Class Notes

Do you have a new job? Have you been promoted? Retired? Did you get married? Let your Trinity classmates know what you have been up to! Read messages, announcements, and updates from fellow Trinity alumni, or leave one of your own.

Newer updates will appear at the top of each decade, and updates will be displayed for 3 months.

Updated: February 10, 2026

Caleb Manifold
Class Year: 2025
Caleb Manifold began serving as a Liaison Officer with the Bexar County Office of Emergency Management in October 2025.

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Van-Quayen Mai
Class Year: 2019
Van-Quayen Mai ‘19 and Chance O'Sullivan were married on Saturday, September 6th, 2025 at The Peach Orchard in Houston, TX. Van-Quyen graduated in May 2019 with her B.S. in Finance.

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Gabriel Levine
Class Year: 2018
Gabriel Levine started a PhD in chemistry at the University of Chicago. This follows stints advancing new kinds of scientific funding models at the National Science Foundation and working to scale manufacturing of lithium-ion batteries at a startup.

Lauren Jaramillo Eureste
Class Year: 2016
Lauren Jaramillo Eureste graduated in 2016 with a degree in Business Marketing, unsure of where the field would take her. She worked at ExxonMobil, from 2016-2021 as a procurement specialist while cultivating a photography side business and hobby informed by her Marketing degree expertise.

In July 2022, she left corporate America to launch Imagine Lauren Photography. In October 2024, she had purchased her first commercial property and transformed it into her own photography studio, where she now specializes in newborn, maternity, cake smash, family, and other portrait sessions.

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Veronica Richter McDonald
Class Year: 2012
Veronica Richter McDonald, husband Ian, and son Pierce welcomed Margaret Jane McDonald at the end of October.

Rachel Podd
Class Year: 2012
Rachel Podd earned her MA in History from York University and her PhD from Fordham University after graduating from Trinity. Her research has been published in the academic journal Continuity and Change, and within the past year her work was cited in an exhibit on medieval English women at the British Library. She is currently in her third-year teaching at St. John’s School in Houston, where she teaches 9th and 10th grade history from the fall of Rome to the present day.

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Thomas Bell
Class Year: 2011
Thomas Bell’s new book, The Constitution of Conflict: How the Supreme Court Undermines the Separation of Powers was just published by the University Press of Kansas.


 

Updated: December 11, 2025

Madeliene Scarborough
Class Year: 2023
Madeliene Scarborough has started her Master's Degree in Art History at the University of Houston.

Steven Drake
Class Year: 2022
Steven Drake recently began his Ph.D. program in Educational Leadership and Policy at the University of Texas at Austin after earning an M.Ed. in 2024 from the same program. His research focuses on LGBTQIA+ policy in education. He is in his second year of doctoral studies and is planning to be a professor after graduating.

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Arush Dutt '15 and Nithya Balasekaran '16
Class Years: 2015 and 2016
Nithya Balasekaran '16 and Arush Dutt '15 first met at Mabee dining hall during Nithya’s freshman year. Their connection grew during rehearsals for Trinity’s annual Diwali program where Nithya was a dancer in the show and Arush was running the lights backstage. Sparks flew and they have been inseparable ever since. This year, Nithya and Arush are celebrating 12 years together and 3 years married. They currently live in Austin, TX with their beloved dog, Shamu.

Hayley Sayrs
Class Year: 2016
Hayley Sayrs’ passion for service work deepened at Trinity and has only grown since. A few years ago, Hayley launched her own consulting firm and now offers resources and workshops through their Social Startups initiative, supporting social enterprises from seed stage to strategic partnerships. At Trinity, she launched a public-private partnership through the Trinity Market and learned what it takes to turn ideas into sustainable community change. From farmers markets to policy implementation, Trinity gave her the skills and confidence to bring visions to life alongside a group of dreamers and weavers.

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Dr. Todd Thames
Class Year: 2010
Dr. Todd Thames assumed a full-time role as Professor of Practice in the Trinity Healthcare Administration Department in September 2024. He's teaching a variety of topics including healthcare policy and law, bioethics, and clinical operations.

Updated: February 10, 2026

Sarah Castro Nash
Class Year: 2007
Sarah Castro Nash earned her MBA from the Jones School at Rice University and joined Goldman Sachs Private Wealth Management.

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Allyson Weaver Bunker
Class Year: 2006
Allyson Weaver Bunker has been appointed Historian and a member of the Executive Committee of the Women’s Board of the prestigious, Lincoln Park Zoo. The Lincoln Park Zoo is a historic, free zoo in Chicago, Illinois, known for its free admission and central location in Lincoln Park. It is one of the oldest zoos in the U.S., founded in 1868, and features a wide variety of animals in naturalistic habitats, alongside extensive gardens and conservation programs.

