Kurt H. Teil, F52

1952

KURT H. TEIL traveled from Karlsruhe, Germany, to his birth city of Hamburg to view the placement of his very own Stolperstein (Stumbling Stone) memorial in front of the home he left in 1939. More than 70,000 of these memorials, in the shape of cobblestones bearing brass plates on top, have been placed in the sidewalks in front of homes that Jews inhabited in Europe before they were deported to extermination camps or fled abroad. The German Spiegel newsmagazine and the Hamburger Abendblatt have covered Kurt’s 20th-century exploits as a Jewish refugee, ball turret gunner over Germany, war crimes investigator and Nazi hunter, civil rights activist in 1948, McCarthy hearing witness in 1949, and so on. After Fletcher, he joined the U.S. Foreign Service, and served within the Agency for International Development for three decades, retiring to Austria and Germany.

TOM PICKERING, F54

1954

TOM PICKERING, see 1995.

LEE E. DIRKS, F57

1957

LEE E. DIRKS retired after 47 years in the newspaper industry and now lives in Jupiter, FL, with his wife, Donna Bradley. Lee has devoted much of his retirement to collecting art, at first paintings of New Mexico by nationally prominent early American modernists and more recently Japanese woodblock prints from the 1680s to the 1920s. The Met in New York City is planning to exhibit about 40 of his more important prints until May 30; some 165 traveled to Japan in 2018–19 for a Nikkei-sponsored exhibition in four major cities, with a catalog entitled Popular Impressions: Japanese Prints from the Lee E. Dirks Collection.

PHYLLIS ELLIOTT OAKLEY, F57

1957

PHYLLIS ELLIOTT OAKLEY moved to a retirement home in Ingleside, still in DC, in mid-December 2019, and found a few other Fletcherites. They were going to get together, but that’s on hold. She used to see CAROLE SAWYER DAVISON, J56, F57, often, but since COVID-19 hit, it is all via telephone.

PETER KROGH, F61, F66

1961

A new book by PETER KROGH, The World’s Westward March: Explorers, Warriors and Statesmen, has landed on Amazon with a full house of five-star reviews. It follows the westward migration of “centers of initiative” and of the “main axis of commerce and communication” over the last 600 years.

BRAD OELMAN, F61

1961

BRAD OELMAN has been retired for 20 years, and his interests revolve around his wife, Betty, and his five children and eight grandchildren. To be closer to the youngest ones growing up in Los Angeles, they are moving their summer residence from Cape Cod to Sherman Oaks.

RAY DUNCAN, F62, F64

1962

RAY DUNCAN, see 1963.

LORNE DYKE, F62

1962

LORNE DYKE sends his best wishes to all remaining members of the Class of 1962. He particularly wishes us safe transit through perilous times.

FRITZ GILBERT, F62

1962

Jane and FRITZ GILBERT are very thankful that the COVID-19 pandemic didn’t hit us before FaceTime, Zoom, and WhatsApp became widely available. Despite the pandemic, they’ve stayed in touch with friends and family to a degree that they would never have imagined. This year will be the first in 27 that they haven’t spent partly in Vermont. But they are adapting pretty well. Jane worked with a group of volunteers, preparing postcards that exhorted voters around Virginia to support Democratic candidates. The New York Times reported on this group’s efforts. Fritz continues to work part time for the nonprofit group known as the American Friends of the Episcopal Church of the Sudans (AFRECS).

CAROL HURLBURT, F62

1962

CAROL HURLBURT’s good news is that her family members are staying well and socially distanced, mostly at home. Her efforts to register voters and get out the vote moved to the virtual sphere as the groups she worked with requested that those over 70 stay home. In addition to writing cards and letters, she was the contact person for the “Souls to the Polls” project sponsored by the church to which she and Sid belong. That involved working with a local interfaith charitable organization to register voters and help folks in underserved areas get to the polls. One of her and Sid’s daughters worked with the Biden transition team, and the other has completed teaching her virtual history class and returned to full-time work as an assistant dean at North Carolina State.

HARVEY BURG, F63

1963

HARVEY BURG was given ADL Austin’s Lifetime Achievement Award in December.

WALTER CARTER, F63

1963

In early November, WALTER CARTER attended (via Zoom) Fletcher’s Global Issues Seminar, Climate Change Challenges and Concerns. He’s glad that the internet has made such things possible, but he looks forward to a return to in-person connections.

GLENN COOPER, F63

1963

Like most everyone else, GLENN COOPER and Pam are hunkered down trying to help stop the virus spread and are appalled at how such common-sense behavior has become a national political issue. Onto foolish elderly stuff: Glenn sold his last motorcycle and bought another sailboat. He had his share of near misses with the motorcycle, and now he and Pam risk kidnapping by Somali pirates again. Not really. Plan is for the new, used boat to become a seasonal home as they return to spending winter months cruising around the Bahamas. Really wonderful to miss the TV news because you’re too busy spearfishing. After Thanksgiving, Glenn joined a Zoom call with BOB LEGVOLD, F63, F67, and RAY DUNCAN, F62, F64. They’re both in terrific shape and sound very busy.

RON GLANTZ, F63

1963

New York has lost its magic because of COVID-19, so RON GLANTZ moved to Rhode Island to be closer to family. Ron remains senior advisor to Pantera Capital Management, the leading blockchain investment firm and one of the largest institutional owners of cryptocurrencies. Gina founded and runs genderavenger.com, a community of activists dedicated to ensuring that women are always part of the public dialogue.

LINDA GROFF, F63, F78

1963

The Rev. LINDA GROFF is director at Global Options & Evolutionary Futures Consulting and emeritus professor at California State University, Dominguez Hills, where she taught for more than 40 years. She is working on two books: Sustainable Peacebuilding in a Rapidly Changing World: Holistic, Evolving Aspects of Peace, Nonviolence, & Community Engagement and Options for Future Human Evolution: Cutting-Edge Issues for Humanity and the World.

BOB LEGVOLD, F63

1963

Like the rest of you, Gloria and BOB LEGVOLD are focused on trying to stay safe during the virus crisis and working remotely. The rest of their family, including the five grandchildren, seem OK. The youngest is finishing her Army medic training in Texas, and the oldest is super busy as part of the management team at Athena Health. Gloria continues her leadership role in several community organizations, although she stepped down as campaign chair for their state senator. Bob is still involved with a variety of projects and organizations, including a master’s program that he co-chairs in Moscow. He also co-chairs the American Academy of Arts and Sciences project Managing the Challenges of the New Multipolar Nuclear Age.

MICHAEL SHARPLES, F63

1963

Dee and MICHAEL SHARPLES took a six-day cruise to Captiva Island on their new boat, Morning Star, an 11-meter Beneteau Antares. The crew included grandkids Cole and Kinsey.

LOUISE DECOSTA WIDES, F63

1963

LOUISE DECOSTA WIDES spent most of her adult years in Washington, DC, where she and her husband worked for the government. For 25 years, she directed the Information Division at the Federal Election Commission, explaining the campaign finance law to candidates, parties, and PACs. Today, she teaches English as a second language to adult learners. She has never enjoyed her work as much as she does now. She teaches virtually, using Zoom (with breakout rooms and shared screens). A steep learning curve. She suspects that Zoom and many other such tools will be with us for a long time—well after COVID-19.

BILL MARES, F64

1964

Raised in Texas and educated at Harvard and The Fletcher School, BILL MARES is a former journalist, state representative, and high school teacher. He has authored or co-authored 18 books on subjects ranging from the U.S. Marines to desert travel, from war memorials to economic democracy, from brewing beer to beekeeping. From 2007 to 2018, he wrote more than 200 commentaries for Vermont Public Radio. He serves on the boards of VT Digger, the Vermont Beekeepers Association, the Vermont Brewers Association, and Food4Farmers. He lives in Burlington, VT, with his wife of 49 years, Chris Hadsel. They have two sons.

CHARLIE STEVENSON, F64

1964

CHARLIE STEVENSON is at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, where he teaches courses on Congress and foreign policy and on the interagency process for national security. He worries about the financial and other challenges facing international affairs schools. Having worked for then-Senator Joe Biden from 1981 to 1985, he is hopeful about the new administration. He remembers fondly the close-knit life at Fletcher and wishes that students everywhere could have that kind of experience nowadays.

LARRY STRUVE, F65

1965

The Fletcher Class of 1965 was honored at the virtual Winter Celebration for the Januarian Class of 2021 on December 11, 2020. LARRY STRUVE, author of the 1965 class memoir In the Shadow of Camelot, gave the keynote address, which paid tribute to several classmates, including Capt. JAMES PATTON, F65, F72, JAMES FUNNA, BOLAJI AKINYEMI, F65, F66, SUCHIT BUNBONGKARN, ROBERT C. HORN III, F65, F66, F69, HUGO SPECHAR-GONZALEZ, PAUL HSU, and SANDAR VOGELGESANG, F65, F71. The address was recorded and can be viewed on Fletcher’s Facebook page.

PETER ARMSTRONG HALL, F67, F75

1967

At long last, PETER ARMSTRONG HALL reconnected with MASAO KAWAI. They reminisced about their years at Fletcher, including Ping-Pong after Walter Cronkite, Thanksgiving outings, incredible snowstorms in which Masao was entrapped, tennis, and studying in the library. They also remembered how, much later, Masao helped Peter name his eldest daughter, Taira. Peter hopes to see Masao and other Fletcher colleagues in post-pandemic time. Meanwhile, he has been cycling, reading, and spending time with his wife, Saskia. Their daughter CAROLINE ARMSTRONG HALL, F20, is rounding off her academic career at Cambridge, where she is studying international law.

MASAO KAWAI, F67

1967

MASAO KAWAI has lectured at universities in China for the last 15 years. Because of the coronavirus, he was unable to go abroad this year, so he has been talking with his students in China online. He also talks with a couple of Europeans in French every week. In the fall, he gave an online lecture to about 100 Southeast Asian students. Masao wants to increase his contacts among young people in East Asia who could help promote peace in the region. After the coronavirus comes under control, he would like to go to neighboring countries and talk with young people again.

STEVE PENROSE, F67, F73

1967

STEVE PENROSE and his family around the country thankfully are healthy. His life has been rather oddly busy, as his volunteer work has continued virtually through everyone’s new best friend, Zoom. For the first time in modern memory, Steve hasn’t visited an airport (except to renew his Global Entry pass, a reflection of blind optimism).

JOHN STREMLAU, F67, F74, & CAROLYN STREMLAU, F67, F75

1967

JOHN STREMLAU and CAROLYN STREMLAU, see 1968.

RICK WEINTRAUB, F67

1967

Alison and RICK WEINTRAUB arrived in Vermont and completed their quarantine just in time for a 40-inch snowfall. Nothing like 40 inches of snow to take your mind off just about everything else. A challenge to lift the shovel and toss the snow but also truly beautiful.

VIVIAN WITKIND DAVIS, F68

1968

VIVIAN WITKIND DAVIS lost her husband, Jack, in March 2020. Jack died of complications from 28 years with progressive MS. They were lucky to get him out of the hospital and into home hospice just before the first wave of COVID-19 swept through Ohio.

ALAN MCKEE, F68

1968

ALAN MCKEE and Marty have indeed survived, as have their grown kids and grandkids (whom they’ve hardly seen for a year, of course).

SALLY KYLE MILLER, F68, & BRUCE JON MILLER, F68

1968

With great sadness SALLY KYLE MILLER reports the passing of her husband of 50 years, BRUCE JON MILLER, who completed his life’s journey on January 7, 2021. His stunts while a student at Fletcher were legendary, including the parking lot snow removal hoax, as well as the nightly trips to Angelina’s for subs at 11 p.m. The friendships he and Sally made at Fletcher have lasted a lifetime. Donations in his memory may be made to The Fletcher School. On a happier note, Sally has been cancer-free for nearly three years following her 2018 surgery. She and her granddaughter have organized two local food drives and helped prepare weekend food packs for their local elementary and middle schools. Also, Sally’s genealogical research has turned up intriguing stories of punished Scottish rebels sold as indentured servants in New England, a Massachusetts fisherman captured by the French, a livery stable owner in Brooklyn in 1930, and a kosher butcher in Pueblo, CO, in 1910.

