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2009 Med/Law Michael Otremba is a resident in otolaryngology, head and neck surgery at Yale University School of Medicine. Prathap Sooriyakumaran is an emergency medicine physician at USCF in San Francisco. Bridge Colby is the Robert M. Gates senior fellow at the Center for a New America in Washington, DC. Amos Friedland is an attorney at Boies, Schiller & Flexner. Class contact: Thorin Tritter ([email protected]). 2010 Law David Brown is a partner at Paul Weiss in New York. Mark Friedman is an attorney practicing elder law, special needs law and estate planning in NY and NJ. Todd Grabarsky is clerking for Judge Alarcon of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in Los Angeles. Ally Heaney Lamson is a matrimonial attorney at Adinolfi & Packman in New Jersey. Benny Meshoulam is the director of government relations at UMass Boston. Danny Pearlstein is chief of staff and counsel to council member David Greenfield at the New York City Council. Keerthika Subramanian is a corporate associate at Davis Polk & Wardwell in the San Francisco Bay Area. Class contact: Sarah Nadeau ([email protected]). 2010 Medical Avrom Caplan finished his residency in internal medicine earlier this summer and is now starting dermatology at UPenn. Grace Charles, now Grace Tassa, married David Tassa this past May and moved to Los Angeles where she started working as an attending physician at UCLA. Lilengi Edirwickrema will spend this year as a clinical fellow in neuro-ophthalmology and orbit at Johns Hopkins. From 2017-2019 she will be a clinical instructor and ASOPRS oculoplastic and orbital surgery fellow at UC San Diego. Rachel Hadler completed an anesthesia residency and a critical care fellowship, and is now in the middle of a palliative care fellowship at Memorial Sloan-Kettering in New York. Jason Liebowitz is the ambulatory chief resident at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. Karen Revere is completing a fellowship in oculoplastics and orbital surgery at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Nathan Stall is a geriatric medicine fellow at the University of Toronto. He and Tali Bogler were married in Toronto in June. Steph Weiss is an assistant professor of emergency medicine at the University of Florida College of Medicine- Jacksonville. Class contact: Grace Tassa ([email protected]).

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2009 Med/Law Michael Otremba is a resident in otolaryngology, head and neck surgery at Yale University School of Medicine. Prathap Sooriyakumaran is an emergency medicine physician at USCF in San Francisco. Bridge Colby is the Robert M. Gates senior fellow at the Center for a New America in Washington, DC. Amos Friedland is an attorney at Boies, Schiller & Flexner. Class contact: Thorin Tritter ([email protected]). 2010 Law David Brown is a partner at Paul Weiss in New York. Mark Friedman is an attorney practicing elder law, special needs law and estate planning in NY and NJ. Todd Grabarsky is clerking for Judge Alarcon of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in Los Angeles. Ally Heaney Lamson is a matrimonial attorney at Adinolfi & Packman in New Jersey. Benny Meshoulam is the director of government relations at UMass Boston. Danny Pearlstein is chief of staff and counsel to council member David Greenfield at the New York City Council. Keerthika Subramanian is a corporate associate at Davis Polk & Wardwell in the San Francisco Bay Area. Class contact: Sarah Nadeau ([email protected]). 2010 Medical Avrom Caplan finished his residency in internal medicine earlier this summer and is now starting dermatology at UPenn. Grace Charles, now Grace Tassa, married David Tassa this past May and moved to Los Angeles where she started working as an attending physician at UCLA. Lilengi Edirwickrema will spend this year as a clinical fellow in neuro-ophthalmology and orbit at Johns Hopkins. From 2017-2019 she will be a clinical instructor and ASOPRS oculoplastic and orbital surgery fellow at UC San Diego. Rachel Hadler completed an anesthesia residency and a critical care fellowship, and is now in the middle of a palliative care fellowship at Memorial Sloan-Kettering in New York. Jason Liebowitz is the ambulatory chief resident at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. Karen Revere is completing a fellowship in oculoplastics and orbital surgery at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Nathan Stall is a geriatric medicine fellow at the University of Toronto. He and Tali Bogler were married in Toronto in June. Steph Weiss is an assistant professor of emergency medicine at the University of Florida College of Medicine-Jacksonville. Class contact: Grace Tassa ([email protected]).

