www.andover.edu/intouch proliferation of small cell lung cancer cell lines (a project she intends to continue in medical school). Mat Kelley just moved to Shanghai for a new job with a college admission mentoring company called Admissionado. “Shanghai is unreal,” says Mat, “though I’m missing friends back home.” He met up with Givens Parr ’12 in Beijing last month and is hoping to put together an alumni gathering in Beijing or Shanghai. After four years at Brown University, Kelvin Jackson moved to Cambridge, Mass., in the fall to work at Microsoft. J.P. Harrington now goes by Julia Harrington and is quite happy for the change. After spending the summer launching a sustainable food truck and working on an organic farm with her partner, she has moved to the Big Apple. She now lives in a beautiful apartment in Queens, N.Y., with Raya Stantcheva and is about to start work in financial services consulting at Oliver Wyman. She looks forward to being out of rural New Hampshire and near so many Andover and Dartmouth graduates. After graduating from Wake Forest, Caroline Gezon led a service trip in Thailand this summer and is moving to DC to work with Deloitte’s federal consulting practice. She saw Whitney Ford and Charlie Walters in San Francisco on a road trip this summer. She also saw Nathalie Sun in Chicago, who moved there to do market research for Nielsen. Michael Ma moved into an apartment in NYC and started work at Blackstone’s hedge fund solutions group. He’s also working on a startup and building a hedge fund strategy with Krishnan Chandra and Zach Esakof ’11. “Staying busy!” he writes. Daniel McMurtrie is living in Washington, D.C., running a startup hedge fund, Tyro Partners LLC, and a real estate business, Tyro Real Estate LLC. He says he “would love to connect with any alumni in the area.” In July, Emily Hutcheson-Tipton celebrated her daughter Alice’s first birthday, and this past September, she planned to marry Alice’s father, Forrest. She and her family now live south of Denver. She is very happily a stay-at-home mom right now. Rei Konolige went down to DC this fall to do external relations for the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a bipartisan think tank. “So excited!” she writes. Zahra Bhaiwala just moved back to Boston from NYC to start a two-year master’s degree program at the Harvard School of Public Health, where she is specializing in health economics. She spent the summer working in Geneva, Switzerland, for the World Health Organization, where she was an intern in the Global Polio Eradication Initiative unit, doing lab surveillance data analysis for Nigeria and Pakistan as well as political security analysis for Iraq and Pakistan. She says she’s excited to be back in the Boston area and hopes to reconnect with any Andover people who might also be around. Julie Xie graduated from Penn and moved back
to Boston to start a job at the Boston Globe. She says she’d “love to meet up with other ’10ers in the area!” Juliana Reider hung out with Natalie Cheng at the Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago this past July, and she’s moving to Japan to teach English in 2015. Ric Best reports that he’s “holding down the Andover-in-Philadelphia contingent, and everything is great.” Sophie Fourteau planned to move to London at the end of September to work in market research. She reports that she “was lucky enough to attend the World Cup in Brazil with Caitlin Aylward and see a lot of Andover alums around NYC this summer: Whitney Ford, Katherine Sherrill, Alex Farrell, Will Lindsey, Charles Shoener, Juliet Liu, and Maggie Law.” Sara Bakrow just graduated from UVa and has been working at Nestlé Waters North America. She’s hoping to move down to DC in the near future. Chelsea Quezergue had an internship at the New York District Attorney’s Office from September through December. She was a translating intern in the Spanish department, where her duties included translating legal documents and statements bidirectionally from English to Spanish, proofreading translations for accuracy, and assisting with screening and summarizing Spanish audio recordings, in written or oral form. After graduation, Hannah Bardo taught English (“Fittingly, in the classroom of Mr. Bardo!”) during PA’s Summer Session. Hannah writes, “Now, the only thing keeping me stateside is the Bay Area.” She followed in Hillary Baker ’08’s footsteps and joined the New Sector Alliance as a RISE Fellow, helping to strengthen the social sector through an enduring commitment to service and effective capacity building. She’s a resident with ScholarMatch, an organization founded by Dave Eggers to make college possible for underserved youth by providing students with comprehensive support. She looks forward to meeting up with Andover alums on the West Coast. Annie Pates is living and working in Boston and says she would love to meet up with alums in the area. Andrew Townson writes that he “moved to LA and was bitten by a mutant spider. He is currently trying to understand his newfound powers and the great responsibility that comes with them.” Rob Stevens just moved down to Atlanta to start work. He spent last summer WWOOFing (working on an organic farm) in Spain and hiking in Yosemite, “among a lot of other things”. He recently got to see Alexis Dawkins in Chapel Hill, N.C., and Ellie DiBerardino ’09 in San Francisco. Duncan Crystal is currently working in Washington, D.C., as a research analyst at CEB. He and Peter Yang recorded an all-original a capella album this spring with their college group, the Octopodes, which they hoped to release this fall—“thoroughly continuing our Yorkie legacy,” says Duncan. Juliet Liu graduated from Yale University in May and is now living in LA. Along with Charles Shoener, she is working full time on the culture magazine she founded in college, Out of Order. She’s
excited to be producing films and working with artists in LA and is especially happy to have fellow Andover classmates on the West Coast.
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
As most members of the Class of 2011 head into their senior year of college, we caught up with a few classmates and heard about the specifics of their summers. Jared Curtis worked for an international urban design firm in Boston this summer. He also had a chance to meet up with Kevin Carey and Melissa Ferrari ’10. Over the summer, Haley Scott worked as a field coordinator on Seth Moulton ’97’s successful primary election campaign for U.S. Congress. She took last semester off from Brown to work on Moulton’s general election campaign. Diego Mendia and Oriekose Idah interned at Google together. Natasha Vaz and Jess Holley spent a weekend together in NYC. In August, Yerin Pak went to Caitlin Kingston’s house in Vermont with Grace Hoyt, Malcolm Mason Rodriguez, Mimi Tanski, and Sam Lessard. Yerin wrote, “It was definitely one of the highlights of my summer!” Edith Young and Isabel Elson ’12 worked as summer interns at the Whitney Museum of American Art during the first months of the Jeff Koons retrospective. Camilla Brandfield-Harvey spent the summer interning at the Cooking Channel in New York, where she built diverse Web content for show pages and recipe galleries and wrote weekly blog posts. Highlights included visiting the set of Chopped and learning to make profiteroles from the Food Network’s executive chef! Julian Danziger and Edith Young met up with fellow Andover classmates working in NYC for the summer, including Camilla BrandfieldHarvey, Elizabeth Watson, Georgia Pelletier, Ben Podell, Alec Abitbol, Katie Hess, Ashley Hess, and Kendall MacRae. Edith and Julian look forward to doing it again at the Monarch Rooftop next summer! Andover | Winter 2015
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