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Alumni have shared their stories with the Magnet Foundation over the past few years. Here they are organized by Class Year:

Class of 1989: First Class (Summer 2009)

Naomi Cleghorn '89: Uncovering Human Origins (Fall 2014)
Lorrie Faith Cranor '89: Usable Privacy (Winter 2014)
Howard Gobioff '89: Remembering Howard (Spring 2009)

Class of 1990:

Maneesh Agrawala '90: MacArthur Genius (Summer 2012)
Robert Pless '90: Windows on the World (Summer 2013)

Class of 1991:

Reva Gupta '91: Foreign Service (Winter 2016)
Kevin LeClaire '91: Consulting and Photography (Fall 2011)

Class of 1992:

Matías Duarte '92: Design at Google (Winter 2017)
Hormuzd Katki ’92: Cancer Risk Models (Fall 2012)
Patrick Lee '92: RottenTomatoes.com (Spring 2011)

Class of 1993:

Steve Chien '93: Silicon Valley Research (Summer 2013)
Michael Douma '93: Ideas on the Web (Spring 2013)
Helen Fields '93: Science Journalist (Summer 2013)
Danyel Fisher '93: Analyzing and Visualizing Big Data (Fall 2014)
Wei-Hwa Huang '93: Puzzle Master (Winter 2013)
Cristina Rumbaitis del Rio '93: Climate Change Resilience (Fall 2013)
David and Ming Tomayko '93: High School Sweethearts (Winter 2013)
Joshua Weitz '93: Theoretical Ecology (Winter 2013)

Class of 1994:

Alenda Chang '94: Growing Games (Spring 2014)
Tyrone Giordano '94: Theatre Career (Winter 2014)
Jesse Hahnel '94: Teaching and Advocacy (Summer 2014)
Drew Linzer '94: Votamatic.org (Fall 2012)
Emily Schuster '94: Dimensions (Summer 2014)
Kasima Tharnpipitchai '94: Consulting, Coding, and Comedy (Spring 2015)

Class of 1995:

Samit Dasgupta '95: Algebraic Number Theory (Fall 2015)
Deirdre Mundy '95: Family and Freelance Writing (Winter 2015)
Nikki Privé '95: Climate Science at NASA Goddard (Spring 2015)
Horace Rhee '95: Research and Medicine (Spring 2015)

Class of 1996:

Zeki Mokhtarzada '96: webs.com (Spring 2011)
Lesley Ott '96: Climate Science at NASA Goddard (Spring 2015)
Pat Yongpradit '96: Computer Science for All (Fall 2016)

Class of 1997:

David Andalman '97: American Milkshake (Fall 2013)
David Hu '97: Animal Biomechanics (Spring 2017)
Haroon Mokhtarzada '97: webs.com (Spring 2011)

Class or 1998:

Cynthia Addai-Robinson '98: Hollywood Actress (Winter 2012)
Jonah Berger '98: Contagious Ideas (Spring 2013)
Jon Urban '98: Poker Player (Spring 2010)

Class of 1999: A Hundred Paths (Summer 2009)

Craig Erdrich '99, James Hansen '99, and Scott Safranek '99: The Obama Campaign (Spring 2009)

Class of 2000:

Jon Simon '00: Quantum Materials (Summer 2016)

Class of 2001: Ten-Year Snapshots (Fall 2011)

Hans Arora '01: Medical Practice and Policy (Spring 2017)
Rachel Carlson '01: Choral Career (Summer 2011)

Class of 2002:

Alison Cardy '02: Career Coach (Spring 2016)
Chris Chen '02: Dessert Truck (Winter 2009)
Jennifer Coster '02: Artistic Alumna (Summer 2011)
Elizabeth Green '02: Building a Better Teacher (Fall 2014)
Samantha Henig '02: Journalist and Author (Fall 2012)
Will Hwang '02: InnoWorks Academy (Winter 2012)
Kang-Xing Jin '02 and Dan Kim '02: Working at Facebook (Summer 2012)
Bingni Wen Brunton '02: Neuroscience Data (Summer 2016)

Class of 2003: A Decade After Blair (Fall 2013)

Kevin Fang '03: Teach for America (Fall 2010)
Alexandra Lockwood '03: PhD Movie (Spring 2012)

Class of 2004: Ten-Year Check-In (Spring 2014)
Class of 2005:

Martino Choi '05: Catholic Priest (Spring 2016)
Abigail Fraeman '05: Martian Geology (Summer 2015)
Julia Simon Mishel '05: Legal Assistance (Winter 2016)

Class of 2006: Ten-Year Reunion Update (Fall 2016)

Varun Gulati '06: Educational Entrepreneur (Fall 2016)
Samir Paul '06: Magnet Teacher (Summer 2015)

Class of 2007: Ten-Year Update (Summer 2017)

Jordy Wolfand '07: Environmental Engineering and Outreach (Spring 2017)

Class of 2008:

Holman Gao '08: BoostMySchool (Summer 2016)

Class of 2009: Five-Year Update (Winter 2015)

Jean Fan '09: Little Book of Big Dreams (Summer 2015)