Carol and David Porter of Leawood, Kansas, announce the engagement of their daughter Sophia Porter to Barret Schlegelmilch, son of Annette and Charles Schlegelmilch of Hilo, Hawaii.
Sophia is the granddaughter of the late Margie and Peicy Alperson and the late Karen and Edward Porter. She works in Seattle, Washington, as a technical program manager for security at Anthropic and as a parabolic flight coach at Zero G. She has a dual degree in physics and applied mathematics and statistics from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.
Barret is the grandson of the late Earl and Lucille Merchant and the late William and Dorothy Schlegelmilch. He is a Lieutenant Commander in the U.S. Navy Reserve, as well as the technical program manager for external partnerships at Anthropic and an adjunct professor for the School of Engineering and Applied Science at George Washington University (GWU). He has a B.S. in astrophysics from the University of California, Los Angeles; an M.S. in aeronautics and astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Boston; an M.B.A. from the Sloan School of Business at MIT; and a Ph.D. in engineering from GWU in Washington, D.C.
The couple are planning a wedding on July 5 in Seattle.