2010 Seminary Bilal Ansari is the dean of students and director of student life at Zaytuna College in Berkeley, CA. Jillian Cameron is the director of InterfaithFamily/Boston. Meghan Roth Clayton is the pastor of the Salem Church, a United Methodist Church in Mathews, VA. She is expecting a new baby later this year! Chris Hadley is assistant professor of systematic theology at the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University. Sara Metz is an assistant rabbi and the director of the religious school at Congregation Torat El in Oakhurst, NJ. She gave birth to her second child, Eitan Navi Metz, at the end of July! Hannah Rose Peck is the assistant dean of student affairs at Yale College. Noam Raucher is the senior rabbi at Pasadena Jewish Temple & Center in Pasadena, CA. Class contact: Hannah Peck ([email protected]). 2011 Journalism Kelly Boyce is still working at the Dart Center at Columbia and has run into Thorin a few times. Laura Murray is back on the East Coast, reporting on NYC's homeless LGBT youth with a CUNY urban reporting fellowship. Gianna Palmer, who has spent the past 2.5+ years at the BBC, accepted a new job at Earwolf. She will be producing Katie Couric's new podcast and another podcast called Fake the Nation, hosted by comedian Negin Farsad. Class contact: Kelly Boyce ([email protected]). 2011 Law James Allred is a pharmaceutical and biotechnology law associate at Hogan Lovells in Washington, DC. Elle Gilley has finished her first of two years clerking for Judge Rosemary Barkett on the Iran-US Claims Tribunal, located in The Hague, Netherlands. She plans to return to private practice mid-2017. Bobby Gray is a litigation associate at Munger, Tolles & Olson in Los Angeles. Krista Nelson is an associate in the Litigation Group at Barack Ferrazzano Kirschbaum & Nagelberg in Chicago. Dan Rubin is working in the Healthcare group at McDermott Will & Emery in Boston, Massachusetts, prior to which he completed a clerkship for the Honorable Juan R. Torruella of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. Brian Soucek is acting professor of law at UC Davis. In May of 2015 he received the Dukeminier Award, which recognizes the best sexual orientation and gender identity legal scholarship published in the previous year. Class contact: Elle Gilley ([email protected]). 2011 Medical Pierre Ankomah (Internal Medicine Residency at Mass. General), CJ Chang (Emergency Medicine Residency at Harvard), Alessa Colaianni (Surgery at Mass. Eye & Ear), Jonathan Levin (NICU Fellowship at Boston Children’s Hospital), and Elliot Rabinowitz (Pediatric Pulmonary Fellowship at Boston Children’s Hospital) have all managed to meet up together at least once in Boston. They look forward to future reunions. Irina Livshitz is an ophthalmology resident at University Hospitals of Cleveland. Julia Lubsen started a fellowship in geriatrics at UW in Madison, WI. Steph Pursich started a maternal fetal medicine fellowship back in New York at Columbia. She will be getting married in September! Haleh Van Vliet, after unexpectedly staying in Wisconsin for an extra year s/p residency, has moved to the Colorado Springs area where she and her husband have purchased their first home. She is working at the St. Mary-Corwin Hospital Emergency Department in Pueblo, CO, a Catholic faith-based level III trauma center that belongs to the Centura Health System. She also reports that her son is now 16 months old and doing great. Class contact: Jonathan Levin ([email protected]).

2011 Seminary Amy Chapman is studying for comprehensive exams and has moved back to Massachusetts as her doctoral coursework is complete. She is also working at a parish near Boston as director of faith formation. Steven Cottam remains the youth minister at Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church in Richmond, VA. He works alongside his wife, who serves at the same church as the Christian Formation Coordinator. Their daughter Jacqueline Nicole is almost two. Rachel Heath has moved to Nashville with her partner Elena. After working for four years at the University of Chicago in various capacities, she is beginning a PhD program in Theological Studies at Vanderbilt University. Her academic focus is theologies of multiplicity and the theo-ethical implications of power, privilege, gender, and representation in multifaith/interfaith contexts. Despite the move, Rachel will continue to serve on the executive committee for the National Association of College and University Chaplains (NACUC), a professional network that brings together chaplains from various traditions. Craig Phillips lives in the DC metro area, where he works as a User Experience Designer with a digital consulting agency, Celerity. Besides changing careers in the past month, Craig and his wife also experienced exciting newness with the birth of their first child, Aliya, in May. Bethany Slater and her husband Stephen are living in Glens Falls, NY, this summer. Stephen is working as the rabbi of a Conservative synagogue there and Bethany is reading for her comprehensive exams and fulfilling her duties as a rebbetzin. She is also teaching a course at the synagogue on the structure and meaning of the Jewish prayer service and helping to plan a set of lectures for this coming year on professional ethics, inspired by FASPE. At the end of the summer the Slaters will be moving to their new home in Providence, RI where Bethany will continue working towards her PhD in Comparative Theology at Boston College. Class contact: Bethany Slater ([email protected]). 2012 Journalism Alex Boyd is a reporter for Metro News in Edmonton, Alberta. Sergey Gordeev continues to work as news anchor and an interview show host at NTV America, the leading Russian TV channel broadcasting nationally in the U.S. Laurie Guthmann started a new job as a video producer for ATTN and lives in Los Angeles. Subrina Hudson is a reporter for the Los Angeles Business Journal. Her recent stories have ranged from covering a new vodka business to the sale of one of California’s largest dairies to a Vietnamese firm. Yimou Lee remains a Reuters correspondent, covering business news in Hong Kong, with a particular focus on Hong Kong real estate and Chinese technology industries. Brielle Morgan recently joined Discourse Media, a Vancouver-based start-up that aims to report deeply and collaboratively and to facilitate conversations about solutions to complex social issues. She writes “never have I felt so aligned with the spirit of my workplace and the aspirations of my colleagues.” Paromita Pain continues with her Ph.D. studies at the University of Texas, Austin. She has been busy presenting papers at a number of conferences this past year including the AEJMC in Minneapolis and WAPOR in Austin. Aleksandra Sagan accepted a full time job at The Canadian Press (Canada's wire service) in December and started there in January as a business reporter. She covers media, Telecom, some retail, and the business of food. She also got engaged and is getting married in September. Grzegorz Tomczewski works in media relations for the Polin Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw. Class contact: Laurie Guthmann ([email protected]).

