Beaver Reflections:
My experience at Beaver actually started at Beaver Country Day Camp. My earliest memories at Beaver are playing four square and lining up all the way down the long driveway where parents would pick you up. Then I was a lifer so I started sixth grade and stayed through 12th grade. I graduated in 2007. The three teachers whose lessons I think about the most are Ms. Perrine, the middle school math teacher, Lentsee—I think about her and globalization all the time—and especially Mr. Greenberg. Also, my advisor, Laura Verkui.

What is #happeningnow in your life:
I went from Beaver to Syracuse University where I earned my bachelor’s degree in broadcast digital journalism. I was a reporter in Syracuse for ABC News and for One Africa Television in Namibia, and then I was an investigative reporter in New Orleans, where I got my master’s degree in homeland security and emergency response management at Tulane University. Now I teach a master’s course on media terrorism and disasters and an undergraduate course on journalism at Tulane. I also started a business in 2017 with my sister, who also went to Beaver. It’s a dating app for people who love dogs and we recently launched the cat version. We are international and we’ve got more than 200,000 users. Also, I am now a communication strategist for NASA. We’re building the largest rocket in the world, the rocket that’s bringing the next man and the first woman to the moon by 2024.

“Throughout the pandemic, my company was constantly making sure everyone was safe. You don’t have a community unless it’s a healthy community so a lot of our messaging changed from encouraging people to go out and meet to making sure everyone was staying two leash lengths apart.”

– Leigh Isaacson D’Angelo ’07

Advice to current Beaver students:
If you’re going to start a business while you’re doing other things, make sure it’s something you love.