Artemis Magazine February 2011
alumnae notes Briana Chan ’05 Briana is studying at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, specializing in Language and Literacy. She will earn a Master of Education and will graduate in May. Kelley Costello ’05 Kelley is now in her second year of law school at Pepperdine University. She is a senior research assistant for their Asylum and Refugee Law Clinic. She also works part time at a law firm downtown that specializes in asylum and immigration issues. This summer Kelley plans to work for a Superior Court judge at the Santa Monica courthouse.
was taught by authors Johnathan Lethem and Darrin Straus. In her free time, she enjoys doing standup comedy in New York comedy clubs. Kristina Goldenberg ’08 Kristina (pictured below) is in her third year at Oberlin, majoring in Art History. After a summer internship at The Broad Stage in Santa Monica, she spent her fall semester exploring Europe and
Elizabeth Hambrick ’08 Elizabeth is a third-year student at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She is majoring in animation.
Julia Gazdag ’02 Julia recently moved to Portland, Oregon, where she started a Challah for Hunger chapter (www.challahforhunger.org), a national charity that organizes challah bakes to build community and donates proceeds from the challahs sold to fight hunger around the world. Kate Geller ’09 Kate is a student at NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study where she declared a major of Humor and Comedic Writing and a Creative Writing minor. Since August, she has served as an editorial intern at W Magazine, and also interned for the Sohobased arts publication Zing Magazine during her freshman year. Kate spent the summer of 2009 studying fiction writing in Paris with NYU’s creative writing department. While there, she 26
in the Educating Girls Globally initiative and the trip to India she took while at Archer (pictured above with Archer Counselor Patty Lancaster).
studying abroad in Siena, Italy. She returned to Oberlin this spring to continue her studies, as well as her involvement in Oberlin Admissions and various other student-led organizations. Sami Green ’08 Sami is spending the semester studying abroad in China. As a junior in the School of Public Affairs at American University, she credits her passion for the study of global issues to her participation
Rachel Katz ’01 Rachel resides in Portland, Oregon. She teaches writing and literature full time at universities and colleges in the Pacific Northwest. Last year, she purchased a house on 1/2 acre in the city, where she lives with her long-time partner and three dogs, among many trees (and a pond!). Despite her new roots in Portland, Rachel remembers most vividly the individual attention she received at Archer. “In 11th and 12th grade, I was reading novels and criticism (at Dr. Morgan and Dr. Richard’s urgings) that I used daily in my graduate work, and now in my own course design as an instructor. My experience in English classes and independent studies at Archer definitely contributed to my current work teaching literature.”