2012 Law Nila Bala is an assistant public defender in the Baltimore City Public Defender’s office. Starting in September she will be working on a bail review project trying to see if the system can end the use of cash bails, which harm indigent clients. She adds that she is still singing with the Nightingale Trio and they have a new CD coming out at the end of the summer. Morenike Fajana is one of the producers of After Spring, a documentary that was shown at the Tribeca Film Festival and explores life in the largest refugee camp in the world for Syrians. She is going to start working at the Legal Aid Society in September in their Tenants Rights Coalition where she will be engaged in community organizing and impact litigation concerning gentrification and displacement in Brooklyn! Adam Israelov is a corporate attorney in the Atlanta office of King & Spalding. Matthew Kane married to Lorelei Nelson in March 2016. Jennifer Lim is still working in international arbitration at Debevoise & Plimpton, but recently relocated to the firm's Hong Kong office. Emily McWilliams is an associate at Jenner & Block in Chicago. Bradford Sussman is a senior government relations specialist at Pitta & Bishop in New York. Carson Thomas is working at Baker & McKenzie in San Francisco, doing international arbitration and government enforcement work, but says he “may be moving on to something more public-service oriented in the next year.” Adrien Weibgen is working as a staff attorney at the Community Development Project of the Urban Justice Center in NYC. Her work focuses on issues related to gentrification, displacement and neighborhood change. Class contact: Maria Sevilla ([email protected]). 2012 Medical Chrissy Henneberg is an R3 in family medicine in Contra Costa Regional Medical Center, near Berkeley, CA. Dhruv Khullar is a third year resident in Internal Medicine at Mass General in Boston. He is hoping to find a position next year in which he can see patients, engage in health policy work, and write about these issues. Inga Lipinska is a physician at J. Dietl Specialist Hospital in Krakow and works with Stowarzyszenie Lekarze Nadziei/Medecins de L’Espoir. Michael Peluso is in his 4th year of a joint residency program in internal medicine and global health at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. He continues to be involved with HIV/AIDS research in Thailand and is applying for an infectious diseases fellowship. As part of his global health work, he spent the last year working on educational-capacity-building within the healthcare system of Botswana, where he is coordinating a national study of medical interns and running a project that is trying to develop a national medical curriculum for all medical interns. Emily Popler is a pediatric resident at Emory University. Altaf Saadi is a neurology resident at Harvard. Her 2014 wedding was featured in the June 2016 edition of Brides magazine. Lijia Xie is a resident in internal medicine at Stanford Health Care. Parham Zarrini is an internal medicine resident in Cedars Sinai in Los Angeles. Class contact: Daniel Weisberg ([email protected]). 2012 Seminary Peter Baltutis is an assistant professor of history and Catholic studies at St. Mary's University in Calgary, Alberta. Last November Peter and his wife welcomed their third child into the world. Jacob Buchholz and his wife, Rev. Jennifer Strickland, have accepted a call to serve as senior co-pastors of Claremont United Church of Christ in Claremont, CA, beginning this month. They will also both begin a non-residency Doctor of Ministry program at Duke Divinity School this fall. Nicholas Collura recently completed his work as a juvenile hall chaplain with the Jesuit

Restorative Justice Initiative in Los Angeles as part of his formation as a novice in the Society of Jesus. He will spend this fall living in a L'Arche community for people with and without physical and intellectual disabilities in Seattle. Megan LeCluyse is beginning her 5th year at the Christian Association at Penn, where she is enjoying working with a diverse group of college students! The CA is celebrating its 125th anniversary this year, and she is busy helping to plan a celebration event for the end of October. She is also leading a service at the First Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia for all ages, and loves watching toddlers learning to worship in an age appropriate way. She will also be running her first half-marathon this November! Adam Kelchner reports that as of July 1, he was appointed to serve as the Lead Pastor at Kingston Springs United Methodist Church, just outside of Nashville, TN. Adam expects to celebrate his ordination and full connectional membership in the Tennessee Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church in June 2017. Mary Rawlinson serves as the outreach minister for The Night Ministry, a Chicago-based organization that works to provide housing, health care and human connection to members of the community struggling with poverty or homelessness. She, along with her husband Tom and other pastors, is also helping with an interdenominational merger of three churches in their Chicago neighborhood (Lutheran, Episcopalian, and Methodist). She reports that her two step-sons are “quite grown up now at 18 and almost 21” and that she adopted a sweet pit bull, named Finn, who is a happy addition to her family. Michael Rozier continues his doctoral studies in Health Management and Policy at the University of Michigan and continues his priestly ministry at the Catholic student center and the county jail. He is currently searching for reasons to conduct research in the southern United States from November to March so as to avoid another Ann Arbor winter. Class contact: Kerry Chaplin ([email protected]). 2013 Journalism Beth Cortez-Neavel is the morning lead web editor at the Texas Standard, a daily NPR-affiliate news radio show about all things Texas based in Austin. Valerie Hopkins continues to work as a journalist at the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network. She happened to be in Berlin for a meeting at the European Council on Foreign Relations during the 2016 Journalism trip and met some of the new FASPE Fellows. Abhijit Mazumdar is a teaching associate in the School of Journalism & Electronic Media at the University of Tennessee. Toby Salinger has been at the New York Daily News since January 2015 covering breaking news such as terrorist attacks in Europe, murder trials in Ohio, and mass sickenings at birthday parties in California. Byron Wilkes spent 2015 with the Peace Corps in Morocco teaching English and working on a journalism curriculum for youth. Since the beginning of 2016, he has been writing and managing content at Google through a third-party vendor, Expert Support Inc. Class contact: Valerie Hopkins ([email protected]). 2013 Law David Blassberger is an associate at Willkie Farr & Gallagher in New York. Andrew Brown is chief of staff and administrative counsel for the Office of the Chief Justice at the Supreme Court of North Carolina. Johnston Chen lives in New York where he works as an associate in Shearman & Sterling’s Litigation Group. Jessica Frattaroli is assistant attorney general in the Massachusetts Attorney General's Office in Boston. Kevin Humphries has joined Kirkland & Ellis, working from their Chicago office. He focuses on mergers and acquisitions, private equity transactions, and general corporate matters. Lisa-Marie Rudi is a program officer at Civitas