PETER OLESON, F68

1968

PETER OLESON and Luuk are staying isolated in Kailua, on the windward coast of Oahu, where they are renovating a house they recently bought. They spend a lot of time babysitting their 8-year-old granddaughter and 1-year-old grandson. This helps their daughter and son-in-law, both of whom work from home, which makes child care a challenge. Peter continues to do research and write, having had several articles published over the last six months.

CYRUS PARTOVI, F68

1968

After 28 years, CYRUS PARTOVI has retired as Lewis & Clark College senior lecturer emeritus in social sciences. Previously he served as director general in charge of international affairs for the Imperial Court of the late Shah of Iran. Just for the record, he asserts that he would not trade one day of his classroom lectures, in which he was constantly challenged by progressive, inquisitive minds, for all the imperial pomp and circumstance. However, he does admit to missing the freshly baked bread and the smell of the Caspian Sea.

BARBARA PORTER, F68

1968

BARBARA PORTER is helping her continuing care community with financial and strategic planning, which it especially needs during these times. The pandemic has led to unexpected expenses, and revenue has been curtailed because of restrictions on new residents moving in.

JAIME REIS, F68

1968

JAIME REIS continues to live in Lisbon and be a part of Instituto de Ciências Sociais Universidade de Lisboa.

MARK REUBINGER, F68

1968

MARK REUBINGER’s career has included work for several nonprofit organizations, including the Ford Foundation and the Pew Charitable Trusts. For 17 years, he was the chief executive of the national nonprofit called LISC (Local Initiatives Support Corp.). LISC invests more than a billion dollars a year in the physical and economic development of low-income urban and rural communities. Mark retired in 2016.

LEX RIEFFEL, F68, F69

1968

LEX RIEFFEL became a member of the board of trustees of Parami University in Myanmar in October. The university is a startup that will be Myanmar’s first private, nonprofit liberal arts college when its first class arrives in the fall of 2022. To learn more or to donate, Lex suggests going to parami.edu.mm.

CHRISTINA SCHOUX, F68

1968

CHRISTINA SCHOUX hopes that the new administration will help restore the country’s role and influence in the world. On a personal note, it has been a difficult year for Chris, who lost her younger, California sister, Eva Hussey, to COVID-19 in June. She’s grateful for Zoom meetings and programs, and for the opportunity to spend three weeks in October visiting her daughter, a linguistics professor, and her two granddaughters, Vivi Belle, 11, and Clea Joy, 9, in Copenhagen.

NEALIE SMALL, F68, & JONATHAN SMALL, F68

1968

NEALIE SMALL lost her husband of 51 years, JONATHAN SMALL, in late July. Her four grandchildren have been a vital part of her life, particularly since the summer. Support from her two married daughters, one of whom is a medical doctor, was critical during Jon’s time in hospice. Jonathan graduated from Brown and Harvard Law before coming to Fletcher. After a long career as a partner in the law firm of Debevoise & Plimpton, he served as the executive director of the Nonprofit Coordinating Committee of New York.

KEITH SMITH, F68, F72

1968

KEITH SMITH has two sons who are mixed (Black and white), and his second son has two children who are half Chinese. Having grandkids representing such racial diversity ain’t half bad, he says.

ROGER SULLIVAN, F68

1968

ROGER SULLIVAN announces the arrival of a “true” Fletcher grandson. Silas Sullivan Stremlau is the son of Roger’s daughter and her husband, Matthew Stremlau, who is the son of JOHN STREMLAU, F67, F74, and CAROLYN STREMLAU, F67, F75. The Fletcher genes live on.

PATRICK CONNOLLY, F69, F71

1969

PATRICK CONNOLLY and his wife, Agnes, are enjoying their monastic solitude in Sonoma, CA. Patrick is sorry to report that the late-summer fires devastated thousands of acres of lovely vineyards around them. Heartbreaking to see all that beautiful agriculture destroyed, yet another cost of the changing climate.

GEORGE LAMBRAKIS, F69

1969

GEORGE LAMBRAKIS is riding out the pandemic at his home by the ocean in Pornic, western France. Fletcher alumni in Britain, France, and elsewhere recently interviewed him via Zoom about his Foreign Service memoir, So You Want to be a Diplomat? An American Diplomat’s Progress from Vietnam to Iran, Fun, Warts and All. The memoir remains eminently available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Alibris.

CAROLYN SETLOW, F69

1969

CAROLYN SETLOW and her husband, Andy Shapiro, have been hunkered down in their country home in rural Connecticut since March 2020. Their only significant excursions have been visits to New York City to spend time with Josephine, their newly arrived first grandchild. Carolyn has been active locally in organizing food drives and has joined CUNY’s Graduate Center Lifelong Peer Learning Program. Thus far she’s pursued subjects ranging from Winston Churchill to artificial intelligence, Wagner’s operas to documentary films. Drawing on her studies at Fletcher’s Edward R. Murrow Center and her professional experience in public opinion polling and marketing research, she is preparing a 12-week study-group course, Public Opinion Polls: For Better or Worse in a Democracy?

GREGORY SMITH, F69

1969

GREGORY SMITH and his wife, Fraya, are exploring the wildlife areas in rural Vermont and pursuing new lifelong learning programs. A course on the writing of memoirs and Zoom readings of plays have kept Greg modestly sane, or reasonably close thereto.

JOHN CASWELL, F70

1970

JOHN CASWELL stayed happy and healthy and kept his head down in 2020. He’s praying and hoping for a better year in 2021.

FARRI CRESS, F70

1970

FARRI CRESS continues to work closely with J Street and other U.S. organizations striving to bridge the gap between Israelis and Palestinians. Her particular focus is youth in Gaza who are struggling to pursue an education during the pandemic. Most rely on cell phones for their virtual studies, and she is trying to get computers to the 14 boys who remain on the Irene Meister Scholarship program. Farri has also sponsored a successful Shop with a Cop program in Wayne, NJ, where she has lived for the past 30 years. Through Shop with a Cop, police officers build positive relationships with disadvantaged children by taking them shopping and just having normal conversations with them.

RICHARD (DICK) DOYLE, F70

1970

RICHARD (DICK) DOYLE and Eileen are back to their winter home in Cocoa Beach, FL. Although Dick has temporarily given up his volunteer work at Cape Canaveral Hospital, he continues to serve as a board member of the Community Transportation Association of America. Dick and Eileen spent the summer at their home in Ireland. They have found that it’s great to have a whole separate Irish life.

MARY HARRIS, F70

1970

On winter solstice eve, MARY HARRIS was waiting to see the confluence of Saturn and Jupiter. The ability to gaze skyward at something in common makes us Fletcher folks far flung throughout the globe seem closer to one another, she says. May we one day all be together again (51st reunion anyone?).

ANDREA JOHNSON, F70, & WILLIAM SPENCER JOHNSON, F70

1970

ANDREA and WILLIAM SPENCER JOHNSON are both now in excellent health after medical events not related to the dreaded virus.

CHARLES KOVACS, F70

1970

CHARLES KOVACS and Catherine returned to Budapest in January 2020 and have been there ever since, thanks to COVID-19. Restrictions in Hungary have been less severe than in the U.S. and Western Europe, and the quality of life has remained high along with the level of corruption, though they have not benefited from the latter. Social life has ranged from the diminished to the nonexistent, ergo, this has been a year with reading, the internet, and Skype as the main activities.

AUGUST (GUS) MAFFRY, F70

1970

AUGUST (GUS) MAFFRY still lives with his wife, Elizabeth, in a Parisian suburb near Versailles and is at home a lot due to very strict French COVID-19 rules. He was closely following recent negotiations between the State Department and Congress that would affect compensation for bombing victims like him. By way of background, he quotes an article in the Exeter Bulletin: “The U.S. Supreme Court in May 2020 unanimously ruled that Sudan must pay punitive damages to certain victims of the 1998 Nairobi embassy bombing. Gus Maffry, who was injured in the attack, is one of the plaintiffs in the relevant lower-court ruling that was overturned.”

TOM MARTIN, F70

1970

Although much of the Washington, DC, area was shut down because of the COVID-19 pandemic, TOM MARTIN continued full time at a client site for Booz Allen. He observes that there are several new work rituals: a daily walk-through temperature check in the lobby, weekly COVID-19 tests, and some rather innovative (imaginative?) split shifts.

CAROLYN PATTERSON, F70

1970

CAROLYN PATTERSON and Bill have been in lockdown, and it has been a remarkably uneventful year. They have been living at their property about 45 miles north of New York City since early March 2020. They look forward to widespread vaccination. Happily, Zoom has allowed Carolyn to continue most of her normal activities, including the always fascinating Off the Record lecture series on foreign policy.

HARRY PETREQUIN, F70

1970

HARRY PETREQUIN and Katharine have been doing a lot of reading previously postponed. Harry reflects that this pandemic and the climate crisis have shattered the illusion of normalcy, redefined who we are, and shown us that we live in a world where everything is interconnected. He is heartened to see his three sons and their generation advocating for the code of conduct that our global community will need to survive.

ROY STACY, F70

1970

After considerable encouragement from friends and colleagues, ROY STACY wrote his memoir, A Delinquent’s Detour. It begins with his eyewitness account of the bombing of Pearl Harbor and then follows his professional life at USAID, most of it in Africa. Roy’s book is available on Amazon and through Archway Publishing. The title refers to his early years as a juvenile delinquent.

ROGER WALLACE, F70

1970

ROGER WALLACE has been at his farm since March 11, 2020. That was when he returned from Los Angeles after seeing his first grandchild, who was born late that February. For those of us lucky enough to have a sustainable income and a roof over our heads, this year has been one of profound reset, he says. He doesn’t think we have begun to fathom what it means. He is optimistic about 2021.

WILLIAM SARGENT, F71

1971

WILLIAM SARGENT wrote a novel called Terror by Error? The Covid Chronicles. It looks at times that medicine and biological warfare have intersected, from the early 1600s, when Native Americans encountered smallpox, to the SARS epidemic of the early 2000s. The focus then turns to COVID-19 and its impacts. Sargent, a recipient of the Boston Globe’s Winship Award, is a NOVA consultant and the author of 27 books about science and the environment, including Crab Wars: A Tale of Horseshoe Crabs, Bioterrorism and Human Health. To schedule a 45-minute virtual book talk, please contact Jill Buchanan at jbuchanan42@comcast.net.

JOHN ENDICOTT, F73, F74

1973

Getting released from two weeks of isolation after returning to Korea on their 61st wedding anniversary was a highlight for JOHN ENDICOTT and Mitchie. Woosong University, which John has led for 14 years, was awarded a 2 billion won grant to integrate artificial intelligence and big data in the development of an autonomous railway system, including driverless trains. John’s leadership team also established a new English language school, the J.W. Kim College of Future Studies, at the university. Now the courses at four of the eight colleges of Woosong University are taught in English, and 230 of the 700-strong faculty are foreign.

NIHAL GOONEWARDENE, F73, F74

1973

NIHAL GOONEWARDENE chair of The Fletcher Fund, is happy to report that it met all its challenges on Giving Tuesday, raising $173,107 from 428 donors. To help make that happen, he took a cue from that sage from the Windy City, Rahm Emmanuel. The dictum of the former Chicago mayor—that “a crisis is too important to waste”—prompted Nihal to redouble efforts to mobilize the recent activism of students and alums. Many rallied their finest instincts in support of Fletcher.

HERB HOWE, F73

1973

HERB HOWE and Caryle were able to sample the sights in Sarasota, FL, and in Rhode Island while celebrating family weddings before the onset of the pandemic. They loved the beaches and two circus museums in Sarasota. Caryle continues gamely on her road to recovery from major transplant surgery in 2018. Good days outpace the rough ones. Herb, of course, continues to fret about our polity.

