2016
Class Agents: Henry Atkeson, Emerson Burkhardt, Megan Ragusa, Lucy Russell and Zoe Strafford-Price
Lauren Cook graduated from the University of Alabama in the spring and began her studies at the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Medicine in the fall of 2020.
Abbie Green started nursing school at the Medical University of South Carolina in January 2020 and was selected as a MUSC Presidential Scholar.
Michael Gong was accepted into St. Hilda’s College at Oxford University to pursue his Master’s in Economics.
Kaira Harrison started a new jewelry business, Thick Girl Tings, selling creative ring designs.
Charlotte Hood graduated from Elon University with a degree in psychology in the spring of 2020. She then moved to Boston to pursue a Master of Arts in Psychology at Boston University.
Aaron Inglee graduated from Elon University and started a job at Credit Suisse’s Raleigh office as a Technology Analyst.
Robin Kikuchi graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles and was accepted to the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California.
Ellie Knudsen was accepted at the University of Maryland Law School, beginning her studies in the fall of 2020.
Payne Lubbers graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill in the spring of 2020. He is now working in New York City as a reporter for Bloomberg News.
Ryan McAtee started a new job at State Farm Insurance in Raleigh working in sales and marketing.
Chloe Mikles is working toward a Ph.D. at Stanford University’s Hopkins Marine Station in Monterey Bay, California. For her dissertation work, she is studying Atlantic bluefin tuna with electronic tagging and genetics. Some of her field work is off the coast of North Carolina. Her research team was able to tag five fish this December and they’ll be tracking their migrations, which may go as far as the Mediterranean Sea. The pandemic has prevented Chloe from moving to California, so in her time off she has been commercially fishing for bluefin and collecting genetic samples.
Yunxin Ouyang was accepted to Duke University to pursue a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering. She began her studies in July of 2020.
Taylor Patel graduated from Boston University in the spring of 2020 and developed her own podcast, You Do You, which is meant to motivate others to be confident and unapologetically themselves.
Rob Sar graduated from Furman University and took a position in the Raleigh office of Fairview Investment Services doing compliance support.
Lauren Walsh graduated from East Carolina University with a degree in music/vocal performance. Lauren began graduate work in the Master of Accounting program at UNC-Chapel Hill. She has also started a style blog, Style Up With Lauren, where she covers topics including clothing, make-up and hair tips.