Alumni News
STEFANIE (BOREN) KAYLOR is a language arts/at-risk teacher for Valley High School in West Des Moines, Iowa.
ADAM KOBLER is the owner and president of Kataku Technology LLC, an in-home computer repair business in Eden Prairie, Minn.
BEN MATHESON is news reporter for KYUK Radio in Bethel, Alaska.
ERIC KRUEGER is senior account executive, mid-market for SPS Commerce in Minneapolis.
BAILEY MILLER is digital content strategist and assistant digital brand manager for TN Marketing in Wayzata, Minn. ANDREA SCHIEFELBEIN is project manager for Pettelaarpark 63 in The Netherlands. EMILY SPICE is a registered nurse on the cardiology and thoracic medical and surgical unit at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in Iowa City. KRISTIN SWEDLUND is development coordinator for Gathering Waters Conservancy: Wisconsin’s Alliance for Land Trusts in Madison. KATE THOMSON is senior client account manager for KTI Inc. in Minnetonka, Minn. CAMERON WEBB is iOS engineer for Bawte in Des Moines, Iowa. JILL (SUNDBY) YORDY is clean water and mining program director for the Northern Alaska Environmental Center in Fairbanks.
2010 PHUONG DAU earned a Ph.D. from the University of California–San Diego. He is a postdoctoral fellow at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab in Berkeley, Calif.
SARAH (BOUSSELOT) DOPSON is a registered nurse at the VA Medical Center in San Francisco. NICOLE GESCH earned an Alternative Education License from the University of Milwaukee School of Education. She is secondary Title I math, alternative education teacher for the Manitowoc (Wis.) Public Schools. LAURA (MOHS) HESSE teaches social studies for the Bettendorf (Iowa) Community School District. CASSIE JENSEN is personal banker, marketing committee for First State Bank and Trust in Bayport, Minn. ANNE LITSEY KERHOULAS is ministry fellow at Christian Union, Harvard Faith and Action in Cambridge, Mass.
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BOBBY KUENNEN is project coordinator for the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship in Des Moines. SARAH LULOFF teaches kindergarten at Dayton’s Bluff Achievement Plus Elementary School in St. Paul, Minn. SCOTT MARTIN is staffing manager for Robert Half Finance and Accounting in Minneapolis. DANIEL MOSS is lodge coordinator and chef for a gourmet bushwalking company, Freycinet Experience, on the east coast of Tasmania. He is also in training for an upcoming Ironman competition. DEBORA MUKAZ earned a master of science degree in biology from the University of Delaware in Newark. She is a doctoral student and a researcher in the interdisciplinary program in medical sciences at the university. Her current research focuses on diabetes and obesity in African immigrant populations in the United States. JACOB REITZ is manager of payer relations for Fresenius Medical Care in Nashville, Tenn. MITCH SCHABEN is on the policy and budget staff for the Illinois senate president, Senator John J. Cullerton, in Springfield. KIRSTEN (JENSSON) SCHOLZ is office manager and accounts manager for SouthWest Chiropractic in Eden Prairie, Minn.
Smith, Houghtaling reimagine Home Alone Liz Smith ’11 of San Francisco and Kari Houghtaling ’11 of Milwaukee got together over a three-day weekend in winter 2013 to film a full-length reinterpretation of the 1990 holiday classic Home Alone. The pair created a film they call Abode Solo. Smith edited the film and a premiere was scheduled in her hometown of Guttenberg, Iowa, where much of the film was shot, in December 2014. “Liz and I knew each other all four years of college at Luther, but we became best friends during senior year— which was when we discovered our mutual love of Home Alone,” Houghtaling says. “Last year, Liz and I were both in the Midwest over the holidays, and she suggested that I come to Guttenberg for an extended weekend to film a remake. I didn’t know how serious she was until she sent me part of a script (transcribed from the original film).” The filmmakers played the majority of characters in the story and used many local sites as shooting locations, doing just one scene at the Milwaukee airport. View the film at AbodeSolo.com.
reading, at JM Story School in Busan, South Korea, and volunteers at an orphanage outside the city. KELSEY ANDERSON is an admissions counselor for the University of Iowa in Iowa City. KELLY BANDMAN is program and supply intern for Group Mission Trips in Loveland, Colo. RACHEL BARCLAY is development associate for Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. ANNA ESSENDRUP is a boardcertified genetic counselor at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.
AARON SHATZER is data analytics specialist for PacificSource Health Plans in Springfield, Ore.
SARA (WALSTON) FELDKAMP is lead teacher discovery preschool for Knowledge Beginnings in Eagan, Minn.
JEREMY SMITH is a network technician assistant specialist for Popp Communications in Golden Valley, Minn.
KATE FREUND earned a master of science degree in ecology, evolution, and behavior from the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.
MARIA WOO CHING works for Mono Advertising in Minneapolis.
RACHEL GABBERT earned a master of science degree from the State University of New York at Buffalo.
2011 KAT ALBERTS teaches
kindergarten English classes, including phonics, yoga, music, and
DANA (SONNICKSEN) GEARING is an elementary EL teacher for the Northfield (Minn.) Public Schools.
COURTNEY GREENLEY earned a master of arts degree in global environmental policy from American University. She is a water resource management fellow at the Institute of Water Resources, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, in Washington, D.C. SAMANTHA JEWELL and TYLER WEDEMEIER ’13 live in Hanlontown, Iowa. She earned a doctor of physical therapy degree from Des Moines University and is a physical therapist at Mitchell County Regional Health Center. He is a teacher for the Forest City Schools. RACHEL LOEFFLER-KEMP is program manager for the American Lung Association in Duluth, Minn. She received the 2014 Past Governors Award from Soroptimist International-Midwest, the 2014 Annual University Award from the American Association of University Women, and the 2013 Volunteer of the Year Award from Duluth Area Family YMCA. PETER MAGNUSON is a clinician providing in-home mental health care for at-risk youth for Catholic Community Services of Western Washington in Tacoma. TYLER MCCUBBIN is a substitute teacher in Des Moines, Iowa.