www.andover.edu/intouch Will Winkenwerder, Sebastian Becker, and Paul Bloemsma recently rented a place in Bushwick, Brooklyn, and are really enjoying getting to know all the borough has to offer. Sebastian and Paul also had a great time meeting members of the Class of ’95 and reconnecting with James Poss over Reunion Weekend. Rob Stevens is living in Atlanta and working as a consultant for Bain & Company. I [Courtney King] recently met up with him at Firefly Music Festival in Delaware, where we had an awesome time catching up to Bastille’s live set. Jenn Schaffer works as an editor at Vice in Brooklyn. In February, she got engaged to Jonathan Goddard, whom she met while studying at Oxford. Jane Thomas planned to spend late August through early next June in Mexico as a Fulbright scholar, studying how forest fragmentation affects the composition of the communities of microbes living in the guts of black Mexican howler monkeys. She’s curious to find out how changes in the microbiota map onto differences in health outcomes and reproductive success. She hopes that her research will have applications in the areas of both wildlife conservation and medicine.
2011 Christopher Batchelder 4 Raymond St. Manchester-by-the-Sea MA 01944 batch@unc.edu Oriekose Idah 8 Sycamore Lane Rolling Hills Estates CA 90274 oidah0608@gmail.com Kevin Song 1 Windy Hill Road Green Brook NJ 08812 kevin@andover11.com Edith Young 470 Park Ave., Apt. 2D New York NY 10022 edithwyoung@gmail.com
This year marks the fourth anniversary of the beautiful day the Class of 2011 proudly received its blue diplomas. This spring, many were looking forward to their postgraduate lives. Manuel Fernández and his Andover roommate, Raphaël Grandeau, visited Goody Gibbins in Cambridge, England, reliving their days on the PA cycling team. At the University of Cambridge, Claire Harmange is pursuing an MPhil degree in chemical bio. At Oxford, Kerstin Brolsma is pursuing an MSc degree in contemporary Chinese studies and Thurston Smalley is pursuing an MPhil in European affairs. Jared Curtis is working with the architecture firm Ensamble Studio in Madrid,
Led by former head of school Barbara Landis Chase and Faiyad Ahmad ’10, the Class of 2010 restaged its Commencement procession and diploma circle, which were rained out and held indoors five years ago. This time, the weather cooperated.
Spain, and Mary Polk-Bauman is working at the Musée Matisse in Nice, France. Further east, Mandi Thran is studying submarine landslides at the University of Sydney, and Brandon Wright is in Japan on a Fulbright. Patrick Brady also heads to Japan to sing in the “Disney on Classic” tour. Carolyn Whittingham joined him in Japan, then started a PhD degree program in East Asian studies at the University of Toronto. Andrew Sullivan is also in Canada, attending medical school. Some are in NYC: Kemi Amurawaiye and Hunter Schlacks are working at Goldman Sachs, Peter Bang at Two Sigma, Jesse Bielasiak at Uniqlo, Dominick Chang at a recording studio (Chris Batchelder is building his own), Theodore Drake at Moody’s Investors Service, Matthew Fothergill as a sports therapist, Taylor Garden and Joann Wang at Credit Suisse, Peter Heidrich at Macquarie, John Ingram as a teacher for Teach for America, Rohan Malhotra at Fahrenheit 212, Julianna Meagher at Citibank, Christopher Meyer at Activate, Georgia Pelletier at EY, Kevin Qian at Morgan Stanley, Will Reisinger at a video studio, Natasha Vaz at Deloitte Consulting, Jeremy Hutton at J.P. Morgan, Jean Lee as a research associate at NYU Law School, and Michael Wincek at AllianceBernstein. Benjamin Talarico is finishing a degree at NYU, Amanda Howland is working toward a master’s degree in childhood education and special ed, Daniel Santamaria is finishing a degree in forensic science, and Garrett Lee is pursuing an MD/PhD degree at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Meanwhile, Camilla Brandfield-Harvey looks
forward to interning at Comedy Central. Jessica Weng is working at Merck in New Jersey. Marilyn Hewett is in Charlottesville, Va., along with Carolyn Harmeling, who will be a group counselor at the Discovery School of Virginia for Girls. Christopher Kent will be in Norfolk, Va., and Yokosuka, Japan, as a surface warfare officer in the Navy. Zachary Esakof is working in Portland, Maine, at Unum, and Teddy Smyth is in New Hampshire, organizing with NextGen Climate Action. The DC cohort includes Kate Bulger, Hannah Finnie at the Center for American Progress, and Aube Rey Lescure at the Carnegie Endowment. Thomas Armstrong, Calvin Zhao, and Nathan Johnson will be working as consultants. Close by, Jonathan Na will attend the University of Maryland School of Medicine. Many made a move to the New England area. Kelly Powers is at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Zachary Elder and Chioma Ngwudo are both at Parthenon, Sophie Gould is at Bain & Company, Mark Hanson is at Cambridge Associates, Kishan Patel is at Boston Children’s Hospital, Evan Segreto is at EF Educational Tours, Casey McQuillen is working as a musician, and Mariana Walsh is at EMC. Cal Brooks is pursuing a master’s degree in aerospace engineering at MIT, Theresa Faller is working toward a master’s degree in public health at Boston University, and Ambika Krishnamachar is pursuing a master’s degree in computer science from MIT. Allan Yau is attending Tufts School of Medicine. Elizabeth Kelly is pursuing a master’s degree in bioethics at Penn. Megan Robertson is at Andover | Fall 2015
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