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Photo shows Allyson with her husband Brian Bunker at the 48th annual Zoo Ball raising a record $1.8M for the Lincoln Park Zoo.

Juliana Robles
Class Year: 2005
Juliana Robles, a pediatrician, has spent nearly 11 years with Centromed providing compassionate care to underserved children on San Antonio’s South Side.


 

Updated: December 11, 2025

Brent Morgan
Class Year: 2002
Brent Morgan was appointed by Greg Abbott as the Presiding Judge for the 318th Judicial District Court in Midland County, Texas.

Laura Gilbreath Green
Class Year: 2001
Laura Gilbreath Green published her debut novel as Laura Venita Green, titled Sister Creatures, in October 2025. An Indie Next Pick, Shelf Awareness declares: From rural Louisiana to locations around the globe, the same problems and secrets follow a quartet of girls-become-women in this arresting, unnerving, and wise debut novel.

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Felicia (Leo) Kemp
Class Year: 2001
Felicia (Leo) Kemp '01 was featured in Sactown Magazine's Best of the City 2025 as Best Inclusive Trail Angel, for her inclusive approach when sharing hiking tips and trails on social media and as co-author of Moon Travel Guides Northern California Hiking.

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Updated: February 10, 2026

Richard Johnson
Class Year: 1998
Richard Johnson is the co-author, with Peter Macleod, of Democracy’s Second Act: Why Politics Needs the Public (University of Toronto Press, February 10, 2026), which explores why frustration and polarization are on the rise, and how reclaiming the power of the public can lead to a more hopeful future for democratic societies.

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Updated: December 11, 2025

Amber Puga
Class Year: 1998
Amber Puga has begun a new role with the City of Dallas, joining its Budget & Management Services Department as a Grant Strategic Program Analyst.

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Mark Moody
Class Year: 1995
Mark Moody is in his 28th year in the college admission and counseling professions, he is 3 years into running his own college admission counseling and high school admission consulting practice. He and his partner, Mindy Rose, are getting married in the summer of 2026 with just her two great kids in attendance. They live in Saratoga Springs, NY, and both work helping students in higher ed admission, remotely. He welcomes hearing from Trinity alumni seeking guidance for their own children, having recently advised the children of three classmates—a meaningful full-circle experience.

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Maribeth Bruno Davis
Class Year: 1990
In mid-2025, Maribeth Bruno Davis transitioned from full-time corporate communications to freelance strategic consulting, writing and editing for aerospace, defense and manufacturing companies. Maribeth is making the most of her more flexible schedule by raising a service-dog-in-training for a veterans' organization.

Updated: December 11, 2025

Colin Campbell
Class year: 1984
Colin Campbell was named a Fellow in the Visual Effects Society, a global professional honorary society and the entertainment industry’s only organization representing the full breadth of visual effects practitioners. The “VES” title honors individuals with at least a decade of distinguished contributions and service to the art, science, or business of visual effects and to the entertainment industry within the past 20 years. Based in Texas, Colin has served 12 years on the VES Global Board of Directors and played a key role in establishing the Texas VES section in 2024, where he now serves as Chair. His career spans 38 years in the industry, 23 years as a member of the VES. His credits include The Abyss, Hook, Death Becomes Her, Babe, Contact, Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, Transformers, and Avengers: Infinity Wars among others.

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Ken Goetzke
Class year: 1982
Ken Goetzke recently retired from the NASA, where he served as Deputy Chief Counsel at the NASA Langley Research Center.

Updated: February 10, 2026

Erick Blackwelder
Class Year: 1979
Erick Blackwelder sold his company in Northern Virginia and moved to Wilmington, North Carolina to enjoy a warmer climate and to be near the beach. Erick has two daughters and two granddaughters who live in Northern Virginia.

Brenda Coffee
Class Year: 1974
Brenda Coffee wrote MAYA BLUE: A Memoir of Survival and was published by She Writes Press / Simon Schuster. Her Memoir has been nominated for the prestigious 2025 Kirkus Prize and named one of Kirkus Reviews’ 100 Best Books of 2025. The book was also selected by Maria Shriver as one of her 2025 Best Summer Reads, and it has attracted interest from Hollywood for a potential film adaptation. MAYA BLUE is a memoir that reads like a thriller: a true story of love, cocaine, Big Tobacco, abduction, and survival. It's Working Girl meets Taken, and in the end, Brenda Coffee is the last one standing.

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