she interned for the Federal Defenders in the Southern District of New York, and she’s looking forward to working with the ACLU’s Racial Justice Project in the spring. Chuck Hewitt recently moved to Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, and is continuing his work at the Natick Soldier Systems Center, where he’s developing equipment and technologies to keep our soldiers safer and improve their performance in the field. Ben Sperling continues to grow his nonprofit organization in Atlanta, Next Generation Men, and is launching their expansion, Next Generation Women. They will be working with about 150 young men and women this year across four schools. He’s also recently joined the Board of Directors of a new charter school in Atlanta and is staying busy wedding planning!
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Allie Briskin alliebriskin@gmail.com Molly Levine mollyhl@gwmail.gwu.edu
Earlier this year, Carter Banker was living in New York City and interning at the Council on Foreign Relations. She spent the summer in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, doing research on tolerance and religious conflict, and moved to Boston to start her Masters in International Affairs at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts. Sarah Levine is enjoying teaching at an International Nursery School in Bangkok, Thailand. She has loved getting to travel to places such as Sri Lanka, the Maldives, Laos, Indonesia, Malaysia and more during her time abroad! Lizzy Fiedler is currently working in advertising at Ogilvy & Mather on the UPS account. She is living in New York’s East Village with fellow Hopkins graduate Jessica Cohen. Norah Wallace recently moved to New York City from Boston to begin a clinical psychology PhD program at Fairleigh Dickinson University. Reba Watsky is excited to be starting medical school at Johns Hopkins in August.
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Members of the Class of 2011 returned to Hopkins in June to celebrate their 5th Reunion. 1st row (L–R): Callie Ferguson, Alexa MacMullen, Kendall Post, Emma Gleeman, Lexi Parr, Christina Nelson, Sammie Scheer, Nora Thompson, Joanie Margolis, Lexi Harrison, Shelby Galvin, Jerrod Dobkin; 2nd row: Earl Lin, Paul Bucala, Alex Heyison, Sam Kuslan, Kristi Hill, Claire Stepanek, Tara Gambardella, Liz Perkins, Lauren Kahan, Shannon Delaney, Elizabeth Baumgartner, Joseph Celestin, Luke Jenusaitis; 3rd row: Sam Greco, Michael Herbert, Matt Pun, Zhachary Pham, Connor Kistler, Julia Eisen, Peter McGrath, Alex Siegenfeld; 4th row: Miles Johnson, Cormac Carr, Constantin Geanakoplos, Bryan Turkel, Jack Pantalena, Peter Rosiello, Devyn Curley, Jake Lukach, Aubri Oliphant, Ben Lockhart, Andrew Nitirouth, Erik Jorgensen, Eric Mueller, Louise Newman, Dutch Waanders
Katie Schaffer is going into her third year
at News America Marketing in New York City, and she just moved into a new apartment in Chelsea with three of her friends from Colgate University. Token foodie Ryan Healey is the editor at LuckyPeach.com, and most recently received a James Beard Award. He is living with a college friend in the East Village and enjoys traveling whenever he has the opportunity. In the fall, Gus Prum will be starting graduate school at the New School, where he will be studying creative writing. Doug Steinberg is in Washington, D.C., working for a government relations firm called Sachem that does congressional advocacy for defense tech companies. Sachem mostly works with robotics, software and other specialized military hardware companies. Madeline Pantalena is a postulant for the priesthood in the Episcopal Church, and she is going into her second year of seminary to earn her Master of Divinity at Union Theological Seminary in New York City. She is the proud momma of two cats
and a litter of foster kittens and she is still knitting in class and riding horses in her spare time. She will be interning at St. Luke in the Fields in Greenwich Village starting this fall. Last year, Gopal Kodumudi completed his master’s degree in anatomy in New Orleans at Tulane University. He has since started medical school in northern California, and interned this summer at UCSF in San Francisco for a medical research fellowship. Nicole Lawrence is heading back to the states after spending a year in France. She will be relocating to Washington, D.C. I, Allie Briskin, am currently a Senior Media Planner at 360i, where I work to strategize and implement media plans for the NBC Universal and Fossil accounts. I spent the summer traveling within the United States, as well as to Iceland and Columbia, and also studying for the GMAT. I am planning to attend business school within the next year, so stay tuned for next issue. Thanks for the updates!
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