NORM MOSHER, F73

1973

NORM MOSHER and Jan have rebranded themselves as Virginians. In a back-to-the-future move, they have left Alaska and returned to Irvington, VA, where they will reside at Rappahannock Westminster-Canterbury, a continuing care community. Norm says, “After you’ve seen the bear and caught the fish and the scenery has not moved, it’s time to go home.”

SEAN RANDOLPH, F73, F78

1973

Despite the pandemic, SEAN RANDOLPH was busier than ever in San Francisco, producing work on technology and global economic issues for his think tank. The 2020 presidential campaign, in which he volunteered for Biden, was also a big focus, as were trail and mountain running. Even though all 2020 competitive races were canceled, he managed to pull off a 60-mile run across the North Cascade Mountains in Washington state in September. Meanwhile, his granddaughter Sky is now 2 years old and growing quickly. She, his son Ian, and daughter-in-law Joy live in the UK.

SUZANNE RATZLOFF, F73

1973

SUZANNE RATZLOFF is sad to report the death of Dr. Sergey Fedorenko in April. Sergey lectured at Fletcher and participated in Professor Pfaltzgraff’s International Arms Control Symposium, which is where she met him during her Fletcher years. Sergey and Suzanne maintained close ties while he served in the UN Security Council’s Office of Disarmament and, later, lectured at the Naval War College, Georgetown University, and Salve Regina University in Newport, RI. Ever the brilliant mind, he quickly picked up medical expertise that allowed him to work with her through her boutique company, Health Research International, for two decades. Suzanne continues to live and work from her Arabian horse farm in West Liberty, OH.

LISA ANDERSON, F74

1974

LISA ANDERSON joined the Fletcher Board of Advisors in the fall in her capacity as a trustee of Tufts University. She looks forward to direct engagement with Fletcher and the Class of 1974.

NIHAL GOONEWARDENE, F73, F74

1974

NIHAL GOONEWARDENE, see 1973.

MICHAEL K. SIMPSON, F74

1974

MICHAEL K. SIMPSON has been selected as a mentor/instructor for the Designing for Defense program at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He will support a project on space system anomaly detection. He has also been selected to mentor students in the Southern Hemisphere space studies program offered by the International Space University and the University of South Australia. For this program, he will support a project that explores the use of space assets to address the growing threat of wildfire. Both programs will be offered online.

DAVID DEESE, F75

1975

DAVID DEESE’s oldest son, Brian Deese, of Belmont, MA, became the director of the National Economic Council for Biden in January.

BRUCE STRONACH, F76

1976

In early September, BRUCE STRONACH retired after serving for 12 years as dean of Temple University’s Japan campus and was appointed dean emeritus. Bruce has moved from Tokyo back to his house in Maine on Lake Messalonskee. He’s doing some writing, teaching a course at Colby College, and just trying to figure out what his second (third? fourth?) life is going to be.

ERIC HERMANN, F78

1978

ERIC HERMANN is waiting out COVID-19 in the Rockies with a Bernese puppy. Still doing emerging markets but also devoting time to a biotech startup focused on wound healing and tissue regeneration.

KEITH NICHOLS, F78

1978

KEITH NICHOLS, see 1979.

DORAN HOWITT, F79

1979

DORAN HOWITT is now blogging at OccasionalEconomist.com.

DENNIS JOHNSON, F79

1979

DENNIS JOHNSON thought that taking the chief credit officer job at a bank in Central California would be a capstone to his banking career. He also hoped that the good economy would last a few more years, after which he would retire. Then came 2020, COVID-19, and PPP loans, and the hits just keep on coming. He and Anne are empty nesters with one daughter in the horse insurance industry and the other pursuing a Ph.D. in equine microbiology at the University of Delaware. They have a place in Newark, DE, which has allowed them to visit Maria Elena and SCOTT THAYER several times now. Back in California, they keep talking about visiting Michelle and KEITH NICHOLS, F78, once the pandemic abates.

ADRIANA BOSCH, F80, F84

1980

ADRIANA BOSCH completed a film in March 2020 that was featured at the Boston Latino International Film Festival. She is also the producer of part one of the PBS American Experience series Reagan. Part one of Reagan is based on an upcoming book by Karen Tumulty of the Washington Post titled The Triumph of Nancy Reagan. In that book, Tumulty argues that Nancy Reagan helped nudge her husband toward negotiations with the Soviet Union and thus was instrumental in ending the Cold War.

MAHNAZ ISPAHANI BARTOS, F81, F85

1981

MAHNAZ ISPAHANI BARTOS was quoted in People regarding the Poltimore tiara, which Princess Margaret wore when she married Antony Armstrong-Jones on May 6, 1960. Mahnaz was identified as “a vintage jewelry dealer and scholar” and said that this tiara “was purchased for [Margaret] at auction in January 1959.” She also said that Margaret “couldn’t wait to wear it.”

SUSAN CLARK LIVINGSTON, J79, F81

1981

SUSAN CLARK LIVINGSTON joined the Leadership Council of the Robert Fitzgerald Kennedy Human Rights organization in 2020.

JEFFREY MCCAUSLAND, F81, F84

1981

In September, JEFFREY MCCAUSLAND published a book called Battle Tested! Gettysburg Leadership Lessons for 21st Century Leaders. It is available on amazon.com. He has also started writing for NBC News at nbcnews.com/think.

JONATHAN ADDLETON, F82, F91

1982

JONATHAN ADDLETON former U.S. ambassador to Mongolia, has been selected as the next rector/president of Forman Christian College in Lahore, Pakistan. Founded by the Presbyterian Church in 1864, Forman offers an American-style curriculum and has an enrollment of more than 8,000. Its alumni list includes former presidents, prime ministers, chief justices, governors, journalists, and academics in both India and Pakistan. Jonathan has also co-authored an article for The Hill with Alonzo Fulgham, who served as acting USAID administrator during the first year of the Obama administration.

HUGH DUGAN, F83

1983

On December 8, HUGH DUGAN celebrated the first anniversary of bringing U.S. hostage Xiueu Wang out of Iran. Hugh was acting special presidential envoy for hostage affairs at the time. Since then, he has served in the National Security Council as special assistant to the president for international organization affairs.

KIRK PATTERSON, F83, F91

1983

After cruising Japan full-time for six years, KIRK PATTERSON swallowed the anchor in 2019 to spend more time with his wife, Tsuyuko Sasaki, whom he met at a marina in 2015 and married in 2016. He sold his boat in early 2020. Shortly after retiring from cruising, Kirk established a marine tourism company to support other cruisers in Japan, organize yacht charters and tours, organize kayak tours, and help marinas and ports attract foreign cruisers. In spring 2020, he and his wife took in an adorable 2-year-old foster daughter, whom they hope to adopt in a year or two. Kirk reports that although (or perhaps because) it is rather late in life to try his hand at fatherhood (he turned 67 last October), it is turning out to be a most enjoyable experience.

CHARLES ALTEKRUSE, F85

1985

CHARLES ALTEKRUSE has lived in Berkeley, CA, for more than 20 years. He worked for a decade in Silicon Valley for the likes of Apple, Intuit, and Sega before finishing his high-tech foray at Elon Musk’s first startup. Around 2000, Charlie switched to nonprofits, working on community relations for California Native Nations. He also married the love of his life, Barbara Banks, and bought a house and started a family. Barbara suddenly passed in May 2020 from cancer. Every day, Benjamin, 19 and a freshman at Lehigh, Jeremy, 12, and Charlie celebrate the gifts of love, grace, joy, beauty, curiosity, and patience they are blessed with because of their time with her. And, of course, they miss her. Charlie is now working to launch a global effort that would use the ideas embodied in the international Olympic movement to foster health and resilience in individuals, communities, and society.

ROSS KENNEDY, F85

1985

ROSS KENNEDY has been living in Bloomington, IL, since 2002, working on the faculty of the history department at Illinois State University. He specializes in the history of U.S. foreign relations and international history from 1914 to 1941 and has been chair of the department since 2017. He is working on a book about the origins of World War II; his first monograph, The Will to Believe: Woodrow Wilson, World War I, and America’s Strategy for Peace and Security, was published in 2009. Ross is married to Larissa Kennedy, who teaches Chinese history, and has two daughters, Sidney and Eliot. Sidney is a junior at the University of Illinois, while Eliot will be starting at the University of Minnesota in fall 2021.

MARTIN SWARTZ, F85, F88

1985

MARTIN SWARTZ and his wife, Michelle, recently celebrated their 30th anniversary. They enjoy traveling and spending free time with their three children and four delightful grandchildren. The COVID-19 pandemic meant no big trips this year, but before that, Martin and Michelle got away to Geneva and the Alps, Israel, and Quebec. When not hiking to mountain waterfalls, Martin continues to work on foreign policy issues for the government.

ROBERTA JACOBSON, F86

1986

Ambassador ROBERTA JACOBSON and TOM WYLER, F05, published an article called “To Counter China, Look to Canada and Mexico” in Foreign Affairs in July.

TOM KALIL, F87

1987

TOM KALIL, see 1995.

LAURIE MACNAMARA, F87

1987

LAURIE MACNAMARA recently joined the U.S. General Services Administration’s technology transformation services as the director of strategic partnerships. This marks a return to federal service, where she started her career as a presidential management fellow, after 27 years in private industry. Laurie continues to make her home in Alexandria, VA, with her husband, BILL HENDRICKSON, F88, and their daughter Fiona.

JILL MINNEMAN, F87

1987

Four Fletcher friends—JILL MINNEMAN, LISA ERRION, F88, MONIKA HUPPI, F88, and CARRIE THOMPSON, F88—masked up and hiked to Cabin John Island along the Potomac River on a warm day in mid-December. All are thriving with varying degrees of full-time employment, community service, and retirement. See more in 1988.

JIM PACKARD-WINKLER, F87, F89

1987

Because of the pandemic, JIM PACKARD-WINKLER and MARY PACKARD-WINKLER, F88, have been grounded from international travel for the first time since college days. But they have taken advantage of the beautiful Shenandoah Valley and the outdoors. Jim became vice president of the economic growth division of Creative Associates International in January 2020 after a wonderful 30-year career at the international development company DAI. Mary is consulting with various clients. Her work includes a global nutrition study of 17 countries that is financed by a Gates Foundation grant. Jim and Mary’s son Aaron, born in Fletcher Hall (now known as Packard Hall) and now 33, has worked at 3M in Minneapolis for the past three years and has just accepted a new job with Microsoft. Jared, 31, is an exhibition manager for the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, NE. Tyler, 22, is an EMT/firefighter in Bethesda, MD.

JOSE STA. ROMANA, F87

1987

JOSE STA. ROMANA received the Order of the Grand Cross, one of the top awards in the Philippine Foreign Service, at a virtual ceremony on December 11. As the Philippine ambassador to China since March 2017, he was cited for distinguished service in improving relations between the two countries. Last November, he led the Philippine delegation to several trade fairs in China, including the China International Import Expo in Shanghai and the China-ASEAN Expo in Nanning. In October, he accompanied the Philippine foreign secretary for talks with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in China.

LAURIE TROST, F87

1987

LAURIE TROST, see 1988.

BEN ZIFF, F87

1987

BEN ZIFF is back in the United States after three years as deputy chief of mission in Madrid and is spending a (virtual) year on detail to the German Marshall Fund as the State Department’s senior fellow. He’s working to reinvigorate relations between countries on either side of the Atlantic and promote NATO security cooperation.

Fletcher Alumnae from 1988, F88

1988

Since the pandemic started in March, a group of Fletcher alumnae from 1988 including CHITRA BHANU, KAREN DONFRIED, F88, F91, LISA ERRION, MONIKA HUPPI, JILL MINNEMAN, J82, F87, LIZA NICKERSON, TERI SIMPSON, ALISON SLACK, CARRIE THOMPSON, and LAURIE TROST, F87, have gathered on Zoom every Sunday at 6 p.m. to share information, commiserate, laugh, celebrate birthdays, talk politics, and generally comfort each other. They can’t wait until they can see each other in real life and resume their annual beach gatherings.

