ALUMNI CONNECTIONS

Shalini Mattina

Attorney Lisa McCall (’96), certified family law specialist, has extensive experience in family law writs, appeals and litigation.

Attorney Brandon Carr (’99) visited the Taj Mahal, India, in the summer of 2020.

96Lisa McCall opened her own law firm, The Law Offices of Lisa R. McCall, APC, in November 2018, after 11 years of practicing law. She practices family law and civil appeals and writs, along with an associate attorney, paralegal, receptionist, and part-time office manager. McCall and her husband Ian have two children, Lyla and Kenneth (“KJ”). KJ, who is in kindergarten at Pegasus, is the first legacy student. Lyla is 3 years old, and attends preschool in Fountain Valley. For more information about McCall’s practice, lisamccalllaw.com.

99Brandon Carr is an attorney practicing complex business and commercial litigation for Buchalter in San Francisco, CA. He is licensed to practice in California, New York and Washington, D.C., and has been recognized by Best Lawyers as 2021 “Ones to Watch.” This award recognizes attorneys who are earlier in their careers for “outstanding professional excellence in private practice.” Prior to joining the firm, Carr worked for Sony Pictures and completed a judicial externship with the Honorable Marla J. Miller, San Francisco County Superior Court. He also spent time in Washington, D.C. working on Capitol Hill for a United States Congressman. Carr is a member of the Edward J. McFetridge American Inn of Court and the San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association. Carr enjoys traveling and has visited five of the seven natural wonders of the world.

01Tracy Carr recently married Nick Espedal on October 30, 2020, and will be living in Northern California. Their wedding was held in Joshua Tree, CA, which will be featured in the Destination I Do magazine. The couple traveled to India and the Maldives on their honeymoon. Carr

Tracy Carr (’01) with her mother, Michelle Carr, and brother, Brandon (’99) at her wedding.

Emma Werlin Miller (’01) with her husband Eli and baby boy, Eli. Haley and Miranda Young (’03) own Delta Squared Education, LLC in Newport Beach.

is pursuing her career in design and photography through her creativity and originality. She was one of the finalists in Magnolia Home by Joanna Gaines’s search for new innovators.

Emma Werlin Miller graduated from The Thacher School in 2005 and George Washington University in 2009. She works for BKM Capital Partners, a real estate investment firm. Miller is married to Eli, and they have a five-month-old named Levi. They look forward to bringing Levi to Pegasus in the future.

03Haley and Miranda Young own Delta Squared Education, LLC, in Newport Beach, where they offer college advising, academic tutoring, and consulting for higher education. Both enjoy working with many past Pegasus students!

Hayley holds a B.A. in Chemistry with honors from the University of California, Irvine, an M.A. in Education from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education, and an M.A. in Management from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business.

Miranda holds a B.A. in Economics from the University of California, Irvine, where she graduated with Magna Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa honors, and an M.A. in Management from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business.

In their free time, the Youngs serve as leaders on the UCI Alumni Association Board of Directors, UCI Young Alumni Council, UCI Brilliant Future Campaign, and Women United—Orange County United Way, as well as actively participate in events for Duke Alumni Orange County. They are also current competitive figure skaters and regionally-appointed Music Coordinators for U.S. Figure Skating. In addition, they enjoy running, Orange Theory fitness, golf, and yoga. Visit their website at www.delta2edu.com

09Shelby Bolen graduated in May 2020 with a dual master’s degree program (MSc/MA) in Global Media and Communication from the London School of Economics and the University of Southern California. She is currently working as a research analyst at the USC Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership & Policy.

Stephen Kim graduated with a degree in Applied Math-Economics from Brown University, where he was president of the Socially Responsible Investment Fund and was admitted

Raquel Makler, Sommelier, co-owner of AMIGXS, will be launching her new business in 2021.

into Omicron Delta Epsilon, the Economics honor society. Following graduation, Kim spent two years as an investment banking analyst at Credit Suisse, where he was ranked top of his class. After Credit Suisse, he joined BC Partners, where he works as a Private Equity Associate and closed the largest Canadian public offering of all time (GFL).

10Alexandra Gandara is currently attending Chapman Law School and is on track to graduate in May 2022. She spent the summer of 2020 interning at the Riverside District Attorney’s Office and has been asked to return to intern for the summer of 2021. After working at the Riverside DA office, Gandara has chosen to pursue a career in criminal prosecution.

