Class Notes

At a time when social media and other forms of digital connection have greatly reduced the number of class notes at other schools and universities, the class notes submitted by Fletcher graduates have remained robust. The vitality of your notes is a testament to the commitment of your volunteers and the strength of the Fletcher community—all the more meaningful at a time when it is more important than ever to stay connected.

class notes by year

NORMAN R. BENNETT, F56

1956

NORMAN R. BENNETT’s novel A History of the Arab State of Zanzibar has been translated into Arabic by Al-Rafidain Publications.

RAYMOND MALLEY, F56

1956

RAYMOND MALLEY was honored by Who’s Who with the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award. Raymond spent 25 years as a career foreign service officer with the U.S. Department of State and USAID, primarily negotiating and managing billions of dollars of foreign economic assistance programs, including in Korea, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He also represented the U.S. at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris, held senior operating and policy positions in Washington, DC, and headed the Trade and Development Agency. Later in his career, he was a senior executive with the Korean industrial manufacturing groups Hyun Dai and Halla, including a stint as chair of the North and South America subsidiary Halla America Inc. He’s also a retired U.S. Air Force Reserve officer, with service during the Korean and Cold wars, and a ranked national and international senior tennis player. He has published three books. He and his wife, Josette, retired from the World Bank, have homes in McLean, VA; Hanover, NH; and France. They teach occasional international affairs topics at Dartmouth College. Raymond has three children and several grandchildren.

F. ROY LOCKHEIMER, A59, F60

1960

F. ROY LOCKHEIMER feels great at age 84 and has reached 51 years of marriage. Even though he has come down with early Parkinson’s disease, he’s holding on and toughing it out. His last book reflects on the first Japanese Olympics, which took place in 1964 around the time he returned to Fletcher after two years at Keio University as the first participant in the Fletcher-Keio exchange program. Travel restrictions have limited him to his Japan residence, but as soon as the world opens up, he and his wife will be on the road again to California and their getaway in Silicon Valley, where their son and grandkids are.

FRITZ GILBERT, F62, F76

1962

Since receiving their Fauci ouchies (vaccines), Jane and FRITZ GILBERT have been edging toward normalcy after 18 months of pretty strict social distancing and very little travel. They are very thankful for the virtual options that are now available both for work and enjoyment. They suspect that with the need for social distancing during the pandemic, many of us prioritized virtual interactions and wound up more connected to each other than we were before.

CAROL HURLBURT, F62

1962

CAROL HURLBURT had one knee replaced in early April. The other knee was scheduled for August, so she and Sid planned to stick close to home.

TODD STEWART, F62

1962

Georgia and TODD STEWART moved in October 2019 to the Vi at Palo Alto, a retirement community on the edge of the Stanford campus. As COVID-19 cases waxed and waned, they shuttled between California and Sun Valley, ID, where their daughter now owns their old house. In Palo Alto they have become involved, virtually in most cases, with events at Stanford and the Vi. They spent the summer on the East Coast and in Sun Valley and have booked a cruise from South Africa to Brazil, via Namibia and St. Helena. Their daughter Schroeder has been named president and CEO of Mental Health America.

LEIF CHRISTOFFERSEN, F63

1963

LEIF CHRISTOFFERSEN continues his migratory life, with a base in Old Town Alexandria, VA, and travels to his mountain home (Geilo, Norway), to his friend’s Tuscan home, and to California and Oregon for visits with his three sons and their families. He was lucky to spend a good part of the pandemic in Norway and to escape any health problems. He contributed a chapter to the newly released book Social Development in the World Bank and, together with five other former personal assistants to Robert McNamara during his 13 years as president of the World Bank, co-authored a booklet, “McNamara in Retrospect,” covering that period in the institution’s history. The booklet was released by the World Bank this summer.

VIRGINIA CORNYN, F63

1963

VIRGINIA CORNYN has been judging FIRST Robotics in middle and high schools since 2006. In June, she judged the Chairman’s Award, which is the highest honor in the high school program. Her panel included a team from Turkey and one from Brazil.

BARBARA SUNDBERG-BAUDOT, F63

1963

BARBARA SUNDBERG-BAUDOT and husband Jacques are settled in Ougny, France, taking care of their three dogs, two horses, and cat. Their three girls and six grandchildren gather there for summer vacations. Their NGO, Triglav Circle, has taken off globally with Zoom and attracted participants from Japan, India, New Zealand, several European countries, and states in the U.S. Reports and videos of the Zoom session are up. Barbara is one of the designated experts for the UN’s Harmony with Nature initiative. She also continues to photograph birds, and her bird articles have been published monthly by the Black River Audubon Society for northern Ohio. Read: Newsletter Archive — Black River Audubon Society.

LAWRENCE THARP, F63

1963

LAWRENCE THARP passed away in Meru, Kenya, at age 84 after a battle with cancer. He was laid to rest at his home in Kenya. He is survived by his wife, Purity Mwendwa Tharp, and his daughter Natalia. Lawrence led a life of compassion, conviction, and devotion to improving the lives of the most vulnerable.

LATTIMORE

BERTRAM “GRESH” LATTIMORE JR., F65, F70, F72

1965

BERTRAM “GRESH” LATTIMORE JR. was awarded the 2020 Distinguished Service Award by the Tufts University Alumni Association. Gresh is a retired U.S. naval officer who spent years as a commercial banker before becoming a hospice chaplain at the Veterans Administration Hospital and chair of the Advocates for Tufts ROTC.

LARRY STRUVE, F65

1965

On June 8, LARRY STRUVE met with new Fletcher graduates ALEX BETLEY, F21, TASHI CHOGYAL, F21, and BRYAN TUDOR, F21, via Zoom to discuss ways to let new and prospective Fletcher students know about the impressive careers that can await alums. They were inspired by many of the memoirs in the Class of 1965 publication In the Shadow of Camelot . They also discussed Larry’s new book, Building Trust in Government, which examines the qualities of effective leadership in public service as observed during his term as director of the Nevada Department of Commerce under then-Governor Richard H. Bryan. The book is a sequel to Larry’s memoir In the Shadow of Camelot.

Fred Hayward and his son Jack in Antarctica.

FRED HAYWARD, F68, F69, F69

1968

In 1976, FRED HAYWARD decided to start a new anti-sexist movement, because he concluded that feminism was creating more misunderstanding, anger, and resentment than it was eliminating. He viewed it as reinforcing some sexist stereotypes and replacing others with new ones. His “equalist” movement is based on the paradigm that men and women depend on each other more than they compete with each other. It never really took off, but it does have thousands of adherents around the world. In his personal life, he has a son who has studied transportation design while living in Italy and is now looking for work in Europe (any leads would be appreciated). Fred has been with the same partner for more than 20 years and has a wonderful extended family with her, including her three adult children, their spouses, and six grandchildren. The entire clan lives in the Sacramento area and would welcome any visitors.

GARY MAYBARDUK, F68

1968

Sharon and GARY MAYBARDUK report that their son, Peter, and his partner, Lily, had a baby girl named Maia in February 2020. Gary and Sharon returned to DC in June 2020 to babysit their first grandchild while her parents worked full time from home. Peter heads Public Citizen’s Essential Medicines project and has helped organize the campaign to get COVID-19 vaccines to the rest of the world. Lily teaches tax law at New York University School of Law and is awaiting confirmation as the assistant secretary of tax analysis at Treasury. All five members of the extended family spent the winter at Gary and Sharon’s home in Florida and returned to DC in July. Gary was elected president of the Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy (ASCE) and has been busy transforming ASCE’s programs to a virtual format. Gary also contributed to the book The Cuba-US Bilateral Relationship: New Pathways and Policy Choices.

SALLY MILLER, F68

1968

SALLY MILLER reports that BRUCE MILLER passed away on January 7. He fought relentlessly against Parkinson’s disease for more than 20 years. Both Bruce and Sally knew Parkinson’s would ultimately win, but Bruce never gave up the fight. “Knowing” that Bruce would be leaving Sally made his death no less painful, the grief no more bearable, and the hole in her heart no smaller or more easily repaired. And now comes an even harder part: re-creating Sally as a solo individual after three years of courting and 50 years of marriage. Sally will continue to be Fletcher class secretary and will still work for Democratic victories in Virginia. But she will also reach out more into her community where needs abound. This fall, she wants to help teachers with reading and enrichment and help families with food assistance initiatives. And oh, how she wants the bells to ring out again with her church bell choir. Maybe she’ll be able to take her oldest grandchild on a cruise to celebrate high school graduation.

TERRY MYERS, F68, F69

1968

The pandemic gave Lynn and TERRY MYERS more time with their children, who could quarantine, test, and then, laptops in hand, visit for longer stretches than they had in years. Between those visits and regular Zooms, the extended family stayed in good contact. Terry admits that he made minimal progress on sorting out piles of old papers and assorted collectibles in the basement and spent lots of time walking around the neighborhood. Lynn had a full garden, and they both telephoned and texted like mad during the runup to the elections. Overall, COVID-19 dampened the fear of missing out; it gave them permission to retire, to accept that the baton had been passed and that now, as one friend said, was a good time to focus on admiring the accomplishments of others. Liberated by the vaccine, Terry and Lynn have set off to see friends and family in person and try some new adventures while they can.