BILL HENDRICKSON, F88

1988

BILL HENDRICKSON, see 1987.

MARY PACKARD-WINKLER, F88

1988

MARY PACKARD-WINKLER, see 1987.

DAVID POTTS, F88

1988

DAVID POTTS wrapped up his position at Unified Patents and is doing some consulting work and managing rental properties in Seattle, New Hampshire, and Whistler, British Columbia. The pandemic has made international business a little difficult, because of closed borders, but since he has had seven years to develop relationships in Canada, he has friends who can step in and help. His daughter Kathryn had to leave her freshman year at Brandeis University in mid-March 2020, and she holed up with him in central New Hampshire for two months. Kathryn has taken a gap year and is student teaching in Colorado before resuming college in fall 2021.

FARUKH AMIL, F89

1989

FARUKH AMIL is confined to Zoom, like everyone else, but he managed to split his year safely between Istanbul, Islamabad, and Cambridge, England. His last Zoom talk was with the Cambridge University United Nations Association.

BEA BOCCALANDRO, F89

1989

BEA BOCCALANDRO finished writing a book that was five years in the making—Do Good At Work: How Simple Acts of Social Purpose Drive Success and Wellbeing (Morgan James Publishing, 2021)—with the help of RHONDA SHORE’s superb editing. Wharton professor and three-time New York Times bestselling author Adam Grant named Do Good At Work one of the 30 best new books.

KARLA BROM, F89

1989

KARLA BROM is in Brooklyn, NY, and is the general manager for the International Contemporary Ensemble. She keeps one foot in microfinance and financial inclusion by serving as an independent director and member of the Audit and Risk Committee for FINCA Haiti.

STEPHAN CRAWFORD, F89

1989

STEPHAN CRAWFORD is in San Francisco, where he continues as executive producer at ClimateMusic.org. Though the past year has been challenging for all performing arts organizations, ClimateMusic has managed to make a lot of progress, including building its digital presence and launching new collaborations with three celebrated composers. One highlight was a joint online event with the National Academy of Sciences in celebration of the 50th anniversary of Earth Day.

SUSANNE KLEMM GROGNUZ, F89

1989

SUSANNE KLEMM GROGNUZ lives in the Swiss countryside, close to the French-speaking city of Fribourg, halfway between Geneva and Zurich. Since March 15, 2020, she has worked from her home office with very few exceptions.

GLENN GROW, F89

1989

GLENN GROW used the pandemic as an opportunity to move to Sun Valley, ID. He also continued to manage his seven companies in Asia in Innovasia Group.

VERONICA INGHAM, F89, F95

1989

VERONICA INGHAM is in Hanover, NH. She’s a senior fellow at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs. Last fall she taught a course on economic development in Latin America. She and Rafael, her husband, have two children, Tomás, 25, and Sofía, 22, who are both now college graduates. Hurrah!

LIBBY OSBORNE KAROLCZAK, F89

1989

LIBBY OSBORNE KAROLCZAK is in Los Altos, CA, where she is the founder and trail guide for Paths2College Educational Consulting, an independent college admissions consulting firm.

STEVE LISTON, F89

1989

STEVE LISTON is in Washington, DC, where he works with the Council of the Americas, a business advocacy NGO. He also serves on the boards of several charities and volunteers with his wife, Susan, with various church activities.

MARK LOWENSTEIN, A86, F89

1989

MARK LOWENSTEIN lives in Brookline, MA. He is managing director of Mobile Ecosystem, a telecom/digital media consultancy. He is also chief running officer at Great Runs, the ultimate guide to places to run worldwide. Spouse JENNIFER MEADER, J86, teaches at a private school in Boston. They have two children, one of them a fourth-year student at the University of British Columbia and the other a sophomore at Tufts.

JOSEPH ROUSSEL, F89

1989

JOSEPH ROUSSEL is in Antwerp, Belgium, accumulating massive “Zoom miles” with the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Mozambique, and Malawi in his role as private sector engagement director at VillageReach.

RHONDA SHORE, F89

1989

RHONDA SHORE is in the DC metro area and has been working as a content and copy editor. Her 2020 clients included the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington, DC, the William J. Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies, C4ADS, and our very own BEA BOCCALANDRO.

STUART A. SPENCER, F89

1989

STUART A. SPENCER is still enjoying life in Hong Kong, working as a chief marketing officer for AIA Group, Asia’s largest health and wellness provider. He was recently named a top 50 Asia power CMO by Campaign Asia magazine.

PHILIPPE TRUAN, F89

1989

PHILIPPE TRUAN, see 1990.

CLAIRE VAN DER VAEREN, F89

1989

CLAIRE VAN DER VAEREN is in New York City at the United Nations Development Programme’s Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific, where she continues to support liaison and coordination with other UN entities and member states. She managed to go on a short trip home to Brussels in November to see her family.

LINDA J. WANG, F89

1989

LINDA J. WANG is in the San Francisco Bay Area working with the California Medical Assistance Team for COVID response and wildfires.

HAROLD ZAPPIA, F89

1989

HAROLD ZAPPIA is in Shepherdstown, WV. Still retired, still living the life of a gentleman farmer.

SAMUEL BLAKE, F90

1990

SAMUEL BLAKE has been living in Maine for 24 years as a writer. He keeps up with International Security Studies Program Director Richard Shultz and a couple of other friends from Fletcher. He mostly writes poetry. If you’re interested, Google samuelblakepoetry FB, which has more than 50,000 followers.

CLAIRE CARROLL, F90

1990

CLAIRE CARROLL completed a doctoral program at Lesley University in Cambridge, MA, to address her longstanding interests in yoga and global studies. Her dissertation, Can Yoga Help Make the World a Better Place: Perspectives from Adult Practitioners, used elements of cosmopolitanism thought, Western adult education models, and the panchakoshas (five sheaths) described in the Taittiriya Upanishad to investigate how practitioners engage with yoga as a lived philosophy.

STACY (BERNARD) DAVIS, F90

1990

STACY (BERNARD) DAVIS has been a deputy director of the U.S. State Department’s Office of International Religious Freedom since late 2019. Since July 2020, she has served as the office’s sole deputy. She manages a staff that has grown to about 40 people.

JAIRO HERNANDEZ, F90

1990

JAIRO HERNANDEZ, see 1991.

DAN SATINSKY, F90

1990

DAN SATINSKY has co-written a book with Sergei Komlev, a former Russian academic researcher whom he met through the Fletcher North Pacific Program run by Professor John Curtis Perry. The book, Foundations of Natural Gas Price Formation: Misunderstandings Jeopardizing the Future of the Industry, is based on Sergei’s analysis of pricing in the natural gas industry and was published in September by Anthem Press. It is a product of Dr. Perry’s vision of cooperation and collaboration.

MAGALI SPINTHER, F90

1990

Just before the pandemic, MAGALI SPINTHER and THIERRY BUCHS, F91, reconnected over a few days of skiing in the Swiss Alps. Long live the Fletcher connection.

BARBARA (GEARY) TRUAN, F90

1990

Between COVID-19 surges last summer, PHILIPPE TRUAN, F89, and BARBARA (GEARY) TRUAN were delighted to have a too-short visit to their Geneva home from MAGALI SPINTHER. In addition to raising a beautiful family, Magali continues to hold a senior position with Danone in Paris. Philippe and Barbara also enjoyed seeing IVAN MONÈME, who runs the Paris-based Per Se Communication agency and, like Magali, is an avid traveler. Philippe and Ivan were Graduate Institute exchange students at Fletcher. They look a little different 30 years on, but their banter and laughter remain as many classmates remember.

MAKOTO URAGA, F90

1990

MAKOTO URAGA retired in 2009 after working in hedge funds and asset management. He also founded two companies, one related to his previous work and one in management consulting. He continues to live in Tokyo.

THIERRY BUCHS, F91

1991

THIERRY BUCHS, see 1990.

BABAR HASHMI, F91

1991

BABAR HASHMI is now back in Islamabad after completion of his assignment as ambassador to Bulgaria. Babar sends us all his best for a better and healthier 2021.

PETER KESSLER, F91

1991

PETER KESSLER and his wife, Rachel, are now in Greece. Following the September fires in Greece’s Aegean island camps, the UN High Commission for Refugees asked Peter to handle crisis communications in Athens. He shares that amid Greece’s COVID-19 restrictions and rising anti-foreigner sentiments, conditions for thousands of refugees and migrants are precarious in the overcrowded camps, and they face almost weekly fatal shipwrecks and other crises.

DAVE PIERCE, F91

1991

Karen and DAVE PIERCE are working in California and blessed with beautiful grandchildren they see whenever they can. Dave, JAIRO HERNANDEZ, F90, and EMMA HODGSON, F91, F93, had a wonderful long lunch together in Melbourne in 2019.

HEYDAR POURIAN, F91

1991

After working around the world, including in the Middle East, where he was a journalist entrepreneur, economics professor, and private sector/government consultant, HEYDAR POURIAN has settled in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife. Their son Pasha is a pharmacy graduate student. Heydar enjoys being a realtor, making deals for domestic and international homeowners and investors. Off duty, he plays tennis in local racquet clubs.

JENNIFER PRAH RUGER, F91

1991

JENNIFER PRAH RUGER, Amartya Sen Professor of Health Equity and Policy at the University of Pennsylvania, sends warm wishes and welcomes comments regarding the Health Equity and Policy Lab, which she founded and directs. See healthequityandpolicylab.com.

PATRICE DABROWSKI, F92

1992

During a crazy and trying year, PATRICE DABROWSKI managed to finish the manuscript of her third book and get a publishing contract from Cornell University Press. By the end of 2021, The Carpathians should be in print. Other than that, she and her husband remain recluses, waiting for the vaccine to make its way to them. They’re itching to resume traveling and see their daughter. Before the pandemic, Patrice enjoyed having an occasional coffee with classmate MICHAEL DENNING. Fortunately, that could continue via Zoom. Michael is a history teacher and head of the upper school at Noble and Greenough School in Dedham, MA.

MICHAEL DENNING, F92

1992

MICHAEL DENNING has long been grateful that his life as a teacher and school administrator is not boring; however, he never imagined he’d be helping to lead a school through a pandemic. He is grateful for the amazing acts of bravery, service, and kindness he has witnessed. His wife, Emily, and son, Patrick, are healthy, and Patrick has been able to start college.

SUE DORFMAN, F92

1992

Since late October 2019, SUE DORFMAN has traveled more than 18,000 miles across 19 states plus Washington, DC, for a photo project, Documenting Democracy: Telling the Stories of Those Working to Advance and Safeguard the Right to Vote. She’s photographed presidential and Georgia runoff candidates, election officials and poll workers, voters, absentee ballot counts, voter registration and get-out-the-vote efforts, demonstrations, the Biden train through Pennsylvania, and various Trump trains. Photos can be viewed on her website, docdem.suedorfman.com, and in online publications. She still consults on media strategy and tries to hit the slopes when good snow conditions match up with openings in her schedule.

KRISTEN PENDLETON, F92

1992

KRISTEN PENDLETON is now living in Stockholm, Sweden, where her husband works for EnginZyme, a biotech startup. Kristen is studying Swedish and digital marketing, and looks forward to hearing from classmates at kpntouch1@gmail.com for the next issue of Fletcher Class Notes.

NAOKO ANZAI, F93, RABAB FATIMA, F93, AND KAZUNORI (KAZ) OGAWA, F93

1993

NAOKO ANZAI, RABAB FATIMA, KAZUNORI (KAZ) OGAWA, HIDENOBU (HIDE) SHIROTA, F94, and TOSHIHIRO (TOSHI) UOMOTO, F94, met in Tokyo in August 2019 for a Fletcher mini-reunion. At the time, Rabab had been Bangladesh’s ambassador to Japan for about three years. She is now the country’s ambassador to the UN in New York City. Kaz is in London, heading the regional office of Japan Bank for International Cooperation. Hide is at the helm of Daiwa Securities. Toshi has been a prominent credit analyst at financial institutions in Japan and is now starting his own business. Naoko often travels to Bangladesh, where she advises a governance project in support of cities.

