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As one of the founders of Child Care for Connecticut, Izzi (Autumn) Greenberg shared the exciting news that her organization was able to pass transformative, first-in-the-nation, childcare legislation in the Connecticut legislature in its 2025 session.
Ethan Leinwand is working as a blues pianist, performer, and advocate in St. Louis, where he serves on the board of directors for the Scott Joplin International Ragtime Foundation.
Ben Shestakofsky and family have moved from Philadelphia to Ithaca, New York. Ben is now an assistant professor of information science at Cornell.
Luke Snelling married Kathryn McKinley in Sonoma, California, surrounded by Wesleyan folks, including best man Philip Cortes ’06 and Casey Wilson ’06, who gave a blessing at the wedding. Ben Flynn ’03 and William Shaw were also in attendance. Luke writes, “I also brought Kathryn to Wesleyan for Reunion, where it was fun to row with some members of the crew and celebrate the life of David Wyant by dedicating a shell in his honor. It was also fun to visit WESU and reminisce with Eli Schned about our time on air.”
Lodro Rinzler continues to write books about and teach meditation from his very old home in upstate New York, where he lives with his wife and toddler. The three of them recently met up with David Delcourt for a lovely romp while spending a month in Scotland.
Katie Walsh had a ball with the Class of 2005, dancing the night away in Club Hewitt at our 20-year reunion (still got it!). She is still in Los Angeles, working as film critic for the Tribune News Service, and is the vice president of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association.
David Rood-Ojalvo married Alice Buttrick on June 28, 2025, in Mahopac, New York. Rachel Pecker officiated. Vivian Rood-Ojalvo, one, attended, as well as 22 graduates of Wesleyan.
Liz (Beedy) Wendorf has three kids and lives in Massachusetts, teaching high school math and running her hemp farm and CBD business, Windy Village Wellness, alongside her husband, Matt. Dancing until the wee hours with her fellow ’05ers at Reunion was a highlight of the year so far.
Marcus Bach-Armas also writes that most special moment of the last few years was probably having fun at Reunion with his fellow ’05ers.
Andrés Méndez-Peñate is enjoying life teaching Spanish in the Boston area and hanging with his eight-year-old, Diego.
Doro Globus is the publisher at David Zwirner Books, the publishing arm of one of the world’s leading commercial art galleries. She also writes children’s books celebrating creative careers. Her upcoming series, It Takes a Team, will launch in 2026 with We Made a Song and We Made a Movie, published by Bloomsbury. Doro lives in London with her husband and their two children, Tristan (10) and Thea (six).
Emily Pfeiffer-Russell lives in Bakersfield, California, with her spouse, Ed, who is an agricultural scientist in the citrus industry, and their two sons, Henry (nine-and-a-half) and George (six-and-a-half). Emily helps junior high students in the resource specialist program with their academics. The ’05 Reunion was a definite highlight of the year, including the sad, but beautiful tree dedication memorial service held for Jesse Brenner, aka “The Bizzle.”
Ben Popper recently attended our 20th Reunion and danced his face off. Since then, he started a new role as director of content marketing at Writer and is eager to connect with anyone interested in AI agents.
Jenny Mariaschin-Rudin and Rachel (Morris) Bruce ’03 ran into each other at their synagogue B’nai Jeshurun, on the Upper West Side and realized they were not only Wes alumni, but also were in the Mazeltones together! They have happily reconnected, and their children make mayhem and music together on Shabbat. Jenny has a private psychotherapy and neurodiversity consulting practice, and Rachel is an ER attending.
David Delcourt writes, “I’m stillrunning my hot sauce company, Seed Ranch Flavor Co. (and sister brand GrownAs Foods), out in Boulder, Colorado. We have a delicious sauce featured on this season of Hot Ones. . . . So far, Owen Wilson, Dakota Johnson, Aaron Paul, and Adam Levine have loved it! The aches and pains of 20 years out of college haven’t kept me from keeping in touch with Ben Brown, Will Conkling, Teek Thaker, Tom Facelle, Rodney Solomon, and Lodro Paul Rinzler.”
Jeremy Paul is now working at Oberlin College—the Wesleyan of the Great Lakes—as their dance production coordinator.
Amy Crawford recently joined the team at global music and sound company MassiveMusic and is still based in NYC with kids (ages three and five) who are loving every minute.
Adam Smiley Poswolsky loved 20th Reunion so much he decided to volunteer to be our class secretary! Reunion highlights were MGMT karaoke in WestCo, dancing in Club Hewitt, and celebrating the life of his best friend Jesse Brenner. Email your class notes to aposwolsky@gmail.com.
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