Yan Huo *94 is managing partner and chief investment officer of Capula Investment Management LLP. Prior to co-founding Capula in 2005, Huo spent most of his professional career at J.P. Morgan where he worked in its derivatives research and proprietary positioning business. Huo is a trustee of Princeton University, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fudan University and the Huo Family Foundation. He holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Princeton and a B.S. in physics from Fudan University. He lives in London.

Ann Kirschner *78 is a strategic adviser, board director and writer. The thread that runs through her diverse career is understanding the impact of technology on how we work, shop, entertain and learn. A veteran of five startups, including NFL.com, she is a director of Movado Group, Strategic Cyber Ventures, Footsteps, NYC First, and the Paul and Daisy Soros Foundation. She is the president of Comma Communications and professor of practice at Arizona State University, where she is a senior adviser to the president. She is the former president of Hunter College at The City University of New York, a former trustee of Princeton University, the co-chair of the Graduate School Leadership Council and a member of the Leadership Council of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. She is the author of “Sala’s Gift” and “Lady at the O.K. Corral” and is a frequent writer and speaker on innovation in higher education.

Laurence Morse *80 is co-founder and chief executive officer of Fairview Capital Partners LLC, which creates and manages customized private markets investment vehicles for institutional investors. Morse graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Howard University with a B.A. in economics in 1973, having spent his junior year at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He earned M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in economics at Princeton and has been a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University. He is a former trustee of Princeton and a former director of the Princeton University Investment Company. Since July 1, 2020, he has served as chair of the Board of Trustees at Howard University, having been a member of the board since 2014. He began his career in venture capital and private equity in 1983 at UNC Ventures in Boston.

Carol Chaya Barash *89 writes and speaks on neuroscience-based storytelling and community building. An EdTech entrepreneur, they built software and taught storytelling to more than a quarter million people, including tech and business leaders who aimed to increase their influence. They sold their company, Story2, in 2023. They have spoken about storytelling on notable blogs and podcasts and told their stories live at the Barrow Street Theatre and The Moth in New York City. Television and radio interviews include CNN, Atlanta Public Radio, WNYC, AM New York, NJ Network and as a featured speaker at a #MeToo protest outside Fox News. They received a B.A. summa cum laude from Yale, an M.A. from University of Virginia, and a Ph.D. from Princeton. They are a past chair of Graduate Alumni Annual Giving and recipient of the Award for Service to Princeton.

Sophal Ear *97 is an associate professor at Arizona State University’s Thunderbird School of Global Management. As president of the International Public Management Network and former interim chair of the Public Policy & International Affairs Program, he is a leader in the fields of public policy and global development. He previously held academic appointments at Occidental College, the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School and the Maxwell School of Syracuse University. Ear has consulted for the World Bank and the United Nations, and sits on the boards of Refugees International and the Center for Khmer Studies. The author of books on governance, pandemics and China’s global resource quest, he moved to the U.S. from France as a Cambodian refugee at age 10. He will lead a Princeton Journeys trip to the Mekong Delta in January 2025.

Andrew Finn *23 received his Ph.D. in English from Princeton with a dissertation on medieval English religious poetry and was awarded the Postgraduate Research Associate fellowship. At Princeton, he was involved in the Graduate Student Government as the academic affairs chair, vice president and president; in the English department’s Graduate Action Committee, which championed graduate student needs; and in gradFUTURES. In these roles, he ran workshops to help his peers achieve academic success, built programs to create interdisciplinary community and volunteered his time to better graduate life at the institution across the board. Inspired by these opportunities at Princeton, he has now begun to pursue a career in higher education administration. He is currently the assistant director of Graduate Student Programming and Events at Northeastern University’s Center for Student Involvement, where he designs and implements wellness, professional and co-curricular support programs for graduate students across the university.

Larry Handerhan *12 serves as deputy assistant secretary for management at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Administration for Children and Families. He has spent the past 15 years helping government organizations run better, including stints at the D.C. Department of Human Services, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and the City and County of San Francisco. He is an alum of the Presidential Management Fellows program and served in AmeriCorps. As an MPA student at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA), he was co-chair of the student government; he currently serves on the SPIA Advisory Council. He received a bachelor’s degree from Bates College and lives in the LeDroit Park neighborhood of Washington, D.C., with his husband, Donnelly McDowell ’06.

Laurence Latimer *01 is the current president of the Association of Princeton Graduate Alumni. His volunteer experience includes serving as a member of the Venture Forward Campaign Executive Steering Committee, inaugural chair of the Dean for Research Advisory Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship, chair of Graduate Alumni Annual Giving, co-chair of the Connect leadership initiative, vice chair of the national Annual Giving Committee, and a board member of the Princeton Association of New York City. He was awarded the Alumni Council Award for Service to Princeton and the Harold Helm, Class of 1920 Award. Professionally, Latimer is an entrepreneur and investor focused on financial technology. Latimer received his B.A. in political science from Ohio State University and a master’s in public affairs from the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, where he was a Public Policy and International Affairs Fellow.