PETER OLESON, F68

1968

Luuk and PETER OLESON moved into their new house—actually a 1960s house that they renovated. The renovation was much more of a project than they had thought at the beginning. They’re often busy grandbaby-sitting. Their granddaughter, 9, now has a little brother, who was adopted in Ohio. Peter continues editing for the Intelligencer, the journal of U.S. intelligence studies, and is helping with a conference in Hawaii on the problem of illegal, unregulated, and unreported fishing.

KEITH TENNY, F68

1968

Jackie and KEITH TENNY are retired and are using Houston, TX, as their base to travel to see their youngest daughter in California and their three children living on the East Coast. Before COVID-19 hit, Keith and Jackie had taken two driving trips in Mexico, each for five months. Their two grown sons are both senior vice presidents at New York City banks. Their oldest daughter runs her own family therapy business outside Washington, DC, and the youngest daughter in California works at the Stanford University Hospital as a vascular technologist. The Tennys have three grandchildren and are expecting two more later this year.

GEORGE LAMBRAKIS, F69

1969

GEORGE LAMBRAKIS and his wife, Claude, remain by the ocean in lower Brittany. George has been giving webinars about So You Want to be a Diplomat?, his recent memoir of his experience in the foreign service. The book has been or will be discussed in webinars for Fletcher School alumni, a diplomatic school in London, and prospectively SAIS of Johns Hopkins and George’s class of 1952 at Princeton. To quote one of the reviewers, former New York Times journalist, author, and film producer Nicholas Gage: “If any American diplomat practiced his craft under the ancient Chinese curse ‘May you live in interesting times’ it was George Lambrakis. Wherever he was assigned you could bet that all hell would soon break loose. … As riveting as the reporting of the best foreign correspondents, but enhanced by the objectivity and perspective of a skillful historian. One of the most compelling books on the inner workings of American diplomacy to be written in a long time.”

GREGORY SMITH, F69

1969

GREGORY SMITH has spent more time this past year giving talks to civic groups on refugee protection, immigration, migration, and border management, and serving on the board of directors of the Endangered Alphabets Project, which seeks to preserve threatened written languages around the world.

ALBERTO SZEKELY, F69

1969

ALBERTO SZEKELY is in Mexico City and is in great health and better mood, still playing the accordion and practicing law after 53 years, going strong in his 30-year-old international environmental law firm. He’s getting ready to become a grandad for the second time.

WILLIAM WILSON, F69, F74

1969

WILLIAM WILSON is using Zoom on a regular basis for several endeavors: serving as a member of the restorative justice panel for Essex Community Justice Center, a trustee for the Vermont Historical Society, and a volunteer online teacher for A Better Vietnam; attending the weekly meetings held by Pendle Hill Quaker Center; and maintaining a regular yoga practice. William and his family planned some summer hiking and kayaking from their camp and a possible trip to visit their son in Portland, OR.

ROBERT (BOB) BELL, F70

1970

ROBERT (BOB) BELL successfully defended his Fletcher Ph.D. dissertation, “NATO Nuclear Burden-Sharing Post-Crimea: What Constitutes ‘Free-Riding’?,” on June 24. His degree was awarded at the end of the summer 2021 session.

HARRY PETREQUIN, F70

1970

HARRY PETREQUIN says it’s great to meet friends again and share the wines they’ve been saving. During his 24 years of working in Asia and Africa, Harry saw a number of democratic regimes succumb to internal intrigue or military coups. At the time, he believed the constitutional democracy of the United States made it immune from such threats, but he now believes he was mistaken. He says the Republican Party has morphed into a leader cult, a modern corollary of fascist movements in Europe in the 1930s, and is engineering more subtle, incremental erosion of democratic principles and procedures, having introduced 361 voter suppression bills in 47 state legislatures, 39 of which it controls. The national elections in 2022 and 2024 will determine what lasting damage has been inflicted on the American experiment, he says. However, Harry remains hopeful.

ELIZABETH (BETH) VOORHEES WALTER, F70

1970

ELIZABETH (BETH) VOORHEES WALTER and her husband, Mike, fitted out a 17-foot off-road trailer as a mobile office for their architectural design/engineering business and a temporary home. If their state borders were not closed, they planned to head out this summer to wander around outback Australia and back to their home in tiny Nagambie, outside Melbourne. They would have printer/scanner/Wi-Fi and hopefully a decent phone/internet signal most of the time, but certainly not always. They had no set schedule or itinerary—that was the whole point. Their journey could take between five weeks and five months, depending on how they go. Wish them luck and a good signal.

BARBARA CRANE, F71, MARIE (KUNZ) HOFFMAN, F71, BILL HOFFMAN, F71, and BILL (WILLIAM) SARGENT, F71

1971

BARBARA CRANE, MARIE (KUNZ) HOFFMAN, BILL HOFFMAN, and BILL (WILLIAM) SARGENT attended the virtual 50th reunion for their class May 20–22. They learned a lot about Fletcher today from Dean Kyte, heard about current programs and projects at Fletcher’s research centers, enjoyed excellent panel discussions on cybersecurity, U.S.-Russia relations, and even how wine changed world history. Having virtual coffee with faculty members was a great way to start each day. They heard what kinds of research the faculty is undertaking and met alumni from reunion classes participating virtually from all over the world. While the virtual 50th reunion was sparsely attended, next year’s in-person reunion is expected to include all the reunion classes that faced COVID-19 cancellations, so plan accordingly.

BILL HOFFMAN, F71

1971

For BILL HOFFMAN one of the benefits of the virtual Fletcher reunion was virtually meeting with KOBO INAMURA, F77, attending from Tokyo. Kobo provided news of SHOTARO YACHI. Shotaro is now the president of the Fujitsu Future Studies Center, Ltd. in Tokyo.

BILL (WILLIAM) SARGENT, F71

1971

BILL (WILLIAM) SARGENT spent the last year frantically writing Terror by Error? The Covid Chronicles, the first book to investigate the idea that the recent pandemic was caused by a lab accident. Unfortunately, his agent passed away at the beginning of the crisis and time was short, so he had to self-publish. This made marketing difficult, but Bill is gratified that the theory is now part of the mainstream and that he gave it his best shot.

MICHAEL VILBERT, F71

1971

After Fletcher, MICHAEL VILBERT went to pilot training at Williams Air Force Base (AFB), AZ, and after graduation was assigned to the F-111A. He flew combat in Vietnam for a year. Then he had a series of assignments including Mountain Home AFB, ID, for three years, the Pentagon for one year, and Holloman AFB, NM, for three years. Michael earned his MBA from the University of Utah through an off-campus program while at Mountain Home AFB. His next assignment was to the U.S. Air Force Academy as an instructor. The Air Force Academy sent him to the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania to get a Ph.D. in financial economics. He finished his Air Force career at the Air Force Academy. After the Air Force, Michael joined The Brattle Group, an economic consulting group, in Cambridge, MA. He retired from The Brattle Group in 2018 as a principal but continues to do some consulting work in retirement. Michael is married to Kellie Barnette Vilbert and has one son, Sean, and three grandsons under age four.

MIKE ARESCO, F73

1973

MIKE ARESCO , commissioner of the American Athletic Conference, has become chair of the Collegiate Commissioners Association, which includes all 32 conferences of the NCAA Division I. He will serve a two-year term. Mike and Sharon moved to Dallas last year after a long stint in Providence, RI. They also completed work on their home in Sun Valley, ID, to indulge Sharon’s passion for skiing.

JOHN ENDICOTT, F73, F74

1973

JOHN ENDICOTT and Mitchie celebrated their 62nd wedding anniversary in August. John also stepped down from the presidency of Woosong University in Daejeon, South Korea, after 14 years at the helm. During his tenure, four new colleges were added, making a total of eight constituent colleges; 20% of the 12,600-member student body was drawn from countries other than South Korea; and one-third of the 700-strong faculty was drawn from countries other than South Korea. John returned to Atlanta to update his memoirs, Destined to Serve, at Georgia Tech, where he is an emeritus professor. Also in August, John celebrated his 85th birthday surrounded by children and grandchildren, all living in the Atlanta area.

AURELIUS FERNANDEZ, F73

1973

AURELIUS FERNANDEZ has moved to a continuing care retirement community, Ingleside at King Farm. Aury can be reached at auryfern@aol.com.

NIHAL GOONEWARDENE, F73, F74

1973

NIHAL GOONEWARDENE reports that the executive board of the Fletcher Alumni of Color Association (FACA) has approved expanding FACA’s financial assistance to students of color at Fletcher. Aid will now include an annual FACA board scholarship of $10,000 to $15,000 for an entering student from an underrepresented minority who is a graduate of a historically Black college or university. The first such award will be made in the 2021–22 academic year with a $15,000 scholarship. FACA’s signature program in support of internships for students of color at Fletcher celebrated its 10th anniversary in summer 2021. Started in fall 2011, the FACA Internship Support Program has devoted $341,300 to 164 internships for Fletcher students of color in 20 countries.

FRITZ LENZE, F73, F82

1973

FRITZ LENZE follows Fletcher events avidly from his perch in Germany, and was pleased to attend Fletcher’s 2021 virtual reunion events. He especially appreciated The Euro@20: The Way(s) Forward and the Commencement keynote address by Filippo Grandi, UN high commissioner for refugees.

