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Tag: Job

  • Elizabeth Grinsteinner Grzechowiak ’01

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    Erin Wilken

    Elizabeth Grinsteinner Grzechowiak ’01 is now the Assistant Director of Concessions and Business Development with the Metropolitan Airports Comission.

  • Jane Simonsen ’93

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    Erin Wilken

    Jane Simonsen ’93 received a Fulbright senior lecturer grant for 2014 and will be traveling with her family to Regensburg, Germany to teach in the Amerikanistik (American Studies) department.

  • Dana Menard ’01

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    Erin Wilken

    Dana Menard ’01 is a Certified Financial Planner (CFP®) and Independent Financial Advisor with Financial Dimensions Group, Inc. in the Twin Cities.

  • Jenna Chapman ’12

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    Erin Wilken

    Beginning January 16th, Jenna Chapman ’12 will be working for the Illinois State Board of Education as a Principal Consultant in their Chicago office. She will also be relocating to Chicago and living with fellow Gustavus alumna Emma Foley ’12.

  • John West ’89

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    Erin Wilken

    John West ’89 is now ePresence Manager for Honeywell Sensing & Control, Golden Valley, MN.

  • Lindsay Carlson ’01

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    Erin Wilken

    Lindsay Carlson ’01 was promoted to partner at her law firm, Alston & Bird LLP. She is a member of the firm’s Litigation and Trial Practice group, in the Los Angeles office.

  • Jennifer Jedlicki Bennett ’90

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    Erin Wilken

    Jennifer Jedlicki Bennett ’90 opened a neuropsychological assessment practice called BrainWorks, P.A., located in Minnetonka. She has also been nominated for a position on the Board of the International Dyslexia Association – Upper Midwest Branch.

  • Christian Schoon ’71

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    Erin Wilken

    Before arriving at GAC, I spent my senior year of high school in Sweden as a foreign exchange student. (I lived in a Stockholm suburb called Djursholm: “Animal Island.”) After my time at Gustavus, I did some acting, touring for a year with a theatre troupe in a Chicago based show called “Broadway in Sight.”…

  • Lisa Johnson Wentz ’86

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    Erin Wilken

    Lisa Johnson Wentz ’86 began new job with the Catholic Foundation of Green Bay as a Marketing Specialist.

  • Amanda Simons ’06

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    Erin Wilken

    Amanda Kimmet Simons ’06 was ordained into the ministry of the Evangelical Lutheran Church on August 3rd, 2013. She is currently serving as associate pastor at Gustavus Adolphus Lutheran Church in St. Paul, MN. Her new congregation recently hired another Gustie grad, Brit Barkholtz ’12, as their administrative assistant. Together Amanda and Brit bring their…