2009 Law/Medical Jessica Bod is the associate director of medical student education and the director of the emergency medicine sub-internship at Yale Medical School. Elbridge Colby is serving as the deputy assistant secretary of defense for strategy & force development in the US Dept. of defense. Ben Goldberg is a psychiatrist practicing in Sacramento, California. Please send class updates to Thorin Tritter ([email protected]) 2010 Law Gary Lawkowski is the counselor to the solicitor for the US Department of the Interior. Danny Pearlstein is taking a new position, still in NYC, with the Riders Alliance, focused on policy and communications for better mass transit. He is also about to become a father. Class representative: Sarah Nadeau-Balducci ([email protected]) 2010 Medical Ben Abelson is in his fourth of six years of urology residency, and the plan is to head somewhere for Peds fellowship once I finish. He and his wife Jennifer have three kids, Gabriela (5), Eliana (3) and Sam (1). Amanda Bradke is in her second year of a global health fellowship called the HEAL Initiative, during which she spends half of her time providing medical care in Fort Defiance, Arizona on Navajo Nation, and half her time providing medical care in Hinche, Haiti. Caitlin Koerber reports “nothing new here, still a community pediatrician in White Oak, PA outside of Pittsburgh working with a predominantly underserved population.” Jason Liebowitz I completed last year as Ambulatory Chief Resident at Johns Hopkins Bayview and now I am a fellow in rheumatology at Johns Hopkins (my wife and I live in Philly and I commute as she is a second-year resident in OB/GYN at Penn). Will Parker is still a pulmonary and critical care fellow currently doing research on a T32 training grant. His research has a major ethics component as he works on trying to optimize the allocation of scarce resources, specifically deceased donor organs. Grace Tassa recently started a medical practice along with a group of 23 other physicians called Santa Monica Family Physicians. On the personal side, she and her my husband are expecting their first baby, a boy, this January. Class representative: Grace Tassa ([email protected]). 2010 Seminary Meghan Roth Clayton recently moved with her husband Josh and their son James to Williamsburg, VA to serve as an associate pastor at Williamsburg UMC. Class representative: Hannah Rose Peck ([email protected]) 2011 Journalism Alex Alper moved to Rio de Janeiro in June to cover oil and mining for Reuters. She now is speaking Portuñol! Eugene Kwibuka still writes for The New Times in Kigali. He says “Let me know when you want to organize a FASPE reunion in remarkable Rwanda!” Raksha Kumar writes “I have no plans of being in NYC :( Why don’t you plan to come to India sometime?” Laura Murray published a feature in Rolling Stone earlier this month about six young transgender women struggling to survive on the streets of New York City that uncovered the institutional shortcomings that dictated their lives. 48 hours after the story was published, the New York City Council held a 4+ hourlong hearing on youth shelters & introduced new legislation that would require the DYCD agency to provide shelter to all youth, extend the length of time youth are allowed to retain a shelter bed, and force all youth shelter beds be available for youth up to the age of 25, in accordance with federal guidelines. Gianna Palmer is still working at Midroll, where she produces Katie Couric's podcast and Fake the Nation, a comedy political podcast hosted by Negin Farsad. Class representative: Kelly Boyce ([email protected]) 2011 Law Send updates to the class representative: Elle Gilley ([email protected]) 2011 Medical Haleh Van Vliet was officially extended partnership status at her small democratic EM group (Southern Colorado Emergency Specialists) this summer. She lives by the mountains in Colorado with a super-loving toddler and reports “life is good!” She's also currently working on some poetry. Class representative: Jonathan Levin ([email protected]) 2011 Seminary Avi Narrow-Tilonsky lives in Jerusalem. He got married at kibbutz Ramat Rachel to Atara Oren, a teacher who specializes in working with children with autism. Avi is in his third year working at the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC). He is an account manager. He writes “Atara and I love living in the Katamon neighborhood of Jerusalem and would love to see any of you if you come to visit.” Ben McConaughy continues to work as an attorney while also serving as the Coordinator of Spiritual Formation/Transformational Leadership at Mercer Island Presbyterian Church. He is also on the Permanent Judicial Commission for the Seattle Presbytery (our church judicial system) and serves on the Coordinating Council for the Seattle Presbytery. Amy Chapman is working on her dissertation at Michigan State University. She writes “I am