Maxima, an organization that provides legal services to people who have been victims of war crimes and crimes against humanity. She lives in Geneva, Switzerland. Maria Stozek continues her academic work and is happy to announce her engagement to her fiancé Daniel. She plans to be married in Poland in January 2017. Sienna White is an associate at Jones Day in Cleveland working in the areas of capital markets and tax. She published a paper on transfer pricing in the Florida Tax Review earlier this summer. Kristen Bell is moving to New Haven. She will be working at Yale Law on a fellowship researching prison conditions. Class contact: Eileen Dorfman ([email protected]). 2013 Medical Matt Baum published his first books this past spring, The Neuroethics of Biomarkers: What the Development of Bioprediction Means for Moral Responsibility, Justice, and the Nature of Mental Disorder. He is now, as he says, “moving slowly through the molasses of MD-PhD training (entering year 5 overall, year 3 of the PhD) and trying to sneak in ethics on the side.” And he will be getting married this coming October! Jordan Cohen started his second year residency in EM at brown. Shekinah Elmore has started radiation oncology residency at the Harvard Radiation Oncology Program. She will be headed to the World Cancer Congress in Paris this fall as a Young Leader. Noelle Teske is starting her transitional year internship at Intermountain Medical Center in Salt Lake City (where she has become friends with 2014 FASPE alum Liese Pruitt) and will head to Dallas for a dermatology residency at UTSW starting July 2017. Class contact: Jordan Cohen ([email protected]). 2013 Seminary Adeel Zeb starts in the fall as the inaugural co-university Muslim Chaplin at the seven Claremont Colleges in South California. Alissa Oleson has been called to serve as pastor at the Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Quincy, Mass. Kristi Haas was promoted to program manager for the Under Caesar's Sword program at the University of Notre Dame, which researches the responses of Christian communities worldwide to violations of their human rights. One of her main tasks is to develop curricular supplements for high school classes and church groups using these research results, while also working with others to produce a documentary, website, public report, and more! Kevin Brown had been serving as an assistant pastor at a church in Washington, DC since last September. Earlier this August, he was appointed the pastor of St. Joseph CME Church in Chapel Hill, NC. Griff Gatewood serves as the pastor at the First Presbyterian Church in Mount Airy, NC. Jeremy Mann is a part-time minister at Calvary Memorial Church in Oak Park, IL and serves as the director of programming and development at the Center for Pastor Theologians (just approved for a second grant from the Templeton Foundation!). He is also working on a PhD in systematic theology at Wheaton College Graduate School. He writes that his “main passion right now, however, is a multiracial classical school my wife and I are helping found on Chicago's West Side,” called The Field School. Class contact: Kate Andre ([email protected]). 2014 Journalism Kate Wilkinson is the events editor at Marketing Magazine in Toronto, where she oversees content for the publication's conferences and awards shows. She also freelances whenever a good story comes along that doesn't involve advertising or belong in the pages of Marketing. Kate would also like to let her American FASPE friends know that her thoughts are with them

during this difficult election season. There's a spare couch in her apartment if anyone needs to cross the border. Samantha Pickette has finished the first year of her Ph.D. program in American Studies at Boston University, where she is focusing on 20th century Jewish-American literature, film, and culture. This summer, she attended the Naomi Prawer Kadar International Yiddish Summer Program at Tel Aviv University, where she began her study of Yiddish language and literature as a supplement to her Ph.D. studies. This fall, she will be teaching a Holocaust history course at BU and will be presenting papers at the Boston University Graduate Conference on Religious Studies in October and the annual Association for Jewish Studies (AJS) conference in December. Martine Powers, after spending some time on Cape Cod in an audio journalism program and doing a stint covering Congress at Politico, is in Washington, D.C. writing about transportation at the Washington Post. She also started a podcast, called "The Get," about the personal and professional lives of ambitious black women in their 20s; and has adopted a 10-year-old black lab, Wally, named after the St. Lucian poet laureate Derek Walcott. Dustin Volz continues to cover cybersecurity and digital privacy for Reuters in Washington, D.C. In June he participated in the Journalist Law School fellowship program at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, a four-day boot camp for journalists who cover U.S. courts and the legal system. Danielle Tcholakian is in her third year as a local news reporter at DNAinfo.com New York. This year she used data to "grade" the mayor of New York City on his poor compliance with the Freedom of Information Law, scooped City Hall reporters on a new hire's abrupt leaving, and covered a landmark court case that found a construction company guilty in the death of a young worker. Class contact: Martine Powers ([email protected]). 2014 Law Farah Al-khersan is an immigration attorney at Dhade & Associates in Detroit. Z-Z Cowen is an associate at Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York. Rose Goldberg is at the tail end of her Third Circuit clerkship in Philadelphia. Soon she will be moving (back) to the California Bay Area, to provide legal services to veterans as a Skadden Fellow. Andrew Haile is wrapping up the end of his clerkship with Judge Barbadoro on the Federal District Court for New Hampshire and will be starting at the Massachusetts Attorney General's Office in September where he will be an Assistant Attorney General and part of their Fellowship program for entry-level attorneys. The bigger news, he reports, is that he is a proud father, going on six months now, of a gorgeous baby girl, Alethea Jane. Brittany Horth is an associate at Latham & Watkins in Orange County, CA. Ryland Li is wrapping up his clerkship on the First Circuit and will be moving to DC to start work as an attorney-adviser for the EPA. Andrew Mamo is an associate at Latham & Watkins in Singapore. Jared Miller is a staff attorney at the Orleans Public Defenders office in New Orleans. Tom Wilson graduated law school last May and has accepted a job working in-house for Kohler Co., a large Wisconsin manufacturing company. I will be doing mostly transactional work and am excited to be working as part of a large enterprise and am happy to be staying in Wisconsin! Class contact: Andrew Haile ([email protected]). 2014 Medical Hasenin Al-khersan is in his fourth year of medical school at the University of Chicago and is planning on applying to ophthalmology residency programs. Sam Enumah is a general surgery resident at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. He writes “occasionally they let us fiddle with toys and gadgets in the operating room and it's a lot of fun! I'll be in Boston for the next seven years, so come visit!” Corina Iacopetti is a pediatric resident at UCSF Benioff Children’s

