2010s Class Notes

Michaela Catallozzi '11 (CETA) is one of 6 women receiving the New England Women in Construction (NEWIC) Trailblazer Award. Michaela is a Project Manager with C.E. Floyd Company.

Michaela is a member of the Rosen Society.

Kathryn (Carta) Flannigan '11 (A&S) and husband Trevor Flannigan welcomed Dean on April 2, 2025.

Kathyrn is a member of the Founders' Society.

Kyle Torrence '11 (Hartt) is part of the cast of Season 25 of Food Network's Worst Cooks in America.

Timothy Corpus M'12 (Hartt) will receive the professional premier of his new double percussion concerto, the "Great Lake Concerto", with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Chief Conductor Marin Alsop. The performance on July 25, 2025 at 8pm at Ravinia Festival, will feature soloists Ed Harrison (Lyric Opera of Chicago) and Vadim Karpinos (Chicago Symphony Orchestra).

Sarah Carlyle Laskey '13 (HAS) and her husband Zach welcomed their baby boy, Benjamin Robert Laskey on April 16, 2025.

Justin Wilcox M'14 (Barney), a partner at Glastonbury-based accounting and advisory firm FML, has been named to Forbes’ inaugural Best-In-State CPAs 2025 list. This year’s list identifies 1,000 of the finest CPAs from across all 50 states. 

Justin joined FML straight out of UHart and, in less than 10 years, became the youngest partner in the firm. He heads the firm’s Cryptocurrency accounting practice, which he founded in 2018. Wilcox oversees U.S. federal and state tax compliance for FML, including U.S. foreign information reporting and financial accounting. He has also done pro bono tax filings and consulting for UConn’s Connecticut Center for Entrepreneurship (CCEI) program for the past seven years and is part of their summer fellowship.

Sarah Tobias Bowers '15, M'16 (ENHP) welcomed Audrey Ruth Bowers on January 26, 2025.

Matthew Kennedy D'15 (Hartt) was recently promoted to Director of Music in the School of Music & Theatre at Heidelberg University. He currently also serves as Assistant Professor of Composition and Theory.

Rachel Cisto '15 (A&S) and Blain Kindred are engaged to be married after meeting in 2023 in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. The couple is planning on a late 2025 or early 2026 wedding in Montana.

Elena Havlena '16 (HAS) is a skilled Marketing Coordinator and Graphic Designer with extensive experience in digital and print design across various industries.

Currently employed at Warshauer Electric Supply since June 2023, Elena leads the creation and optimization of marketing materials and manages social media content. Prior to this role, Elena worked as a Graphic Designer at Groupe SEB, developing design solutions for well-known brands, and at Anderson International Foods as a Marketing Graphic Designer, where Elena created various marketing materials.

Elena's past positions also include stints at Astor Chocolate, Sakar International, Gramercy Products, and an internship at MGems Graphics and Printing.

Elena holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Illustration and Photography from the University of Hartford and a Digital Marketing Certification from Parsons School of Design.

Katelyn Whitburn Reddy '16 (A&S) married Anush Reddy in March 2020 after meeting while attending graduate school at Rochester Institute of Technology. In August 2024, they welcomed their son, Henry. The family lives in the Silicon Valley area of California.

Olivia Hansen '17 (Hartt) is an actor and filmmarker. She has been in NYC for 8 years pursuing musical theatre/acting and has spent the last year and a half on a 13 city Film Festival run with a Feature Film she produced. She has now ventured into writing, directing, producing, and starring in her own first short film, Lipstick. Meet. Pig.

Lipstick. Meet. Pig. is a feminist dark comedy based on her years of experience working in the service industry. She has served the upper echelon of NYC, all while struggling to keep her head above water and find fulfillment as an artist. This film explores what it means to be a modern working woman.

About the film: After facing her 100th rejection, a timid, aspiring romance novelist must live vicariously through her salacious characters, or lose her final chance to become published. Lipstick. Meet. Pig. tackles wealth disparity, gender power dynamics, and just how far you're willing to go to achieve your dreams.

For the film, she brought on two other Hartt alumni to the producing team! Michael Coale Grey '14 (Hartt) is an Associate Producer based out of LA. He is a filmmaker, actor, and musician. Dana Rose Eisman '17 (Hartt) is an Associate Producer and Actor in the film. She is an actor, producer, and educator based in NYC.