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Rachel Coleman, Sarah Jacobson, Sophia Jia, Lily Shaffer, Annie Pates, Kara Daniel, and Tyler Bond, all Class of ’10, met at reunion registration on Friday afternoon.
with someone they hadn’t seen in five years and that reunions were sweet and also bittersweet, as we dispersed again at the end of the weekend to our different corners of the country, not to mention the globe. Campus will feel so empty without all of you this fall. Hope all the newly connected regional crews will fulfill their promises of hanging out in their respective cities—I’d love to hear about it! Till the next one, 2010! For those who missed reunion and those who had a hard time keeping everyone’s details straight (me included), here are updates on our classmates’ lives: Lily Shaffer graduated from Pitzer College this May with degrees in environmental analysis and gender and feminist studies. She is currently working as a birth doula and applying to graduate programs in nurse midwifery. Julia Harrington now spends much of her life on the move. During the week, she could be anywhere in the country working as a consultant (usually till quite late). Weekends, she’s either at her wonderful apartment in Queens, N.Y. (Lonely Planet’s number-one travel destination in the U.S. for 2015!), or in Wisconsin with her partner. By the way, Julia now lives with a fellow Andover alum in Queens: Raya Stantcheva. They both miss having regular dorm cleaning. Kelvin Jackson writes, “Terve! Last summer, I spent three weeks in Jyväskylä, Finland, trying to learn as much Finnish as I could in a short time (the language isn’t actually as hard as people assume). At the end of August, I started my current job at the Microsoft NERD (New England Research and Development) center in Boston.” Caroline Gezon, Ryan Marcelo, Caroline Kaufman, and John Turiano all connected at reunion and realized they were all living in DC! Caroline Gezon and Caroline Kaufman are both doing international consulting work with USAID. Caroline Gezon just returned from Côte D’Ivoire, where she helped facilitate the World Bank–IMF African Youth Forum and attended the African
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Development Bank’s annual meetings. She also reports that John Turiano is working for a law firm. Helen Lord and Mari Miyachi are both living in San Francisco and enjoying the Bay Area; they recently attended an Andover reunion hosted by Ben Schley ’08. Dylan Rhodes spent summer 2014 in Brooklyn and caught up with David Luan ’09 while working at Two Sigma Investments. He started a master’s degree program at Stanford in the fall, studying artificial intelligence, and planned to work in Stockholm over the summer. A few months ago, Jennifer Chew ran into Rachel Coleman in a Starbucks in Princeton, N.J.; they enjoyed catching up. Lucy Arnold is working in San Francisco as a product manager for a startup that develops hospital-integrated mobile apps. She lives with Chase Ebert ’09 and occasionally sees Cecchi MacNaughton. She volunteers with an antipoverty nonprofit called the Borgen Project. Meredith Rahman is completing a master’s degree program in biochemistry and molecular biology at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Will Lindsey is living in New York City and working for Goldman Sachs in the alternative investments division. Post-graduation, Kyleigh Keating is living in Boston and working at Edward Brooke Charter School, a public charter school in Roslindale. She says, “In my application and interview I talked about how Andover has always been my basis for what an excellent education is and that I hoped to be able to contribute lessons learned from my experiences to a very different type of school in inner-city Boston. I am working hard to give more people a chance at what Andover gave me.” Henry Metro is doing well. This fall he is moving to NYC and working for Facebook as a software engineer. Unfortunately, Henry couldn’t make the reunion because it conflicted with his graduation from the University
of Washington. Jake Romanow moved to New Jersey in August to begin a PhD degree program in English at Rutgers. Ziwe Fumudoh writes: “I am a starving artist. I write jokes for the Onion. I’m engaged to be married with my MacBook.” In Chicago, she saw Hannah Lee, who, she reports, is doing great and going to art school. Sophia Bernazzani is working in marketing for an education technology company in DC and started volunteering with a mentoring organization this summer. She also hosted Rebecca Schultz ’09 for a visit in DC this spring. Sophia was sorry to miss reunion, but unfortunately she was on a work trip to Florida. Eric Sirakian won the Louis Sudler Prize for Excellence in the Performing and Creative Arts upon his graduation from Yale and is moving to London to study acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. He says he is “so sorry to have missed the reunion. I was abroad; otherwise, I definitely would have been there.” Duncan Crystal reports that he had an amazing time at reunion, had a blast in DC this summer, and has picked up rugby to “get some of my aggression out.” Ryan Marcelo is living in DC and coming up on one year as a consultant at McChrystal Group. He sees Kathryn Quijano ’08 often, and recently had dinner with Adam Tohn. Ryan says he’s hoping to meet up with Caroline Gezon and Caroline Kaufman after reconnecting with them at reunion and realizing that they live in DC, too! Kelsey Lim and Avery Stone live and work in NYC and eat tacos together often. Kelsey works for a graphic design company called HUGE, and Avery works for the Huffington Post. Riley Gardner finished her first year in Teach for America in Indianapolis, and she reports that she is “just now coming to grips with not living on the East Coast.” She’s currently teaching 8th-grade math, specifically algebra, at a charter school that’s part of the KIPP network.