Cathy Hebert, 2008 ran the Brooklyn Rock ‘n’ Roll Half Marathon with fellow classmates Bridget Hollon and Noelle Winicki
although she will always be partial to Charm City and the Baltimore Ravens. Caitlin Cantrell moved back to Maryland and is living in Annapolis, MD. She is the Competition Team Director at GJ Dance Studio and a dance instructor at Edna Lee Dance Studio. She has students dancing all over the east coast, and is happy to be teaching and sharing her love of dance! Nia Clark is currently living in Atlanta, GA. Recently, she completed her second degree in nursing at Chamberlain College of Nursing, and is beginning her career as an ICU nurse at Atlanta Medical Center. After graduating with her Master’s in Human Osteology and Funerary Archaeology from University of Sheffield, Caroline Cobert came back to the US and taught Anatomy and Physiology for a year at Germanna Community College. She’s since taken a job with a consulting firm in Washington, DC, and lives in Alexandria, VA. In addition to her work as an analyst, she teaches Archaeology as an adjunct professor at George Mason University. Tanaira Cullens is currently teaching and working as the extended day program coordinator at the charter school RPCS opened, Lillie May Carroll Jackson. She is also working as Co-Director of a joint summer program, with RPCS and LMCJ called Growing Girls and Gardens during the summer. Along with her involvement with Lillie May Carroll Jackson, Tanaira is working on attaining her PhD! Chris Gummerson is currently working as a research program assistant in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. She will be starting medical school at Hopkins in August 2016. In August 2015, Jennifer Hearn moved from Boston, MA to Salisbury, CT. There, she is working for a real estate development
company developing The Silo Ridge Field Club in Amenia, NY. Cathy Hebert is currently living in Brooklyn, NY, and is working for a book publisher in midtown Manhattan. In October 2015, Cathy ran the Brooklyn Rock ‘n’ Roll Half Marathon with fellow classmates Bridget Hollon and Noelle Winicki. Courtenay Hogg Trainor got married in 2013, and now lives with her husband in Long Island, NY. Courtenay is currently in nursing school, but will have her hands full come March 2016, as she and her husband are expecting their first child (it’s a boy!). Bridget Hollon has now relocated to New York City, and is currently working at a hedge fund. MariaLisa Itzoe is pursuing her dream of becoming a physician, currently completing the first year of medical school at Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. Despite a busy schedule, MariaLisa finds time for her passions of music and the brain by singing with “Pulmonics,” PCOM’s co-ed a cappella group, and serving as class representative for the Student Interest Group in Neurology. She retains her love for research and is excited to have been selected as one of eleven students to work with Dr. Art Sesso, Surgery Department Chair, on a project to design and build a drone capable of delivering medications and equipment to patients in emergency situations. During free time, MariaLisa enjoys volunteering at Inglis House, a nursing facility that provides long-term residential care for adults of all ages with physical disabilities, including multiple sclerosis, cerebral palsy, spinal cord injury and stroke. Though med school is extremely rigorous and both intellectually and emotionally challenging, her program is incredibly rewarding and she is thoroughly
enjoying the journey! In May, Dasha Iventicheva graduated from SAIS (Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies) with an MA in International Relations and Economics and a concentration in European and Eurasian studies. Dasha is currently living in Washington, DC and recently started a new job as an International Associate with the Public Affairs Council, a non-profit association for public affairs professionals. Andrea Lynch is now a Strategist at Seiden, a small branding and advertising agency in Manhattan. She moved to a new place on the Upper East Side and took a oncein-a-lifetime trip to Australia at the end of 2015. Whitney McClees is working on her PhD at Portland State University in Oregon. Her focus is marine invasive species, specifically marine invertebrates. She has a fellowship this year that has paired her with a middle school science classroom, where she has been teaching sixth graders ecology a few times a week. Portland has been amazing so far, as it provides Whitney with trips to the coast and hikes in the Columbia River Gorge. While she is very busy with school, Whitney has also found time to join a choir which has been a lot of fun! Erin O’Donnell is working as an assistant at DF Dent and Company, a private investment firm in downtown Baltimore. She lives in Towson, MD with her fiancé Luis Velez, and they are planning on getting married in the spring of 2017. Maria Pasquini gets paid to write about Justin Bieber, Rihanna, and a bunch of other people who are a lot cooler than she is for Galore Magazine. Lauren Pratt is in her third year of Veterinary School at the University of Illinois. Lauren will start her clinical rotations in March 2016, which will
Classmates from 2008 (l. to r.) Julia Tompkins, Elizabeth Piper, Erin O’Donnell, Emily Smith, Megan Smith, Isabel Tawney, Kerry Weir, Bailey Reeves and Maria Orfanos at Emily and Megan’s joint engagement party
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