Lauren Amrhein: Due to the continued dumpster fire of 2020, I’ve moved back from France to New York City for the time being to spend some time with my family, and am adjusting to that change and the reverse culture shock. I am still working in remote education, which I’ve been doing for the past 6 years. Finally, everyone else understands how tiring Zoom is, and how wonderful it is to work in pajama pants. I’ve been recording music in the city and will be releasing my debut EP under the artist name Folklaur in November. (I promise, I came up with that before T-Swift, but great minds think alike, and she can’t claim the name pun, so…). Keep your ears peeled! You can follow/stream on Spotify, Apple Music, Bandcamp, etc. I hope everyone is doing well and adjusting to… well, all of this.
Julia Anderson: I hope you are all holding up during this tumultuous year. My biggest news is that my husband Zach and I eloped this summer! It was a very small ceremony (just us and an officiant), and we are hoping to celebrate safely with family and friends in summer 2021. I am currently working for the State of Massachusetts on COVID relief for people living in congregate care settings (group homes, facilities, etc.). Zach and I are moving to Portland, Maine in November -- just in time to vote out Susan Collins. Let me know if you live in the area, I'd love to connect.
Spencer Carlson: It's so great to think of Kenyon and that wonderful feeling of being at such a beautiful place and feeling grateful for where I am now, sprouting out of those experiences I had on top of the Hill. I am living in Mill Valley, CA, four years into a doctoral program in clinical psychology, and I just got engaged! We're planning on an August 2021 wedding!
JR Colmenero: JR writes from not-so-sunny Northern California where Kao Saelee spent 22 years in prison, including two years as an incarcerated firefighter. Immediately upon his release, prison officials transferred him to U.S. immigration and deported him to Laos, a country that his family fled as refugees (from the U.S. Secret War in Laos) when he was two years old. Tell my governor @GavinNewsom to #stopICEtransfers! bit.ly/FreeSaelee for more info.
James Dennin: Heather Brennan '14 and I are still living in Harlem, though we have recently been joined by an effusive little pug named Dolly Barkton. I'm still working at IBM in communications for our AI business. I've also been keeping busy with side-projects, back in the spring I helped some friends launch HireArtists to help creatives find work during quarantine and we were written up in the New Yorker (https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/05/18/let-them-eat-daylilies). I also helped another friend launch a new financial services company called OfColor which is focused on narrowing the racial wealth gap.
Andrew Ebner: Andrew has been at Emory completing an adult psychiatry residency after finishing his time in medical school there, and he hopes to match into a child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship in the southeast later this year. He has been keeping up with his poetry and hopes to get back into home brewing this spring. His cat, Ella, has been blissfully unaware of the pandemic unfolding around her, and she continues to sunbath daily. She's a tuxedo cat so there's not much opportunity to tan more than she already has, but that doesn't seem to stop her. Andrew hopes everyone is well with what's going on these days, and misses Kenyon and its folks quite a lot.
Jake Fishbein: I've been hard at work the last few months training with two of the world's top executive coaches to up my coaching game to become an ACE Certified Coach. I also started a virtual men's group - The Arena Virtual Series - with my mentor to create a space for men to explore what it means to be a man today and how to live authentically and purposefully. It's going great. On the fun side of things, I routinely go on socially-distanced food adventures with Ryan Eick and Willy Friedlander '14.
Daniel Harrison: Daniel continues to live in Madison WI, where he works for the healthcare IT company Epic. Life updates include sorta training his dog how to "stay", finally getting around to watching The Godfather (was pretty good, I guess), and having a newborn daughter!
Hildy Joseph: I moved to Lima, Peru in July, 2020. I am working at an international school teaching IB chemistry. Lima is a beautiful place to live and I am hopeful many Kenyon friends can visit me once the world opens up again!
Rowan Kurtz: Moving to Tokyo for a year for work! Come explore!
Morgan Peele: We bought a tiny trinity home in the historical section of Philadelphia. A trinity or “bandbox” home is a narrow, three-story row home that was originally designed to serve as the living quarters for servants or working-class folks between the 18th and 19th century. I'm in love with the narrow, twisty stairs (although it's nearly impossible to get furniture to the third floor!).
Kristopher Reslow: Since graduation I’ve spent the last 7 years struggling to pay back my student loans. I am currently working one full-time and two part-time jobs in order to get out from the overwhelming debt I accrued from attaining my degree from Kenyon. Though I am not using my degree in any way, I should be debt free in three years. Then I can put this unhappy situation behind me and begin living the life I have planned as a Head Coach of SOLO Aquatics and Landlord of the rental properties I plan to buy.
Marcia Schwartz: Marcie was just wrapping a 4 year long Zika vaccine trial when COVID-19 hit. Her company is now involved in the Gilead Remdesivir trial and a Moderna vaccine trial, but she was able to take a weekend for a magical, foggy engagement on a West Virginia mountaintop to her longtime boyfriend, Ben.
Tina Taliercio: Tina works as a pilot for Skywest Airlines on the Embraer 175 and lives in Salt Lake City. She recently adopted a cat named Waffles. Waffles is very cute. She likes to think that she spends her time off hiking, rock climbing, and mountain biking, but she mostly spends it cleaning cat hair.
Janet Wlody: I downloaded TikTok, and speak and gesture like a Gen Z now. No cap.