Hospital in San Francisco. Jeevan Puthiamadathil is starting his residency in internal medicine at Georgetown. Yael Shinar and her husband Isaac are expecting their first child in November. She is an M4 now, who is applying to residency programs in anesthesia. She also notes that she presented a couple of ethics talks at a recent conference on medicine and religion (March, Houston, TX) and will be presenting a talk on ethics education at the October meeting of ASBH in DC. Class contact: Dippy Bhattacharya ([email protected]). 2014 Seminary Gideon Buya was assigned to serve as an Associate Pastor in a Catholic parish in one of the suburbs of Milwaukee—Hales Corners. This past June he was transferred by the Archbishop to serve in two parishes (Holy Name and St Clement Parishes) in the city of Sheboygan. Daniel Goldberg is entering his final year of rabbinical school at Yeshiva University and plans on finishing his coursework this year for his PhD in Bible. He spent the summer studying Arabic at Hunter College and has loved every minute of it! Daniel and his wife, Dina, are expecting their second child in December! Alanna Sullivan (nee Coppenhaver) and Colin Sullivan were married on August 6. Jordan Loewen finished his first year of the Religion PhD program at Syracuse University. His focus has been exploring the ways new media shape and form religious practice and identity. He and his wife Amber recently bought a home and are feeling very adult. Lauren van Vliet now lives in Regina, SK (above the Montana/North Dakota border) where she works as a youth minister in a large parish. Class contact: Jordan Loewen ([email protected]). 2015 Business Daniel Abel continues to live in Berlin, where he passes Stolpersteine (stumbling blocks) every once in a while and thinks back to FASPE. His work currently centers around location services where, amongst other things, he is involved in ethical questions regarding privacy and decision-making by machines. Elana Berger graduated from MIT Sloan in June and will start as a consultant at Bain & Company in Boston in September. She is also got engaged this past March and is getting married next summer! Liz Bershad completed her MBA at Harvard this past May. She is now working on a short-term project with XPRIZE, a non-profit that accelerates innovations and technologies for the benefit of humanity, focusing on food and agriculture. In the fall, she will move to San Francisco and begin working at a socially-oriented start up. Yodit Beyene is a senior finance associate in the Capital Markets team at Delta Air Lines. She is also in the process of co-launching a non-profit organization SeedIM that seeks to stimulate positive commerce in under-served communities in Baltimore by supporting and developing entrepreneurs in the community. Martin Fast is finishing his studies (hoping to have the final exam in September), continues to work at Erste Bank, and became engaged earlier in August. Julia Rupp (nee Elkemann) has moved to Basel, Switzerland where she is working at Bearing Point bank. She is also planning her church wedding (the civil ceremony was held last year in Berlin). Anne Steptoe launched MedServe, her non-profit that matches college grads and medical clinics. She is back at Brown finishing her last year of med school. Megan Wong continues to enjoy life in the Bay Area and just began a new job at EARN.org, a non-profit dedicated to helping working families develop habits of saving. Class contact: Liz Bershad ([email protected]).

2015 Journalism Lindsey Anderson is a reporter at the El Paso Times in Texas. She's marrying her fiancé Charles Hoke in January. Lisa Creamer continues to work at WBUR in Boston and is hoping to start part-time graduate studies in journalism in the spring. Jessica Davey-Quantick defended her thesis in May and graduated with her MA in Cultural Studies from Queen's University. She moved to Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, in June to work as a reporter with Northern News Services, which runs newspapers across the NWT and into Nunavut. Alex Levine is working for the New York Times, where she writes the New York Today column for the Metro desk, a morning roundup for the city, covering news, features and local goings-on across the five boroughs. Joanna Plucinska works in Belgium as a technology reporter for POLITICO Europe. She writes that she covers “everything and anything that the EU is doing on digital policy, as well as some tidbits about Polish and Eastern European politics.” Laura Smith is living in Mexico where she is doing some freelance reporting and making the final edits on her book, The Art of Vanishing, which will be out next year. Lex Talamo has worked for about eight months at the Shreveport Times, a print and online publication in Louisiana, where she covers local investigations and general assignment topics, with sub foci on tribal issues, children's issues, veterans and base affairs. She recently completed her first in-depth series about sex trafficking in Louisiana and is hunting for a different investigative reporter position outside of the corporate world. Katelyn Verstraten is currently based in Vancouver, Canada working as a reporter and editor for CTV News, a major mainstream media broadcast station. She also writes two columns in the business section of The Toronto Star, the largest daily newspaper in Canada. Parker Yesko graduated from Berkeley in May and then headed to Japan on an extended reporting trip which included several days spent in the Fukushima evacuation zone. She is now back in San Francisco hoping to sell those Japan stories and others as a freelance radio reporter. Class contact: Laura Smith ([email protected]).