looking at how reflective processes before/during/following service/service- learning/service-immersion programs help to develop identity.” Sara Williams began serving as the Associate Director of Community-Engaged Learning at Miami University of Ohio in mid- September. In this role she works with faculty to develop and implement Service-Learning courses, as well as resource them to do so through designing and running Service-Learning workshops on campus. On the personal side, Sara and her husband James welcomed their son, Simon David Bielo-Williams, to the household on October 14, 2017. He was born at 5:18pm, weighing 7lbs. 8oz. Rachel Heath reports that she published two articles this year in the Journal of Interreligious Studies and was recently appointed to Vanderbilt's Religious Affairs Standing Committee, which "serves as an advisory board to the University with the responsibility of informing religious diversity and educating the whole person." On the personal side, she has been exploring the possibility of organizing military brats (like herself) around concerns of peace, nonviolence, and nuclear disarmament; and has created a simple website for this topic: militarybratsforpeace.org. Class representative: Bethany Slater ([email protected]). 2012 Journalism Laurie Guthmann is Senior Producer at ATTN: She was promoted this past summer. Aleks Sagan is a business reporter with the Canadian Press, Canada's wire service. She moved from CP'S Toronto office to its Vancouver office in July. She covers retail, technology and the business of food. Brielle Morgan says that while covering B.C.'s child welfare system, she’s been facilitating conversations about media ethics and best practices. In September she organized a workshop series that brought journalists and child welfare leaders together to discuss how media can better cover B.C.'s complex child welfare system. She says “we’re working to build a network of journalists committed to collaborating on projects and developing best practices.” She also, with the support of her colleagues at Discourse Media, launched a media fellowship for youth who have lived experience of government care. Class Representative: Laurie Guthmann ([email protected]). 2012 Law Adam Israelov and his wife Shilpa welcomed their first child, Maya Avasare Israelov, to the family in October. Jessica Mar is the Deputy City Attorney for the City of Berkeley. She reports that she is spending a lot of time working on immigration issues. Maria Sevilla is teaching her first class at the University of Miami this semester (Gender, Sexuality, and the Law) and, on a personal note, is getting married in February. Class Representative: Maria Sevilla ([email protected]) 2012 Medical Shakira Bandolin moved from California to Salt Lake City Utah and where she is a global health fellow in Emergency Medicine. She writes “It’s been a lot of fun and I am trying to block out time to come to the reunion.” Chrissy Henneberg graduated in July '16 and moved to Napa (where her husband has been practicing for a few years). She writes “it's been lovely except for the fires last month, which thankfully didn't touch our home, but practically singed our eyelashes.” She is doing a mix of clinical work (office prentatal care/gynecology and, as she says “of course, family planning, my true passion)” and writing (including a piece in last Sunday’s San Francisco Chronicle). On the personal side, Chrissy and her husband are expecting their first baby any day now and, she writes “so probably won't be at the reunion this year. but let me know the next time you're in wine country.” Nino Mihatov writes that he is “reeling from Dan and Dhruv's abrupt Boston departure.” He is excited, on the other hand, that Mariam has joined the Boston FASPE family and they now live in the same building. Nino is in n the midst of cardiology fellowship at MGH. He writes “when I'm not in Boston, I could be found in New York City trying to take advantage of all the city has to offer - including Dan's epic brunch parties and a visit to the FASPE office.” He plans to be at the reunion! Mike Peluso is a first-year ID fellow at UCSF. He writes “the adjustment to the west coast has been good so far.” He is still coordinating some projects in Botswana remotely, but will probably shift in the short term toward domestic HIV research. Altaf Saadi just made the move from Boston to Los Angeles, doing the National Clinical Scholars Program at UCLA (the new evolution of the Robert Wood Johnson Fellowship focusing on health services, health policy, and community-based research). She writes “It’s been great and a much better fit in terms of my interests than residency was! I’ve been getting involved with advocacy work surrounding immigrant health, including most recently trying to organize a Los Angeles physicians group to work with legal organizations to protect the rights of immigrants in detention centers.