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After giving up his career as a Latin language and literature professor for the greater calling of caregiving, Dr. Anthony (AJ) Adams is now writing a novel about American consciousness and a nonfiction book about the arts/science divide. AJ can be found at Substack at https://apageantofwolves.substack.com.

In Portland, Maine, Maria Snyder writes that in 2024, she became a Department of Justice accredited representative at Catholic Charities Maine Immigration Legal Services. In the role, Maria assists people with certain immigration-related legal issues and helps low-income folks with immigration applications that offer pathways toward stability and family reunification. “In this very changeable political climate, with so much bad information being spread about immigrants, it’s even more important that we all get the facts on immigration right.”

Jeff Levine has been appointed an associate professor of the practice at MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning. “I started at MIT just before COVID hit and that was a long year of teaching and advising remotely. It’s good to be teaching in a program that has a lot of the same values as Wesleyan. In fact, I’ve worked with several Wes alums who have come through our master’s program in the past few years.”

Mark Steele enjoys the new freedoms of “empty-nesterhood,” focusing on music and art, and splitting time between Boulder, Colorado, and MidCoast Maine. Thanks to a chance encounter in Waterville, Maine, Mark learned from Sarah Sutter about a program perfect for his daughter, Emily, who is now enjoying her second year at Tufts. Furthering Wes connections in non-Wes places, Emily co-creates art with Quinn, son of Scott Kessel ’88. Mark also teamed up with Lodi Siefer ’98 to form the Climate Justice Hive, a nonprofit focused on coordinating community in the face of climate chaos. Mark makes the pilgrimage back to Telluride to work at the film festival, often seeing fellow bassist Chris Arndt ’92 and Sarah Holbrooke ’86. Mark and family love travel adventures with Daren Girard ’92 and his family. Watch for Mark’s bass and vocals solo album in spring 2025, under the stage name Conrad Steele.

In 2024, Ed Gerwig and his wife, Robin Hutson, living near Boston, made their side hustle a full-time job for their travel advisory company luxerecess.com. You can stream some new music of Ed’s now side hustle under The Deerfields.

After 20 years in Atlanta, Pierrette Maillet moved with partner, Danny Karg, to the upper valley of Vermont. She’s in higher education, fundraising and alumni engagement, at Vermont Law and Graduate School and trying to find pickleball opportunities wherever she can. “Glad I took full advantage of those Wes quarter credits in racquet sports all those years ago—they’re paying off!”

Kristin Sandvik Lush taught ESOL in Tāmaki Makaurau (Auckland), Aotearoa (New Zealand)—(the bilingual nation!) to students from all over the world for over 17 years, but thanks to COVID, made a transition into something completely different: self-employed academic editing (kristinlush.nz). Kristin is making an effort to expand beyond universities and academia and into a wider variety of written work in 2025.

Kristin was sorry to miss Jeremy Sacks and his wife, Dana, on their meticulously planned bucket- list odyssey in Aotearoa, and she encourages folks to add her current abode in Kerikeri to their list of destinations to check out—including the upside-down house restoration that she, her husband, and son (18) are up to their elbows in (while her urbane daughter, 20, holds down the fort in Auckland)!

Joshua Samuels was promoted to division chief of pediatric nephrology and hypertension at McGovern Medical School at UTHealth in Houston. He also serves as vice chair of faculty affairs for the Department of Pediatrics.

Laura Schiavo reports a 2024 Christmas miracle that gathered together 75 percent of her 1990–1991 Fountain Street housemates at her home in Silver Spring, Maryland. Heidi (Moore) Tucker was in D.C. visiting her daughter, and Tracey Osborne was in New York visiting family, making them both close enough to visit. They dearly missed Rachel Rosenberg Michaelson’s attendance.

RENÉE K. CARL | rcarl@wesleyan.edu