manager at San Francisco magazine. She enjoys riding her Vespa around the Bay Area and spending time at Lake Tahoe. Lany Villalobos is in her third and final year at Villanova Law School, and hopes to work in public interest immigration law. She got married this past August to her college sweetheart, David. After four years in D.C., Michelle Fox recently moved to New York where she works in employee engagement and leadership development for Bank of America. Feryal Hirji is also in New York, where she works as an equity trader at Goldman Sachs. She recently celebrated her second wedding anniversary. Rachelle Alpern is pursuing an M.B.A./M.S.P.H degree in health care policy at UNC–Chapel Hill. Stephanie Kiehnle also recently began her M.B.A. at Kellogg (Northwestern). Sarah Lorenzen is also at Northwestern, working on her Ph.D. in neuroscience. She serves on Northwestern University’s Chicago Grad Student Association. Jane Santa Cruz recently finished her commitment with City Year San Antonio, and began working on her master’s in public affairs at UT– Austin. Dianne Goode recently moved to Houston, and is working for Rey de la Reza Architects. Carrinicole Pittman is still in Los Angeles, working at Mattel on product development for Disney Girls. She lives near Whitney Manson Weiss and Hilary Vreeland. Samantha Gupta is living in Dallas, and working as a physical therapist at Children’s Medical Center. Christina
Collins is still in Dallas, working as an attorney in the corporate and securities group at Thompson & Knight. Mio Yanagisawa is in her final year at UT Southwestern Medical School, and hopes to apply to a residency program specializing in pediatric surgery for next year. She got to do a surgery rotation in India this past February. Julia Sands Robinson tied the knot in April, and is living in Dallas with her husband Joseph. She is studying interior design at The Art Institute. Adrienne Murphy is working on a master’s in public policy at Harvard, focusing on education policy. She spent the summer working with the Governor of Maryland on his education policy team. She sees fellow Daisy Claire Bucholz in Cambridge from time to time. I (Molly Bierman) am still living in San Francisco and working in fraud prevention at Google. I ran my fifth marathon this past March, but have spent most of the summer recovering from surgery to repair a torn ACL. After graduating from Harvard in 2010 with a degree in social anthropology and biology, Louizza María Martínez-Puente worked for UT Southwestern as a research assistant for several surveillance and health communication studies evaluating cervical, lung, and colon cancer prevention strategies for a few years. In March, she decided to resign from her job to care for newborn daughter Eva María. She has filled their house with much joy, laughter, and many dirty diapers. She and Oscar will be celebrating their three-year wedding anniversary in November. Louizza will be attending medical school at UTMB next fall. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Louizza María Martínez-Puente ’05 and her daughter Eva María
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Jennifer Zavaleta jenniferczavaleta@gmail.com The Class of 2006’s unofficial slogan of “We don’t want no drama” has been left in the dust since graduation (barring this introduction, of course). Trading it in for a much more meaningful philosophy of taking life by the (unicorn) horn, we have indeed become the “fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars” as Libby Longino (via Jack Kerouac) described at our senior dinner. Can you believe that there are people from the Class of 2006 that can perform surgery, sue you in court, raise toddlers, direct movies and plays, teach youngsters, trot around the globe, and potentially save the world? Well, you better believe it. Here are the notes from the Class of 2006, hear us roar! After three years as an account manager at 72andSunny, Brooks Dennard packed up and moved to San Francisco to work at a new advertising company called barrettSF. Living in the Mission has afforded her the opportunity to eat as much as humanly possible, and to learn the joys of public transportation with about a 60% success rate. She gets to see Kit Garton and Caroline Kusin regularly, and is happy to report that as always, Kit Garton’s hair is looking stylish. Kit Garton is the director of public relations at a start-up clothing company called Chubbies, a San Francisco-based fashion start-up producing the world’s most radical shorts for men. As reported by Brooks, Caroline Kusin is getting her master’s in education at Stanford and will likely wear her white blazer every day. Rock it, Caroline; indeed, there are so many occasions where a white blazer is not only appropriate, but essential. Two years ago, Christy Yip moved to San Francisco to become a glorified “glippie” (glamorous hippie – a term she coined), and has been living it up
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