Kelsie Swift ’10 is living in Nashville, Tennessee, working in marketing at OMNIA Partners, a Cooperative Purchasing Company for the Public and Private Sector. She graduated from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, with a B.S. in Public Relations, Advertising and Applied Communication.

11Raquel Makler (former Pegasus student) has spent the last two years as a sommelier in New York City.

She left Pegasus at the end of her sixth-grade year in 2009 to attend Orange County School of the Arts, where she explored singing, among other mediums. Her gift in music earned her acceptance at Berklee College of Music in Boston, a premiere music college and performing arts conservatory, where she studied to become a jazz vocalist. During her two years at Berklee, Makler grew to love the East Coast and knew New York was next on her list of places to explore.

Makler worked in restaurants as an after school job during her high school and college years. She gained insight on hospitality, humility, and a strong work ethic. At only twenty years old, she worked her way up to managing a molecular gastronomy restaurant in West Hollywood, and she hasn’t looked back since. The art of wine, however, was a career she discovered unexpectedly after landing a job at a wine bar in Culver City, without any prior knowledge about wines. She soon found herself working as one of the city’s youngest sommeliers within the highest echelon of NYC’s dining and has spent the last year reflecting on her next career move.

Shifting from wine service to wine education, Makler is about to start her first venture as a business owner in NYC. She has partnered with three other industry veterans and is launching a two-pronged concept that aligns wine retail and education with food distribution, mutual aid, and a pop-up space for young chefs to showcase their work. Her new business, AMIGXS, is an LLC that

Top: Nick Crabtree (’12) (left) with a Boise State Bronco teammate. Bottom: Crabtree graduated in 2020 from Boise State University with a B.A. in Communication, along with a certificate in Public Relations.

will host free wine education for marginalized groups, along with selling wine to those in the community. AMIGXS has partnered with the non-profit AUXILIO, which will host a CSA program for those on WIC/ SNAP to provide fresh produce to the underserved and will have a small café menu for take-out.

Visit the AMIGXS and AUXILIO websites for more information: amigxsvino.com, auxiliospace.org

12Nick Crabtree graduated from Boise State University with a B.A. in Communication, along with a certificate in Public Relations. Upon graduating, he landed a part-time job with Amherst Madison Real Estate Advisors in their public relations/ marketing department. Crabtree also played as starting right tackle for the Boise State football team during the 2020/21 season, which was cut short due to COVID. Although he was eligible to play one more year, he chose to retire and continue working at Amherst Madison, building a career in public relations.

Claire Dwyer graduated with honors from Pomona College in 2020 with a B.A. in Late Antique-Medieval Studies, and a minor in Classics. She was also Phi Beta Kappa. Dwyer is currently a Ph.D. student in history at Columbia University, studying law in medieval Iberia.

Lauren Kim graduated in December 2020 from Brown University with a degree in Business Entrepreneurship. She is currently exploring employment opportunities.

16Dylan Murray (former Pegasus student) moved back to the UK at the end of his seventh-grade year in 2014 and recently graduated from Marlborough College, in Marlborough, England. He played rugby for the 1st XV as well as cricket. Murray attends Durham University, studying finance. He also plans to continue playing rugby as Durham, known for both its fierce academic reputation and competitive sports, and they are current collegiate champions.

Ishika Sachdeva dedicated seven months of quarantine time in the summer of 2020 toward researching and co-writing a non-fiction book series on conflicts, resources, history, and diplomacy in Asia. She’s excited to share that her first book, Raging Waters in the South China Sea, is published and available on Amazon. This book covers China’s artificial island construction, militarized islands, the environmental threat to coral reefs, conflicting territorial claims, and more. It is written with brevity and clarity to be understood by anyone without context to regional issues. Sachdea’s future two books, which are still in the works, will cover human rights, trade, border conflicts, China’s social credit system and issues involving dozens of countries in Asia. She has dedicated

Ishika Sachdeva (’16) is thrilled to publish her first book, Raging Waters in the South China Sea. Her other two books, China’s Power Grab and Expanding Claims and Belts and Roads under Beijing’s Thumb are in the works to be published.

