with Sophia Lear in Los Angeles, attended weddings with Clararose Voigt in Vermont, become neighbors with Barrie Segal, brunched with Alex Teicher and dined with Jo Kinsley.” As we write this column, Steven is taking a bit of a break from the Big Apple (and the hospital) to vacation in Spain, Germany and Greece. And now, a bit of news from your faithful co-secretaries: Kimmy Lewis is still in New York City and recently transitioned into a job in the Capital Markets group at the real estate firm JLL. Meanwhile, after five years as Assistant Secretary of the University at Yale, Erin Johnson has been appointed Associate Director of a brand new academic center at Yale called the Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration. We were last together in May for a picnic celebration of Hopkins Head of School Barbara Riley, who retired after 15 years in the role. Thanks to all of you who took the time to write in for this column, with a special thanks to those who haven’t checked in recently. We hope it goes without saying that we love hearing from you! Until the next time, ’04!
2005
Andrew Hall andrewbenjaminhall@gmail.com Courtney O’Brien Yakavonis courtneyobrien@gmail.com Pamela Soberman pamela.soberman@gmail.com
Many congratulations to go around for the Class of 2015! Caroline Walden married Rob Southern in August. Jesse Horowitz ’02 was a groomsman and Don Bagnall and Mr. Casanova were in attendance. Caroline lives in Pittsburgh while working on her master’s in Food Studies at Chatham University. She will be writing her thesis on women in sustainable agriculture in New England. Courtney O’Brien Yakavonis and her husband welcomed baby Eleanor Josephine to the world in March. She lives in Boston, where she ran into Ben Zlotoff, who is work-
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Members of the Class of 2006 returned to Hopkins in June to celebrate their 10th Reunion. Front row (L–R): Anson Wang, Corey Briskin, David Cleary, Lindsay Sklar, Dee Okai, David Brotman; middle row: Andrew Carter, Maryanna Saenko, Emma Ledbetter, Spencer Church, Liam O’Brien, Victoria Havlicek, Ali Tichy Zurita; back row: Nate Nagy, Chris Stewart, Mario Guevara, Chris Santopolo, Emilie Waters Harris, Evan Huggins, James Hao, Max Taylor, Lucien Harlow-Dion, Geoff Giller
ing at Catalant (previously HourlyNerd). Also in Boston, Akash Gupta is in residency for Internal Medicine/Pediatrics at Mass General. He’s still doing capoeira in addition to climbing and hiking. In Connecticut, Ken Jacobi recently bought a house in Norwalk, and he works on PepsiCo’s Capital Markets team. Andrew Giering recently returned to New Haven working as a litigation associate at Wiggin and Dana LLP. Chisom Amaechi is in New Haven as well, pursuing her MBA at the Yale School of Management. Katie Monahan is living in Brooklyn and recently finished the Pan-Mass Challenge, a 200-mile bike-a-thon that raises funds for the Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. Her team raised over $100,000! On the West Coast, we have Jessica DeLuca, who lives in San Francisco and works as a Data Science Fellow at Galvanize. Kyle Warren lives in Los Angeles and recently started writing for Lethal Weapon, the TV show. Andy Hall is a professor at Stanford and has his first published book being released soon. Pam Soberman is enjoying life in Seattle and working at Microsoft, where she is currently an HR Manager supporting engineering teams.
2006
Corey Briskin cbrisk01@gmail.com Lucas Kelly-Clyne lukekellyclyne@gmail.com
Luke Kelly-Clyne spent the summer working
as the Executive Producer of a new Comcast game show called “I Want My Phone Back.” In the fall, Luke will continue his work on Camp Success, a half-hour TV comedy he created for IFC. Luke’s roommate in Los Angeles, Doug DeLuca, is managing a film studio for Tastemade. He is also working on getting his Personal Training Certificate and just started recording the first single for an EP that will be released next spring/ summer. Also in California, Maryanna Saenko recently moved to Silicon Valley to become a partner at Airbus Group’s venture capital fund, which is focused on investing in aerospace and other similar industries. Outside of work, she continues to kiteboard, ski, ride motorcycles, and has recently taken up piloting small aircraft. On the East Coast, Ben Vinograd will begin his second year at the Wharton School’s JD/MBA program. Somehow, he’s managed to find enough spare time to launch a dining app called
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