NORMAN G. MOSHER, F73

1973

NORMAN G. MOSHER and Jan are well settled into retirement at Rappahannock Westminster-Canterbury, a continuing care facility in the Northern Neck of Virginia. They relish their return home from their Alaskan adventure to spend time with many old friends from their previous home base. A sailor always, Capt. Norm insists on “steaming as before. Maintaining course and speed. Fuel running low.”

FRANK L. TRIPPETT

1974

It grieves NIHAL GOONEWARDENE to share the news that FRANK L. TRIPPETT passed away on April 29, with wife Linda, daughters Rachel and Hailey, and his grandson and son-in-law by his bedside. Frank was diagnosed with mesothelioma on February 10. Linda has thanked Frank’s classmates for the friendship and camaraderie we shared with him. Frank was a consistent supporter of and donor to the Fletcher Fund and the FACA Internship Support Program. He will be missed by all of us who counted him among the finest.

PHYLLIS POMERANTZ, J74, F75, F78

1975

Congratulations to PHYLLIS POMERANTZ on her retirement after 15 years as professor of practice at Duke Center for International Development (DCID). During her tenure, Phyllis taught graduate seminars on aid effectiveness, global poverty reduction, leadership, and governance in the Master of International Development Program (MIDP). She chaired and served on many faculty review and promotion committees; advised on MIDP policies, practices, and curriculum; and served on DCID’s management committee. She also served as the director of graduate studies during a critical period of transition. Prior to joining DCID, Phyllis worked at the World Bank for more than 25 years before retiring as chief learning officer in 2005.

EDITH CLARKE HARPER, F77

1977

EDITH CLARKE HARPER is still ranching north of Sheridan, WY, with her husband, Gordon. Northeast Wyoming has been a peaceful place to be during the pandemic. Both kids are married. One is a captain in the Marines, and the other and his wife are working for Novartis in Kufstein, Austria. If folks travel out Edith’s way, she welcomes visitors.

KOBO INAMURA, F77

1977

KOBO INAMURA, see 1971.

JUDITH L. KATZ, F77

1977

JUDITH L. KATZ and GRANT F. RHODE, F79, F80, are enjoying living by the sea in Bristol, RI, especially when their daughters Jamie and Lauren visit from Providence and Washington. Judy is the director of development for Primary Source, an education nonprofit in Watertown, MA, that works with K-12 teachers to create a globally informed, critically thinking, culturally tolerant citizenry. Grant teaches and does research at the U.S. Naval War College and Boston University’s Center for the Study of Asia, focusing on Eurasian maritime history and China’s Belt and Road Initiative.

Art gallery director Cynthia Valianti Corbett.

CYNTHIA VALIANTI CORBETT, F78

1978

CYNTHIA VALIANTI CORBETT was awarded the 2020 Service Citation by the Tufts University Alumni Association. She is director of the Cynthia Corbett Gallery, an international contemporary art gallery that has an annual exhibition program and regularly exhibits at contemporary art fairs. She is also the founder of the Young Masters Art Prize, which honors emerging artists working in any media.

GRANT F. RHODE, F79, F80

1979

GRANT F. RHODE, see 1977.

TATIANA ANDROSOV, F80

1980

TATIANA ANDROSOV has shared her own story of “being different” in America in an essay on medium.com, “Yes, Not Everything Is in a Name.” Tatiana has also written Before They Cut the Ivy; Mangoes and Blood; Choices; A Question of Seduction: Eros; and A Question of Seduction: Agape.

MIKE GOLDBERG, F80

1980

After Fletcher, MIKE GOLDBERG lived in Guatemala and Ecuador. He recently retired from 27 challenging, wonderful years at the World Bank. He had the opportunity to work on dozens of projects in all regions of the world, on microfinance, small business, competitiveness policies, and innovative finance. Somewhere along the way, Mike found his wife, Laura, and they ended up with two great kids, Nico and Katia. He gave up on tennis and replaced it with baking.

WILLIAM (BILL) MILES, F81, F83

1981

WILLIAM (BILL) MILES received a Fulbright Global Scholar Award for fieldwork research on post-pandemic brain-drain reversal in India, Morocco, and Israel.

JEFF FELTMAN, F83

1983

JEFF FELTMAN, see 1987.

LYNNE SHERBURNE-BENZ, F85, F93, and STEVE BENZ, F85

1985

LYNNE SHERBURNE-BENZ and STEVE BENZ say hello from Washington, DC, where they have been living and working since 1990. Lynne continues to work at the World Bank, where she is the South Asia director of human development. She has been working on health, education, and social protection issues in South Asia throughout COVID-19. After Fletcher, Steve received his law degree from Stanford Law School, and he is now a partner at Kellogg Hansen, PLLC, where he represents corporations in complex antitrust and competition matters in the U.S. and Europe. The couple’s three children are now adults and live in Boston, London, and San Francisco. Two of them are getting married in the next six months.

DAVID MCKEAN, F86

1986

DAVID MCKEAN (with Bart Szewczyk) recently published Partners of First Resort: America, Europe, and the Future of the West. General David Petraeus calls it “a compelling, timely, and extremely important argument.” David’s sixth book, FDR, His Ambassadors, and the Rise of Adolf Hitler, will be published this fall. Author Lynne Olson calls it “a compelling portrait of the men Franklin Roosevelt chose to be his ambassadors in Europe during Nazi Germany’s march toward war.”

DARMP SUKONTASAP, F86, F93

1986

DARMP SUKONTASAP was appointed chairman of the executive board of the Export-Import Bank of Thailand.

BILL BIKALES, F87

1987

BILL BIKALES has relocated from Beijing to the Princeton, NJ, area. He hopes that this will make it easier to see old classmates and friends again in the coming months and years. His email is bbikales@ gmail.com, and he will be happy to hear from you.

MIKE HAMMER, F87

1987

Diplomatic duties in Goma, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, brought together four Fletcherites: MIKE HAMMER, U.S. ambassador to the Democratic Republic of the Congo; JEFF FELTMAN, F83, U.S. special envoy for the Horn of Africa; KHASSIM DIAGNE, F06, UN MONUSCO deputy special representative to the secretary-general; and TAMEISHA HENRY, F14, SEHOA special assistant.

BEN ZIFF, F87

1987

BEN ZIFF concluded his fellowship at the German Marshall Fund of the U.S. in March. He is now back at the State Department as director of the Migration Working Group, working with the White House and the interagency on the challenges of irregular migration to the U.S. southern border.

PRAKASH MIRCHANDANI, F88

1988

PRAKASH MIRCHANDANI moved to Melbourne in 2018 and was elected to the Council of the Australian Institute of International Affairs Victoria last year. He was the co-organizer of a four-part seminar series on South Asia that ran from May through June.

PAUL SCHULTE, F88

1988

PAUL SCHULTE, now based in Singapore, had a new book, Digital Transformation of Property in Greater China: Finance, 5G, AI, and Blockchain, released this spring. It’s a must-read for anyone seeking a better understanding of China and its harnessing of tech and data to build the digital economy, infrastructure, and cities of the future.

FARUKH AMIL, F89

1989

FARUKH AMIL is vaccinated and looking forward to resuming international travel. He is continuing activities with the United Nations and the London-based think tank the Gazi Research Project, for which he is the director of Future of Youth, mentoring new and midcareer diplomats in Islamabad. Since last year, he’s also been a senior research associate with the Intellectual Forum at the Jesus College in the University of Cambridge.

ANNE DONOHUE, F89

1989

ANNE DONOHUE is retiring from teaching at Boston University in December 2022 and moving to Cape Cod. She’s looking for overseas teaching opportunities, if anyone has any leads.

BEA BOCCALANDRO, F89

1989

BEA BOCCALANDRO is thrilled that her book, Do Good at Work: How Simple Acts of Social Purpose Drive Success and Wellbeing (Morgan James Publishing, 2021), was selected by Wharton professor and four-time New York Times bestselling author Adam Grant as one of the 30 best new books and is getting positive exposure in Harvard Business Review, Forbes and other outlets. She’s certain a huge amount of credit goes to RHONDA SHORE for her superb editing.

BEN DRIGGS, F89

1989

BEN DRIGGS is in Salt Lake City, UT, enjoying a newfound love for music so much that he even produced an album.

CHRIS and JEAN GILSON, F89

1989

CHRIS and JEAN GILSON are doing well in Bethesda, MD. Jean is still at DAI, and Chris is with Millennium Challenge Corp. They have happily been joined at their home by grown-up, working children (Kate and Tom). Their big, lovable mutts, Fuji and Ginger, added to the fun (and chaos) through the pandemic. They look forward to organizing a reunion for locals, now that we can meet again in person.

JOHN GLOVER, F89

1989

JOHN GLOVER is still living in Washington, DC, and working for Plan International, where he focuses on access to education, health, and livelihoods in low- and middle-income countries, contributing to advocacy for adolescent girls and other young people.