RABAB FATIMA, F93

1993

RABAB FATIMA has been Bangladesh’s permanent representative to the United Nations in New York City since December 2019. In addition, she has held the presidency of UNICEF’s executive board since January 2020. In December 2020, she was elected vice president of the executive boards of the UN Development Programme, the UN Population Fund, and the UN Office for Project Services.

BOB FILIPPONE, F93

1993

BOB FILIPPONE, see 1995.

HOWARD MADNICK, F94

1994

HOWARD MADNICK completed a one-year tour at the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad, where he worked with alumnae ERIN KIMSEY, F12, and ANNE SACKVILLE-WEST, F12. He returned to northern Virginia with his wife, Heather, who works for George Mason University, and their sons Ben and Harrison. Ben’s studies in India on a Boren Fellowship were interrupted by COVID-19 restrictions. Harrison, who has completed his Eagle Scout requirements, will graduate from high school this spring. The family also brought home a new addition to their household: a dog named Safie.

LIZ MCCLINTOCK, F94, F16

1994

LIZ MCCLINTOCK continues to teach courses at both Fletcher and Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. She is also completing a contract with the UN High Commission for Refugees, developing a peace-building program for South Sudanese refugee youth.

HIDENOBU SHIROTA, F94

1994

HIDENOBU SHIROTA, see 1993.

RICHARD SOLLOM, F94

1994

After seven years in Geneva, RICHARD SOLLOM has been living at the UN City in Copenhagen, where he has been working with the UN High Commission for Refugees on the implementation of its global data strategy.

TOSHIHIRO UOMOTO, F94

1994

TOSHIHIRO UOMOTO, see 1993.

PAUL VALLET, F94

1994

PAUL VALLET spent much of 2020 at home in Geneva, working remotely for the Geneva Centre for Security Policy. He made many appearances on Swiss television and radio and commented on the outcome of the U.S. presidential election. He is looking for a publisher for his graphic novel script.

KABIR ARGHANDIWAL, F95

1995

KABIR ARGHANDIWAL is living between Dubai and Italy and has three kids, ages 20, 16, and 14. After 12 years at JP Morgan and Morgan Stanley, he is now investing in frontier markets. His latest venture is Ziba Foods, which aims to rehabilitate the Afghan agricultural sector by exporting dried food to the U.S., the Middle East, and Europe. See zibafoods.com.

MARK BAKER, F95

1995

MARK BAKER has been promoted to senior vice president for public policy and government affairs at Warner Music Group. He was also named to the board of the $100 million Warner Music Group/Blavatnik Family Foundation Social Justice Fund.

ANTHONY CHASE, F95, F00

1995

ANTHONY CHASE professor of diplomacy and world affairs at Occidental College, has taken on the role of young chair for the global political economy. He recently curated a set of publications for the Open Global Rights platform that included his own article on cosmopolitanism.

EVELYN FARKAS, F95, F99

1995

EVELYN FARKAS ran for Congress in New York’s 17th Congressional District, where she grew up. She received endorsements from dozens of national security officials and members of Congress. She continues to speak publicly on Russia and U.S.-Russian relations.

DESIREE FILIPPONE, F93, & BOB FILIPPONE, F93, F95

1995

DESIREE and BOB FILIPPONE are officially a Beltway power couple, having both been named as 2020 Top Lobbyists by The Hill. Bob is vice president for global public policy and government relations at Merck. Desiree is in her 12th year as vice president for government relations for the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee, which is helping athletes train, travel, and compete so they can qualify for the Tokyo Summer and Beijing Winter games. Desiree and Bob’s three kids barely tolerated remote school. Their oldest, Lance, is already a senior in high school with visions of leaving the nest.

BJORN GILLSATER, F95

1995

BJORN GILLSATER is the head of the Joint Data Center on Forced Displacement in Copenhagen, a partnership between the World Bank and the UN High Commission for Refugees. It supports evidence-based decisions regarding refugees and displaced persons by improving the quality and availability of data on income, poverty, skills, health, and economic activity. Bjorn is also promoting the work of his father, Sven, a world-renowned nature photographer, with a website, book, and exhibitions scheduled for 2021.

OLAF GROTH, F95, F97

1995

OLAF GROTH has accepted an appointment on the faculty of UC Berkeley Haas School of Business and will continue in his role at Hult International Business School. Following his book Solomon’s Code, his team at Cambrian Futures has created an artificial intelligence engine for analyzing global disruption trends and spawned Cambrian Designs, which is helping to solve problems in the global data economy. Olaf has served on the Biden-Harris innovation committee and has also had lots of fun opportunities for Vulcan mind melds with Fletcherites TOM PICKERING, F54, TOM KALIL, F87, ERIN CONATON, EVELYN FARKAS, and TOM SANDERSON, F98.

LARRY HANAUER, F95

1995

LARRY HANAUER is the 2021 board chair of Friends of the National Zoo, which supports the Smithsonian’s National Zoo in its operations, conservation research, and educational outreach. In his day job, he continues to address policy and government relations challenges for a trade association representing government contractors.

DUNCAN HOLLIS, F95

1995

DUNCAN HOLLIS published a second edition of the Oxford Guide to Treaties and a new book, Defending Democracies: Combating Foreign Election Interference in a Digital Age. He is also a co-convenor of the Oxford Process, an effort to get international lawyers to issue consensus statements on how the law regulates state behavior in cyberspace. To date, the initiative has issued statements on health care, vaccines, and foreign election interference.

MAURA LYNCH, F95

1995

MAURA LYNCH is chief of staff of the UN Integrated Office in Haiti. The pandemic forced her to telecommute from New York between March and September 2020, but she’s now back in Port-au-Prince. She hopes to use a lot of accrued leave to travel when the pandemic is over.

MARIA (FARNON) MARINO, F95

1995

MARIA (FARNON) MARINO is advising technology companies for Gartner, a global research and advisory firm. She feels lucky to live in Colorado, where the great outdoors has remained open despite the pandemic.

FARAH PANDITH, F95

1995

FARAH PANDITH was named the first-ever Muhammad Ali global peace laureate.

MARC PARRISH, F95

1995

MARC PARRISH spent the pandemic summer of 2020 publishing a book about the history of his alma mater, Austin College in Sherman, TX. He is working on two more Austin College books. Marc and his wife, Dianne, work for the University of Texas system in Austin, where they are raising their two kids, Alex and Malia.

CHRISTIAN BARBERO, F96

1996

With sadness, we are recognizing the first anniversary of the loss of our classmate CHRISTIAN BARBERO, who passed away in Paris with loved ones by his side. JASON FORRESTER is organizing assistance for Christian’s family, in addition to other ways to memorialize his tireless work uplifting the needy and protecting the vulnerable.

RICH BREWER, F96

1996

RICH BREWER is the new director of market intelligence for Xero, a New Zealand–based cloud software provider. He works remotely with Xero’s strategy team based in Denver.

MARGARET DEGUZMAN, F96

1996

MARGARET DEGUZMAN helped edit The Elgar Companion to the International Criminal Court, published in December 2020. It examines the achievements and challenges of the world’s first permanent international criminal tribunal.

ADAM GLENN, F96

1996

ADAM GLENN joined the staff of the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University in January as a writer/editor. Previously he was a distinguished lecturer in journalism at Columbia. He continues to serve as editor of the SEJournal, a weekly publication of the Society of Environmental Journalists.

RHONDA LONGMORE-GRUND, F96

1996

RHONDA LONGMORE-GRUND is still in Southern California with her husband, Jon, and daughters Olivia and Mia. She is the president and CEO of Alliance HealthCare Services, which partners with more than 1,000 hospitals across the U.S., providing advanced diagnostic imaging and cancer care to more than 1 million patients per year. She would love to see any classmates who are in the SoCal area.

MELISSA CONLEY TYLER, F96

1996

MELISSA CONLEY TYLER is a research fellow at the University of Melbourne’s Asia Institute. She loves the freedom to say what she thinks. For a long time, she worked at think tanks and had to choose her words carefully.

KUNIKO ASHIZAWA, F97, F05, & RICHARD PONZIO, F97

1997

KUNIKO ASHIZAWA and RICHARD PONZIO have “survived” the pandemic through a daily neighborhood jog together and lots of new takeout discoveries in their DC neighborhood. Kuniko continues to write and teach at American University, and Richard is at the Stimson Center, a hotbed of fellow Fletcherites.

JEROEN COOREMAN, F97

1997

After almost three and a half years in New York as ambassador and deputy permanent representative to the United Nations, JEROEN COOREMAN moved back to Brussels in October. He is now director for economic diplomacy at the Belgian foreign ministry. He looks forward to meeting up with classmates DOMINIQUE STEVERLYNCK, MARTIN KOTTHAUS, and AGUSTIN ESCARDINO MALVA, F02, when COVID-19 allows.

TAMAR DOLGEN, F97

1997

What was meant to be a three-week trip in March has turned into a yearlong relocation to a small mountain town near Sun Valley, ID, for TAMAR DOLGEN. She joined The Space Idaho, a startup nonprofit, as interim executive director. The Space Idaho’s mission is to close the equity gap in education through academic support and college counseling.

JOHN KAVANAGH, F97

1997

JOHN KAVANAGH is a partner in the DC office of Steptoe & Johnson, where he practices antitrust law and general litigation. His older son is a sophomore at Notre Dame, and his younger son is applying to colleges, but unfortunately not Tufts. John is looking forward to traveling again in 2021.

ALEXIA LATORTUE, F97

1997

ALEXIA LATORTUE was pleased to reconnect with Fletcher by participating in the Ralph Bunche Society Speakers Series on Diversity and tuning in to one of the updates to alumni from Dean RACHEL KYTE, F02. A series of London lockdowns has led to the discovery of new parks and outdoor socializing. Turns out drinking champagne in the cold rain is a fun thing.

SEAN LIEB, F97

1997

SEAN LIEB and his wife, Jude, feel incredibly fortunate. Their daughter Audrey, who is enjoying her Montessori school and progressing nicely with all her milestones, has brought them overwhelming joy in a challenging year.

GRETA ZEENDER SRULEVITCH, F97

1997

GRETA ZEENDER SRULEVITCH, see 1998.

REBECCA STRUTTON, F97

1997

REBECCA STRUTTON has had as good a year as possible. She’s living in the same town in the same house with the same spouse, same kids (although taller), and same dog. She’s also enjoying the many daily challenges of her same job (heading New York Life’s international investment advisory legal team).

DIMITRI VASSILACOS, F97

1997

DIMITRI VASSILACOS is in Greece and reports that he and his wife, Sophia, and daughter, Emma, are well, as is his extended family.

ANKA FELDHUSEN, F98

1998

ANKA FELDHUSEN is now the German ambassador to Ukraine, where she has had several previous tours of duty—the first before she came to Fletcher. Previously she was a top assistant and advisor to German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier.

COLUM GARRITY, F98

1998

COLUM GARRITY hosted a fun and successful Zoom call with current Fletcher students on how to get a job at the World Bank—or anywhere. He suggests that the Office of Career Services would welcome setting up Zooms with alums, and urges anyone who’s interested to contact Karin Wiedemann at Karin.Wiedemann@tufts.edu. He is still living in DC and working as a senior knowledge and learning specialist with the newly renamed Social Sustainability and Inclusion Global Practice.

IRINA GORBMAN, F98

1998

IRINA GORBMAN celebrated her daughter Alisa’s wedding to Evan Goldstein in style at a mansion in Lincoln, MA. Professionally, Irina’s art-inspired fashion fitness collections were presented at New York Fashion Week 2019 and International Digital Fashion Week 2020. They appeared in Harper’s Bazaar Ukraine and Fashion Magazine NYC as well. Irina expects more artistic creations to emerge now that she has marinated in the studio for a year. She has been in touch with Fletcher friends SVETLANA ABRAMOV, F99, and OLGA NIKOLAYEVA, F99, and enjoyed Tufts alumnae events in Boston.