Peter Rupert Lighte *81 had expected to spend his life in the academy, but, owing to a fluke, he accepted a position that sought to mold him into a “renaissance banker.” In 1982, he was dispatched by Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company to China to become a pioneering circuit rider traveling around a country he had come to know through Confucius and Ming gazetteers. After three years in Beijing, Lighte went on to be posted to London, Hong Kong, Tokyo, again to London and back to Beijing, where he became founding chair of J. P. Morgan Chase Bank China. Along the way, he found his husband, with whom he adopted two daughters from China. The family eventually found its way to Princeton. Lighte is the author of “Pieces of China,” “Host of Memories” and “Straight Through the Labyrinth: Becoming a Gay Father in China.”

Shin-Yi Lin *11 is a Taiwanese American born and raised in California. At Princeton, she studied genetics and development in the Department of Molecular Biology, and was active with the Graduate Student Government, the Writing Center and the Princeton Research Symposium. After two decades as a lab scientist, Lin made what was initially a temporary shift into policy in 2019 —but it stuck when she saw the kind of good local governments could do during the pandemic. She’s been supporting health policy for New Jersey’s Medicaid program — which provides healthcare coverage for 1.7 million residents. She’s currently the deputy director of policy in the state’s Department of Human Services. She cares about: academics in public service (as avocation or vocation), equity and diversity in what we do and where we work, reading many books, enjoying good food. She lives in the Princeton area with Matt Weber *09 and their kids.

Sally Metzler-Dunea *97 earned her doctorate with distinction at Princeton in art and archaeology. Currently, she is founder and chair of the commission to erect the Global COVID-19 Monument of Honor, Remembrance, and Resilience. Previously, she was director of the art collection at the Union League Club Chicago and a senior fellow and guest curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, where she curated the international loan exhibition “Bartholomeus Spranger: Splendor and Eroticism in Imperial Prague” and authored the exhibition catalog. She has taught art history courses at Northwestern University and Loyola University Chicago. Formerly, she was the director of the Martin D’Arcy Museum of Loyola University Chicago and has held positions at the Field Museum of Natural History, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and the Alte and Neue Pinakothek in Munich, Germany.

Juan Carlos Pinzón *10 is currently a visiting professor at Princeton University. Pinzón is an economist from Colombia’s Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, with a master’s degree from the same institution, two master’s degrees from Princeton and a honoris causa from the Colombian War College. Pinzón has also taken advanced courses in strategic studies at Johns Hopkins University, science and technology policy at Harvard University and smart cities at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. In 2011, he was appointed to be the youngest minister of defense in Colombian history, to serve at the height of the internal armed conflict. Following his success as minister of defense, he was appointed ambassador to the United States in 2017 and again in 2021, with the task of bringing both nations together to tackle issues of regional importance.

Mika Provata-Carlone *02 is a London-based independent scholar and researcher, with a long career as a translator, editorial consultant, writer and literary critic. She has also worked as an illustrator and photographer. Her academic fields include classics, philosophy, history of art, English and French literature, European studies, film and drama. She has degrees from the University of Athens (B.A., First Class Honours), the Sorbonne (Diplôme), the University of Sussex (M.A.) and Princeton University (M.A., Ph.D.). She is the chair of the Princeton Alumni Schools Committee of the U.K., the Netherlands and France, and a Princeton Schools Committee mentor for several regions. She has been a GradFUTURES mentor since the program’s launch in 2020, advising doctoral students in several departments at Princeton. For her work as ASC chair she received the Princeton Schools Committee S. Barksdale Penick, Jr. 1925 Award (2010) and the Alumni Council Award for Service to Princeton (2018).

Angelina Sylvain *16 received her B.S. in biological sciences from the University of California-Irvine and her Ph.D. in neuroscience from Princeton. As vice dean for graduate education at the University of South Carolina, Columbia, she leads data strategy efforts that inform financial, policy and programming decisions for the Graduate School and the Office of the Provost, while overseeing program development. Sylvain served on the Association of Princeton Graduate Alumni (APGA) board and the Alumni Council Executive Committee (ACEC), advocating for graduate alumni as APGA vice president, chair of the APGA Engagement and Impact Committee and a member of the ACEC Careers and Networking group. At Princeton, she was also actively involved in Graduate Student Government and the Women in STEM Leadership Council.

Koshu Takatsuji *18 is the graduate alumni chair for the Princeton Club of Northern California (PCNC), dedicated to fostering a vibrant alumni community. With a master’s in chemical engineering from Princeton, Takatsuji combines his academic expertise with a passion for community engagement and event planning. As a key member of the Asian Alumni of Princeton and the Association of Princeton Graduate Alumni, he has been instrumental in orchestrating numerous successful events. These range from intimate monthly dinners to large-scale annual celebrations, including the dim sum Lunar New Year event, the end-of-year holiday dinner, museum visits, movie screenings and the highly anticipated annual BBQ welcoming new students. Through these efforts, Takatsuji has significantly enriched the alumni community, fostering connections and creating lasting memories for all participants.

Raghuveer Vinukollu *11 is the head of Climate Insights and Advisory at Munich Reinsurance America, Inc., based in Princeton, New Jersey. He has a Ph.D. in land surface hydrology from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE); he is also one of the Advisory Council members for the CEE department. He is a passionate advocate for climate adaptation and resiliency with emphasis on the role of insurance and public-private partnerships in building resilient communities. Vinukollu’s expertise in climate resilience is reflected in the recent articles titled “Re|imagining Resilience in a Post Pandemic World” and “Nature’s Remedy: Improving Flood Resilience Through Community Insurance and Nature-Based Mitigation.” He is also the co-chair for Princeton Graduate Alumni Annual Giving.