GLENN GROW, F89

1989

In summer 2020, GLENN GROW and his wife, Shawn, took a mid-pandemic backpacking trip around the West and ended up buying a small farm in Hailey, ID, near Sun Valley. It’s where they now live. Glenn is the CEO and founder of Innovasia, Inc., working primarily in Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East. His wife has a Pilates studio in Hailey. With little travel the past year, Glenn has enjoyed skiing, hiking, hunting, and the outdoor life that he missed all those years working in Asian megacities.

SETH MOSHMAN, F89

1989

SETH MOSHMAN had a flurry of family graduations. His youngest graduated from high school, another daughter graduated from college, and yet another daughter graduated from medical school.

JOSEPH ROUSSEL, F89

1989

JOSEPH ROUSSEL and wife, Jana, live in Antwerp, Belgium. Joseph continues to lead private-sector engagement at the public health NGO VillageReach. Fully vaccinated, he is looking forward to seeing colleagues in sub-Saharan Africa. In April, he was able to visit family in Louisiana, Texas, and Washington, DC, in his first plane trip in more than a year. It was his longest “no-plane period” in more than 30 years.

CLAIRE VAN DER VAEREN, F89

1989

CLAIRE VAN DER VAEREN continues with her work at the Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific at the United Nations Development Programme in New York. She has discovered a new interest in watercolor painting.

ALLISON and DICK WILBUR, F89

1989

ALLISON and DICK WILBUR are enjoying life in Rhode Island and thankfully survived the pandemic without getting sick, although their youngest caught COVID in his last year of college.

HAROLD ZAPPIA, F89

1989

HAROLD ZAPPIA is still living in Shepherdstown, WV, and enjoying retirement. He’s getting back into model railroading, in both a local club and his basement. With some camping and hiking added in, he stays quite busy.

LYN BENOIT-GEER, F90

1990

LYN BENOIT-GEER spent 15 years as vice president of student services at American Military University. She is semi-retired now and doing consulting for universities that are implementing new technology systems. She looks forward to traveling more, especially cross-country from her home in Steilacoom, WA, to Florida to visit her three grandchildren, including twins born in December whom she hasn’t yet met.

OSAMU HAYAKAWA, F90

1990

After serving at the Japanese Embassy in Bangkok for 21 months, OSAMU HAYAKAWA was posted by Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs back to Tokyo in July 2020. He is now on loan from the ministry to the National Archives of Japan, where he serves as the deputy director-general of the Japan Center for Asian Historical Records. The center is a digital archive of historical documents provided mainly by the foreign and defense ministries.

FRÉDÉRIQUE LAMBRAKIS-HADDAD, F90

1990

FRÉDÉRIQUE LAMBRAKIS-HADDAD launched a freelance career as a therapist and a trainer in mental health with a specialty in trauma, explained on her website, traumainform.com. She has provided trainings for MINUSMA, the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Mali, and for Giving Women, a Geneva-based philanthropic organization. She’s also working to develop a mentoring charity in Brighton, UK, targeting girls over age 16 who need extra support. Frédérique’s two children are in university, one in the UK and one in California. She and her husband, Lawrence Haddad, continue to live in Brighton. Frédérique says she intends to blend her Fletcher international background more with her psychotherapy profession and would love for any alums to be in touch.

IVAN MONÈME, F90

1990

IVAN MONÈME teaches public relations and crisis communication at Paris Dauphine University, in addition to managing his company, Per Se Communication.

MARIKO NODA, F90

1990

MARIKO NODA , who lives in Tokyo, has become quite accustomed to using Zoom, chatting with friends in New York and Taipei, taking voice lessons, and singing with members of a choral group every Sunday and during the week. She prays for her classmates to stay safe and healthy.

DAN SATINSKY, F90

1990

DAN SATINSKY is semi-retired and focused on writing a book about Americans living in Russia in the late 1980s and the 1990s. It’s based on in-depth interviews with people who were there. The book will be published by Routledge, he hopes by the end of 2022.

YOICHI YAMANO, F90

1990

YOICHI YAMANO is the senior representative for Hitachi Ltd.’s Government and External Relations Group. He also advises the U.S.-Japan Business Conference in its committee on energy and infrastructure and its committee on the digital economy. He supports the international policymaking of the Keidanren (Japan Business Federation) as well. Yoichi works in Tokyo.

SARA HENDEY, F91

1991

SARA HENDEY has connected with KRISTEN PENDLETON, F92, as they both live near Stockholm, Sweden. Sara is an author and teacher. Her writers group has just published an anthology called Raft of Leaves: On Aging, Death and Foreignness. Read more about Sara and the anthology.

ABDULLA SHAHID, F91

1991

ABDULLA SHAHID, see 1992.

SYLVIA KAINZ, F92

1992

SYLVIA KAINZ is director of Global Connectivity Partnerships at Airbnb, based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

MICHAEL MENDELSON, E91, F92, F93

1992

MICHAEL MENDELSON is in Baltimore County, MD, and is still practicing law with Wissing Miller, based in New York. He works mostly with start-ups and small companies on general business, mergers and acquisitions, financing, and commercial and government contracts. Michael has also become an entrepreneur and started a PPE supply business, LHM Partners.

KRISTEN PENDLETON, F92

1992

KRISTEN PENDLETON, see 1991.

Abdulla Shahid of the Maldives takes the podium after being elected President of the 76th session of the General Assembly.

ABDULLA SHAHID, F91

1992

The Class of 1992 sends warm congratulations to classmate ABDULLA SHAHID, F91, foreign minister of Maldives, who has been elected president for the United Nations 76th General Assembly. As such, he will be living in New York for one year. Abdulla selected hope as his theme.

ANDREW MARBLE, F94

1994

ANDREW MARBLE published the first biography of General John Shalikashvili, America’s only foreign-born chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, in 2019. Andrew is now researching two other topics: whistleblowers/whistleblowing and detection dogs (canines that sniff out such things as drugs, explosives, money, cancer, and COVID-19). He welcomes hearing from any Fletcher alumni who have stories, experiences, and/or information to share about these topics.

CHARLES SCOTT, F94

1994

CHARLES SCOTT was featured in My Moment, an occasional online series in which Tufts graduates share stories of personal transformation. Charles described how he quit his corporate career to go on athletic adventures with his kids. Read: My Moment: Quitting My Corporate Career.

PAUL VALLET, F94

1994

Since March, PAUL VALLET has hosted and produced the Geneva Center for Security Policy (GCSP) weekly podcast, interviewing personalities and international security affairs experts on a range of subjects. The work has allowed him to reach out to speakers who would have come to GCSP to deliver in-person lectures but couldn’t because of the COVID-19 restrictions. Paul has also contributed significantly to GCSP’s coverage and analysis of the recent Biden-Putin summit, commenting mainly on Geneva’s local television channel and Swiss radio and television. He is working on a graphic novel as well.

MANFRED WIEGANDT, F94

1994

MANFRED WIEGANDT continues to run a private immigration law office in Wareham, MA. He lives with his wife, AMY WIEGANDT, J80, M85, on Cape Cod. His three children are all adults, and he claims that their lives are much more Fletcheresque than their father’s. He frequently publishes articles on American and German constitutional law and politics, and has also written a few children’s stories that await a willing publisher. He still has fun playing soccer in an “over the hill” league.

ANTHONY CHASE, F95, F00

1995

During the pandemic, ANTHONY CHASE, professor of diplomacy and world affairs at Occidental College, has focused his work on a partnership between the Los Angeles mayor’s office and Occidental’s Young Initiative on the Global Political Economy, which he chairs. He has extended the initiative’s work to integrate global sustainable development goals into local policy. He has also focused on mapping out the possibilities for a process to uncover the truth about Los Angeles’ history of racial injustice and hold the city accountable.

MARTHA (BORY) CULVER, F95

1995

MARTHA (BORY) CULVER’s daughter Nora graduated from high school and is headed to the University of Rochester, where she will enroll in the College of Arts and Sciences but also take violin and orchestra at the Eastman School of Music. Martha is still in internal corporate strategy at Deloitte, working remotely but hoping to see colleagues in New York soon.

ANDY (BINGHAM) KENNEDY, F95

1995

ANDY (BINGHAM) KENNEDY writes from Australia. When not dodging bushfires, he has been writing a book about China’s pursuit of technological leadership since 1949. He has also taken up some new hobbies—mountain biking and scuba diving—that are transparent attempts to deal with turning 50. Fortunately, he says, they’re working.

MAURA LYNCH, F95

1995

In April, after finishing her contract with the United Nations in Haiti where she had been the chief of staff in the political mission, MAURA LYNCH took a long road trip to visit national parks, state parks, and pioneer-era towns in South Dakota, Wyoming, Montana, and North Dakota.

CAROLINE (BLUME) SANDERSON, F95

1995

CAROLINE (BLUME) SANDERSON was promoted to general manager and chief of staff for Microsoft’s chief commercial officer. Post-pandemic, she is looking forward to getting back on the road to visit customers all over the world.

VICTORIA COLLINS, F96

1996

VICTORIA COLLINS (née Francis) and her family are in their fifth year in Stuttgart, Germany. She is continuing to enjoy her work as COO of Community Insights Group, and her husband is at the European Command. She says it is good fun to raise their son fully bilingual in the German schools—just like her (oh so many years ago). She would love to hear from any Fletcherites in the European neighborhood.

