stay connected... is doing in endangered languages. In May, Ashley celebrated Jadele McPherson’s engagement with Kia Durant, who hasn’t aged a day! Speaking of engagements, Ashley is engaged to Jonathan Oliver, an NYC DJ (who DJed Jadele’s wedding in July). Caitlin Henningsen was on a fellowship at the Frick Collection in NYC this year. She gave a talk in June on paintings by Fragonard and was surprised and thrilled to have Sarah Kline, Rachel Weiner, Elka Gruenberg, Christine Lee, and Sophia Walter in the audience! I heard from Laura Coppola, who just married Ed McNamara in St. Thomas, USVI. Ed and Laura met in law school almost 10 years ago and currently reside just outside NYC. Jennifer Bronson Callahan was by Laura’s side as her matron of honor. Jenn is living in Massachusetts with her husband and two beautiful children and is working at Harvard. Now that the wedding is over, Laura is excited to start a new position as litigation services supervising attorney at Latham & Watkins in NYC. Ashley Foster Sellers took a sabbatical from work this past January and traveled for six weeks, taking classes and exploring in Australia, New Zealand, and Indonesia with her husband, Joe. Ashley completed an MBA degree this spring at Kellogg, joining Corbin Butcher and Ifeolu Babatunde in the ’01 Andover/ Kellogg club. Desiraé Simmons has been staying busy in Ypsilanti, MI, where she and husband Zander are almost done with their house renovations. Desiraé was sad to miss reunion; she was at a training program for Inside-Out, a prison education exchange where faculty teach courses inside a prison, with students drawn both from a local university and from among the incarcerated. She is excited to be part of such important work! Daniel Ahn is still in DC and still at the State Department, where he has a new role as the deputy chief economist. Daniel was excited to be asked by Tom Hodgson this past January to speak to his Politics and Political Economy class about his work. During his time back on campus, he was asked to address three additional social science classes. Daniel also caught up with former dean of studies Vincent Avery, as well as Natalie Wombwell, and managed to fit in dinner with Kelsey Peterson the night before his presentation. Tim Daniels is living in Charlestown, MA, and sees Scott Ward and Scott Darci all the time, as they live within blocks of one another. Gino Rotondi is down in Rhode Island but comes up to Boston a fair amount to hang with the Charlestown crew. Frank Brodie is living in San Francisco with his fiancée, Rachel, and is an ophthalmology resident at UCSF. Katie Schellenberg started a law and educational consulting and advocacy firm and works as a facilitator for George Lucas’s educational nonprofit, Edutopia. Her summer was jampacked with speaking engagements at educational conferences. Filip Dames is promoting entrepreneurship in Europe. James Wylie is
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finishing off a thesis in environmental economics in London and pondering his next move while hiking around the Inner Hebrides. Camille Conley Kerr is now associate director of the ICA Group, a nonprofit consulting firm committed to building a more democratic economy through worker ownership. Her little jet-setter son, Cameron, turned 2 in September and tagged along for work trips to New York, San Diego, Phoenix, and Denver. Vanessa Nickerson is getting married in September 2017 to Jeffrey Forbes at the Free Library of Philadelphia. Vanessa is working for Hernandez & Associates, PC, as an associate trial attorney; Jeff is also an attorney and currently pursuing an MBA degree. If that weren’t enough to keep them busy, Vanessa just summited the highest peak in Colorado, Mount Elbert, and is on her way to her goal of climbing all 58 of Colorado’s “14ers” (mountains with peaks 14,000 feet or above). She is also training for two half marathons, and Jeff is training for the Pikes Peak Ascent (a half marathon up a 14er). They are planning a well-deserved vacation in Barcelona and the Rioja wine region this fall. Maeva Bambuck has been working with the Associated Press for two years, going to interesting places like Syria, Bahrain, and Yemen. She had a blast at reunion catching up with tons of classmates, especially Jeannie Kwok, Seyi Fayanju, K.C. Osuji, Rachel Robinson, Nicholas Ma, and Mara Meyer Epstein. There have been quite a few moves in the past few months for ’01ers. James Kenly and his beautiful family moved from Denver to Vail, CO, this summer and welcome all ’01 visitors coming through the area. Joe Maliekel, his wife, Lindsey, and their two boys, Gil and Mac, moved to New Jersey and are excited about the relocation (though are in denial about giving up their New Yorker status). After stints in New York, DC, and LA, Nick Mele has settled down in Palm Beach, FL, with his wife, Molly, and 2-year-old son. Nick lives right around the corner from Chris Callahan, and they see each other a lot. Nick is a commercial/ fashion photographer and recently had a piece published in the New York Times Magazine. Nick was sad to miss reunion but lucky enough to attend John Kluge’s beautiful Charlottesville, VA, wedding with Tyson Reist, Ross Perlin, J.P. Chisholm ’99, Faran Krentcil ’99, and Anna Lewis ’00. Austin Arensberg moved back to San Francisco after 11 years in Asia and is a principal on the investment team for Scrum Ventures, an earlystage venture capital firm. He’s had a great time reconnecting with Andover folks in the Bay Area, as well as in Boston at Luke LeSaffre’s wedding. Sydney Freas Wilson and her husband were thrilled to welcome their baby boy, Thomas, on Christmas Eve 2015 in Singapore, where they had been living for nearly two years. They returned to the U.S. earlier this year and are living in Phoenix,
enjoying life back stateside. Heather Woodin also lives in Phoenix, so it’s nice to be reunited with her Andover roommate. Sydney caught up with Darcy Brislin recently in Santa Monica, CA, and she had more Andover meet-ups planned for this past summer. After six terrific years at Choate, Meg Blitzer is moving to DC to teach at Georgetown Day School. She’s excited for the new adventure, and kicked off some fun travels in July by visiting Kate Kimball and Greg Kimball, as well as daughter Cora, in Boulder, CO. In baby news, Lizzie Heroy Donnelly and husband Mark welcomed their second son, Edward “Ned” Heroy Donnelly, in June. Big brother Hugh gladly accepted the promotion! Also getting the promotion is Leo Seides, son of Amita Singh and husband Ben Seides, who were expecting a baby girl in August. Amita finished cardiology training in June, and I was thrilled to see her and Smita Singh this summer while on vacation in Chicago. Thomas James McGrath joined big sister Caroline and big brother Charlie this June. Despite being father to a near-newborn, Gavin McGrath was a champ and came with Caroline and Charlie to our Ted Talks at reunion! First-time parents Greg Sherman and wife Anne welcomed Margaret Julia Sherman in late May in NYC. Update of the quarter goes to Yang Song, who is chef of his own restaurant! He celebrated his first year in business back in February. These are, sadly, my last class notes, as I am passing the torch after 15 years in the role. With my responsibilities as Alumni Council president, Board of Trustees member, and class agent, it’s time to share the fun! I have loved every minute of serving as class secretary and hope you all have enjoyed my notes through the years. —Misty Muscatel Davis [Editor’s note: The Academy thanks Misty Muscatel Davis for her service as class secretary and welcomes Ramesh Donthamsetty and Jennifer (Zicherman) Kelleher as the new secretaries for the Class of 2001.]
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Howdy, Class of ’02! Thank you, as always, to everyone who submitted updates. On the West Coast, Lloyd Cuzzo graduated from ophthalmology residency at Los Angeles County+University of Southern California Medical Center (previously Doheny Eye Institute) and recently starting working at Kaiser Permanente Woodland Hills specializing in cataract surgery. Erin Kerrison will be joining the faculty at UC Berkeley’s School of Social Welfare this fall.