doing the same. She’s exhausted, but much happier with this goal in mind! It sounds like everyone in the Raleigh-Durham area should go visit Andrew Popio at his job. He recently helped open the new Sugarland bakery in Cameron Village. “It’s a really cool space and we have lots of awesome cupcakes and gelato. Plus we’re getting a full bar in the next couple of weeks!” When Matt Wyzenski submitted his notes, he had just arrived in Port Angeles, Wash., after a 3,000 mile, three-day solo road trip to start a new job. He is loving his life there thus far: “Amazing company, amazing people and I get to design and play with boats all day ... I’m living a
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short ferry ride away from British Columbia, and wake up every morning and see the Olympic Mountains behind Port Angeles.” He’s also looking forward to the spectacular kayaking, hiking and camping in the area. Before this job he was working for a company in Raleigh, designing and building high-end ($20,000) lighting fixtures for rock star clients like Bob Seger. Joining us on the West Coast, Tom Gillespie is headed to graduate school in neuroscience at UC-San Diego and TJ Carstens will be moving to Northern California on June 1 to work in the health care industry. Nick Gallo is the Oklahoma City Thunder’s basketball writer for the team’s website and publications. I’ll add he also recently came to San Francisco for work and got to meet up with Imani Hamilton and Jeffrey Speir ’05 for Duke’s buzzer beater win over Carolina! I, Imani Hamilton, am loving life in California, working as business development and marketing coordinator for an urban design and landscape architecture firm called CMG Landscape Architecture. They are the stars of landscape architecture, working with some of the biggest names in architecture on really interesting urban projects, redesigning streets, plazas and parks. I’m enjoying my work, building relationships with architects and developers and doing all of the background graphic design and marketing materials for it. I’m also helping pursue projects and competitions, writing articles and managing our website. The job changes daily, depending what’s in my inbox. I’m liking it a lot, but definitely wishing I could import friends and family. On that note, please let me know if you’re ever in the Bay Area! Please also let me know if your email address or location has changed! Best to all. CONTINUED ON PAGE 50
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