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tion department and get to tell stories about how schools and community organizations are supporting students. After surviving the four-day drive, my cat has fully acclimated and enjoys opening all the closets and cabinets for no reason. When I’m not hiking or climbing, I’m watching trashy reality TV, drinking too much seltzer water, and learning how to knit.” ❯ Ariana Lisefski: “After eight years calling Austin, Texas, home, I’ll be moving to New Zealand for at least a year to spend time with family, do some long backpacking trips, and take a hard rest and reset after these weird pandemic years.”

❯ Hannah Tatro: “Josh Tatro ’13 and I had a baby in September! His name is Asa. I also became a national board certified teacher in December.” ❯ Carmen Caraballo Zapata: “In 2022, I became a first-time cat mom to an orange terror who is sometimes sweet but overall just sassy. I got a new job as assistant director of graduate financial aid at the University of Chicago. I was able to purchase another property thanks to fellow Knox alum Nicolette

Bridgeforth ’15. I got engaged in August, and I am ending the year married with my active duty husband in North Carolina before returning back to the daily grind in Chicago.” ❯ Alyssa Gill is excited to write to class notes for the first time! They recently graduated with a master’s of landscape architecture from Louisiana State University and moved with their husband of six years to the San Francisco Bay Area. They are currently focused on giving their dog a loving home and expanding their collection of Echinocactus grunsonii ❯ Esther Farler-Westphal: “This year I packed up everything (well the movers did most of it) and drove across the country with my partner to move to Silicon Valley. Since being here I’ve been working at a tech job in the financial services industry, trying not to get sunburned, and exploring the beautiful city of San Francisco.”

Class Correspondents: Esther FarlerWestphal and Natalia Binkowski Kaplan Knoxnotes2014@gmail.com

2015

Kayla Anderson is the proud parent of a tarantula, is working in emergency mental health, and has gained their LCPC counseling license this year. ❯ All of John Bird’s years listening to the Sigma Nus babble about computer geek nonsense finally paid off. And he spent the last three years in technical recruiting, most recently at IBM. He genuinely hopes his former classmates are finding happiness wherever their paths have taken them. ❯ Leslie Carman lives in Olympia, Washington, making maps for work and knitting socks in her free time. ❯ Celinda Davis is moving to Madison to start a new job after three-anda-half years in La Crosse! She will continue to work in academic advising and is excited for a new campus and a new city. ❯ Bridget Doherty is teaching high school wheel throwing and working on her master’s. She also gets to play ultimate frisbee in the summer with a bunch of other Knox alums! ❯ Abby Kravis is studying diligently to earn her degree as a doctor of physical therapy from Old Dominion University in 2025. ❯ Bethany Larson is in her second year of graduate school at ASU for textile art and has recently passed her candidacy review. ❯ Roman Magid got married, had a kid, and is about to finish medical residency. ❯ Brittany Meeker is working at the University of Illinois Urbana-

Champaign as an academic advisor in the School of Architecture. ❯ Mark Muniz, Forrest Marie, and Missy Preston are a decade into friendship and somehow not sick of each other. Living, laughing, loving as a family in Chicago—inspiring each other, growing as a collective, while also making great strides as powerful and beautifully different individuals. Mark is still the soundscape architect/guitar driver in his longtime band and rumor has it that he is only getting better and the band is only getting stronger. Soon, there will be no stopping him. Forrest Marie is thriving. She has embraced her calling and become the hottest stay-at-home mom without kids of 2022. Missy is oftentimes very, very, very, happy, which regularly feels like a miracle. They write and play music almost constantly and are currently dreaming up their first full concept album with their band. For more about the band, check out: www.leonora2mars.com ❯ Claire T. Neri is celebrating one year as a trivia host in the Chicago suburbs. Follow her on Instagram @clairesporcle for more information. ❯ Cody Sehl is continuing to learn the drums and taking a pottery class after quitting his job in November. ❯ Callie Smith started working for an environmental consulting firm as an environmental analyst in September 2022! ❯ Samantha Smith is happily married to Josh Christianson and living in Galesburg with