ALUMNI NETWORK EVENTS

Not only did numerous alumni volunteers join the PiA staff in orientating our new class of Fellows in May and recruiting new applicants at college campuses across the country this fall, but the alumni community welcomed the new and returning PiA Fellows to the PiA family in cities across the U.S.! Organized by our amazing Alumni Network Chapter Leaders, Send-Off and Welcome Back events took a variety of shapes: from [4] potluck picnics at Chicago’s Promontory Point and San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, to [5] delicious dim sum in Los Angeles to [6] happy hours in Washington, DC and Boston.

[3] From left: Teresa Velez (Japan ’07, Indonesia ’09), Esteban Aguel (Cambodia ’13), Alex Abbott (Thailand ’12), Mariesa Lea (SOS ’08, East Timor ’09), Blair Blackwell (Kazakhstan ’96), and Ben Shell (Thailand ’05, Mongolia ’06) enjoying the local vintages in Sonoma.

Brenna Cameron (Thailand ’14), a current medical student at the University of Colorado Denver writes, “I recently went back to Nan, the town I was placed in for PiA. It’s amazing how much that place still feels like home! I know I will always have a sanctuary to come to in Southeast Asia.”

Jill Capotosto (Vietnam ’14) and Kate Logan (China ’14) are new grad students at the Yale School of Forestry. They recently held an information session for prospective PiA applications at Yale, along with Ellis Liang (Hong Kong ’15), who is midway through her JD/MBA dual degree program.

If you would like to stay up to date on PiA Alumni Network events in the future, please join the private online community for PiA Alumni & Friends, princetoninasia.360alumni.com. This will also help us update our records if your virtual or physical coordinates have changed.

We hope to see you soon at an alumni or volunteer event soon!