ANDREA RAUBER SAXER, F96

1996

ANDREA RAUBER SAXER and family are back in Switzerland after four great years in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. She is now the head of human resources at the Swiss foreign ministry. Apart from taking care of all the usual aspects of an HR job, such as recruitment, deployment, and leadership development, she is busy with ensuring that the ministry’s personnel abroad can get vaccinated against COVID-19. In addition to that, she is absorbed with reorganization issues within the ministry. After 25 years in the foreign service, she is now getting an inside view of the “backbone” of the ministry, which is very interesting.

MELISSA CONLEY TYLER, F96

1996

MELISSA CONLEY TYLER is in Taiwan as a visiting fellow at the Institute for National Defense and Security Research, funded by a Taiwan Ministry of Foreign Affairs fellowship. She’s researching how Taiwan sees the Biden administration. She just brought out a book on Australia and the rules-based international order for the Australian Institute of International Affairs.

ERIC WILLIAMS, F96

1996

ERIC WILLIAMS and his family have relocated to Australia. He is in the process of developing a global energy model for climate policy analysis. His goal is to release a report that examines a range of net-zero scenarios in time for this year’s UN climate change conference. The work builds on his work last year on circular carbon economy for the G20 process.

MARK WILT, F96

1996

MARK WILT is a U.S. foreign service officer currently in El Salvador as USAID El Salvador Economic Growth and Education Office director. He leads a 20-person team managing a $220 million economic growth portfolio aimed at reducing irregular migration from Central America. The strategy is to increase the prosperity of both likely migrants to the U.S. and deportees from the U.S. to El Salvador. Mark coordinates this complex, high-profile portfolio with the State Department, Foreign Commercial Service, Development Finance Corporation, and Department of Agriculture, and represents the U.S. government with high-level host country counterparts.

GRANT HOSFORD, F97

1997

In May, GRANT HOSFORD’s company codeSpark was acquired by New York–based Homer Learning. The mission of the combined companies is to provide kids up to age 10 with the best possible start to their learning journey. He hopes to be visiting New York–based Fletcher folks regularly as a result of the acquisition.

ALEXIA LATORTUE, F97

1997

ALEXIA LATORTUE moved back to Washington, DC, after four years in London working with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. On March 1, she joined the Biden-Harris administration as the deputy CEO of the Millennium Challenge Corporation.

RANDALL SPALDING-FECHER, F97

1997

RANDALL SPALDING-FECHER is enjoying watching his older daughter, Maya, enter the climate policy field after graduating from Williams College this May. Also spotted at the Williams commencement ceremony was classmate RAJEEV SAWANT, F97, F08, celebrating with Manisha the graduation of their daughter, Mehr. Meanwhile, Randall’s younger daughter, Grace, has finished her sophomore year at Tufts, ready to major in international relations. She’s interning for an Eritrean human rights advocacy group for the summer. So there could be more Spalding-Fechers at Fletcher before long. Finally, the pandemic did not stop a few masked and distanced walks in the Middlesex Fells with classmate DIA WARREN.

DIMITRI VASSILACOS, F97

1997

DIMITRI VASSILACOS and his family are coping pretty well with the effects of the pandemic. Sophia, his wife, is gradually returning to work, still with the Cultural Foundation of the National Bank of Greece. Emma, their daughter, has two years left to finish at the Lycée Français. Dimitri is still working on a multitude of projects related to ship finance.

NICOLE TURNER, F98

1998

NICOLE TURNER, see 1999.

MAIA BABBS, F99

1999

MAIA BABBS and her family are still in Colorado. They moved during the pandemic to central Denver, after selling their house online. Maia’s husband, Carlton, and daughter Cara, 15, are doing well. After 22 years in the business, Maia launched her own investment advisory firm, called Lariat Wealth Management, in July. The firm will provide investment management and financial guidance to high-net-worth individuals, families, and nonprofits. Maia saw JONO ROSEN before the pandemic, which was wonderful.

DORA CHEOK, F99

1999

DORA CHEOK is in Hong Kong working communications with Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corp. but will be relocating back to Singapore sometime before the end of October.

ROGER FALCON, F99

1999

ROGER FALCON is the deputy director of the Disability Rights Fund (DRF) and Disability Rights Advocacy Fund (DRAF). A couple of years ago, in his second week in this role, he was delighted to arrive at an all-staff meeting in Boston and greet CARLISLE LEVINE, who was conducting an evaluation of the organizations. DRF and DRAF are participatory grant-makers, providing resources to organizations of persons with disabilities to conduct advocacy for their rights under the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Shortly before the pandemic, Roger attended the Student-Alumni Networking Reception in the Hall of Flags and enjoyed catching up with Professor Carsten Kowalczyk, among others. It would be great to hear from Fletcher friends: falcon61@ecologyfund.net.

MARIA FARIELLO, F99

1999

MARIA FARIELLO moved with her husband and 14-year-old daughter to Brussels in the midst of the pandemic, and they are happily settled in Etterbeek. She works for the European Union’s Foreign Policy Instruments (European Commission) on regulatory instruments. She and her family would be happy to meet up with Fletcherites in town or passing through.

Audrey Ingolfsdottir in Iceland.

AUDUR (AUDREY) INGOLFSDOTTIR, F99

1999

AUDUR (AUDREY) INGOLFSDOTTIR is in Iceland, where she is finishing her second year working independently as a lecturer, writer, and advisor through her own small business, called Transformia. She teaches courses at various universities on issues related to sustainability, peace, conflict resolution, and gender. She is also the chair of the board of Vatnajökull Glacier National Park, one of the largest national parks in Europe, covering 14% of the island. This role gives her the perfect opportunity to practice the conflict-resolution skills she studied at Fletcher in the context of natural resource management.

OLEG KAGANOVICH, F99

1999

OLEG KAGANOVICH began a new role as managing director of a venture capital fund of funds at Cintrifuse Fund earlier this year. Based in Cincinnati, OH, Cintrifuse Fund focuses on everything from sustainability to supply chain to fintech. Oleg and his family still live in Sacramento, CA, but he is doing more traveling to both the Midwest and East Coast. He would love to get together when he is in your neighborhood.

RAZYA (SIDDIQUI) KIRMANI, F99

1999

Despite the allegedly slow pace of the last 18 months (seriously?), life in RAZYA (SIDDIQUI) KIRMANI’s corner of England has been as hectic as ever. For more than a year, she squabbled over desk space with three teenage kids in various stages of disarray, then seesawed between worry and relief when they went back to school. She also wondered if clients would ever return to her little digital marketing firm, 240INC, only to take a deep breath when they came trickling back in. Over the summer, she and her family were hoping to visit cousins, siblings, and grandparents in California and perform some logistical maneuvering to drop her eldest off at college in New York. Razya and her family live just a 30-minute ride outside London in a lovely little village called Banstead and welcome visitors. She says her hubby makes a mean biryani.

Olfa Meliani with her son, Ulysses.

OLFA MELIANI, F99

1999

OLFA MELIANI is delighted to announce the birth of her son, Ulysses Alastair Meliani-Faure. As of mid-June, he’s off to a great start in life. A star has been named after him, and he will have three fairy godmothers: Dorothee Tonnerre, NICOLE TURNER, F98, and KAREN MILES, F07. He’s already making everyone around him very happy, and it’s only fair that they’ll all try their very best to make him happy in return.

ELLEN SHAW, F99

1999

Despite the challenging year, ELLEN SHAW and her husband found some things to celebrate: Their oldest child graduated from high school, their youngest survived his freshman year, and they marked their 22nd wedding anniversary over the summer. Ellen and family live in Washington, DC, and always welcome opportunities to connect with Fletcher friends: shawellenm@gmail.com.

ASTRID WENDLANDT, F99

1999

Last year, ASTRID WENDLANDT launched the website Miss Tweed, which is dedicated to fashion and luxury. It has since established itself as the go-to place for scoops and exclusives on the industry. Its stories are regularly picked up by Bloomberg, Reuters (Astrid’s former employer), and other media, and some 2,000 people have subscribed to its Sunday newsletter, which features a summary of the week’s important news with commentary from Miss Tweed. The newsletter is free, but there is a charge for its main story. In May 2021, Miss Tweed won a 50,000-euro grant from the French Ministry of Culture to help fund its development. Building the website has been a real adventure, and Astrid has Napoleonic plans to grow this media.

JIM F. ALEXANDER, F00

2000

JIM F. ALEXANDER has published his first book, I Am Sophia: A Novel. In this unique work of theological futurism, a mysterious woman captivates the solar system’s last remaining Christ worshippers, and they must find out whether she is a lunatic, a con artist, or a messiah. More information is available at J. F. Alexander.

STEPHEN GOODMAN, F00

2000

STEPHEN GOODMAN continues to focus on the business leadership side of technology and innovation, most recently working with Turing laureate Mike Stonebraker’s recent venture. Stephen actively mentors new Fletcher alums and also helped ALEX KRAUS sail his boat from Cape Cod to Newport, RI, on its way to the Chesapeake. Fatherhood, trail running, and amateur arboriculture got him through the pandemic.

Lakshmi Karan and classmates.

