Tag: 2015

Andrew Kang writes that he is “ecstatic to share that I married the woman of my dreams November 2025 at the Boston Public Library. Our story began like no one else’s—through the Hinge app. But then COVID struck one month into our relationship, and the rest was history.”

Brett Keating and Annie Saperstein ’14 (transferred) married each other on Cape Cod in September, supervised by three generations of more than 30 Wesleyan alums. Aaron Kalischer-Coggins, Zach Dravis, Sara Guernsey, Richie Starzec ’14, Zach Libresco ’13, and Andrew Hove all spoke, sang, and/or carried the groom home, and Richard Saperstein ’83 and Dale Hernsdorf ’85 each delivered toasts to honor their daughter, the bride.

William Henry Sikes writes in with a poem.

Kate Gibbel married her Wesleyan crush Alex Kelley ’13 in October 2025. Her first book of poetry, Little Sound, will be published by the University of Chicago Press Phoenix Poets Series in October 2026.

Silvia Diaz-Roa writes, “After Wes, I did my MPH and MBA at Yale then moved to NYC. I founded a start-up then left the start-up. I’m currently trying out ‘corporate life’ in NYC for the first time—though the siren song of the start-up world will likely pull me back in soon. On the personal front, my partner, Phil, and I moved in together this past year! He came with me to our 10-year reunion and it was so fun walking him down my memory lane at Wes. When I’m not working, I’ve been diving deep into women’s health advocacy and launched a resource site, www.withbea.com, to share what I’ve learned. If any Wes grads are in the health or tech space in NYC, I’d love to connect!”

Armani White shares, “This past year I opened my recreational marijuana shop, Firehouse (www.shopfirehouse.com), in my hometown of Boston. It’s been an almost eight-year-long project that the Boston Globe has covered.”

Ilan Weinschelbaum writes, “I got engaged in 2025! My fiancée is named Ellen, and she is a labor organizer. She’s awesome. We met when we were doing our PhDs at the University of Oregon—hers in theater and mine in mathematics. I also elevated my small business this year. I am a fiduciary, offering comprehensive financial advising/planning services with all associated investment and insurance licenses. If you want to learn about my practice, you can connect with me on LinkedIn.”

Grace Nix says, “2025 was quite a time! After graduating from the CalArts MFA Acting program, I moved to LA proper and dove into the acting world—auditionin’ and bookin’ and auditionin’ and performin’. I’ve also done a lot of casting for verticals (ask if you dare). Enjoying it all and excited for 2026.”

Lizzie Jáuregui celebrates her first year as director of residence life at Saint Peter’s University —a career that she started because of her role as a resident advisor for Clark Hall. She also got engaged to her non-Wesleyan fiancé, Alving Ramos.

Ethan Tucker lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Emilie Pass. He blogs about architecture, music, art, and urbanism on Substack at seven7things.substack.com and is honored to serve as the class notes secretary for the Class of 2015.

Lauren (Jacobs) Evensen gave birth to her son, Elliot, in October 2024.

Alicia Gansley recently started a role as a staff engineer at OpenSea, as part of an acquisition of web3 mobile app company Rally, where she was an early employee. 

Marissa Castrigno and her wife, Lydia Baker, celebrated their wedding on May 31 in Philadelphia. The dance floor was stacked with Wes alumni: Abby Archibald, Sarah Hirschey, Matt Hixon, Elaine Maskus, Jeremy Levit, Emilie Pass, Ethan Tucker, Jason Gross ’14, Sami Maisel ’14, and Jackie Soro ’14. Shout-out to Jesse Lieman-Sifry, whose wife, Kat, captured the whole day in beautiful photos. The newlyweds live in Brooklyn with their two cats (like good lesbians).

Eric Lopez has tied the knot with Yuki Davis (of Brown University, the Wesleyan of Rhode Island). After a COVID date turned into a willingness to share space as the world ends, they affirmed their love with a double-feature Boston/Los Angeles wedding celebration—alongside Andrew Kang, Jasmine Masand, Emily Garvin, Antonio Robayo ’16 (honorary ’15), and Anders Dohlman.

Elaine Maskus feels like that person at 2013 senior cocks—the year they went too hard—who “fell down the up escalator. And continued falling as if in a perpetual motion machine,” (via The Atlantic).

Andrew Postman is newly single, if you know anyone. 😉

Andrew Postman has become an Equinox gay after a failed stint as a yoga influencer.

Jaime de Venecia,formerly a professional musician working in hospitality, transitioned into software engineering and web development in 2023. He’s still living in Los Angeles and is now a software engineer and engineering instructor at Codesmith.

Sam Wheeler married Adrie Lofters ’16 on September 7, after eight years together. They met behind the Usdan desk, where they worked for two years before dating. The couple lives in Brooklyn.

Gabe Gordon and Virgil Taylor recently met for a burger in Strawberry. 

Please write to your class secretary.

Dana Louie and Jon Coombs had a great time in Kentucky this summer at Rachel Unger’s wedding, along with Alanah Hall, Kerry Nix, and Arielle Trager ’14, complete with a meteor shower the night of the wedding. Dana also met up with Rachel Leicher, Julian Compagni Portis, Kirby Neaton ’14, and Julian Basurto in Vermont for a Wesleyan cross-country reunion, during which they ran up an Okemo ski trail and a tab at Long Trail Brewing. Finally, Dana and Jon celebrated Friendsgiving this year with Cameron Rahbar, Zach Larabee ’16, and a 16-pound turkey. 

