Life after college
Kristen Loyd Hodge and her husband, Darius, welcomed their first child, Luke, in October 2023.
Nick Tzenov has stayed in Westminster, Maryland, since graduation, spending the past four years working at Kohn Creative as the lead photographer for Carroll Magazine. He is also an adjunct instructor in McDaniel’s Cinema department, a position he’s held since 2019, and teaches a few classes per year at Carroll Community College.
Danielle Fatzinger moved to Glasgow, Scotland, where she earned her Master of Letters degree in Celtic Studies at the University of Glasgow. She stayed for her doctorate, writing her thesis on “the contents and context of a corpus of four late 17th-century Scottish Gaelic manuscripts copied by the scribe Eoghan MacGilleoin (Hugh Maclean).” Currently, she is a team leader in learning and teaching administration at the Adam Smith Business School. When she’s not working or doing research, she enjoys baking, fiber arts, and spending time with her partner and pet gecko.
Clarissa Balint spent four years teaching ESOL at Wheaton High School in Montgomery County, Maryland. Currently, she lives in Metz, France, where she teaches English at a top engineering graduate school, and is loving life abroad!
Taylor Niemetz recently beat breast cancer, finishing active treatment in 2023. That year also marked her fifth year working in foster care. She has one daughter, Maya, who turned 1 on Jan. 1, 2024. Maya is super healthy and has been a blessing in her life.
I, Kelsey Mannix, earned my Master of Journalism degree from the University of Maryland in December 2020, with a concentration in sports broadcast journalism. I moved to Fort Wayne, Indiana, in February 2021 where I was a news reporter/fill-in anchor for two years at FOX 55. In March 2023, I moved to Omaha, Nebraska, where I’m currently a sports reporter for KMTV 3 News Now (CBS affiliate). One of the highlights so far was covering Volleyball Day in Nebraska, an outdoor volleyball match in Memorial Stadium at the University of Nebraska; it set a world record for attendance at a women’s sporting event (92,003). It was definitely one of the most emotional days of my career, seeing how many people care about not only volleyball, but women’s sports in general. I’m looking forward to what’s ahead in my second year in Omaha!
Kelsey Mannix2016 Class Reporterkelseymannix721@gmail.com