CLASS OF 2008 | 2023 | SPRING ISSUE

I was lucky enough to attend the fabulous wedding of Zoe Holder and Ben Kornstein in November, joined by Katie Poor, Sage (Trombulak) Ruth and Sam Ruth. Zoe has deep roots in Wes culture, as both of her parents are alum and her siblings studied at Wesleyan as well. Wes faculty even made an appearance! We danced the weekend away with the reckless abandon of our 19-year-old selves, thankful to be together after many years and thankful that we have a little more common sense than we did when we met as freshmen!

Maya (Bass) Bery writes, “My husband Adam and I welcomed our first child, a boy named Raphael Dev, on September 9th.”

Jess M. Jones lives in Philadelphia with her partner, Lindsay Ladd. Jess writes, “I recently brought [Lindsay] for an early Sunday morning campus driving tour and breakfast at O’Rourke’s on a drive home from Massachusetts. I’m an LCSW practicing child and family trauma therapy as well as legal psychedelic-assisted therapy, with a focus on equity and access. I’m also working in research: a phase 1 trial of a synthetic psilocybin analogue for major depressive disorder at a clinical research site in New Jersey and an expanded access site for MDMA-assisted therapy for PTSD in Maryland. My team in Maryland was recently featured in the Netflix documentary, How to Change Your Mind, which was pretty amazing. I’d love to connect with other Wes alums in the field of psychedelic medicine!”

Janie Stolar is rewatching all of The Amazing Race from season one. Her young cat has periodontal disease and colitis so she’s spending thousands of dollars to keep her alive and is doing so without complaint.