Duke studying artificial intelligence. Margie Gudaitis was a joy to work with as we connected with our classmates inviting them to join us at our reunion. She recently moved to Tucson to work at the University of Arizona College of Science, and where she is enjoying exploring the beauty of desert life. She welcomes DA visitors out west anytime! Elisabeth Sloan also welcomes DA visitors, but she’s on the east coast. Elisabeth currently works in Washington, D.C., for JLL, a commercial real estate firm. Her focus is on the United States Postal Service account that revolves around tenant representation. She is an active volunteer in the city as a member of the Junior League. Andrew Liebelt lives in New York City, working for a software tech start up that supports city governments as they bring their services online. He enjoys writing, film and performance, and takes advantage of all that NYC has to offer. Barney Wang also lives in New York, but travels back and forth often to Beijing, where he has started a youth basketball training company. His company seeks to bridge China and the US through basketball, bringing kids from China to the US to train, sightsee and meet NBA players. Terry Hsieh lives in Beijing, where he founded and directed the first Blue Note Beijing Jazz Orchestra. He also teaches and leads the jazz program at the International School of Beijing. Terry has become active in the pop music scene, too, and has been producing, writing, and arranging for Chinese pop singers, and playing in the house bands on Chinese music television shows. Cora Lavin has moved to Bogotá, Colombia, after spending four years teaching English in Venezuela. Cora will continue her international journey when she moves to Brisbane, Australia, at the end of the year to begin her Master’s in Peace and Conflict Resolution. Gracelee Lawrence has been on the move, too! Over the last year she’s traveled to 13 countries, lived in six cities and been an artist-in-residence
at five different organizations. Gracelee is also a part of the feminist collective, Material Girls, and is looking to become a professor of sculpture in the U.S. Rounding out our international ’07s, Brooke Hartley Moy will be just missing Cora, as she is leaving Melbourne, Australia, after two years. Brooke and her husband are quitting their jobs to travel around the country and Southeast Asia for two months before they move back to Durham. Brooke will be entering Duke’s Fuqua School of Business to study for her MBA as a Forté Fellow. I, Becki Feinglos Planchard, was lucky enough to travel to Australia with my husband, Sean, to visit Brooke and her husband this past Christmas. In our two-week-long double-date, we serendipitously met up with Tricia Chesson in Melbourne, and had our own little Aussie-style ’07 reunion. After working in early childhood policy for the Chicago Mayor’s Office for nearly two years, I have happily moved back to North Carolina to work in education policy. My husband will join me this summer when he graduates from law school at the University of Chicago, and we will gleefully never experience another Chicago winter ever again. Our dogs, Daisy and Ralphie, are overjoyed, and can’t wait for their playdates with Kendall’s pup.
Class of 2008 Samantha Leder leder.samantha@gmail.com Wow — where has 10 years gone!? The Class of 2008 continues to be happy, healthy and productive, and it is always a pleasure collecting these updates every year. Daniel Goldstein is living in Basalt, Colorado, which is a 15-minute drive down valley from Aspen. He is a designer and project captain for CCY Architects. He mostly focuses on high end residential projects, as well as some resort/hospitality work. Currently, he has one house under construction and another
in schematic design (the first phase of the design process). Zac Allison is still living in Raleigh and dominating in tech sales. Over the past year he has been busy with work, his golf game and getting a new English Golden puppy to replace his old roommate. He looks forward to building on the early successes of his career and continuing to live the American dream. Ashley Brasier is in her second year in the MBA program at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. She plans to move back to San Francisco after graduation to continue working with early-stage startups. John Lindsey continues his work with Lindsey Self Storage Group, which was recently ranked Top 50 Self Storage Operators in the USA. He launched their international consultation platform and is doing work in both Asia and Europe. John is living in Durham. Amadeo Deluca-Westrate is active duty U.S. Navy, working as the medical officer for an Marine Corps infantry battalion (Battalion Surgeon, 3rd Battalion, 7th Marines). He is currently on deployment and will be starting residency in internal medicine in 2019. Justin Rose will be graduating from the Harvard Graduate School of Design in May with a master’s in urban planning. During the summer he will be living in Baltimore, Maryland, working for the Mayor’s Office of Sustainable Solutions on a new violence reduction initiative, and more broadly improving cross-silo collaboration in the public sector in relation to neighborhood revitalization. In the near future he hopes to continue working either in Baltimore or New England, but he also has his eye on returning to North Carolina. Leslie Ogden is moving to Charleston, South Carolina, after six years in D.C. and finishing Georgetown’ evening MBA program. In Charleston, Leslie will continue to work in environmental risk communications. Alexandra Davidson-Palmer enjoyed two years working at The Hill Center and is now pursuing a Master’s in Counseling at
UNC-G. She hopes to become a school counselor after she graduates next spring. Peter Larson became a front desk associate at the Orlando World Center Marriott in September 2017, the world’s largest Marriott property. He absolutely loves his job and truly feels that he has found his calling. He and his wife, Hillary Rosen ’09, celebrated 11 years together this year. They have picked up ballroom dancing and are currently bronze 1 ballroom dancers. Ben Hattem moved to California last fall with his partner, Eva Dorrough, after three years of working as a journalist in New York. In California, he started law school at Stanford and this summer he will be in Washington, D.C., helping with disability rights litigation at the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law. Harrison Lee is working as the program coordinator for a Catholic education institute in Raleigh called the Thomas International Center. He will be starting a Ph.D. in philosophy at Baylor University in the fall. Mary Elizabeth Lovelace is celebrating her fiveyear anniversary at New Kind, a branding agency in Raleigh where she is the director of relationship management. She is getting married in fall 2019, to Eric Davis, who graduated from dental school in May 2018. They will be spending the next year in Chapel Hill while he completes a residency at UNC. They love spending time on the N.C. coast and with their black lab, Natty. Lauren Bronec is finishing up her final year at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Her favorite memories from this last year include founding the first MIT Sloan Retail & Consumer Goods Conference, running her first (and second!) 200 mile Ragnar relay race, traveling to India, Malaysia and Singapore for January term and getting engaged! Lauren is looking forward to moving to Portland, Oregon, after graduation to start her dream job at Nike Inc., and returning home to N.C. next fall to marry her fiancé Alex Fraser. Gabrielle LaForce is graduating from UNC Kenan-Flagler
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