STEPHANE GRAND, F98

1998

STEPHANE GRAND is in southern Germany after spending the first wave of the pandemic in Hong Kong.

ENA LALIBERTE, F98

1998

ENA LALIBERTE has been fortunate enough to live in six different countries since she finished at Fletcher. After four and a half years in Anchorage, AK, she moved to Sydney, Australia, in January 2020 with her husband and four children.

SILVI LLOSA, F98

1998

SILVI LLOSA and LAURO LOCKS, F99, were delighted to be reunited with GRETA ZEENDER SRULEVITCH, F97, and ANDREW SRULEVITCH and their beautiful children, who have relocated from New York back to Geneva.

JANOT MENDLER DE SUÃREZ, F98

1998

JANOT MENDLER DE SUÃREZ is wrapping up four years as a technical advisor with the Red Cross/Red Crescent Climate Centre. She will start an exciting new project funded by the Agence Française de Développement and led by DAI that will focus on integrated water resources management in the Dominican Republic’s Yaque del Sur basin. She continues as a World Bank consultant in the Caribbean, working on the Climate Risk and Early Warning Systems initiative, and back in West Africa she is launching a multipronged regional Food Systems Résilience Program. Janot also collaborated with her husband, Pablo Suarez; the World Bank Social Sustainability and Inclusion Team; Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome author Joy DeGruy; literary performer Regie Gibson; and New Yorker cartoonist Bob Mankoff to co-design and facilitate a two-day antiracism retreat for the Global Facility for Disaster Risk and Recovery’s Understanding Risk Forum.

TOM SANDERSON, F98

1998

TOM SANDERSON, see 1995.

MICHAEL TORRA, F98

1998

MICHAEL TORRA is approaching his 12th year working for The Raben Group, a public affairs firm. Currently the firm’s managing principal for California, he opened its San Francisco Bay Area office almost a year ago. He is lucky to be able to work virtually and has found a bit of time to continue painting. His new works are up on michaeltorra.com.

SVETLANA ABRAMOV, F99

1999

SVETLANA ABRAMOV, see 1998.

SONJA BACHMANN, F99

1999

SONJA BACHMANN is still working at the UN Political Department in New York, leading a team on Northeast Asia and the Pacific. The team focuses on peace and security on the Korean Peninsula and on climate security. Sonja is also taking walks in the park with ZEYNEP OGUT PEGG and catching up with IMKE WESSELOH OSTER over cappuccino. She hopes to soon be able to take a break from online Zooms and proliferating Netflix series and safely travel to see her family in Italy and San Francisco.

JENNIFER CROFT, F99

1999

In the summer, JENNIFER CROFT and her husband, Andrei, relocated back to the U.S. from Warsaw, where they had been living for two and a half years while Jennifer worked at the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe’s Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, first as deputy head and then as acting head of the human rights department. Jennifer and Andrei are now based in Portland, OR, to be closer to Jennifer’s family and enjoy the quality of life in the Pacific Northwest. After being abroad for 16 of the last 20 years, Jennifer is hoping to transition to something more connected to her community. In the meantime, she’s been doing some consulting work and helping the family business, which is her husband’s artwork (andreiengelman.com). She has connected virtually with NOAH SIEGEL, F01, in Portland, and would be happy to connect with other Fletcher alums in the area.

JOHN FINN, F99

1999

JOHN FINN is back in the DC area, working as a contract public affairs specialist with the State Department’s Diplomatic Security Service.

RAIMUND GRUBE, F99

1999

RAIMUND GRUBE has enjoyed recent interactions with ROB THOMAS, F00, CARLA TULLY, F00, JONATHAN (JONO) ROSEN, MARK HANNAFIN, RYAN TEKSTEN, F02, and NOAH SIEGEL, F01. He and his family have ridden out 2020 in the Pacific Northwest and are fortunate and grateful to have their health and overall well-being. For Raimund, it continues to be a joy to unexpectedly encounter a Fletcher alum doing great things in his areas of focus and beyond.

YUNJU KO, F99

1999

YUNJU KO, see 2000.

LAURO LOCKS, F99

1999

LAURO LOCKS, see 1998.

OLGA NIKOLAYEVA, F99

1999

OLGA NIKOLAYEVA, see 1998.

IMKE WESSELOH OSTER, F99

1999

IMKE WESSELOH OSTER is still in Montclair, NJ, with her family. Her daughters Viktoria, 16, and Margret, 12, are in virtual school, and it’s driving them crazy that they have to spend so much time glued to a screen, with no sports, no school clubs, and not much social interaction other than walks and hikes. The family spent the spring lockdown in Germany, stranded there after attending the funeral of Imke’s brother-in-law on March 13. Imke says that it was nice, however, to spend that much time with her family of origin. Professionally, she still owns a share of LicenseLogix but is now a psychoanalyst working in a clinic at the North Jersey Consultation Center. She continues to serve on the environmental commission for her town.

TOM REOTT, F99

1999

TOM REOTT passed the U.S. Foreign Service exam and joined the U.S. State Department in July 2001. He has had tours in Mumbai, Mexico City, Bogota, Herat (Afghanistan), Brussels, and Madrid, and is now back in Mexico City, where he is minister counselor for economic affairs. In summer 2021, he takes up his next post as consul general in Tijuana. In 2004, he married Kimberly Manno, and they have two daughters.

OLGA SMIRNOVA, F99

1999

OLGA SMIRNOVA came to the United States more than a year ago, and her family finally joined her last summer. They live in Woburn, a short drive from Tufts. Her boys, 6 and 10, are in elementary school. Sadly, they spend three days a week in online classes and only two days at school in person. Her husband works overnight, which allows them to take shifts with the kids. Olga is still a full-time office manager at the Russian School of Mathematics in Winchester, MA, and ended up being the only staff member physically at school while in-person classes transitioned online last spring. She was hoping to get back to Russia over the holidays, but will have to wait until things return to normal.

GREG UNRUH, F99

1999

GREG UNRUH recently published another book, Strategy on the Sustainability Frontier: Creating Business Value and Contributing to a Better World. It’s available at amazon.com.

MELANIE GARSON, F00, & SHANNON MULLEN O’KEEFE, F00

2000

MELANIE GARSON and SHANNON MULLEN O’KEEFE are reviewing a collection of Edward R. Murrow’s essays to identify the core values of great leaders. Their medium.com article “How to Pick a Leader in a Leaderless Time?” discusses these values. Melanie and Shannon hope to inspire the leaders waiting in the wings.

TSERING GELLEK, F00

2000

TSERING GELLEK is back in California after many years in India, where she runs Sarnath International Nyingma Institute, which serves Buddhist monastics. Since April, Tsering has been working from a cabin and the institute’s retreat center in Sonoma and has had the privilege of being safe, healthy, and fed, with time to contemplate. She invites Fletcherites to visit her in Sarnath, India, once travel is back on.

BEN MORSE, F00

2000

BEN MORSE is in the second year of a three-year team with the Bloomfield, NJ, board of education. The board’s ambitious agenda to increase student-teacher time post-pandemic includes a revamped after-school program, Saturday classes, and summer school. Ben is excited and humbled by the opportunity to do what he can to help students gain the tools they’ll need to flourish.

ERIN NICHOLSON, F00

2000

In 2020, ERIN NICHOLSON transitioned from USAID’s Global Development Lab to lead the agency’s East Asian and Pacific Affairs Office. COVID-19 prevented travel, but she managed to cross paths virtually with a number of Fletcherites, including YUNJU KO, F99, Republic of Korea director general for North America affairs, and EUN HA CHANG, F01, who is with the Korean Women’s Development Institute. A special shout-out to LAKSHMI KARAN, F00, F09, who has brought together classmates for regular Class of 2000 Zoom calls.

ROB THOMAS, F00

2000

ROB THOMAS, see 1999.

CARLA TULLY, F00

2000

CARLA TULLY, see 1999.

EUN HA CHANG, F01

2001

EUN HA CHANG, see 2000.

NOAH SIEGEL, F01

2001

NOAH SIEGEL took a new position as VP for public affairs at Winning Mark in Portland, OR, leaving his job as deputy director of transportation for the city. Portland has a nice group of Fletcher folks now, and he looks forward to seeing everyone at their virtual reunion. See more in 1999.

HASSAN ABBAS, F02, F08

2002

The Center for Global Policy in Washington, DC, published a report by HASSAN ABBAS, “U.S. Policy toward South Asia: Ideas and Choices for the Next Administration,” on November 9.

SARAH KHAN, F02

2002

SARAH KHAN, head of the Somaliland office of the UN High Commission for Refugees, was quoted in a National Geographic article on drought, climate change, and the dramatic change in women’s lives in Somaliland.

AGUSTIN ESCARDINO MALVA, F02

2002

AGUSTIN ESCARDINO MALVA, see 1997.

RYAN TEKSTEN, F02

2002

RYAN TEKSTEN, see 1999.

AMY WEST, F02

2002

AMY WEST’s poem “The Writing on the Glass,” written at the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, was published in The Northern New England Review. She wrote the poem after reading a newspaper article about a patient in an intensive care unit who was diagnosed with COVID-19 and isolated. Caregivers were leaving messages on the glass to let the patient know they were with him in his fight. Amy tried to imagine what that would be like for her, or anyone.

CYNTHIA WHITE, F02

2002

CYNTHIA WHITE has been selected as Wayfair’s first individual artist to display her paintings on its luxury design platform, Perigold.

RACHEL KYTE, GMAP 2002

2002

Dean RACHEL KYTE, see 1997.

ELLIOT ACKERMAN, A02, F03

2003

National Book Award finalist ELLIOT ACKERMAN wrote a new novel called Red Dress in Black and White. It was selected as an Indie Next Pick by the American Booksellers Association.

MEELIS KITSING, F04

2004

MEELIS KITSING was elected rector of Estonian Business School (EBS) in May. EBS is the only private university and most international higher educational institution in Estonia, with a student body representing 42 countries and campuses in Tallinn, Estonia, and Helsinki. Meelis also serves as CEO of EBS Foundation.

JODI HANELT, F04

2004

JODI HANELT, her husband, Bill, and their children, Elizabeth, 16, and Felix, 14, are all doing well in Maynard, MA. They were on Cape Cod for much of the summer, exploring the national seashore and spending an abundant amount of time near or in the water. Jodi recently marked her fifth anniversary as the director of the International Students and Scholars Office at Brandeis University.

ANYA ZHURAVEL SEGAL, F04

2004

ANYA ZHURAVEL SEGAL started a Ph.D. in history at Tel Aviv University in fall 2020. Her dissertation will focus on the Russian Jewish refugee community in Berlin during the Weimar era, from 1919 to 1933. She is learning Yiddish, East European Jewish history, and late imperial Russian history. She is overjoyed to be back in graduate school after a hiatus of 16 years.

TOM WYLER, F05

2005

TOM WYLER and Ambassador ROBERTA JACOBSON, F86, published an article titled “To Counter China, Look to Canada and Mexico” in Foreign Affairs in July.

ASHISH K. BHATIA, F06

2006

ASHISH K. BHATIA wrote an article titled “Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught in a Classroom?” for the Harvard Business Review.

RAHUL CHANDRAN, F06

2006

RAHUL CHANDRAN now lives in snowy Ottawa, where he is a single father to two daughters who can’t wait to resume visits from their Fletcher family—especially one of their favorite uncles, Josh-qui-tombe-en-bas-des-escaliers. You will have to ask Josh to explain. When he’s not parenting, Rahul serves as the CEO of Care Impact Partners and wonders why he left the tropics.

ADAM DAY, F06

2006

ADAM DAY became the director of programmes at United Nations University’s Centre for Policy Research in New York in July 2020. He completed his Ph.D. in war studies at King’s College London in November and continues to teach courses at Columbia’s School of International Affairs on international conflict resolution and engaging with armed groups.

