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Kadi Thompson kadithompson@gmail.com Hillary Witzleben is still loving life in Telluride, Colorado, and welcomed another little boy on May 3! Winder Holeman and his wife, Estefi, welcomed their first child this year, Mateo EliasHoleman. He was born Jan. 25, and they’re hoping that he will handle Chicago winters better than his two parents! Kristin Keagy Hodgson just joined the UNC faculty and is a psychologist at TEACCH in Charlotte, working with children and adults with autism spectrum disorder. Her children, Connor and Anna, are 7 and 4. I, Kadi Thompson, am enjoying spending time with my beautiful niece and nephew in the Bay Area, and am still working at Sephora in inventory strategy. My 6-year-old niece is turning into quite the beauty junkie, much to the chagrin of my sister.
1999
Nina Jacobi nina.jacobi@gmail.com Daniel Raimi and his wife, Kaitlin, moved to Ann Arbor in 2016 to start work at the University of Michigan. Daniel has appointments at the U of M’s Energy Institute and the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, where he does research and teaches energy and climate policy. Amar Goli has been working in commercial real estate for 10 years now, with the past seven of them in LA. He is currently working on pad site development for shopping centers and retail investment properties with national tenants. Amar and
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his beautiful fiancée, Naomi Lan, will be getting married in February in Big Sur, California. Erika Estrada Boden and her husband just announced the birth of their second baby girl — right as their older daughter, Aria, turned 2. They are excited (and nervous) about having two little ones. After seven years on the legal team at Fox International Channels Latin America, Erika recently accepted a position as vice president of business and legal affairs at NBC Telemundo Enterprises. The new job is challenging but Erika could not be happier with the career move. Margaret Jones is finishing up her fellowship in northern New Jersey. She will be spending July back in North Carolina before road-tripping to Seattle with her two cousins, Claire Burdick and Lily Burdick (both Class of 2015). Margaret starts her job in September at Harborview Medical Center and the University of Washington, specializing in physical medicine and rehabilitation and spinal cord injury medicine. Matt Crawford and his wife, Julie, were married in February. Matt is currently wrapping up his third year of orthopedic surgery residency at Duke. April Bullard Beaupain and her husband were married in 2014 and their son, Griffin, was born last summer. April recently left the FBI and is loving her new job with Google’s global security team. She has been in California for six years now and writes, “If anyone visits San Francisco, let me know, I’d love to see you.” My major life update is that my fiancé, Peter, and I will be getting married in September! It’s wonderful to hear from you all. Please keep in touch.
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ABOVE: April Bullard Beaupain ’99 is the proud mother of Griffin, who was born last summer. April lives in San Francisco and works with Google’s global security team.
2000
Robert Allen robertfallenii@gmail.com Only a few short weeks ago, Mr. Ulku-Steiner and Tim McKenna hosted a DA in NYC happy hour in a sleepy bar in the Upper East Side. Between pours of Guinness, I met and caught up with classmates young and old and was reminded what an impressive institution we called, and still do, home so long ago. Nate Solberg is still building computers in the mountains of North Carolina, but now he’s getting recognized for his building prowess — Nordic PC was recently voted Best of the Best for Computer Repair in Watagua, Co. Jason Kehrl has rooted down in Manhattan. He
recently bought a 1BR Co-Op in, what he calls, the perfect location — “near the gays, the Theater District and Central Park” … and only a 15 minute walk to his new job. As a fellow New Yorker, I can attest that’s a pretty impressive stat sheet. Jason started as a life science management consultant at IMS Consulting Group in February. Just across the Hudson in New Jersey, Russell Corey has been promoted to regional sales manager in the Eastern U.S. for the Kawasaki Motors Corp, USA. Included in this promotion was a recent trip to Kawasaki’s HQ in Japan, a lifelong dream of his. Between business trips to his best accounts and HQ, his beautiful wife Karina (7 years