stay connected... 2014 Djavaneh Bierwirth 3456 Sansom St. Philadelphia PA 19104 978-933-1910 djavaneh@wharton.upenn.edu Kai Kornegay 3650 Spruce St., MB 960 Philadelphia PA 19104 609-670-6658 kaikornegay@gmail.com Cat Haseman 5400 Fielding Manor Drive Evansville IN 47715 812-204-9113 cchaseman@gmail.com
Kate Mesrobian ’12, Djavaneh Bierwirth, and Meghana Jayam trekked through Patagonia, in Chile, for a week during spring break. Armaan Singh’s sister, Arzu ’16, visited him twice, over the winter and the spring. He also traveled to Cleveland in April for Bollywood America, where his team took first place! He has also been fostering a newfound interest in hip-hop dance. More than ever before, he wishes that he had joined Hypnotiq. Finally, Armaan will be studying in London this fall. Michael Kim continues to do what he does best and is simply living, breathing, and playing puck. Cat Haseman spent four months abroad— in Peru, Rwanda, and Palestine—interning at three local NGOs. The highlight of her semester was living in Bethlehem, in the West Bank, and working at Holy Land Trust, an organization committed to the nonviolence and empowerment of the Palestinian community against all forms of oppression through understanding, equality, and justice. This summer, she interned in Washington, DC, at the International Justice Mission headquarters and lived with Emma Kahn. Mayze Teitler had a great time seeing Lily Rockefeller while in Providence, RI, for club fencing nationals, where Lily helped Mayze wash (and lose) team gear; she also had a chance to catch up with Jessica Yin over some hot pot while visiting Boston. Ryan Miller visited Katherine Vega in Chicago in January, and Jess Gammon came all the way from China for a visit in February. Katherine worked at the Clinton Foundation in NYC this past summer. Over Easter, Hannah Sorkin and Anna Fucillo ’15 went to Harvard to watch Caroline Garrity ’15 play in a lacrosse game against Princeton. This summer, Hannah interned in Giverny, France, before returning home to work on a congressional campaign. Kit “Jerry” Li met up with Malina Simard-Halm at an arcade, where they won a mini iPad! Our former copresident Junius Williams lived across the hall at school from Iman Masmoudi, so they
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enjoyed regular meals and coffee dates. Junius also stays in contact via Skype with Clint Yoo, who is currently serving with the South Korean military. Kai Kornegay was recently elected cochair of Tangible Change, a funding body at Penn that allocates its $40,000 budget to student events that bring together disparate communities. She also has an assistantship with the school district of Philadelphia and the Fairmount Water Works developing curricula for middle school science. That’s a wrap, folks! Don’t forget to reach out to us with any updates.
2015 Devontae Freeland 1455 Harvard Yard Mail Center Cambridge MA 02138 732-841-1839 dfreeland@college.harvard.edu Tessa Peterson 70 Pennsylvania Gulch Road Nederland CO 80466 303-717-2764 tessa@boulder.com Kailash Sundaram 3465 Sansom St. 410 English House, MB 123 Philadelphia PA 19104 408-417-2033 kailash.s.sundaram@gmail.com
Wow, it’s already September—the start of sophomore year for some of us and freshman year for others. Congratulations all around! Our resident filmmaker, Jack McGovern, currently in his first semester at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, had an action-packed gap year. He studied cinematography and film theory at Boston University over the summer of 2015, and in the fall, he took a job at a hockey broadcasting company as a live game monitor. What’s that? Let’s ask Jack: “When I came into work, I monitored up to 24 hockey games simultaneously for video and audio quality and helped resolve any issues that arose,” said Jack, who also somehow managed to find time to volunteer at the Red Cross’s Boston food pantry. He attended the Sundance Film Festival with John Little in Utah in January. What a year, and good luck on your first semester! Let’s check in on other classmates’ college careers. Rob Bakerian recounts a great first year at the University of Michigan, where he’s applied to the business school and become involved in local volunteering. He connected with Tom Mullen ’14, who has mentored him through pledging. Over the summer, Rob interned at a bank at home and carved out time to catch up with Culver Duquette in New Jersey and Kyle Moss in Massachusetts. Alex Jiang joined Rice’s club Ultimate Frisbee team and was part of a team that won the Excellence in
Freshman Design award at the Rice Engineering Design Showcase. At Amherst, Robby Schwartz joined an a cappella group called Route 9. While traveling to Dartmouth with the group, Robby met up with Marcus Thompson. They solemnly swear that they were up to no good. At Swarthmore, Keton Kakkar occasionally cooks and has “(pseudo)intellectual get-togethers” with Marion Kudla and Joe Woo. Will Reid and Paxton Hyde also visited Keton for some exploration and a run in Crum Woods. Keton and Ryan Brigden had summer internships at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society. Other classmates who worked in Boston this summer include Kayla Thompson, David Gutierrez, Katie Santoro, and Isabella Berkley. Several ’15ers have also been traveling, and a bunch were in DC! Paul McGovern met up with Greg Burgess and spent the day catching up and visiting museums and national monuments. Last fall, Alex Humphreys interned at the Cato Institute, briefly hosted Elijah Aladin, and met up with Bianca Navarro Bowman. Kailash Sundaram and Caroline Hoskins met up with Reid Bradt and Victoria Skrivanos in DC in February and stopped by the DC hotspot Milkbar. Justin Curtis spent the summer at the political consulting firm American Continental Group. On Sept. 18, Justin delivered a TEDx talk at Harvard on the flaws of the electoral college. Now, on to our classmates overseas. Several spent time in the UK over this past year, including Frank Geng, who worked in London this summer and met up with Stanley Ng, Hector Cho, and James Towne. In Scotland, Alex Humphreys visited Arthur Gildehaus, crashing on his floor at St Andrews in February. Dorothy MacFarlane, also studying at St Andrews, has taken up mixed martial arts and is really enjoying her time. She “definitely recommends” studying abroad at St Andrews. John Gorton visited Rebecca Somer in Edinburgh over spring break and worked at PA’s Summer Session as an intern and complementary house counselor. A few hours away from our classmates in Britain, the Kemper Scholars had a mini reunion in Paris, attended by Corentin Thomas, Antonella Menta Fernandez, Hannah Hagemeyer, and Carlotta Onnis, who is currently studying medicine at the University of Cagliari, Italy. Also in Paris this summer, Sam Glazer studied international business. Sam also had the opportunity to cheer on Will Young ’14, Austin Gaiss ’14, and Jack Beare, playing for the Notre Dame lacrosse team at a game in Orange County, CA. Roshan Mathi worked at a hospital in Argentina in May. Paulina Munn attended a graduation in Peru, interned at a South African safari company, worked with jaguars in Brazil, and had lots of jetlag. China Kantner visited Evelyn Liu and Harriet Chiu in Hong Kong over winter break—apparently, they spelunked a