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Class Representative: Armaity Minwalla arminwal@umich.edu
Dominic Jamett ‘11 is a catcher on the U of M baseball team.
bringing her passion to metro Detroit. Elisabeth is a manager of revenue cycle generation at growing firm Healthrise Solutions after previously starting her own health care IT firm.
2006 10th Reunion! Class Representative: Alyssa Bronikowski 1221 N. Dearborn #211N Chicago, IL 60610-8376 Alyssa.bronikowski@gmail.com Lindsey Brownell finished her master’s degree in science writing from MIT in the fall of 2014, and is currently living in Boston working as a science editor at a biotech/pharma hedge fund downtown. She is looking forward to traveling to Japan with her family in September after a whole nine months of staying within the United States!
2011 Nate Weiss: Hiram College senior pitcher Nate Weiss was named to the D3baseball.com Team of the Week in April. He was also named as an honorable mention division III player of the week by the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association. 70
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Kevin Allen: Kevin has been busy taking the first steps toward his newly minted goal of having a career in the music industry. As a sophomore at the University of Michigan, he became co-president of Empty Mug Records, a student-run record label that aims to promote student artists by recording music, distributing records, filming live “Empty Mug Sessions,” curating shows and events, and more. Kevin also books shows for other U of M student organizations, and he has begun working at Ann Arbor’s most famous venue, the Blind Pig, where he prepares manager contracts and acts as a local music consultant. He is also playing bass in his band My Girlfriend Beru, who will be releasing a few singles or an EP in the near future. He has two more years of study at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business, where he is concentrating in accounting. He stays sane by minoring in Music and taking late night bike rides with Alex Holmes ’12. Robert Babcock: Robert spent his summer on the lighting staff at the Tony Award winning Utah Shakespeare Festival in Cedar City, Utah, for their 54th summer season. He is entering his junior year at the Conservatory of Theatre Arts at Webster University, pursuing a BFA in Lighting Design. Amber Baldwin: Amber concluded her second year at Oakland University as a pre-physical therapy major, exercise science minor, and student in the honors college with being elected president of the pre-physical therapy club. She is excited to move on to summer vacation. Her summer will not be very relaxing, but it will be enjoyable! Amber will be working as a physical therapy technician at TheraMatrix Physical Therapy as well as a physical/occupational therapy technician at Beaumont Hospital in Troy. Also, she will be taking three classes during the summer classes. Amber plans on attending several country music concerts and going on vacations with her family and friends. This summer will be stuffed to the brim with work, school, and plans, but she would not have it any other way! In the next school semester, Amber will be heading volunteer events and
activities with the pre-physical therapy club, working, and diving into her studies. She cannot wait for what the future holds! Connor Borrego: Connor Borrego is a junior at The University of Michigan, after jumping around from neuroscience to computer programming, he’s settled on studying political science and entrepreneurship. This comes as a result of Connor’s efforts to create a marketing platform for student artists, which he has aptly named EMERGEnT. EMERGEnT is a web platform that spotlights artists through a biographical piece, and by featuring a sampling of their portfolio on the website, in exchange for providing a piece of their work to repurpose and sell. For artists working in pen, pencil, paint, or graphic design, EMERGEnT turns their art into graphic T-Shirts, where the artists can earn 15% of profits on the sale of their shirt. Writers may contribute short stories, poems, and opinion pieces, and Musicians can share their motivation behind the music, as well as their music on the site as well. EMERGEnT is always looking for more artists to participate. Visit the website at www.emergentartist.com, like the Facebook Page, and contact Connor at 313-354-3004 to express interest in getting involved or with questions. Ariana Castillo: This past May, Ariana was fortunate enough to travel to the community Chacraseca in Nicaragua for a month long service trip through the organization FNE International. During the months, leading up to her departure, she and 15 other University of Michigan students raised more than $3,300 through bucketing on campus, holding late-night bake sales and restaurant fundraisers. All the money raised was strictly used for projects in Chacraseca. The main focus of the trip was to aid the community. As soon as they arrived in Nicaragua, they were put to work building stoves and began the foundation for the houses. The appreciation shown by the homeowners was beyond gratifying. The importance of the stoves that they built is that they had chimneys, an important feature because smoke can be directed out of the house instead of inhaled by the occupants. People in the community often suffer from COPD, or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, due to the immense inhalation of dust and smoke, so in addition to providing a household amenity