LAKSHMI KARAN, F00, F09

2000

The last couple of years have seen major shifts on the professional and personal fronts for LAKSHMI KARAN. She co-founded a space start-up with NASA, with the mission of ensuring responsible and sustainable space development. It’s been a thrilling ride so far. She and her husband also shifted to a nomadic life just before COVID-19 and are now discovering the balance of living in different places while continuing to follow their work dreams with the help of technology. She looks forward to visiting many classmates as their journey continues. In the interim, she has enjoyed meeting with classmates on monthly Zoom calls.

JAVIER I. KINNEY, F00

2000

JAVIER I. KINNEY serves as the carbon project manager for the Natural Resources Division for the Yurok Tribe. He is responsible for overseeing and implementing the strategic actions for the tribe’s natural resources management portfolio relating to carbon sequestration and climate change. He is the proud father of a daughter, Jasmine Kinney, who is attending Stanford University, and a son, Kokonow Kinney, who is attending the University of California, Los Angeles. He welcomes the Fletcher family to visit the Yurok ancestral territory, located in Northern California in both Humboldt and Del Norte counties.

TODD NEFF, F00

2000

TODD NEFF published A Beard Cut Short, a biography of his University of Michigan mentor, who was fired in a controversial decision that Todd examines in the book.

DANIELE RIGGIO, F00

2000

DANIELE RIGGIO is continuing to enjoy her daily work at NATO Headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, as a press officer for NATO’s Public Diplomacy Division. Never a dull moment, from Afghanistan to Iraq, from the Western Balkans to Russia and China. She and her colleagues recently handled a historic NATO summit in Brussels.

JUDY SLATER, F00

2000

JUDY SLATER works in New York and lives with her family in Manhattan. The pandemic has brought joy, sorrow, and time to spend with family and friends. She’s also had a chance to pick up home renovation and cooking skills. She enjoyed participating in Fletcher’s virtual reunion class activities and seeing classmates on Zoom.

RAY LINSENMAYER, F01

2001

RAY LINSENMAYER, see 2003.

KO UNOKI, GMAP I 2002

2002

KO UNOKI published a book, Competition Laws, National Interests and International Relations.

DEBORAH EISENBERG, F03

2003

DEBORAH EISENBERG and RAY LINSENMAYER, F01, and their two daughters have moved back to the DC area. Deborah and Ray look forward to reconnecting with Fletcher friends there.

JAN HESSBRUEGGE, F04

2004

ANGIE BRICE HESSBRUEGGE, A03, and JAN HESSBRUEGGE were featured in an online series in which Tufts graduates share stories of personal transformation. They described facing their toughest challenge as parents: Angie’s diagnosis of incurable lung cancer (see page 76). Read: My Moment: I Didn't Fit the Profile.

ALAN MILLER, GMAP II 2004

2004

ALAN MILLER has a new position as strategic capabilities specialist for U.S. Army Europe and Africa at its headquarters in Wiesbaden, Germany.

Xanthe Scharff

XANTHE SCHARFF, F06, F11

2006

XANTHE SCHARFF, was awarded the 2020 Distinguished Achievement Award by the Tufts University Alumni Association. Xanthe is the CEO and co-founder of The Fuller Project, a nonprofit organization dedicated to groundbreaking reporting on women worldwide that raises awareness, exposes injustice, and spurs accountability.

KHASSIM DIAGNE, GMAP I 2006

2006

KHASSIM DIAGNE, see 1987.

KAREN MILES, F07

2007

KAREN MILES, see 1999.

BENJAMIN LODMELL, GMAP II 2007

2007

BENJAMIN LODMELL lives in Lisbon, Portugal, and just published a book of poems called COVID Poetry.

JAMES NEATHERY, GMAP II 2007

2007

JAMES NEATHERY is the interim CEO of IGNIS Community, a North Korea humanitarian organization.

JENNIFER KENNEDY GELLIE, F08

2008

As of the end of January, JENNIFER KENNEDY GELLIE is the deputy chief for foreign malign influence in the Counterintelligence and Export Control Section (CES) within the Department of Justice’s National Security Division. She’s also the chief of the Foreign Agents Registration Act Unit within CES. The roles and titles are a bit unwieldy, but she’s enjoying the new challenge so far.

DMITRI GOUDKOV, F08

2008

DMITRI GOUDKOV, his wife, Aika, and their three children, Ephraim, 7, Lilia, 6, and Elijah, 2, moved from Los Angeles to South Carolina.

CORINNE ONETTO, F08

2008

CORINNE ONETTO is still in Stockholm and felt the lack of travel rather keenly, especially around the winter solstice. She is at Spotify, working on a design team that creates content for a very global market. In the last six months, they’ve opened up to 80 new countries, each with its own cultural needs and specificities. Corinne would love to welcome anyone coming through the north of Europe for a visit. She has a place out in the archipelago of Stockholm with plenty of room for visitors.

Justine Valentine

JUSTIN VALENTINE, F08

2008

JUSTIN VALENTINE got to visit SABA HAQ at her home in Miami on June 9 while on an epic post-vaccination road trip. It was the first time they’d seen each other since their 10-year Fletcher reunion. Justin got a chance to meet Saba’s daughter Mona, 6, and son Samir, 4, before heading to St. Petersburg, FL, where he was able to meet up with DASHA KOSMYNINA.

Josh Golfstein

JOSH GOLDSTEIN, F09

2009

JOSH GOLDSTEIN bought a house in the Hollywood Hills. He welcomes his classmates to come hang out.

Christina Sass's daughter Georgia.

CAITLIN MCSHANE, F09, SARAH LABOWITZ, F09, and CHRISTINA SASS, F09

2009

In June, several Fletcher alums gathered in Sonoma to celebrate being vaccinated. JESSE MOSIER, F16, and JEN THOMPSON, F10, came up from San Francisco with Otis and Miles; CAITLIN MCSHANE came from San Rafael with Scot, Maggie, and Ellie; SARAH LABOWITZ flew in from Houston, leaving Pete at home; and CHRISTINA SASS hosted with her husband, Eric, and baby Georgia. Everyone is doing well, and they were all very happy to be together over fresh oysters and plum cake. Christina and Eric have been living in Sonoma since the start of the pandemic and welcomed Georgia Emmylou Sass Nonacs on August 3, 2020.

ERICA NEVAS, F09

2009

ERICA NEVAS started a new position as an enterprise design strategist at Oracle, where she will be joining millions of humans in real-time testing of the value proposition of fully remote work. She’s excited to push the boundaries of cross-disciplinary collaboration to solve really tough problems, and is hoping remote technology can open the doors for more inclusion. She’s still in Houston, as long as she isn’t taking two lively kids on cross-country road trips to visit friends and family.

Sophie Pouget and her daughter Marie trekking around Mont Blanc.

SOPHIE POUGET, F09

2009

This year, SOPHIE POUGET was in Djibouti and Bosnia and Herzegovina, talking about UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace, and Security to colleagues from the French armed forces. As a result, she graduated as an auditor of the 73rd session on defense policy of the French Institute for Higher National Defence Studies on June 10. By extraordinary chance, the United Nations high commissioner for refugees appointed her as an assessor judge to the French National Court of Asylum Law the very same day. She then faced a true challenge: taking 11-year-old Marie on a 15-day trek around Mont Blanc in August.

KIRSTIN ELLISON, F10

2010

After several years in the Defense and Homeland Security communities, KIRSTIN ELLISON joined so many of her Fletcher classmates in the U.S. Foreign Service as a political officer this April. She’ll head to her first post in Maputo, Mozambique, this December. Fletcher visitors are always welcome.

TREVOR MCNEIL, F10

2010

COVID-19 gave TREVOR MCNEIL the ability to move to more permanent housing. He is still in San Francisco and teaching eighth grade in Menlo Park. He’s also taking lots of socially distanced walks with NICK DAVIDSON. He was hopeful for summer travel with his three kids under age 6.

JEN THOMPSON, F10

2010

JEN THOMPSON, see 2009.

HARVEY BEASLEY, F11

2011

HARVEY BEASLEY offers greetings from Kuwait, where he and his family will be until summer 2022.

JESSICA HEINZELMAN, F11

2011

JESSICA HEINZELMAN co-founded Throne Labs, a start-up that aims to make it so no one ever has to worry again about finding a clean bathroom. While focused domestically for work and living in Oakland, CA, she keeps close with her international community by continuing to grow JadedAid, a once-analog card game she co-created, now available digitally.

ANDREW TIRRELL, F11, F17,

2011

ANDREW TIRRELL is thrilled to report that he was promoted to the position of associate professor, with tenure, at the University of San Diego. Also, he has a toddler who is both wonderful and exhausting, so he may never feel well-rested again. He hopes that his classmates are all doing well, and that their next MALD 2011 reunion will be in person. In the meantime, please drop a line if you find yourself in San Diego (from September through May) or Boston (from June through August). Andrew would love to catch up.

JASMINE BARRETT, F12

2012

JASMINE BARRETT has started a Ph.D. researching North Korea at the University of Melbourne.

CATALINA QUINTERO, F12

2012

CATALINA QUINTERO has been based in Miami since January 2020 and has recently started Coachiva, a life-coaching business. She continues to work and consult on peace building, fragility, and conflict prevention for clients like the World Bank and Search for Common Ground. During the pandemic she also learned to watercolor paint and found a passion for walk-jogging (a form of exercise between walking and running).

