the Hill’s Spring 2021 issue). The final update for this installment of the ’04 update comes from co-secretary Kimmy Lewis. Like many New Yorkers, Kimmy moved out of New York City during the pandemic and joined the migration to South Florida. After 13 years in the Big Apple, she now calls Boca Raton home, where she lives with her husband, Darren, and their new mini-poodle, Phil. We know it’s been a challenging year for many people, and we hope that by the time this column is published, the “better days ahead” will have arrived. Until then and our next column, take care, stay safe, stay healthy, and don’t forget to send us your news.
2005 Courtney O’Brien Yakavonis erin122@gmail.com Pamela Soberman pamela.soberman@gmail.com
2006 Corey Briskin corey@coreybriskin.com TiffanyAnn Johnson tiffanyannjo@gmail.com Lucas Kelly-Clyne lukekellyclyne@gmail.com Bill Lane ’04 with his wife, Katie, and daughter, Catherine.
2004 Erin Johnson erin122@gmail.com Kimberly J. Lewis kimberlyjlewis@gmail.com Greetings, classmates. This column may be short, but it’s also sweet, since it includes updates from four classmates, including two whose names you haven’t seen here in a while. Bill Lane is living in Alexandria, Virginia, with his wife, Katie, and their 7-month-old daughter, Catherine. He wrote us on the day of an important professional milestone: “I left my job as counsel to the assistant attorney general at the Department of Justice’s Civil Division in January, and today I just started a new job as an attorney at Wiley Rein LLP in Washington, D.C., where I’ll work on appellate and commercial litigation. Everything is going well.” Billy Ryan is also keeping busy. He told us, “I just finished my 11th year with the Connecticut State Police and I am training for my third marathon in the fall (hopefully the NYC marathon), which really helps when trying to keep up with my 2-year-old, who runs all day long! When I’m not doing that, I coach football at Branford High School and volunteer with the track team and the local library.” Steven McDonald, who calls New York City home, said: “I am now vaccinated, so I was able to enjoy some time in San Francisco, California, where I met Clara Voigt’s new baby, Simone, and went on a hike with Becky Rubenstein and her new dog. I also managed to get some spring skiing in with Sophia Lear. Also plenty of FaceTime sprinkled in with Barrie Segal. It is a wonderful transition from life this last year in the emergency room.” (ICYMI, Simone made her debut in Views from 72
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In the midst of COVID, the Class of 2006 has kept busy and is looking forward to brighter days ahead. Ben Vinograd helped oversee the Nasdaq IPO of cannabis company Clever Leaves, for which he runs operations as head of Europe. Anson Wang is entering his third year as a senior engineer at tech startup Artsy. Luke Kelly-Clyne debuted his latest TV show, Double Cross with Blake Griffin, on truTV. Doug DeLuca’s clients have had several major popular music releases where he works at Lineage Music Group. Zoe Black is now the VP of Product Marketing at a publicly traded company as Vimeo has spun off from its parent company Interactive Corporation (IAC). Corey Briskin and his husband, Nicholas, took a road trip down to Kentucky in October to pick up the cutest Frenchie puppy. Hercules has adjusted well to the urban lifestyle and is much loved by Alex and Cleo, his partners in crime! James Ringold has continued his legal practice at Loughlin FitzGerald, P.C. Darius Bittle-Dockery is a seventh-year doctoral candidate pursuing the joint degree of Ph.D. and M.P.H. in Medical Anthropology and Behavioral & Community Health Sciences. Matthew Carpenter is an associate at New York law firm Wachtell, Lipson, Rosen & Katz. Jessica Lifton is an associate at San Francisco–based biotechnology private investment firm BVF Partners L.P. James Hao is head of Forwards Trading, New York, as a director at Deutsche Bank. Annie Svigals is a senior portfolio lead at design consultancy Ideo.