Left: Yazzie Suleiman (’17) has received four Best Delegate and eight Research awards during her time in the Huntington Beach High School Model United Nations program. Right: As the founder of the Huntington Beach High School’s chapter of Operation Smile, she has sent blankets and medical supplies to children in Rwanda and Madagascar undergoing surgery for cleft lip and palate.

this series to several Pegasus teachers including Nancy Wilder, Dustan and Christine Bridges, James Swiger, and Coach Charles Tyler, who Sachdeva says, “equipped me with the skills I needed to accomplish this project, but most importantly, taught me to push myself to achieve more.”

17Molly Joyce committed to play Division 1 volleyball for Boston College, an Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) team. She is thrilled about the opportunity and her new venture to attend school in Boston in the fall 2021.

Yasmin (Yazzie) Suleiman is a senior at Huntington Beach High School, which has a well-known Model United Nations (MUN) program. A highlight of the program was her junior trip to the United Nations in New York in February 2020, just before the pandemic. Suleiman and 30 HBHS delegates competed with 5000 delegates worldwide and won top honors in all areas. During her time in the program, she has received four Best Delegate and eight Research awards.

Suleiman is also a Senior Student MUN Teacher for the freshmen, as well as a teaching assistant for Freshman Honors English, for which she develops curriculum, grades essays, and holds office hours. In addition, she writes articles for a local magazine. As the founder of the HBHS chapter of Operation Smile, Suleiman has raised funds and sent blankets and medical supplies to children in Rwanda and Madagascar undergoing surgery for cleft lip and palate. She attributes her strong writing, debate skills and time management to all of her wonderful Pegasus teachers! Suleiman is looking forward to resuming the Pegasus middle school MUN program she developed with Mr. Swiger in the spring of 2021, and sharing her passion for speaking and public policy development with the students. Emma Turner started a jewelry business called Stargirl Jewelry in August, 2020. Since she was 10 years old, Emma has been interested in making and creating jewelry for her friends and family; however, what started as a hobby has turned into a passion. Due to COVID-19, she decided to use her newfound spare time to learn something new and cultivate her interest in starting a business. Turner’s mission is to create products that are of high quality but are also affordable. Each of her custom pieces is designed, handmade, and packaged with love. Website: stargirljewelryco.com / Instagram: stargirljewelrycom.

Lauren von Aspen is a senior at Corona del Mar High School, where she is currently captain of the girl’s wrestling team and the president and founder of the school’s philosophy club. Shortly before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, von Aspen had the opportunity to travel

to Eswatini, where she conducted research on the impact a freshwater well had on the position of women within the community. Currently, she is working on her college applications and looking forward to the future.

Emma Turner (’17) started a jewelry business called Stargirl Jewelry in August, 2020.

In the fall of 2017, former Pegasus Thunder teammates and the Sage Hill School Lightning football team (L-R) Christo Karahalios (’17), Finn McClintock (’17) (quarterback), Daniel Sherlock (’17), and Ben Romeo (’17) repeated as the undefeated Express League champions and qualified for the CIF playoffs. They made it to the semi-finals, where they lost to Thacher. The Thacher team included Timothy Chadwick, former Pegasus student (center).

In Memory of Evan Werlin

In loving memory of Evan Charles Werlin, M.D., former Pegasus student, who passed away peacefully on May 27, 2020, following a three-year hard-fought battle against a rare form of cancer. Evan excelled at everything he did; he graduated from Brown University Magna cum Laude in Biology and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and went on to become a stellar General Surgery Resident at UCSF. Evan received the prestigious Teaching Excellence Award for Cherished Housestaff (T.E.A.C.H. Award) in 2017, the William P. Schecter Trauma Resident of the Year Award in 2019, and very recently matched at his top choice for Fellowship in Vascular Surgery at UCSF. He was a gifted surgeon with a deep passion for his chosen profession.

Evan lived life to the fullest and pursued his dreams wherever he could. He loved music, exotic travel, snowboarding, bicycling, marathon racing, cats and throwing pottery- to name a few. His passion for living was boundless and he continued to be positive and strong throughout even his battle with cancer. Those who loved him are heartbroken and devastated by the loss of such an incredible young man.

Evan is survived by his parents, Sally and Larry, his sisters Rachel and Emma, Matthew and Eli, his nieces and nephews Addison, Lorelai, Audrey and Levi Charles, his fiancée Alyssa Perez and his beloved cats Minerva and Moses.

Evan’s true legacy lies in the light he brought to the world of everyone who crossed paths with him. Evan will continue to live going forward, through the hearts, minds and actions of those wanting to honor the kindness he so freely shared. The world was a better place with Evan in it.