ANDREW DIXON, F06

2006

ANDREW DIXON just hit the four-year mark of living in Amsterdam. He has found the bike trails and many parks to be great places to spend lockdown.

ERICA MILLER, F06

2006

ERICA MILLER, husband Tommy, and son Adrien welcomed baby Elliot on June 8, 2020. They live in Washington, DC, where Erica has worked at the State Department for 14 years.

MARCO PFISTER, F06

2006

MARCO PFISTER is working with the Urban Movement Innovation Fund to free the world from the internal combustion engine fast enough to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.

XANTHE SCHARFF, F06, F11

2006

XANTHE SCHARFF is living in DC with her two kids, Coco, 10, and Ethan, 8. She’s CEO and co-founder of The Fuller Project, a nonprofit newsroom dedicated to reporting on women. Advancing Girls’ Education in Africa, which so many Fletcherites helped launch, is celebrating 15 years.

TODD WASSEL, F06

2006

TODD WASSEL is the country representative for The Asia Foundation in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, where he has weathered the pandemic with his family. In August, he published his debut book, Walking in Circles: Finding Happiness in Lost Japan.

JASON CONROY, F07

2007

JASON CONROY began a political officer assignment at the U.S. Consulate General Rio de Janeiro in 2020.

JEFF ERLICH, GMAP 2007

2007

JEFF ERLICH joined Chevron in 2019. He is based in Houston, advising on international social investment strategy.

ELIZABETH A. BENNETT, F08

2008

ELIZABETH A. BENNETT very much looks forward to reconnecting with Fletcher folks in the Boston area. She will be in residence for the second year of her research fellowship at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy Research at the Kennedy School. Please do reach out if you have a rental/home exchange/house sitting/sublet/room/guesthouse/etc.

DIVYA MANKIKAR, F08

2008

DIVYA MANKIKAR is an investment manager at the California Public Employees’ Retirement System, or CalPERS, where she works to shed light on integrating environmental, social, and governance concerns across a roughly $400 billion fund—the largest public pension fund in the U.S. She’s also a member of the subcommittee that authored the Commodities Futures Trading Commission climate risk report. She was recently on the Political Climate podcast, where she outlined the report’s main findings and detailed how CalPERS and other large investors are acting on a growing body of climate risk information.

CORINNE ONETTO, F08

2008

CORINNE ONETTO has been living in Sweden since 2018 and enjoys glorious summers and very, very dark winters. She got to spend some time last summer with CAMILLA BLOMQUIST. It was lovely to see their kids play together. Corinne works at Spotify and rather surprisingly gets to use her Fletcher training in what is a truly international company. She had lots of plans to travel in 2020, but she thinks we all know what happened there.

VALERIE SEYMOUR, F08

2008

VALERIE SEYMOUR’s daughter Edith Gloria LightFire Novak was born at home on March 3, 2020, just before everything shut down. Valerie wasn’t planning to go out much for the first few months anyway, so she didn’t notice the craziness that was going on in the outside world. Even now, she’s so happy to be home all the time—being a mother is more amazing than she had expected. She is still running her small farm, which got certified organic in March 2020, and says it’s wonderful to have outdoor space and homegrown food for her daughter.

JUSTIN VALENTINE, F08

2008

JUSTIN VALENTINE, see 2009.

DAVID BANK, F09

2009

DAVID BANK and his wife, Amy, welcomed their second child, Olivia Maya Bank, in September. With Olivia and her 5-year-old brother, Reuben, David and Amy now have a full and very loud house. The family was eagerly awaiting a new crop of homegrown Meyer lemons this winter (no risk of scurvy during quarantine).

LAKSHMI KARAN, F09

2009

LAKSHMI KARAN, see 2000.

NICK LESHER, F09

2009

NICK LESHER and his wife, Rachel, daughter Eleanor, 5, and twin boys Graham and Theodore, 3, still live in Old Town Alexandria, VA. Eleanor sallied forth into her first year at a local bilingual public school. Rachel continues to work full time at United Way Worldwide, and Nick has been taking independent consulting engagements this year after stepping away from a consulting firm that he helped co-found in 2014 mostly to support African and South Asian tech startups focused on financial services or agriculture. With his newfound time and flexibility, Nick has poured himself into fatherhood, which has been fantastic and frenetic. He’s also been exploring some potential new ventures with other Fletcher alums (JUSTIN VALENTINE, F08, and YANINA SELTZER) and writing a screenplay with a childhood best friend and a former work colleague he met when consulting for Mercy Corps in Haiti after the 2010 earthquake.

RICH PEARSON, F09

2009

After many years of living in Washington, DC, RICH PEARSON joined the Foreign Commercial Service and was assigned to—of all places— Boston, just as the pandemic shut down Massachusetts.

JOY RANKOTHGE, F09

2009

JOY RANKOTHGE moved with his family of three to Singapore on a new adventure in 2017. Now a family of four (including Jovan, 6, and Adiev, 2), they are still based in Singapore. Before the pandemic, Joy tried his hand at being an entrepreneur. The highlight was getting to work on some neat projects with NATE CAIRNEY, whom he never actually got to take a class with at Fletcher. If you are in Singapore for the 2021 World Economic Forum or otherwise, do let Joy know. He would love to meet up.

KIRBY REILING, F09

2009

KIRBY REILING and COURTNEY KEMPS, F10, and their two children, E.J. and Schyler, recently arrived in Iceland for Kirby’s next Foreign Service assignment at the U.S. Embassy in Reykjavik.

BRIAN PERRY, GMAP 2009

2009

BRIAN PERRY published Ignore the Hype: Financial Strategies Beyond the Media-Driven Mayhem, which takes a common-sense approach to the financial world that’s suited to the everyday investor.

VICKI ASSEVERO, F10

2010

In March 2020, VICKI ASSEVERO gave the Claude Berkeley Lecture at Yale College and was made a Yale fellow of Berkeley College. She also became a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, charged with developing a Caribbean Initiative for that group, and has become involved with Slow Food and the Wellbeing Economy Alliance, organizations that are working diligently to develop new ethics and a new consciousness of interconnections between ecology and the economy.

COURTNEY KEMPS, F10

2010

COURTNEY KEMPS, see 2009.

ANDREW LEWIS, F10

2010

ANDREW LEWIS and his husband, Andrew Ahlquist, moved from New York to Amsterdam in May 2020. Andrew L. continues to provide negotiation advisory services to corporate clients. Both Andrews are eating a lot more cheese than they used to, though they remain on the fence about raw herring.

NONA (LAMBERT) MAJIDI, F10

2010

NONA (LAMBERT) MAJIDI moved to Sarajevo a year ago to join Internews as deputy chief of party for a regional media program. While the year didn’t go as planned, Nona and her husband have enjoyed exploring Bosnia with their two daughters, ages 5 and 2.

HARVEY BEASLEY, F11

2011

HARVEY BEASLEY and his family are back in Kuwait, where Harvey works at the U.S. Embassy. Despite everything, they are healthy and happy.

PHILIPPA BROWN, F11

2011

PHILIPPA BROWN is consulting for the Royal United Services Institute, focused on Afghanistan. She has also set up her business, ConflictInsights.co.uk, providing mediation and conflict coaching services.

PATRICK R. ELLIOT, F11

2011

PATRICK R. ELLIOT is learning French remotely in Malvern, PA, living off Wawa hoagies and Rita’s water ice. He hopes to swing through Washington in the early summer on his way to a three-year tour at the U.S. Mission in Geneva.

ALEX WISE, F11

2011

ALEX WISE and his wife, Katie, are living in Denver, CO. They welcomed their first child, Evie, on June 30, 2020. Alex is the executive director of CEDS Finance, a small-business lender dedicated to refugees, immigrants, and those from underserved communities.

ERIC BLOCK, GMAP 2011

2011

ERIC BLOCK has taken up the role of chief revenue officer for Wana Brands, the number-one cannabis edibles brand in North America. Wana is committed to improving lives by providing the highest-quality delivery systems for cannabis-based medicine. In addition, the company focuses on partnerships that promote social equity and political justice for communities and individuals detrimentally affected by the 30-year war on drugs.

ERIN KIMSEY, F12

2012

ERIN KIMSEY, see 1994.

ANNE SACKVILLE-WEST, F12

2012

ANNE SACKVILLE-WEST, see 1994.

RALPH VINCENT ABARQUEZ, F13

2013

After completing a six-year diplomatic posting in Brussels as second secretary and consul in the Philippine Embassy to Belgium and Luxembourg and the Philippine Mission to the European Union, RALPH VINCENT ABARQUEZ returned to Manila in November 2020 and took up a new portfolio as acting director for strategic communications in the Office of Public and Cultural Diplomacy in the Department of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of the Philippines.

ATU YUDHISTIRA INDARTO, F13

2013

ATU YUDHISTIRA INDARTO moved to The Hague in August 2020, posted as first secretary at the Embassy of Indonesia.

MORGAN LERETTE, F13

2013

MORGAN LERETTE published Welcome to Blackwater: Mercenaries, Money, and Mayhem in Iraq, a memoir about working for Blackwater in Iraq in 2004 and 2005.

COSIMO MORTOLA, F13

2013

COSIMO MORTOLA married Olga Orlova, and they moved from northern Virginia to the Boston area.

DAVID PARK, F13

2013

DAVID PARK finished his assignment as the first U.S. Treasury Department representative to Korea in October 2020. He returned to the Treasury Department in Washington, DC, where he serves as a senior policy advisor for China, Taiwan, Japan, and Mongolia issues in the Office of Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes.

MOLLIE PEPPER, F13

2013

MOLLIE PEPPER finished her Ph.D. in sociology at Northeastern University and is working as an independent consultant.

CLAIRE THOMAS, F13, & GEOFF FINGER, F13

2013

CLAIRE THOMAS and GEOFF FINGER are winding down almost three years at the U.S. Consulate General Monterrey in Mexico. Along with Louisa, 5, Margot, 2, and a son expected in April, they will move to Costa Rica in July for their next tour as Foreign Service Officers.

NIHAL D. CHAUHAN, F14

2014

NIHAL D. CHAUHAN who leads international policy for the chairman’s office at Tata Sons, has been selected as one of the Trilateral Commission’s David Rockefeller fellows for the 2020–2023 triennium. Founded in 1973, the Trilateral Commission is a nongovernmental, policy-oriented forum that brings together leaders from the worlds of business, government, academia, the media, and civil society. It offers a platform for open dialogue, aiming to reach out to those with different views and find solutions to major contemporary geopolitical, economic, and social challenges.

ELIZA PAUL, F14

2014

ELIZA PAUL married Matt Foglia in a tiny pandemic courthouse wedding in North Carolina and became stepmom to Eliot and Cecilia. She is pursuing a master’s in clinical mental health counseling with a focus on disability.

SHRUTHI VISWANATHAN, F14

2014

SHRUTHI VISWANATHAN started The Equals Project, which aims to improve the understanding of Indian constitutional values amongst children and young adults through experiential learning. Over the past year, The Equals Project has conducted game-based workshops, both online and offline. Learn more via Instagram @the.equals.project, or email the organization at contact.theequalsproject@gmail.com.

KATIE WALSH, F14

2014

In 2020, KATIE WALSH ran for New York State Assembly in southern Brooklyn, in the district where she was born and raised. Katie had the help of a lot of Fletcher classmates and received 2,431 votes, or 24 percent, in a four-way race. While she didn’t win, she was not entirely discouraged from politics and may run for state or local office again.

KATERINA CANYON, F15

2015

KATERINA CANYON started the Valentine’s Day Campaign, vdaycampaign.org. She asks all those who support police accountability legislation to send a Valentine to their representatives with the names of those lost or injured due to police brutality.

JOEL EL-QALQILI, F15

2015

JOEL EL-QALQILI and his wife are awaiting their second child, Sibel. Joel also got promoted to associated partner at the law firm SMP. He looks forward to (re)connecting with as many Fletcher people as possible in 2021.

