CLASS OF 2012 | 2023 | SUMMER ISSUE
Marjorie Romeyn-Sanabria shared: “I’m finishing up my second year of law school at Syracuse College of Law. I’m mostly enjoying it, and I kind of wish I had done it sooner, but better late than never.”
Michaela B. Swee finished her predoctoral training and postdoctoral fellowship in clinical psychology at McLean Hospital last year. She now works as a staff psychologist in the Trauma Continuum of McLean Hospital and is an instructor in psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Michaela was the recent recipient of two prestigious awards, the 2022–2023 Adam Corneel Fellowship and the 2023–2024 McLean Presidential Award, for her research and clinical work in compassion-focused therapy. She cohosts the Compassion Collective podcast, a freely available podcast developed to help laypeople and professionals in the field of mental health alike learn more about self-compassion and cultivate greater compassion in their lives.
Tasmiha Khan wrote: “I’m wrapping up a fellowship at Reynolds Journalism Institute at the University of Missouri to create a Muslim media tool kit.”
Raghu Appasani contributed: “I’ve been living in San Francisco. I have a concierge private psychiatric practice, engaged in psychedelic research, and working with a number of mental health start-ups! Still running The MINDS Foundation, which I founded while at Wesleyan! Looking forward to attending the weddings of fellow Wesleyan 2012s—Blake Dubois’s in San Luis Obisbo, and Geoff Mucha’s in the Outer Banks.”
Kamar Thomas said he “had a book come out called the Artist’s Creative Vision.” Published in January 2023, the “book aims to eliminate the phrase ‘starving artist’ by helping people create more interesting art, more sustainably, regardless of location.”
Katherine Mullins married Omar Hunter Craighill ’09 in Brooklyn, New York, in September. Many Wesleyan friends were by their sides, including Amani Sampson ’12, Marie Scarles ’12, and Jesse (Greenblatt) Walker ’12 in the bridal party; and Will Runge ’09, Yale Yng-Wong ’09, Derek Silverman ’09, Louis Langlois ’08, and Zach Fried ’08 as groomsmen. The after-party featured live music from additional alumni, including Keenan Mitchell ’09, Lucas Carrico ’09, Jake Aron ’08, and Sam Ubl ’08.
