58 | LEHIGH ALUMNI BULLETIN | CLASS NOTES reminiscent of their late nights at Hawk’s Nest, complete with delicious milkshakes and feelgood fries, bringing the joy and nostalgia of their college days to life. Mary Cotturo and Christopher Bianco were married on May 10 in Houston, Texas, with many classmates present to celebrate. The two met in high school, attended prom together and attended Lehigh to study engineering. ’19 Alexis Parsells, lex.parsells@ gmail.com and Claudia Cohen, claudiacohen10@gmail.com Ally Kornberger graduated with her bachelor’s degree in English and completed her master’s degree in environmental policy in 2019. Since then, Ally has been living in New York City. Her first corporate role in sustainability was interning for Colgate Palmolive, the CPG company, while finishing her master’s. She has been working different roles in corporate sustainability ever since. She is currently contributing as an environmental reporting specialist on Nasdaq’s corporate sustainability strategy and reporting team. Her team publishes NASDAQ’s annual sustainability report. She is on her second publication, managing everything that falls under the environmental section. Ally also manages the task force on climate-related financial disclosure reports. Additionally, Ally oversees Nasdaq’s CDP climate survey submission. Ally has felt very fulfilled being part of this team and enjoys the direct impacts realized from her day-to-day work. She is most proud of being selected as the global co-lead of Nasdaq’s Green Team, which is the sustainability employee resource group. Recently, Ally was featured on the Nasdaq MarketSite billboard in Times Square, a surreal display of recognition for her accomplishments. During her free time, she loves to write, read and travel. ’20 Evan Choy, egc320@alum. lehigh.edu At the Reunion, I got to reconnect with some familiar faces and connect with some new ones. In light of this, I’ve reached out to some folks I saw there. Nadia Michalewski and I connected at the young alumni dinner at SteelStacks during the Reunion. She was an industrial and systems engineering major at Lehigh. Outside of class, she was involved in OFYE and belly dancing and was a member of KD; you may have even run into her on her work-study at Taylor Gym. From it all, Nadia fondly remembers her time as an orientation leader, where she made friends that she still keeps in touch with today. Nowadays, Nadia lives in Hoboken, N.J., working as a quality operations project manager at Pfizer. When not working, she’s kickboxing and running! Vanessa Pedraza continues our Big Four theme as a fellow accounting major. While we both live in NYC, it took us ’til the Reunion to reconnect. We recollected the fun Le-Laf games throughout our time in undergrad. Since graduating, Vanessa took her first trip to Europe (Spain and Italy!) and continues to travel in her spare time, reflecting much of her busy life at Lehigh (she was a Gryphon and an admissions fellow!). She now works for EY in FSO Assurance. Catch Vanessa on her next travels to Chicago, where she’ll be attending a wedding of friends who met in M&M during our freshman year (stay tuned for our next feature to find out who!). Cheers to 2026! If you’ve got any big news or just want to connect, reach out at the email above! ’21 Eve Freed, evefreed1@ gmail.com and Skyler McCabe, skylermccabe1@gmail.com ’22 Clare Fonstein, clf222@alum. lehigh.edu ’23 Declan Coster, declanmcoster@ gmail.com Hello, Class of 2023! I know you all have so much going on in your lives. Please reach out to me, so I can include those updates in the next writeup. Specifically, I’d love to highlight personal events such as engagements, marriages, relocations and anything else you would like to share. I start with two engagement announcements! Duncan Shober-Fernback and Eva Wolfe got engaged in July (what an engineering power couple!). In April, Kieran O’Connor proposed to Ashley Lindsay on their vacation to Ireland (at the Cliffs of Moher!). Congratulations, all! The bulk of this column will focus on a group of my friends who were inseparable in South Bethlehem. The weekend after graduation, Raihan Alam got married to Julia Bebout ’21. They then moved out to San Diego to pursue their Ph.D.s (now into their third year). Raihan recently returned from Serengeti, where he was on a safari trip with other graduate students as part of a program with the University of California, San Diego. The Hill recently published an op-ed by Raihan on his research involving regulating Congressional stock trading titled “Banning stock trading in Congress is a crucial step toward restoring public trust.” Raihan returns to the South Side once a year while visiting his in-laws and old friends during winter break. Helen Tynes moved out to Boulder, Colo., to work for AECOM as a mechanical engineer. Helen and her team work on design consulting for projects involving dams, hydropower and water distribution, specifically high-pressure specialty valves. Ben Wainfan has been living in New York since graduation, working in debt capital for Bank of America. He continues to enjoy playing guitar, chess and golf, as well as reading and listening to history podcasts. Ben has been able to meet up with his Lehigh friends all over the country. ’24 Kyra Boston, kruthb11@ gmail.com Thank you to Philip Stevens for sharing an update on how he spent his first year of postgrad! Phil achieved his B.S. in Earth and environmental sciences a semester early but remained at Lehigh for a portion of our final semester to take a few master’s classes. After graduation, Phil was presented with the opportunity to spend the summer near James Bay, Quebec, Canada, working in mineral exploration for lithium. Using his experience in Canada, Phil secured a contract in Republic, Wash., where he assisted with the reopening and restart of a gold mine. After completing that project, he accepted a new contract in Patagonia, Ariz., where he now works with South32 on the Hermosa Project, focused on securing critical metals for national security. Amidst his contract work, Phil has created an LLC he can use to contract himself for future geo-exploration opportunities. In addition, he found the time to return to Lehigh as the keynote speaker for this past year’s Earth and environmental science department’s symposium. It sounds like Phil has been keeping extremely busy and partaking in some amazing opportunities. I would love to share more awesome experiences and accomplishments of our peers in future Class Notes! Please reach out and share your stories! ’25 Maya Zucker, mayazucker21@ gmail.com, (908) 963-9465 Hey, friends! I can’t believe that just a few short months ago, we all gathered on Good-
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