LAURA VAN VOORHEES, F15

2015

LAURA VAN VOORHEES, see 2020.

AMEYA ASHOK NAIK, F16

2016

AMEYA ASHOK NAIK has authored a chapter titled “An Indian Vision for a Rules-Based International Order” in the book India’s Marathon: Reshaping the Post-Pandemic World Order, published by the Takshashila Institution. Naik is a nonresident associate fellow at Takshashila, where he teaches policy analysis and writes on international relations and international law. The book can be found on amazon.com.

JANINE DI DIOVANNI, GMAP 2016

2016

JANINE DI DIOVANNI is a senior fellow at Yale University’s Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, teaching human rights. This year she finished her ninth book, The Vanishing, about Christians in the Middle East, and was awarded the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ highest nonfiction prize, the Blake-Dodd, for her lifetime body of work. In 2019, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to complete research in Syria, Iraq, and Gaza. In 2021, she is leading a UN Democracy Fund project, Enabling Witnesses, to record war crimes in Syria, Iraq, and Yemen. She lives in Manhattan with her son, Luca Girodon, and would love to see Fletcher alums once COVID dies down.

ROB WAVRA, GMAP 2016

2016

ROB WAVRA was elected partner at McKinsey & Company. He serves public sector, agriculture, and banking clients from the firm’s Washington, DC, office.

ABRAHAM CHERIAN, F17

2017

ABRAHAM CHERIAN has joined the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation as vice president analytics for its global corporate real estate function at Bangalore. Prior to this role, he headed loan portfolio and analytics at Muthoot Fincorp, an Indian banking services company.

ADOLFO GATTI, F17

2017

ADOLFO GATTI has thoroughly enjoyed the first few months of his DC life, managing to find happiness in the intimate days experienced during COVID-19. Biggest silver lining of 2020: Valerie DiCristoforo (an honorary F17 to his classmates) said yes, and they are now engaged.

NATALIE LAHOOD, F17

2017

NATALIE LAHOOD works as a senior global health officer in the Office of Pandemic and Emerging Threats at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. She lives in DC with JAMES KOCHIEN and has been surviving the pandemic with her Fletcher-family isolation cell: James, MEMMI RASMUSSEN, and ALI SCHMIDT-FELLNER.

CAMILA FURR MARQUEZ, F17, & RACHEL ARLENE REDEYE PORTER, F17

2017

CAMILA FURR MARQUEZ and RACHEL ARLENE REDEYE PORTER co-founded Kneading Change, which provides education, coaching, and consulting to help justice-seeking people embrace and express their multiple identities. Connect with them at info.kneadingchange@gmail.com.

ISAAC NSUBUGA, F17

2017

ISAAC NSUBUGA married his longtime friend Sandra-Serumaga Zake in December 2019. The wedding took place in Kampala, Uganda, at St. Paul’s Cathedral Namirembe, with a reception at Speke Resort Munyonyo on the shores of Lake Victoria. Isaac was honored to have a few Fletcher folks join him for both events.

ENRIQUE OCHOA, F17

2017

In February, ENRIQUE OCHOA started a new position at the International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva as operations coordinator for South East Asia.

ANNIN PECK, F17, & JARED NOURSE, F17

2017

ANNIN PECK and JARED NOURSE moved back to the Bay Area from Hong Kong and welcomed their new baby girl, Mae Palmer Nourse, into the world on October 8, 2020.

DOMOINA RAMBELOARISON, F17

2017

DOMOINA RAMBELOARISON lived in three countries during the turmoil of 2020, moving from the U.S. to Canada to Côte d’Ivoire. Based in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, she now works on a blended finance program focused on higher education for a Franco-African impact investment group. She also enjoys going to the ocean on weekends.

NAMIKO (UMEDA) SUZUKI, F17

2017

NAMIKO (UMEDA) SUZUKI and SOICHIRO SUZUKI, F18 welcomed their first child, Shun-ichiro, on May 26, 2020. They live in Tokyo, where Soichiro works with the G7/G20 office at the Japanese Foreign Ministry. Namiko was on parental leave until March and will be thrilled to return to work as a diplomat.

KERRLENE WILLS, F17

2017

KERRLENE WILLS is a senior diplomat and trade negotiator in Geneva, at the Permanent Mission of the Co-operative Republic of Guyana to the World Trade Organization, the United Nations, and other international organizations. In her spare time, Kerrlene enjoys sailing on Lake Geneva and exploring Switzerland.

JULIO ALVARADO, GMAP 2017

2017

JULIO ALVARADO graduated from the FBI academy as a special agent and is working in the Baltimore, MD, office, focusing on transnational organized crime. He was promoted to major in the Army Reserve and assumed a new position as a battalion executive officer in a civil affairs unit.

KAMRAN BALAYEV, GMAP 2017

2017

On September 28, 2020, KAMRAN BALAYEV and his wife, Kasey, welcomed their daughter Kamilla into the world. All are healthy and well.

PALOMA SERRA, GMAP 2017

2017

PALOMA SERRA was appointed deputy general consul of Spain in Jerusalem in August 2020.

JULIO RIVERA ALEJO, F18

2018

In January 2019, JULIO RIVERA ALEJO joined the Ministry for the Ecological Transition of Spain as an advisor to the minister’s Cabinet. In this role, he supports the implementation of just transition measures as part of the Spanish decarbonization strategy, helping to achieve a climate-neutral economy.

MAXWELL BEVILACQUA, F18

2018

In September 2020, MAXWELL BEVILACQUA founded Max Negotiating, a negotiation training firm. He hopes Fletcher alumni will reach out if he can be helpful with negotiations, or if they just want to say hi.

MANUELA (JÄGGI) COLLIS, F18

2018

MANUELA (JÄGGI) COLLIS got married to Avinash in 2019. In fall 2020, she started her Ph.D. studies at Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. Because of COVID-19, she is living in Austin, TX, until a move to Canada is possible. Manuela will continue her academic work on gender differences in the labor market.

NACHIKETA DASH, F18

2018

NACHIKETA DASH is based out of Delhi as a part of IQVIA’s public health practice in India. He has been supporting the government of India in implementing key national health initiatives, including the National Health Resource Repository and the National Digital Health Mission.

ANDY HOFLEITNER, F18

2018

ANDY HOFLEITNER lives in Annapolis, MD, with his wife, Rebecca, and works as a senior cybersecurity analyst for the Department of Defense. In September he returned from one year in Jordan. Andy and Rebecca married in October and are expecting their first child in May.

MARIYA ILYAS, F18

2018

MARIYA ILYAS enjoyed her first overseas tour in the U.S. Foreign Service as vice consul in Amman, Jordan. In the fall, Mariya will move to New Delhi for a two-year assignment as an economics reporting officer.

MITCH LEESTMA, F18

2018

MITCH LEESTMA and Katy are currently living in Saint Louis, MO. Mitch recently moved to a new team at ZX Ventures and is working on expanding AB InBev business in Brazil and Mexico. Katy is working as a pediatric nurse practitioner in pediatric genetics at St. Louis Children’s Hospital. The light of their life has been the arrival of their son, Joseph, in early 2020.

RAFFI MNATZAKANIAN, F18

2018

RAFFI MNATZAKANIAN is deployed as a strategic planner at the U.S. military’s Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa in Djibouti. He applies the teachings of professors Shultz, Malvesti, Warde, Prodromou, and De Waal on a daily basis.

BATUL SADLIWALA, F18

2018

BATUL SADLIWALA is the senior associate for philanthropy and sustainability at Alghanim Industries, a Kuwait-based multinational. Last summer, she led the creation of a community oral history archive focused on capturing the pandemic experiences of marginalized and migrant communities in Kuwait.

SOCRATES SOURVINOS, F18

2018

After a couple of years as deputy head of the Greek Embassy in Abu Dhabi, SOCRATES SOURVINOS decided to leave the Arab Peninsula and return to the U.S. In October 2020, he was appointed as consul general of Greece in San Francisco. He looks forward to connecting with any Fletcherites who live in California.

SAKSHI SURI, F18

2018

SAKSHI SURI joined Asian Development Bank in 2018 and has been working on multiple private-sector infrastructure projects in Mongolia, China, the Pacific Islands, and Southeast Asia. She has gained experience in a wide range of sectors, including renewables, solid waste management, and health-care infrastructure. In 2020, Sakshi led a Greenfield Telecoms project to help establish much-needed 4G connectivity in Papua New Guinea. She is based in the Philippines and Singapore, and travels around Asia often. She invites all fellow Fletcher adventurers to explore the Philippines’ beautiful diving sites with her.

SOICHIRO SUZUKI, F18

2018

SOICHIRO SUZUKI, see 2017.

SAMIR BAJAJ, GMAP 2018

2018

In August, SAMIR BAJAJ, who continues to be based in Atlanta, joined McCormick and Company, the global consumer product company based in Baltimore, MD. Samir is responsible for leading human resources for the company’s Business Transformation Office.

INGRID BERLANGA, GMAP 2018

2018

The pandemic caught INGRID BERLANGA while she was working in the Embassy of Mexico in Ecuador, putting her in a lockdown, completely alone, for more than six months. People were allowed only a few hours a day to walk around to get food, medicines, or money. However, Ingrid still managed to help about 300 Mexicans return to their families. In August, she moved back to Mexico, where she was invited to collaborate in an environmental organization as an external consultant. She continues serving her country in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, too.

MARIA TERESA NAGEL, F19

2019

MARIA TERESA NAGEL and her husband, Jonathan, welcomed Eduardo McCaul (future F45) on February 13, 2020. His laughter and wonderment have made isolation a sweet adventure.

SAM SCHLEIPMAN, F19

2019

SAM SCHLEIPMAN is living in Phnom Penh. He’s working remotely for Catholic Relief Services on women’s livelihoods and a family nutrition development project in Myanmar.

YOSHIKO TOKUCHI, F19

2019

After graduating from Fletcher, YOSHIKO TOKUCHI moved to Jerusalem to work with the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. She then moved to Egypt in January 2020 to take up the role of planning officer at UNICEF Egypt.

CHRISTA CASE BRYANT, GMAP 2019

2019

CHRISTA CASE BRYANT is a journalist for the Christian Science Monitor, and wrote an article on her experience in the Capitol when it was attacked on January 6 (in which she mentions Fletcher!).

FELIPE GARCIA LANDA, GMAP 2019

2019

FELIPE GARCIA LANDA has been transferred to the Consulate General of Mexico in Raleigh, NC. He has taken up the post of consul for economic and commercial affairs and cooperation, and continues to be part of the Mexican Foreign Service.

NICHOLAS CICCHINELLI, F20

2020

NICHOLAS CICCHINELLI is still at Fletcher (virtually, of course). He’s finishing the courses he needs for his Ph.D.

TSOLMON GANTUYA, F20

2020

TSOLMON GANTUYA is surviving with her infant in a complete lockdown. Did she mention that it’s 30 degrees below zero Fahrenheit in Ulaanbaatar?

CAROLINE ARMSTRONG HALL, F20

2020

CAROLINE ARMSTRONG HALL, see 1967.

MAX LOEBL, F20

2020

After graduating from Fletcher mid-pandemic, MAX LOEBL moved to Wisconsin to work with the Democratic Party there, serving as communications director for a congressional campaign. Now that the election is over, Max works as chief political strategist for Crossroads Solutions. He resides in his hometown of Milwaukee, WI, with his dachshund, Bean.

KELSEY SCHRENK, F20

2020

KELSEY SCHRENK started her Presidential Management Fellowship at the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of International Labor Affairs, where she works on implementing the labor provisions of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement. She happily works alongside LAURA VAN VOORHEES, F15.

AMANDA SCHWARTZ, F20

2020

AMANDA SCHWARTZ lives in Washington, DC. She is an analyst at the U.S. Department of the Treasury in the Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence.

IN MEMORIAM

CLUB NEWS