www.andover.edu/classnotes underserved, and one of the most impoverished regions of an already underdeveloped country. So I feel passionate about taking my skills there and hopefully making a positive impact. It will also be interesting to develop a more complete understanding of Nicaragua as a whole because when you hear or think of Nicaragua, the black and indigenous peoples on the Atlantic coast aren’t what come to mind.” Chelsea’s work will entail training English teachers in teaching methodology at a university in Bluefields called BICU. Secondary projects will include working with an NGO called FADCANIC on various community and youth development initiatives. She also hopes to pick up Nicaraguan Creole English along the way.
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
Enek Peterson while travelling through Georgia. Over Memorial Day weekend, Kathryn “Katie” Benvenuti and Juliana “Juli” Brandano spent a weekend in Oakland, CA. The two enjoyed beers with Alec Weiss ’11 and Kevin Carey ’11. Unfortunately, Adam Levine ’11, couldn’t make the gathering of alumni from two Andover classes. The four friends hiked and experienced the natural beauty of the California woods. Lydia Azaret, Sarah Freedman, and Julia Quinn made plans to travel to Las Vegas over the upcoming Halloween weekend to catch up with Borkeny Sambou and Sage Hunt, who are currently in their second year of Teach for America. The inspiring work continues with Vito Capuano who, after recently graduating from Union College, accepted a nine-month fellowship working in Uganda, Africa at a health clinic doing clinical work. Vito will also work on business development of an artisan program with a purpose of female empowerment. It’s humbling to hear from you all every few months during Class Notes submissions. While you each continue to exemplify the Andover mission, consider dropping Miranda or me a line—we love reading about your amazing adventures and know our fellow Andover alumni would as well. Always, Sydney
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M.J. Engel 414-477-5563 mjengel8@gmail.com
Miranda Haymon 197 Clare Ave. Boston, MA 02136 617-308-6252 mirandahaymon@gmail.com
Connor Fraser 9 Scotland Drive0 Andover, MA 01810 978-857-4443 cfraser142@gmail.com
Sydney Keen 520 Franklin St. Reading, MA 01867 781-640-3037 sydneykeen93@gmail.com
Chiamaka Okorie 347-981-0429 okoriesc@ymail.com
Hey, ’12! As the summer comes to a close, I had the pleasure of checking in with a few of our classmates about their lives of work, travel, and yes, more school! After our reunion weekend, many of our Andover classmates had the opportunity to meet up with one another in cities around the country. Katherine “Katie” Hebb and Sammy Marrus took trip together down to Washington, D.C. to visit Leonore “Nora” Princiotti for a weekend this summer. While there, the girls had brunch with Leo Cohen! Separately in NYC Katie and Sammy met up with Michael “Mike” Bloom and Hannah Beinecke and went to wish Eliana Kwartler well as she prepared to leave New York. Abigail Burman recently started law school in Berkeley, CA. Abigail also met up with
Hello Class of 2013! I hope it’s been another transformative and successful year! This past year we’ve celebrated graduations, new beginnings, and warm reunions. Alexandra Donovan spent most of her summer in Berlin and Paris on a travel fellowship, researching innovative playscape design and European public space. By chance she met Sam Koffman and later, Abby Chung in Paris. Alex also connected with James Garth at the Frank Stella ’54 show and later, they got coffee. She is completing her final year at Cornell and will soon earn her Bachelor of Architecture degree. She is looking forward to a studio trip to Zagreb, Croatia in the fall and I’m sure her Spring thesis will be incredible. Sahil Bhaiwala loved exploring Europe as well, and he was in great company with J.J. Jayward and Madeline Silva. J.J. is working in the Equity Capital Markets division at Deutsche Bank in New York,
Madeline is beginning at Yale Law School this fall, and Sahil is at Bain & Boston Company in Boston. Sahil was also happy to see Hemang Kaul, Brendan O’Connell, and Pearson Goodman at his sister, Zahra Bhaiwala ’10’s, wedding in July. Meanwhile, in San Francisco, Gabbi Fisher met up with with Julie Doar! Gabbi began her last year at Stanford and will be graduating with her Master’s in computer science soon. Also in California, Ross Bendetson reunited with Jason Nawrocki and Jing Qu on the Facebook campus. Amanda Zhu enjoyed her trip to Houston where she was happy to see Saranya Wallooppillai! She celebrated graduating from Georgetown University in May and has now relocated to Philadelphia. Amanda is looking forward to seeing PA alums in the area! After a sad farewell to Maia Hirschler at Yale University, Nicole Ng travelled in Russia for a month then headed home to Hong Kong. She was granted the James C. Gaither Junior Fellowship and will be working in Washington D.C. at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in the Russia and Eurasia program. In New York City Mimi Leggett held a pop up shop for her brand, Official Rebrand, and happily reunited with several Andover friends. She created costumes for a film as the education assistant at the Firelands Association for the Visual Arts. She just finished prepping and displaying one of her looks during New York Fashion Week! I am so happy to hear about all of you. At every stage of your lives, you continue to inspire me. I wish you the absolute best as we welcome yet another year, and hopefully I’ll see you all at the upcoming reunion! Sincerely, Chiamaka Okorie, Connor Fraser, M.J. Engel
2014 Djavaneh Bierwirth 3456 Sansom St. Philadelphia, PA 19104 978-933-1910 djavaneh@wharton.upenn.edu djavaneh@googlemail.com 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
Armaan Singh traveled to Cleveland in April for Bollywood America—the largest Bollywood fusion dance competition in the world—where his team took first place. Hannah Sorkin interned in Andover | Winter 2018
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