Class Notes

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1987 Mara Giattina lives in Menlo Park, CA, with her husband and three children (ages 5, 5, and 8) where she practices clinical cardiology at Stanford.

2008 McKenzie Klein graduated Summa Cum Laude from Cornell University with a B.A. in English in 2016. After college, she moved to Austin, TX, where she served with AmeriCorps for a year before starting medical school at the University of Virginia. While pursuing her M.D., McKenzie has lobbied for and helped pilot a partnership program between UVA Children’s Hospital and the Emily Couric Cancer Center to benefit teens and young adults battling cancer. She has also conducted clinical research on eating disorders for the UVA Teen Health Clinic and is developing resources to grow the university’s inpatient and outpatient treatment programs. One of her most recent accomplishments includes designing a prototype to help the UVA COVID-19 crisis. She will continue her graduate studies at the UVA Darden School of Business this fall and graduate with her M.D./M.B.A. in the spring of 2022.

2010 Anna Laws is doing her part during the COVID-19 pandemic by helping to launch The FarmLink Project (https:// thefarmlinkproject.org), a nonprofit grassroots movement that transports surplus produce from farms to food banks in need while restoring the jobs of farmers and truckers. Since the end of April, FarmLink has transported more than 4 million pounds of produce to those who need it most. Prior to the pandemic, Anna was serving as a Peace Corps volunteer in Peru.

2011 Emergency Department better care for patients during the

Theo Chambers graduated from the College of William & Mary this spring. He led the W&M men’s track and field team with three school-record performances during the indoor season this year.

Asia Martin graduated Magna Cum Laude from St. John’s University with a B.S. in economics in 2019 and earned an M.B.A. from St. John’s University in 2020, also graduating Magna Cum Laude. She plans to attend the University of Miami School of Law in the fall.

Hanna Powers is a reporter at WCBD-TV in Charleston, SC. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of South Carolina with a degree in broadcast journalism.

2012 Bryan Calhoun graduated with honors from the University of Miami with a bachelor’s degree in international relations. He will be attending The George Washington University Elliot School of International Relations to study international security.

Cailin Frankland graduated from Brown University with a Sc.B. in neuroscience in May. She has accepted a position in the fall at Harvard Chan School of Public Health for a master’s in epidemiology.

Nathan Johnson graduated from the University of Chicago with honors in the public policy studies program. This coming fall, he is off to Tufts University to pursue a master’s degree in biological sciences. In his senior year at the University of Chicago, Nate was the captain of the men’s varsity soccer team. Over his four-year career, he played 81 games, starting 67, which included four consecutive NCAA tournament appearances (two of which ended in the final four).

2014 Zachary Johnson currently attends the University of Michigan on a lacrosse scholarship. He and his brother, Nathan ’12, and sister, Nicole ’09, credit Coach Jim Gleason for fostering their love of athletic competition.

2015 Ellie Cook, who just completed her first year at the University of Pittsburgh Honors College, was inducted into the freshman honor society, Phi Eta Sigma, and Lambda Sigma where she was elected fundraising chair.

Collin Dent completed his freshman year at Williams College and is majoring in economics.

2016 Charlie Arase will be attending New York University in the fall. He was planning to spend his first year abroad at NYU’s Florence, Italy, campus, but may not be able to due to COVID-19.

Emily Bratti plans to major in physics at the University of Maryland.

Katherine Colaianni will be attending Virginia Tech this fall and plans to major in business.

Nikki Debayo-Doherty will be continuing her academic and athletic career at Yale University in the fall where she hopes to study economics, psychology, or political science and will play women’s soccer.

Kiera Dent, who graduated from Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School this spring, was awarded the National Merit Raytheon Scholarship, sponsored by Raytheon Company, which supports educational initiatives that inspire the next generation of scientists, engineers, and business professionals. Kiera was among approximately 1,000 high school seniors nationwide to receive corporate-sponsored National Merit Scholarship awards for their distinguished academic performance, extracurricular accomplishments, and “potential for success in rigorous college studies,” as defined by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation. She plans to study physics and astronomy at Bowdoin College in the fall.

Olivia Franke graduated from Langley High School this spring. As a four-year starting varsity volleyball player, she made the JVA All-National Team for volleyball her freshman and sophomore years and was named an AVCA Second-Team All-American her senior year. Olivia has committed to play volleyball at Wake Forest University.

Gigi Jacobsen plans to study cinema at Virginia Commonwealth University’s School of the Arts this fall.

Helena Lessne will attend Davidson College this fall.

Iain MacKeith will attend Georgia Tech this fall to study mechanical engineering, but also looks forward to exploring aerospace and biomechanical engineering as well. He notes that his interest in aerospace engineering began with his science fair projects in sixth and seventh grades at Langley. Iain has also continued his competitive cycling and had the opportunity to race with Ryan McKinney, Langley science teacher, and his cycling team.

Arthur Nichols plans to attend Montana State University this fall to study fish and wildlife conservation and aviation.

Mark O’Shea graduated from Sidwell Friends School in June and will be attending the University of Chicago this fall.

Morgan Pence will be studying biomedical engineering and playing lacrosse at the University of Colorado.

Tyler Swain will be attending Virginia Tech this fall.