COMING HOME
CLASS OF 2002 SAMANTHA BAKER SOUTHARD lives in Allentown, PA, and works as the head of the costume shop at Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival and DeSales University. She writes, “My husband and I bought a home this summer just in time to welcome our first child, Catherine Skye Southard, at the end of September. Andrew and I both teach at the university level at separate schools in Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley and continue to work professionally in theatre as well: we met in grad school after all! We hope everyone is as happy as we are at this moment.”
CLASS OF 2003 AGBESI AKPEDONU writes, “After
KLHT I went to boarding school (Rumsey Hall and Blair Academy) and then Temple University graduating with a degree in Engineering Technology in 2008. Since October 2008, I’ve being living and working in the Philadelphia area. I’m an Engineer - working for Johnson Controls for our Mid-Atlantic Region Product Sales team, which includes travel, and I enjoy it very much. I am also involved in community service, student and professional development activities locally and nationally via work that is fun and exciting as well.” JEREMY BUCCOLO is an Executive
Coordinator for Vineyard Vines in Stamford, CT. KATHERINE SPENCER CAREY writes,
“I’m currently living in New Haven and recently started working for Creative Arts Workshop, a community art school and gallery in the Audubon Arts District, as the Director of Public Relations and Marketing. We just closed our 44th annual exhibi46 Quest FALL 2013
tion/fundraiser, the Celebration of American Crafts, and are set to open our latest show in late January. I’m looking forward to planning trips this year to visit friends and family in San Francisco, Santo Domingo and Paris. Hope all is well and best wishes to the class of 2003!” CAITLIN FEIGENBAUM
lives in New York, NY, and works as the Sales Director for DG MediaMind. She graduated from Bucknell University with a BS in Business Administration. TAYLOR GRAMPS lives in Astoria, NY,
and attended The New School and Drew University receiving her MS and BA, respectively. MIKE JONES is working at Stunt
Company Media Inc. in Brooklyn, NY. MICHAEL KATCHER and his wife, Desi,
live in Stamford, CT, and he works as a Credit Analyst at Kamunting Street Capital, a hedge fund in Greenwich. Desi just got her Masters in Education from Fairfield University, and works at Bi-Cultural Day School.
Morgan Stanley in Greenwich, CT. He graduated with a BA from Gettysburg College. AURELIE SAURIN works in Marblegate
Asset Management in Greenwich, CT, and graduated from Emory University. CLASS OF 2005 JESSICA GODDARD lives in Berkeley, CA, and is currently working on her Masters and PhD at UC Berkeley. She’s part of an interdisciplinary program called the Energy & Resources Group, where she is focusing on water pollution as a National Science Foundation Graduate Student Research Fellow. GRETCHEN HAHN lives in Reston,
VA, and she writes, “I spent last year on the road for Governor Romney’s Presidential campaign and now I am working on a special election in New Jersey. I have moved in with my parents outside DC. Best roommates ever!”
CLASS OF 2004 CHRISSIE BRENNAN KNUDSEN is the
Director of Development at AFEDJ, a Darien, CT, nonprofit supporting the humanitarian work of the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem in the Middle East. She writes, “I’m actually going to Jordan, the West Bank, and Israel for two weeks at the end of June! Meanwhile still chugging away at NYU Wagner.” ROBERT SADOWSKI and his wife live in Stamford, CT, and they just celebrated the birth of daughter, Olivia, on July 10, 2013. Rob works at
IAN MONSMA lives in Santa Barbara, CA, and works as an Economist for Robert D. Niehaus, Inc. Ian has prepare deconomic and demographic projections and reports, analyzed military personnel survey data, and conducted more than a hundred interviews with realtors, property managers, and government housing officials. His onsite project experience includes HMA work for the Marine Corps, Army, Coast Guard, and Air