My Sister’s Keeper Collective, which strives to advocate for and serve young women in the area who are involved in the foster care or juvenile justice system. The group connects each student with an educational advocate who works with the family to ensure a positive future for the young woman. Additionally, Lenora has also founded the Orisun Sister Circle, a safe space for women that uses conversation, connection, and creativity as tools of healing.
lab to the commercial market. On the side, Alexander is still passionate about music, playing the piano and trumpet as much as he can.
s Annie Heise is an actress and has made a number of recent appearances in film and on TV, including Madoff, A Stand Up Guy, and First Love. Annie attended the Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama, where she was awarded the Carnegie Scholarship.
’08 CLASS AGENTS Nolan Filter nolan.f.filter@gmail.com Jessica Garretson Jessiepiper@gmail.com Vanessa Levy Ariella Rotenberg rotenberg.ariella@gmail.com
s Nikki (Stennes) James and Emily James were married in June 2015 at the James J. Hill Library in St. Paul. The newlyweds were fortunate to celebrate with some fellow Spartans, who brought fiendish dance moves and summer style to the party. Pictured are (front row) Nikki and Emily (Second row) Beth Billington, Merritt Swain, Lindsay Giese, Joel Cornell; (third row) Brandon Levy, Ilse Griffin.
’06 CLASS AGENTS Lien Bui lbui@gustavus.edu Rory F. Collins roryfcollins@gmail.com Alex T. Gast agast88@gmail.com Henry Parker henrysparker@gmail.com
s Emily Philipp Bryant married Bobby Bryant on October 10, 2015 at the Day Block Event Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Celebrating with the couple was Kiki Cohen, Bryna Helle, Eliza Hartley, Everett Wenzel, Wilder Welke (who also gave a reading during the ceremony), and Anne Walli ’10.
s Since graduating from Washington University in St. Louis and working as a project manager at Epic Systems, Alexander Feng has become deeply engrossed in healthcare policy and business entrepreneurship. He is now in his third year of medical school at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities and will complete his dual MD/MBA degree by 2018 at the Carlson School of Management. In the future, he hopes to utilize his clinical and business expertise to team up with science research teams and help them carry an idea from the
Jessie Garretson recently started as the New York Program Manager for the SAG-AFTRA Foundation, the non-profit arm of The Screen Actors Guild. In this role, Jessie will be overseeing the Foundation’s “Conversations” programs, screenings of films and television shows followed by Q&As with casts and principals, and two-hour Career Retrospectives with leading actors of the time. These programs are free to attend for all SAG-AFTRA members.
s Greg Paulus ’02 (left) and Andrew Paulus ’07 (right), along with their mother Patty Paulus (center), accepted a posthumous Grammy on behalf of their father, Stephen Paulus, in February 2016. Stephen, who passed away in 2014, won the Grammy for Best Contemporary Classical Composition for his piece “Prayers and Remembrances.” Patty, who is retiring this year after teaching art in SPA’s Lower School for 16 years, said in her acceptance speech, “even though Stephen is not here with us, his musical legacy lives on.”
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