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Marcus Bach Armas remains in Miami but has transitioned into public service after more than a decade as a senior executive with the Miami Dolphins and Hard Rock Stadium. After a successful election in 2022, Marcus now serves as a Miami-Dade County Court judge and is currently assigned to the criminal division. Despite this career change, Marcus continues to serve as founding board member of the Dolphins Cancer Challenge, which has raised more than $76 million for cancer research in South Florida since its inception in 2010 and is now the largest charitable fundraiser in the NFL.
Kate Greathead says, “I dream I’m back at Wesleyan maybe once every two weeks, and I’m always a little sad when I wake up. My second novel, The Book of George, [published] on October 8. It’s about a guy who goes to a fictional Wesleyan and his life afterward. Maybe you’ll recognize yourself in it? Just kidding, it’s (almost) all made up.”
After spending a decade and a half in the South (New Orleans and North Carolina), Bay Love now lives back home in Maine with his partner, Chloe, and a half-time, shared-custody Chihuahua. Bay has been heavily invested in building an organization called The Groundwater Institute, devoted to combining the traditions of social and racial justice movements with power business and strategy consulting. Generally worried of the state of the larger world, but content with his immediate one, he’s loved (re)connecting with more and more amazing Wes colleagues through work and life—and is looking forward to more of it.
Jeremy May writes, “I’ve been living in Oakland, California, for the past seven years and am raising two boys, Magnus (nine) and Solomon (six). When I’m not working as an oral surgeon, I enjoy gardening, skateboarding, and spending time with family!”
Laura McMillan lives in New Haven, Connecticut, in walking distance of several alum friends and directs the communications and marketing team at an environmental nonprofit. She spends time on three small nieces, one grouchy cat, four dozen houseplants, and her podcast, $2 Creature Feature, in its third season of collaborative storytelling. She’s still riding the high of last year’s 40th-birthday trip to Arizona with Karen Courtheoux, Hillary Rubesin, Caitlin Swain-McSurely, and Cory Simon-Nobes, and seeing the eclipse with Matthew Montesano, plus Lauren Kirchner ’03, John Cusick, Adam Read-Brown, Daniella Schmidt, and Evan Simko-Bednarski!
Jeremy Paul and Faye Hargate (Bowdoin ’04) welcomed their first son, Elwyn Archimedes Hargate Paul, into the world in November 2023. The whole family is doing great in Cleveland. Professionally, Jeremy recently became the resident technical director with Dobama Theatre, in addition to still being the executive artistic director of Maelstrom Collaborative Arts and part-time faculty at the Cleveland Institute of Music, which is a long way to say he doesn’t have employer-provided health care.
Adam “Smiley” Poswolsky recently caught up with Rich Gibbons ’87, president of SpeakInc, when Rich booked Smiley to keynote the Greater Public’s Public Media Development and Marketing Conference in San Diego. Adam is the author of Friendship in the Age of Loneliness and a top keynote speaker on workplace culture, belonging, and the future of work. Rich has been a speaking agent for over three decades and is the past president of the International Association of Speakers Bureaus (IASB). Despite graduating from Wesleyan just a few years apart, Rich and Smiley loved chatting about all things public speaking, NPR, and Foss Hill.
Jesse Phillippi is now living in London, where she recently finished directing, dramaturging, and co-producing the musical comedy cabaret A Stan Is Born! The show previewed at Soho Theatre before a run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in August and then to Camden People’s Theatre at the end of September 2024.
Leland Smith pandemic-moved to Denton, Texas, to be closer to in-laws. He has a 10-acre farm with horses, chickens, and sheep, and two boys to (eventually) help mow it. He is still working on USAID programs and moved to a new firm where he now gets to work with Nora Connor ’07.
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