Kirsten Wallerstedt Strong at her wedding, reimagined for the pandemic.

KIRSTEN WALLERSTEDT STRONG, F12

2012

KIRSTEN WALLERSTEDT STRONG decided to keep her October 2020 wedding date but moved it to her in-laws’ backyard. The maid of honor was MEGHAN HEALY LUECKE. Kirsten and her spouse-to-be rented a tent, borrowed tables and chairs from a friend’s church, hired a caterer to barbecue, and rented an ice cream truck. They also borrowed lawn games for guests to play, and a good friend made a beautiful wedding cake for them. They had a campfire with s’mores to end the night. It was a fun, casual day with much less pressure than a “normal” wedding. Several people told them it was the best wedding they’d ever been to.

DAN THOMPSON, GMAP I 2012

2012

DAN THOMPSON is serving in Washington, DC, as a human rights and democracy policy advisor at the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs at the Department of State. He recently received an award from the secretaries of Labor and State for excellence in labor diplomacy.

Panagiota Kaltsa at her wedding in Munich.

PANAGIOTA KALTSA, F13

2013

Against all odds, PANAGIOTA KALTSA managed to have a corona wedding. Surrounded just by family, she and her spouse married in April in Munich.

Elliot Vilders

ELLIOT R. VILDERS, F13

2013

ELLIOT R. VILDERS was recognized in the 2021 class of shareholders by Howard & Howard.

SIOBHAN MACDERMOTT, GMAP II 2013

2013

SIOBHAN MACDERMOTT has been appointed to the Institute of the Americas board and named global managing partner at Tata Consultancy Services, based out of New York City, where she is building out a global geostrategic and cybersecurity practice for the firm.

TAMEISHA HENRY, F14

2014

TAMEISHA HENRY, see 1987.

Monica Noriega-Ardila

MONICA NORIEGA-ARDILA, F14

2014

MONICA NORIEGA-ARDILA and her husband, Ricardo, welcomed Leo Bernal-Noriega in October 2020. Although heavily sleep deprived, she continues to work on gender and gender-based violence, now with a renewed passion to help future generations embrace (and benefit from) diversity and equality. Leo’s arrival made staying at home a beautiful adventure, but she and Ricardo can’t wait for Fletcherites to visit them in Panama.

DANIEL ORTH, F14

2014

In June, DANIEL ORTH took a new position as the senior program manager at the Karuna Center for Peacebuilding.

LEROY TERRELONGE, F14

2014

In May, LEROY TERRELONGE was promoted to vice president and senior analyst in the Cyber Risk Group at Moody’s Investors Service. He joined this team at its inception two years ago to build out a cyber-risk analytics and research agenda, and to develop approaches for the assessment of cyber risk for credit-rating agencies. It’s going very well so far. Also, Leroy and his husband became foster parents to a 15-year-old at the beginning of January, which has been an adventure all its own. Feel free to reach out with a kind word or advice as they navigate their new parenthood.

GYPSY GUILLÉN KAISER, GMAP I 2014

2014

GYPSY GUILLÉN KAISER was appointed to the leadership team at the Committee to Protect Journalists, a global press freedom organization based in New York.

LAKSHMI KUMAR, F15

2015

LAKSHMI KUMAR, see 2016.

RYOTA OZAWA, F15

2015

RYOTA OZAWA, see 2016.

Erin Taylor was evacuated from Kabul earlier this year.

ERIN TAYLOR, F15

2015

Following Fletcher, ERIN TAYLOR worked in the gender and international development space in Georgia (the country) and in Washington, DC, for a few years.In 2018, she joined the U.S. Department of State’s Office of the Inspector General as a management analyst. In 2020, she deployed to the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, where she conducted an audit of the Public Affairs Section’s grants and cooperative agreements. In late April, she was evacuated from Kabul and returned to the DC area, where she reunited with her cat Max and left the State Department to start her new career as a foreign service crisis, stabilization, and governance officer with USAID. She is eagerly awaiting her first assignment abroad.

AYESHA WHARTON, GMAP I 2015

2015

AYESHA WHARTON has a new position as director of consular affairs at the Ministry of Foreign and CARICOM Affairs for Trinidad and Tobago.

TODD DAHMANN, F16

2016

TODD DAHMANN is the chief of the Defense Threat Reduction Office at U.S. Embassy Amman. He was recently promoted to lieutenant colonel and will be living in Jordan until summer 2023.

JESSE MOSIER, F16

2016

JESSE MOSIER, see 2009.

CLARE O’HARE, F16

2016

CLARE O’HARE spent the summer in Ireland and moved to London in August to take up an assistant professor position with the University of Notre Dame London Law Program. Meanwhile, she’s finishing her doctorate. She continues to collaborate with LAKSHMI KUMAR, F15, on a number of sovereign wealth fund projects.

Fumi Tataki

FUMI TATAKI, F16

2016

FUMI TATAKI moved to Cairo in September with her husband, RYOTA OZAWA, F15, and their son, Luca, to take up a role at the World Food Programme. Ryota is taking his paternity leave from the Government of Japan to support Fumi’s career and care for Luca.

JULIO RIVERA ALEJO, F17

2017

JULIO RIVERA ALEJO lives in Madrid and works as an expert consultant for the Spanish Cooperation to support climate policies and the Just Transition in Latin America.

ABRAHAM CHERIAN, F17

2017

ABRAHAM CHERIAN joined Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corp. in Bangalore, India, as part of the Global Performance Services team as vice president, analytics.

Ersan Volkan Demirel is living in Turkey.

ERSAN VOLKAN DEMIREL, F17

2017

ERSAN VOLKAN DEMIREL moved back to Turkey after graduation. He lives in Ankara and works as a senior foreign trade expert for the Ministry of Trade. He expects he will be sent abroad as a commercial counselor by the end of 2021.

Clark Frye and his partner, Rob, have postponed their wedding twice due to the pandemic.

CLARK FRYE, F17

2017

After many years of dating, CLARK FRYE and his partner, Rob, got engaged on a romantic Belize getaway in the spring of 2018. Since they weren’t in any rush, they eyed a spring 2020 wedding in sunny Puerto Rico, paying homage to Rob’s roots, and scheduled a raucous week of fun in the sun for guests. Alas, that wasn’t in the cards. They had to cancel two weeks before their big day, and postponed to spring 2021—a date they also had to reschedule. By the time they finally get hitched next spring, they’ll have been engaged for four years. But it will be worth it to celebrate the way they want, with their friends and family safely around them.

TRISH MANZKE, GMAP 2017

2017

In June, TRISH MANZKE became the division director for financial policy at the U.S. Defense Security Cooperation Agency. She is responsible for all financial policy plans, programs, and activities related to partnership between the U.S. and foreign security forces.

FELIPE GONCALVES MORGADO, GMAP 2017

2017

In June, FELIPE GONCALVES MORGADO was appointed sustainable development officer in the Executive Office of the secretary-general of the United Nations. In this capacity, he provides strategic advice in policy setting and coordination to the UN secretary-general and deputy secretary-general on matters related to financing for sustainable development.

Maria Alvarez-Tolcheff at her wedding in Madrid.

MARIA ALVAREZ-TOLCHEFF and TOM CARUGATI, F18

2018

MARIA ALVAREZ-TOLCHEFF and TOM CARUGATI got married in Madrid on May 29 after having to postpone the wedding planned for October 2020. While travel restrictions made it impossible for most of their American family and friends to be there, including all their Fletcher classmates, they are grateful that they could celebrate with an intimate gathering.

MAXWELL BEVILACQUA, F18

2018

MAXWELL BEVILACQUA is still nestled in the soft embrace of Somerville, MA. He recently founded an international negotiation consulting and training firm, Max Negotiating.

SASHA LIPTON GALBRAITH, F18

2018

SASHA LIPTON GALBRAITH joined IOM (UN Migration Agency) in 2018, leaving the chilly Boston winters to move to Niamey, Niger. After a couple of very interesting and sandy years in the Sahel, she took up a new position with IOM in Ethiopia in early 2021 to support emergency humanitarian response throughout the country.

JASON HA, F18

2018

JASON HA was deployed to Tampa by the Federal Emergency Management Agency in March. He helped administer vaccines at a site that provided nearly 3,000 shots daily. From mid-April to mid-May, he was deployed to Memphis, TN, and London, KY, where he visited vaccine sites to ensure that they were accommodating people with disabilities.

CORALIE HARMACHE, F18

2018

CORALIE HARMACHE is living in France, shuttling between Paris and Clermont- Ferrand, where she works at Michelin’s corporate headquarters in the corporate strategy department. She’s really proud of this role and excited by the questions she gets to answer regarding Michelin’s sustainable material targets, its strategic portfolio management, and its quest to become a digital company. Coralie still dreams of Boston, but mostly she dreams about the future. She looks forward to what is to come and hearing from her classmates.

RAFFI MNATZAKANIAN, F18

2018

RAFFI MNATZAKANIAN spent the last full year deployed in Djibouti at Combined Joint Task Force–Horn of Africa as a U.S. Army strategist and planner. He applied his Fletcher skills on a daily basis. He even got to connect with a few Fletcher alums in Djibouti. The network is strong.