Caroline Catlin is working on a memoir about living with incurable brain cancer as a young adult. She has been advocating for a ceasefire in Gaza, and recently signed the alumni petition demanding that Wesleyan divest from companies profiting off Israeli occupation and apartheid. Talia Baurer, Gabe Frankel, Sophie (Eugene) Massey, and JJ Mitchell have also been advocating for a ceasefire and signed the petition as well.

Marjahn Finlayson was recently named as a climate change science pioneer by King Charles III in his address to the nation for the 50th Independence of The Bahamas (her home country). She has been working as a climate change specialist for about 10 years. For more information about her work, check out climateedubahamas.com.

Kate Gilpin and Alex Kamisher ’17 got married September 2023 with lots of Wesleyan friends by their side. They are moving from Brooklyn to Long Island (“please still be friends with us!”) so that Kate can start medical school.

Nikki Dodd is helping Lynx Mitchell ’18 raise funds to support her in her fight against ME/CFS (a chronic and debilitating illness), and invites anyone who might want to contribute to reach out to Nikki directly at nikkizdodd@gmail.com.

Camille Casareno and her husband, Gordon Petty, just moved to a new place in Harlem. Gordon had his dissertation defense on August 4, finishing up six years of a PhD in neurobiology at Columbia University.

Evan Bieder is teaching fourth grade and coaching cross country and track at Greens Farms Academy. He and his wife Britney have a one-year-old son named Zen. Evan had a few beers at Foxwoods with Eric Arsenault ’17 over the winter.

Sara Warnock and Brent Packer had their auras cleansed during a Denver sound bath.

Dana Louie and Jonathan Coombs got married this fall in Nahant, Massachusetts. Several classmates came to celebrate with them. They live in Boston with their two cats, Biscuit and Bun.

Iliana Ortega, Davion Hounchell, and Lizzie Jáuregui would like to congratulate Vicky Hill (née Ramos) and her husband Harry Hill on the birth of their daughter, Ivy Amelia Hill, on November 13, 2022.

Alicia Gansley is an engineering manager at crypto analytics firm Chainalysis in New York City.

Chris Tugman is enjoying his time in London, U.K., where he’s spent the last four and half years. Chris enjoys exploring Europe and still manages to play basketball a couple of times a week. He leads strategic partnerships for Xero, a global financial technology company located near King’s Cross. If any alums are visiting London, he’s always up to connect and grab a pint.

Marjorie Hunt shares she “started an MA program in history at Cal State LA this fall, and I also just moved into a co-op house in Northeast LA.”

Mary DePascale graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park in May with a PhD in Human Development and Quantitative Methodology. This summer she was awarded a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellowship grant, and she is currently a postdoctoral fellow at Boston College, conducting research on family math engagement in early childhood.

’15ers had lots to share this round:

Kate Linde wrote in to say that she is “a bicoastal media mogul who works for Wunderkind, loves a California sunset, but can never resist taking a bite out of the Big Apple.” Kate also had updates on other Wes friends:

Alexa Burzinski is now an international art swindler at Marlborough, with ties to Mexico City and Chelsea, Manhattan. . . . Haley Keyko ’16 just got her learner’s permit . . . for the third time! She won’t drive anything but carbon-efficient vehicles. . . . As a doctor at Mount Sinai, Lauren Nelson has been preventing brain injuries by day and learning to drive ambulances at night. (Thanks for the news, Kate!)

Ming Zhu shared: “I first left Shenzhen for Middletown when I was 18, and after having been abroad (Middletown, Boston, San Francisco, Dubai, and back to Boston) for over a decade, now I’m finally back in Asia. I recently graduated from Harvard Business School with my MBA and have since relocated to Singapore to work at Innosight, a global strategy consulting firm founded by an HBS professor, Clay Christensen, focusing on innovation and growth strategy consulting. The four years I spent at Wes was the most formative period of my life so far, where I built the core of network; and that thought got reinforced once again when I moved to Singapore this June and quickly found myself having dinner and drinks with many of my Wes friends who are also based here, as if no time had passed since many of us last met. I appreciate all the friendships and this tight community, and hope we’ll continue to sustain and nourish it together wherever we might be. If you are routing through Singapore, do drop me a note!”

Jessica Seidman recently relocated to New York City, where she joined Condon & Forsyth LLP as an associate attorney in their aviation litigation practice group. She would love to connect with more Wes folk in the area, so feel free to reach out and say “hi!”

Kate Gibbel started a letterpress postcard operation in March 2022 called Send Me Press (https://sendme.press). She publishes one poem every month as a limited-edition letterpress postcard. Earlier this summer, the project was profiled in The Boston Globe! She first got the idea for Send Me Press while chatting with Virgil B. G. Taylor, James Gibbel ’19, and Alex Kelley ’13 in May 2015. Kate looks forward to seeing many of you at the five Wesleyan weddings she is attending this calendar year.

Trevor Dorn-Wallenstein said, “It’s been an incredibly exciting year for me, so it feels like a good time to send in my first class note. After six or seven long years of graduate school, I’ve successfully defended my PhD thesis in astronomy, and will be moving to Los Angeles to start a postdoctoral position at Carnegie Observatories in September. More importantly, I just got married!”

And Steven Susaña-Castillo reports that he moved to San Francisco in July 2022 and is excited for his new adventure.