CLASS CONNECTIONS loves helping high-school seniors see their inner and outer beauty with her boutique-like portrait experience, and bringing awareness to healthy body image through her fashion and celebrity editorial work. Learn more about Michelle and her photography at www.michellemoore.com.
2004
Charlotte Elizabeth Helmick, daughter of Meredith Snyder Helmick ’98 and her husband, Jay, born in December 2009. government with investment groups and other African nations, while trying to work in some fun of hiking volcanoes in Congo and rafting the Nile in Uganda. Matt will work in Rwanda until the end of 2011 before coming back to Seattle to take the Washington Bar in early 2012.
2002
Sarah K. Estill is forsaking Colorado for Cambridge, Mass. She will be studying criminal justice policy reform at the Harvard Kennedy School and training for the Boston Marathon. Michelle Moore, left, is a fashion editorial and high-school senior portrait photographer working in both Seattle and Los Angeles. She had Kristen Marie Photography the pleasure of shooting her first magazine cover last October with 90210 star Jessica Lowndes. Michelle
Jenny Mowrer Womack ’00 married Steven Halter Womack Jr. on February 19.
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Ellie Bors has spent the year in Wellington, New Zealand, on a Fulbright Fellowship working alongside scientists at the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research. Her project focuses on deep-sea population genetics and ocean conservation. Keeping up her musical interests as well, Ellie will perform this fall in a trio at the New Zealand School of Music. In Wellington, Ellie met Laura Kehrl ’06, who is also a recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship to New Zealand! Laura is studying the dynamics of the Franz Joseph Glacier at Victoria University in Wellington. When the new year rolls around, Ellie will return to the Joint Program in Oceanography at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution to resume her PhD studies. A September article on GeekWire featured Seattle startup Approvee, founded by Brewster Stanislaw and Joey Kotkins. “Approvee is the best place to find recommendations for everything from movies to restaurants, sourced directly from your friends and curated for quality; find out more at approvee.com,” says Brewster, who notes the company was launched into private beta in September.
2005
In August, Liza Shoenfeld was featured on Radiolab, a science radio show broadcast on several hundred public radio stations around the country (www.radiolab. org). The episode is called “Damn It, Basal Ganglia!” Liza talks about her research and the crazy thing
that happened to her when she was at her grad school interview at University of California, San Francisco.
2007
Kietrie Noe, who recently graduated from Barnard College, landed a job in public relations with LaForce + Stevens in New York City, where she lives with Chas Todd. She and Mary Padden spent the summer of 2010 working for the nonprofit education program Haiti Partners in Kabwa (Cabois in French), a village at the epicenter of the 2010 earthquake. Hearing about the food theme of this issue of Lakeside magazine, Kietrie offered to share food-related photos she took in Haiti. “Mary and I have written a lot about the way food is shared in Haiti and the way U.S. foreign policy affects its production,” notes Kietrie, who’s now writing a book on their experiences there. Alex Moore-Porter’s Azusa Pacific University basketball jersey was placed in the Ring of Honor display at the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame in Knoxville, Tenn. to commemorate Azusa Pacific’s 2011 National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) women’s basketball national title. The Ring of Honor recognizes young players for their achievements in the sport. Peter Nowadnick graduated in June from Dartmouth College, where he majored in economics, minored in