advertising. Hayley Juster is living in Richardson and painting, currently experimenting with encaustic work, which is an art form with melted wax and collage materials. Katie Hogan is working as a pediatric nurse practitioner in surgery at Children’s Medical Center. She often sees Megan Coleman and Jessie Drayton on the weekends. Jessie Drayton lives in Dallas and works as a geotechnical engineer with URS Corporation, working on a section of the Trinity River Levee project. Katy Reddin got her master’s in English from University of Virginia and works as a publicity assistant at Penguin Books in their Young Readers department in New York. Jessica Coggins writes, “I moved to New York two years ago and currently work for HBO. I’m absolutely addicted to all their shows so it’s a great fit!” Jennifer Marino is in law school at The University of Kansas. Megan Jepson started working for PepsiCo as a system specialist in the logistics department in Dallas. She also started working on a jewelry and art line called Meroje Designs. She was married October 22, 2009. Sagari Bette and Katie Escoto were in her wedding party. Katie Keith is at the University of Virginia School of Medicine and has just begun her third-year clerkship rotations. Grace Garcia got married on January 9, 2010, in Mexico. Maria Bascom continues to enjoy raising her daughter, Miriam (1 ½) in Monterey, California. She recently spent time in Dallas while her husband, James Bascom, furthered his Arabic studies with the Marine Corps in Cairo, Egypt. James graduated from Arabic school in November. Rachel Hall Causey married Larry Causey on April 10, 2010. She writes: “We are both card dealers (he deals craps and I deal blackjack) so we had a casino-themed wedding and gambled the night away.” As for me, Nikki Bruce, I’m working in nonprofit finance in Boston and have been active on volunteer committees in the Jewish community. My sisters, Erika Bruce ’88 and Katherine Bruce ’03, are trying to get me to run a half marathon with them in Dallas, so I’ve been trying to train for that.
2005 Class Agents – Communications: Allison Richie, allison.richie@gmail.com Amy Rush, amywrush@gmail.com Elizabeth Lintel, elintel@sbcglobal.net Michelle Fox, michelle.ashley.fox@gmail.com Molly Bierman, mollybierman@gmail.com Abigail Hoak, ahoak@smu.edu Ellen Parkhurst, ecparkhurst@gmail.com Morgan Manser, morganmanser@gmail.com Meredith Diers recently started her career with the Peace Corps. She has moved to her “permanent” placement in Albania, to the small beach village of Himare. She is the only Peace Corps volunteer in that site and the first to ever be assigned to this village. She will be teaching English to high school students who she says are very enthusiastic to learn.
2006 Class Agents – Communications: Jennifer Zavaleta, jzavaleta10@students.claremontmckenna.edu Natalie Pon, nataliepon@aol.com Monica Hughes graduated cum laude from Georgetown University with majors in economics and government. She is now attending law school at UT Austin. Eliana Baker is sharing an apartment with Jacqueline Kulp in New York City and is working at a consulting firm. Katherine Lagow is enjoying her first semester of law school at LSU. JoAnna Elmquist is working as a psychology research assistant for Brown University and Butler Hospital in Providence, Rhode Island. Her research project focuses on examining substance abuse and intimate partner violence in female perpetrators of domestic violence. Excited to be back in Dallas, Kristen Cataldo is a nurse at Children’s Medical
Lucy Reid Murchison ’06 with husband Will and daughter Eleanor
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Center. Farrell Rafkin is working at Elie Tahari in New York City. Alex DePasse is working at an internship in Houston and looking for fellow Daisies down south. Kit Garton and Caroline Kusin are living together and working in San Francisco. Lucy Reid Murchison is finishing her last year studying anthropology and Spanish. When she is not at school, she is busy being a mama to Eleanor who is 3, sewing and taking photos. Shannon Carney is working for J.H. Cohn, LLP, a CPA firm in San Diego. Brooks Dennard is interning at The Richards Group in Dallas. Elizabeth Stevenson is working with The Richards Group in brand management. Anjali Motgi deferred Yale Law School for a year to work for Global Health Strategies with some college roommates. Ashleigh Phillips is in school in L.A. and working on her thesis screenplay. Rhiannon Rees is living in NYC and works for Interscope Geffen A&M in radio and video promotion. Angel Lam is starting her master’s degree in management at the London Business School. Devon Youngblood moved to Cairo and is looking for anyone to visit her in North Africa. After graduating from UNC in May, Nicki Drawbridge is back in Dallas doing a post-bacc program at UT Dallas in bio sciences while applying to medical school. Abby McCartney started teaching algebra and geometry with Teach for America at Grace King High School in Metairie, a suburb just outside New Orleans. Erin Harris is the host and producer of DFW Closeup, a community affairs show, and is also now the social media reporter, covering the latest on Facebook, Twitter,YouTube, the Internet, mobile apps, etc. Be sure to tune in during the 9 p.m. newscast (at around 9:40 Monday–Friday) to see Erin, and she will soon be live in the 5:00 p.m. newscast as well. Rachel Spradley is working in Austin at Humanities Texas, the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Meredith McAlister is living and working in Manhattan doing freelance casting with different companies for theatre, commercials and TV. She also adopted a tabby kitten, Stuart, who is now six months old. Andi Pimentel is working in San Francisco for Triage Consulting Group, a healthcare consulting company in the Bay Area. She also completed a triathlon in Park City, Utah this summer. Cathy Beatty is living in Durham, North Carolina while she applies to medical school. Helen Jury is in graduate school at Vanderbilt right now (master of education in organizational leadership) and will finish in May 2011. Jocelyn Huang is working at a civil rights law firm in D.C. before applying to law school. Emma Miller is working on her degree at UT Austin and will graduate next May. Sarah Nouri and E. Warnack just started medical school in Dallas at UT Southwestern. Lauren Hoffman began medical school at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston. Lucy Durbin is back in Dallas working for CB Richard Ellis, the realestate group. Laura Beavers is in Boston for the next two years, getting a master’s in art history and museum studies at Tufts University. Jennifer Zavaleta is getting a master’s in agricultural education and natural resource management at Texas Tech, and works as a research assistant on the Texas Alliance for Water Conservation.
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