2015 Law Dani Abada is beginning her final year of law school. She spent the summer as an associate at Sullivan & Cromwell in New York. Louis Fisher and Shayna Sehayik were married this past June. Louis is clerking for Judge Reinhardt of the Ninth Circuit in LA and will move to NY next fall to clerk for Judge J. Paul Oetken of the Southern District. Carla Pierini Losada will be starting at the New York City office of Ropes & Gray in the Corporate Department this fall, where she will have a concentration in healthcare. Additionally, the University of Virginia Journal of Bioethics will be publishing a piece she wrote about the importance of ethnographic research in protecting research subjects overseas. Adam Mendel graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in May and recently took the New York Bar. He is excited to be starting at Willkie, Farr & Gallagher in New York City this fall. Bibi Metsch-Garcia will be clerking for federal Judge Cathy Seibel in the SDNY this fall. Also, she recently got engaged to her future-husband Matt. Rebecca Rosen is an associate attorney at Akin Gump in Los Angeles, where she works in the firm’s corporate practice. Roxanne Strohmeier will be graduating law school in December and preparing for the February Bar Exam. She will also work as a teaching assistant for the UC Davis Master of Public Health Program and as a research assistant for Health Care Law and Bioethics Professor Lisa Ikemoto. Jana Loeb is excited to be joining the FASPE board this fall. Hal Stanton is beginning his third and final year of law school and recently accepted a post-graduation clerkship with Chief Justice Young on the Michigan Supreme Court. Class contact: Hal Stanton ([email protected]).

2015 Medical Shannon Allport recently earned her MPH. She is now finishing her final year at UPenn and

participating in three public health research endeavors. She will be applying to emergency

medicine residency programs. Danielle Bitterman graduated from medical school and started her residency at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. She also got married this past May! Meredith Binford Camp is doing an emergency medicine residency at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, NC. She also reports that her daughter, Annabelle, is seven months old. Kelly (Wolenberg) Harris earned the Kaufman Prize in Medicine at her medical school graduation, which is awarded to the graduating Vanderbilt student who has “demonstrated qualities of humaneness, dedication, and unselfish service in the study of medicine." She is now doing a pediatric residency at Vanderbilt and reports that she will be presenting a paper at the ASBH entitled “Why Share Data in Health Care Ethics Consultation?" Andrew Huang started his first clerkship in June doing pediatrics split between Dartmouth, the Children's Hospital in Orange County, CA, and now at the Tsehootsooi Indian Health Services hospital in Fort Defiance, Arizona. He will be at California Pacific Medical Center for the final three months of the year for internal medicine and then plans to spend 6 weeks in January/February in rural Montana. Sam Kaplan completed a NIH Fogarty Fellowship in HIV research in Cape Town. She is back in New Haven finishing her final year of medical school at Yale and will be applying to internal medicine residency programs this fall. She also reports some exciting away rotations this year: one in Chinle, Arizona in the Navajo Nation and another in the rainforest of Indonesian Borneo. Aleks Olszewski started residency in Pediatrics at Seattle children's hospital in June, making the cross-country move from Boston to Washington State. She reports “I really like residency so far, and my partner and I are enjoying exploring the Pacific Northwest in our rare free time.” Victor Roy is writing up his doctoral dissertation at Cambridge. He aims to return to medical school at Northwestern in early 2017. Caitlin Rublee started emergency medicine residency at the Ohio State University in July. She also reports that she has had a few WWII veterans as patients in the last few months who have reminded her of FASPE. Lisa Schamber graduated from medical school and has been busy with her 3.5 month old son named Elan. This month she started her family medicine residency at Sacramento Sutter Health. Robert Smith graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in May and is currently a pediatrics intern at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. He also matched into the Dermatology program at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, where he will begin his training in 2017. He recently published a dermatoethics case report in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology titled “‘Pretend you didn't hear that’–managing ethical dilemmas from the bottom of a medical hierarchy” and a “perspective” in Academic Medicine on the challenges of utilizing patient social media data for research, titled "Transforming scientific inquiry: Tapping into digital data by building a culture of transparency and consent." Matthew Young is starting his second year of law school and says he is thinking about applying to FASPE Law. Class contact: Danielle Bitterman ([email protected]). 2015 Seminary Rachel Abdoler wrote and presented her thesis titled, "Lam Yursal Illayna: Changing Conceptions of Islam from Christians in the Islamic Empire." It explored Christian theological writings about Muslim and Islam from thinkers living shortly after the fall of the Byzantine Empire to Muslim forces through the following centuries. Jawad Bayat is finishing his chaplaincy residency training at Morristown Medical Center and will begin working at

Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital come September. He will be their first Muslim multi-faith chaplain and will serve patients with psychiatric conditions. Jawad is also in the process of working toward chaplain board certification with the Association of Professional Chaplains. Katie Escalante is finishing her pastoral internship in Chelan, WA and is returning to Luther Seminary in Saint Paul, MN, to complete her Master of Divinity program. Robert Hyde began his first calling into the Christian ministry this past May at the First Congregational Church of Shrewsbury, MA. On June 5, 2016, he was officially ordained into the Christian Church on behalf of the United Church of Christ. Mike LaMarca was ordained to the priesthood on May 28 and assigned as Parochial Vicar at St. John Paul II parish in Lake View, NY. Eric Martin moved to Charlottesville, Virginia, where his spouse will be working for UVA. He will still teach classes at Fordham University in the Bronx weekly, and is working on his dissertation. He recently co-edited The Berrigan Letters: Personal Correspondence between Daniel and Philip Berrigan. Jaye Starr finished her hospital chaplaincy internship at University of Michigan and is now focusing on community organizing around food access and building better race relations through interfaith work, and learning to be a medical advocate for her daughter. Luke Zerra was accepted into the Ph.D. program in Theology/Ethics at Princeton Theological Seminary. Class contact: Katie Escalante ([email protected]). 2016 Business Simon Basseyn spent the summer in Boston, working in GlaxoSmithKline's corporate venture unit, SR One. He has now returned to the University of Pennsylvania where he's completing the final year of his MD/MBA program. Rowan Frankel spent the summer doing Product Strategy and Marketing at the Bank of America HQ in Charlotte, NC. He's excited to get back to Cambridge for year two of his MBA at MIT Sloan. Brian Hathaway had an eventful and enjoyable summer. He left Deloitte the week after returning from FAPSE, got married in Indiana, honeymooned in Mexico, and is now starting a PhD program in Management at Wharton where he will study "hybrid" organizations that balance social and economic goals. Michael Heumann is continuing to work at the Institute for Business Ethics in St. Gallen, Switzerland, where is starting with his PhD in September. He considers himself lucky to be getting around a lot this year. He is attending academic conferences in Germany, Cameroon, and the USA, and has planned vacation trips to Italy, Russia and Cuba. Katherine Salisbury spent the summer at MasterCard in an operations role within the Digital Payments Group. She is returning to UVA to finish her MBA. Rob Wilson graduated from Tuck and has moved to Seattle with his wife and two daughters. He just started work at Amazon where he will be developing new products and features for S3, the storage component of Amazon's cloud computing. He is sorely missing the wonderful food and delightful company of the FASPE program. Class contact: Brian Hathaway ([email protected]). 2016 Journalism Matt Beagle is biking around San Francisco and chasing stories as a radio news reporter at KQED, San Francisco's NPR affiliate station. He also just survived a 30-mile backpacking trip in Yosemite National Park! Catherine Bennett is spending a hot summer in Madrid where she is working for Reuters covering domestic politics. In September she will be moving to Brussels to work on the international desk of Agence France-Presse. Katrina Clarke is back in Toronto spending her weekdays working for the Toronto Star and weekends learning how to windsurf. Christopher Crosby is a print journalist covering Maine’s court system for the Lewiston Sun

Journal. When he’s not chasing the latest round of arrests, he’s writing about Pokemon Go and cattle rustling (if you’ve seen Tiko the bull, please advise). He’ll be finishing a degree in journalism at New York University later this winter. Rachel Gross is spending the summer avoiding Trump and settling into her new role as Science Web Editor at Smithsonian Magazine in DC. She has also somehow gotten roped into helping organize an international conservation conference in the spring, and is profiling one of the Smithsonian's most controversial bird researchers, which is a hoot. Natalie Lampert traded bustling Brooklyn for the alpine air of Colorado, which will be home for the foreseeable future. She is continuing work from there on her book about fertility technologies and reproductive health. Post-FASPE, she taught creative writing to high-school students in Ghost Ranch, New Mexico and—on 24 hours' notice—flew to Prague to lead a cultural exploration and writing trip through the Czech Republic. Dayton Martindale left California for Chicago in June, to begin as an assistant editor at the progressive magazine and website In These Times. So far he has edited pieces on, among other things, abortion rights, climate activism, this interminable election, and at least four different conflicts in the Middle East. Sarah Esther Maslin continues to freelance from San Salvador for the Washington Post and the Economist. Since FASPE she has written about the decline in international adoption, a dramatic bust of the Mara Salvatrucha gang, and the overturning of an amnesty law that has shielded the perpetrators of human rights crimes committed during El Salvador's 1980-1992 civil war. Stay tuned for her FASPE project, to be published this fall in the CJR. Christine Rushton refuses to accept the reality of a sticky, sweaty DC summer, so she’s instead taking on as many freelance assignments for Capital Community News and the Los Angeles Times as she can pen in her air-conditioned apartment. She runs each morning to prepare for covering whatever news hits the fan each day on the presidential campaign trail for the LA Times. Come fall, she will add on teaching Syracuse University students online part-time and wrangling little squirts to sit down at the piano bench to learn. Ilgin Yorulmaz planned to spend a quiet summer in her hometown on the Aegean coast of Turkey, but instead found herself breaking news for the Huffington Post on the Istanbul airport attack and the failed coup d'etat. Apart from freelancing for Huff Post and T24, a Turkish digital news site, she's currently working on a story on Syrian child brides and covering religion in the Turkish press as part of a Columbia fellowship, which she will complete upon her return to NYC this fall. Class contact: Ilgin Yorulmaz ([email protected]) 2016 Law Agostina Allori had an enviable experience traveling throughout Europe after FASPE and has since returned home to Buenos Aires, Argentina. She will begin work at the Justice Ministry in the fall. Philip Caruso worked in the corporate group at Skadden Arps in New York City this summer and will begin business school in the fall as part of a joint JD/MBA program. Alexander Ely recently sat for the Massachusetts bar exam and will soon begin a clerkship with the Hon. Norman Stahl on the First Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston. Ayelet Evrony became engaged to her fiancé Jason shortly after returning from FASPE. Ayelet also spent the summer working in the litigation group at Paul Weiss in New York City and will return to campus for her last year of law school in the fall. Jack Huerter worked at Dorsey & Whitney in Minneapolis this summer in their trial, finance & restructuring and regulatory groups. Jack also recently accepted a 2017 clerkship position with the Hon. Hildy Bowbeer, U.S. Magistrate Judge for the District of Minnesota. Maritza Martin worked this summer at Nixon Peabody in San Francisco and will be interning at the San Francisco City Attorney's Office this coming fall. Maritza will also be

