a microfinance nonprofit. Kaybern Cuffy returned to New York from England to spend the holidays with her family and while she is having fun, she says she has “been virtually asleep the whole time.” Kaybern recently finished her master’s in developmental psychology at the University of Lincoln, and she will be graduating with distinction. Congratulations! Kaybern has decided to stay in the United Kingdom a bit longer and just moved to a new flat in Nottingham (home of Robin Hood). As for myself, I spent my summer studying for the California Bar Exam. After taking the grueling three day long test, I had a great time celebrating Abby Wilpers’ wedding in August, before heading off to a post-bar exam trip to France for three weeks. I am excited to be heading back to the east coast for New Year’s Eve, and to see Abby and Claire! Reunion April 24–26, 2015.
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The EW 2006 class Facebook page was a highlight of my, and many ladies, week when Melissa Skevington posted access to every class video she has (many of which were skillfully and generously made by Natasha Kermani back in the day). Watching the videos gets me so excited for reunion, not too far away. A few news highlights from the class page include: Freya Currie will be living in Brooklyn for a few months as part of a work project. Marina MezzogiornoBrown is now living in Toulouse in southern France. Emily Wroczynski writes, “I’m still plugging away at grad school. In my second year I get to do treatment on real objects and I am currently cleaning a life-size wooden cutout depicting a Turkish man from the 18th century. I spent the summer in England working on wallpaper and you can read about it in a blog entry on my school’s website: www.artcons.udel.edu/ news/2014/08/29/student-blog-historicinteriors. I haven’t been back home much and am missing my Emma friends. Hope all is going well with everyone else!” Brittany Larkin Gutberg sends,
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a house and moved to North Andover, Massachusetts. She is still teaching fourth grade at The Meadowbrook School of Weston and loves every minute of it. Monica says she hasn’t connected with many Emma girls in a while and is hoping to reconnect with some in the coming months. Kelly Moran finished her master’s in Computer Science in January 2014 and moved to New York City for a job at Google and to be in the same city as her boyfriend. Kelly sees Casey Johnston around pretty frequently, and she hopes to see some other EWS people around the city more often. Sarah Rosenblatt is getting super excited for our upcoming reunion, and hopes to see lots of our class there! Sarah is working on taking her AREs, which are seven total licensing exams to become a registered architect. To keep herself from getting too miserable with studying, she also joined a local choir. Sarah says, “It feels so good to be singing again! Makes me miss our days in Maguire Auditorium with Dr. SpiroAllen.” Claire Breedlove is living in Washington, DC, working on a state department funded international exchange program that brings teachers to The College of Saint Rose (among others) in Albany. The fellows teach at local schools, like Guilderland. Claire also ran the New York City Marathon, and is excited to go back up to the city for New Year’s Eve to see me! Alyssa Bernstein was recently in San Francisco for the American Society of Criminology conference, where she stayed with Tess Marstaller. Alyssa writes, “It was amazing seeing her for the first time in years— made me excited for reunion next year.” Alyssa is continuing her PhD research on Palestinian prisoners, and should be around New Haven for the next several months while she processes her data and does a writeup. Ashley Gardner just returned from the Dominican Republic, where she was serving in the Peace Corps for the last two years. Her sector was community economic development, and she primarily focused on teaching financial literacy and entrepreneurship to women. Ashley also recently became engaged—congratulations! Along with her fiancé, Ashley moved to Providence, Rhode Island, where she is working for
Brittany Larkin Gutberg’s wedding in Denver, Colorado, May 2014. L-R: Brittany Larkin Gutberg ’06, Christine Bendorf ’06
“I got married in May! It was a small outdoor ceremony in Denver with the mountains in the background. Christine Bendorf was one of my bridesmaids! I am currently living in Ann Arbor, Michigan, with my husband and finishing up my second and last year of my MBA/MS Industrial & Operations Engineering dual degree at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business.” Melissa Skevington reports, “I’m in San Francisco working as a software engineer. The change of career has been everything I had hoped for. But where are all the women? I hope Emma Willard is working on getting the students involved and excited about technology. Also, I recently got to see Kelsey Chandler and her piggies up on her farm in Vermont!” Hannah Darrin shares, “I’ve moved out to Boulder, Colorado, to be closer to the mountains and make up for three years of no skiing while I was in Africa. I have dinner with Chef Claire Burns most Tuesday nights. Then Emily Gasperetti came to visit. She was going to move with me, but she got a cooler job in New York. I’m doing some freelance writing and blogging for a paycheck in between NOLS sailing and hiking contracts. I recently partied ‘like a rock star’ in New York City with Marina MezzogiornoBrown, Natasha Kermani, Freya Currie, my mom, and Marina’s mom! That was pretty epic! I just ran my first marathon in Vegas and plan on being on the slopes lots this winter. I’m currently in Utah for Thanksgiving, but it doesn’t look like I’ll make it to your mountains. Maybe I will next season!” Emily Gasperetti says, “I recently accepted a new job and will start after the new year. I will be
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