Daiki Tajima works with the World Food Programme in Kenya.

DAIKI TAJIMA (TAJI), F18

2018

DAIKI TAJIMA (TAJI) shifted from the World Food Programme’s regional bureau in Nairobi to its Kenya Country Office as he entered his third year junior professional officer term. He is in charge of resource management, especially for the activities to support smallholder farmers in Kenya. After the World Food Programme won the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize, he became more proud than ever of working for the organization and contributing to the UN’s Zero Hunger goal. He keeps exploring the beautiful scenery in Kenya and has recently been to northern Kenya, where the attractions include the Chalbi Desert and Lake Turkana. He had an online reunion chat with Ambassachords friends and would love to have more virtual coffee meetings with Fletcher alumni.

NELSON TAMAYO, F18

2018

In April, NELSON TAMAYO was sworn in as a foreign service officer with the U.S. Department of State. His first overseas posting will be as consular officer at the U.S. Embassy in Luanda, Angola.

Andrea Baldini is part of the Italian Olympic fencing team.

ANDREA BALDINI, F19

2019

ANDREA BALDINI is living in Rome and started an internship at the UN Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute in June. He’s working on security of major sporting events and the promotion of sport and its values as a tool to prevent violent extremism and terrorism. A longtime member of the Italian Olympic fencing team, he coaches his wife, Irem Karate, who competed for Turkey in the Olympic Games in Tokyo.

SAM SCHLEIPMAN, F19

2019

SAM SCHLEIPMAN is living in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, and serving as the business development and partnership manager for Asia for World Hope International.

NINGYI SUN, F19

2019

After graduating, NINGYI SUN moved to Bangui, Central African Republic, to work in the United Nations Volunteers programme, supporting the UN’s peace operation in the country. In March 2020, Ningyi moved to New York to work as a program officer with the Mediation Support Unit under the Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs.

MICHAEL TEODORI, F19

2019

MICHAEL TEODORI lives in Washington, DC, although he misses Italy dearly. After a year spent at the U.S. politics office of the Italian Embassy, he joined Eni, Italy’s leading energy company, earlier this year. He continues to work on congressional affairs.

DANNY TOBIN, F19

2019

DANNY TOBIN is working on his Ph.D. in the environment program at Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment. He will be researching the policy options to address the environmental and social consequences of artisanal and small-scale gold mining in Latin America. He hopes to identify pathways for sustainable and climate-compatible development.

BRAD SNYDER, GMAP 2019

2019

BRAD SNYDER was preparing to compete at the Tokyo Paralympics. He’s a U.S. Navy veteran, seven-time Paralympic medalist in swimming, and current member of the Toyota U.S. Paratriathlon National Team. Read: Tufts Alum Wins Gold in Paralympic Triathlon Race.

WILL CLEMENTS, A18, F20

2020

WILL CLEMENTS is working with the International Rescue Committee’s Unaccompanied Children program. He is based in Dallas, TX.

ARTHUR DESLOGES, F20

2020

After graduating from The Fletcher School, ARTHUR DESLOGES continued at Tufts by enrolling in the graduate program of the Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning. As part of that program, he has been interning in the Massachusetts State House and with the Boston City Council.

Jake Grader

JAKE GRADER, F20

2020

After almost 14 months of waiting, JAKE GRADER began his presidential management fellowship with the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs in the Office of Andean Affairs at the State Department.

Caroline Armstrong Hall took up rowing during the pandemic.

CAROLINE ARMSTRONG HALL, F20

2020

This year CAROLINE ARMSTRONG HALL graduated with an L.L.M. in International Law from Cambridge University in the UK (where she randomly took up rowing during lockdown). She’s looking forward to starting a traineeship in the Institutional Affairs Division of the Legal Directorate at the European Patent Office. She’ll be working remotely from Cambridge for now, so she hopes to see many UK-based Fletcherites.

FARAH MOMEN, F20

2020

FARAH MOMEN competed on and won the premiere of Bravo’s Top Chef Amateurs show in July. She hopes to use her winnings to create a culinary “play space” where people can learn skills to create meaningful food experiences.

SARADA SUBRAMANIAN, F20

2020

SARADA SUBRAMANIAN is working as a business analyst for SprintRay Inc., a cool 3D-printing company in Los Angeles. She recently 3D-printed the Tufts mascot. She enjoys basking in the California sun on weekends. After the Boston winters, can you blame her?

ALEX BETLEY, F21

2021

ALEX BETLEY, see 1965.

TASHI CHOGYAL, F21

2021

TASHI CHOGYAL, see 1965.

BRYAN TUDOR, F21

2021

BRYAN TUDOR, see 1965.

IN MEMORIAM

James W. Gould, F47, F54
March 13, 2021
Seattle, WA

Richard B. Gray, F49
April 24, 2021
Tallahassee, FL

James Bruce Amstutz, F50
March 16, 2021
Brunswick, ME

Nancy D. Pratt, F50
January 11, 2021
Portland, OR

John P. Rudy, F52, F55
January 8, 2021
Athens, GA

William T. Crocker, F54
February 11, 2021
Cambridge, MA

Glenn W. Hodges, F54
January 24, 2021
Memphis, TN

Mustafa Akşin, F55
September 30, 2020
Istanbul, Turkey

William Piez, F55
January 5, 2021
Falls Church, VA

Julien J. Hohenberg, F58
January 16, 2021
Memphis, TN

Jane K. Zaidi, F59
February 12, 2021
Mercer Island, WA

A. Ross Johnson, F62
February 6, 2021
Vienna, VA

William C. Robinson, F62
January 9, 2021
Knoxville, TN

Sharon Eileen Johnson-Agueda, F63
March 9, 2021
Columbia, MD

Lawrence Tharp, F63
May 2021
Meru, Kenya

Myra Lynn Scott Shiff Reifman, F65
January 22, 2021
Los Angeles, CA

Claire Mae (Marek) O’Dowd, F66
January 6, 2021
Albuquerque, NM

Karen Hastie Williams, F67,
July 7, 2021,
Washington, DC

Hazel May McFerson Schiavo-Campo, F70
February 27, 2021
Silver Spring, MD

Frank Trippett, F74
April 29, 2021
McLean, VA

Mitzi J. Schroeder, F75
March 28, 2021
Germantown, MD

J. Peter Mitchell, F80
March 30, 2021
Brookline, MA

CLUB NEWS

North Carolina
The Fletcher Club of North Carolina has held numerous events, including four happy hours via Zoom. Members were also able to meet in person in November 2020 at Motorco Music Hall in Durham as well as in June at Pour Taproom in Durham.

Australia
JASMINE BARRETT, F12, and PRAKASH MIRCHANDANI, F88, are relaunching the Fletcher Club of Australia, having taken over the reins while MELISSA CONLEY TYLER, F96, is working in Taiwan. Anyone interested in getting involved should reach out to Jasmine and Prakash.

Delhi
The Fletcher Club of Delhi had a picnic at Mehrauli Archaeological Park in New Delhi on January 16. JAWAD ALI, F14, SANDHYA GUPTA, F08, VASUNDHARA JOLLY, A13, F17, SOOKRIT MALIK, A18, F18, NEERAJ PRASAD, F19, KRITTIKA SINGH, F18, and SIDDHARTH ARYAN, F15, were in attendance.

Georgia
Fletcher alumni in Georgia were able to get together for a dinner this past spring.

Paris
On February 11, Fletcher Club of Paris leader IVAN MONÈME, F90, hosted a virtual discussion called The Role of International Law in Addressing Climate Change: Where Next? with NOAH RUBINS, F99, Will Thomas, and the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies. Noah and Will are partners at Freshfields, a global law firm. They discussed how effective the climate change treaty regime is as it stands today, the roles of international courts and tribunals, and how non-state actors could usefully participate within the current international law landscape.

Tokyo
To strengthen the bonds among Fletcher alumni, the Fletcher Club of Tokyo organized two online 40-minute chat sessions. One was held on January 23 as a New Year’s greeting and one was on February 11 as a Lunar New Year’s Eve greeting. Approximately 15 alums and current students joined both sessions, from not only within Japan but also DC and Manila. This is quite a small step, but club leader MARIKO NODA, F90, believes it watered the rich soil of the Fletcher network.

Fletcher Women’s Network
The Fletcher Women’s Network (FWN) is pleased to announce that ORIANA POUND, F02, has been selected as the first vice president. In this role, she will succeed KARI SIDES SUVA, F11, as president in January 2022. The successful mentoring program that was held in 2020 has transitioned to an ongoing fireside chat series, designed to share the career paths of members. The first one was held in June and featured IFEOMA OJEMENI OKALI, F12, who served for over a decade at the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. In addition, FWN hosted a discussion with Dean RACHEL KYTE, F02, in March. FWN is always looking for volunteers; learn more by emailing fletcheralumnae@gmail.com.

Fletcher Women’s Network–DC
Members of the Fletcher Women’s Network–DC were thrilled to add some outdoor gatherings to their virtual programming. The group looks forward to celebrating International Women’s Day in March 2022. To learn more, write to fletcherwomensnetworkdc@gmail.com.