traveling to the Dominican Republic, Mexico, and Ecuador before the year ends. Daniel Matheny and his wife, Emily, are expecting their first child in January. Dan and Emily are considering Thorin and Thorsten as potential names. In October, Dan will begin work as a transactional attorney at Jones Day in Columbus, OH. Pamela Nwaoko worked this summer at Skadden Arps in Washington, DC and left with an offer in hand from their Financial Institutions, Regulation and Enforcement Group. In the fall 2016 semester, Pamela will be studying abroad at the University of Ghana Legon. Shannon Prince’s note, “Green is the New Black: African American Literature Informing Environmental Justice Law,” has been selected for publication in the Journal of Environmental Law and Litigation. Elizabeth Sebesky recently sat for the DC bar. In doing so, she rose above the distraction caused by the two-hour start delay courtesy of the DC Board of Bar Examiners. More importantly, Elizabeth is getting married in September and will begin work this fall at Willkie Farr & Gallagher in DC. Catherine Smith worked this summer at the U.S. Department of Justice and will return to the land of the long leaf pine to complete law school in the fall. Following graduation, Catherine will clerk for the Hon. Bobby R. Baldock on the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals in Roswell, NM. Jon Williams recently graduated from law school and sat for the Utah Bar. This month, Jon begins a clerkship with the Hon. David Nuffer, Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah. Class contact: Jack Huerter ([email protected]). 2016 Medical Colleen Farrell reports that a highlight of the summer was having a FASPE reunion with Dani and Laura in Kansas City, MO, at the American Academy of Family Physicians Conference this July. Susan Folsom survived her first military active duty rotation at San Antonio Military Medical Center. She is now diving into residency applications for Ob/Gyn. Jason Han has completed all of his cardiac surgery rotations and is now enjoying some trail running at the Grand Canyon among other national parks. Katie Hsih is finishing up medical school at Johns Hopkins and using MS4 to explore different approaches to psychiatry at various institutions in the US and abroad. Abraar Karan has been analyzing his research on female sex workers from India, particularly the role of cultural and communal pressures driving individual participation. In addition, he is relaxing and enjoying the last few days of summer in Los Angeles before he packs up and leaves for Boston to start his MPH at the Harvard School of Public Health. Holland Kaplan is enjoying the last year of medical school, working on applying to internal medicine for residency, and spending time with her fiancé, Padfoot, and Sophie. Monika Krolak graduated from medical school right after FASPE! In September she is taking the National Medical Licensing Examination and then will start an internship in Switzerland. Maria De Lourdes Ladino honeymooned in Europe after FASPE and is now back at school. She is on an endocrinology rotation and is preparing for two emergency medicine away rotations in California! She recently participated in a 2-day workshop which provided recommendations about changes to Vanderbilt’s medical curriculum and training related to diversity, inclusion, and implicit bias; and she is co-leading bi-weekly coffee hours through her school’s Gold Humanism Honor Society. Laura Sherwood has been doing her critical care and family medicine sub-internships. She reports that she enjoyed a lovely reunion with Dani and Colleen at the AAFP National Conference and writes “I only wish everyone could have made it.” Priscilla Wang is researching electronic clinical note predictors of opioid abuse / opioid-related adverse drug events and continuing to facilitate medical student reflective writing sessions. She will be applying to residency in internal medicine this fall. Ben Yu is finishing his fourth year clinical

rotations and getting ready to apply for psychiatry residency in the fall. He is also beginning a qualitative project interviewing female veterans about the connections between intimate partner violence, housing instability, and access to healthcare. Class contact: Abraar Karan ([email protected]). 2016 Seminary Marcia Bosma will soon begin her second year of her MDiv studies at Western Theological Seminary in Holland, MI. She will be interning at the Fifth Reformed Church in Grand Rapids, where she will continue to preach, assist with pastoral care, and contribute to the Strategic Leadership Team. Cornelia Dalton is beginning her second year of study at the Jewish Theological Seminary in Jerusalem as part of the Israel Year program. She will be there until June, and is looking forward to learning with rabbinical students from the U.S. and all over the world. Sam Davidson is thinking ahead to fall ice cream flavors. He recently became a Huffington Post contributor and is looking forward to helping teach an undergrad religion class at Baylor in the spring for his seminary mentoring semester. Daniel Headrick is entering his third and final year of his MDiv program at the George W. Truett Theological Seminary. He is also practicing law part-time and teaching the college class at Seventh and James Baptist Church. Antuan Ilgit has started his last year of doctoral studies at Boston College School of Theology and Ministry. After the defense of his dissertation he plans to start teaching moral theology in the fall of 2017 at The San Luigi Papal Theological Seminary of Southern Italy in Naples. Emily Langowitz is entering her fifth and final year of rabbinical school. She is looking forward to interning at Larchmont Temple and finishing her rabbinic thesis before searching for jobs in the spring. Justin Mikulencak is about to begin his final year of study at Yale Divinity School and will be pursuing ordination in the Texas Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church. Maria Surat is living in South Bend, IN, where she serves as a pastoral minister with the Catholic Peace Fellowship and the St. Peter Claver Catholic Worker community. She also works as an adjunct instructor at Holy Cross College. Luke Uebler will complete his MDiv at Christ the King Seminary after this academic year. Luke is also anticipating his ordination into the transitional diaconate on September 17, 2016 with an assignment to serve at St. Joseph Cathedral in Buffalo, NY, and his priesthood ordination on June 3, 2017. Class contact: Daniel Headrick ([email protected])