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Greetings from Chicago!  I hope everyone had a nice summer. My daughters and I got to catch up with Sarah Burke and her daughter who were in town for a wedding. Sarah and I lived together our senior year with Emily Rothman—Sarah saw Emily earlier in the summer.

I also hosted a summer send-off for Chicagoland area students who are starting their Wes journey! It was really great working with Wes director of engagement programs, Lucy Diaz, and senior development officer, Tim O’Brien. 

I got a few reports from our class:

Peter Chandler just completed his one-year anniversary as executive director of Internet Works, a Washington, D.C.–based trade organization of 23 “middle tech” companies working together to rightsize regulatory tech policy and preserve the Internet as a place of limitless opportunity. Peter reports that this is the happiest he’s been professionally and that building an organization from the ground up is both challenging and rewarding. Peter was also recently elected as co-chair of the National LGBTQ Task Force, which builds power, takes action, and creates change to achieve freedom, justice, and equity for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people.

Peter also hung out with Robin Shane and Lourdes Arista in D.C. over a summer weekend.

Charlotte Castillo writes that “it’s been a great summer connecting with Wes folks in NYC. Recently Charlotte co-hosted the WesLAN Summer Dance Social with Niko Ortega ’19 and Melvin Acevedo ’99. It was a blast to pick up some new salsa and bachata steps with the Wes fam.

Charlotte has also “enjoyed quality time with Patria Rodriguez ’93, Cynthia Centeno ’93, Lisette Nieves ’92, Nicole Rodriguez ’97, Marysol Castro ’96, Dolores Concepcion ’98, Kimberly Cooper King ’97, and so many others.”

Adam Glickman checked in from a trip to Sitka, Alaska, where he was dropping off his youngest child to college. Now an empty nester, Adam says he will have more time for class notes!

John Pollock is still in Montgomery, Alabama, where an eight-month job stint has become 20 years. His son, Merritt, who just turned 10, is obsessed with biochemistry, immunology, and anatomy. 

John recently connected with his former High Rise/Low Rise roomie Elizabeth Rand, who is in Connecticut and runs the Kids Kippot store on Etsy. John also keeps in touch with another roommate, Troy Montoya, who is married and living in Dallas. When John was last in D.C., he caught up with Aaron Siskind ’93 and Steve Karon ’92, with whom he was in a baseball fantasy league from 1992 to 2018!

Hope everyone is enjoying the fall!

CAISSA POWELL | 4caislaw@gmail.com

SAMERA SYEDA LUDWIG | samera.ludwig@gmail.com