2009 Med/Law Michael Otremba Is a Resident in Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery at Yale University School of Medicine
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2009 Med/Law Michael Otremba is a resident in otolaryngology, head and neck surgery at Yale University School of Medicine. Prathap Sooriyakumaran is an emergency medicine physician at USCF in San Francisco. Bridge Colby is the Robert M. Gates senior fellow at the Center for a New America in Washington, DC. Amos Friedland is an attorney at Boies, Schiller & Flexner. Class contact: Thorin Tritter ([email protected]). 2010 Law David Brown is a partner at Paul Weiss in New York. Mark Friedman is an attorney practicing elder law, special needs law and estate planning in NY and NJ. Todd Grabarsky is clerking for Judge Alarcon of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in Los Angeles. Ally Heaney Lamson is a matrimonial attorney at Adinolfi & Packman in New Jersey. Benny Meshoulam is the director of government relations at UMass Boston. Danny Pearlstein is chief of staff and counsel to council member David Greenfield at the New York City Council. Keerthika Subramanian is a corporate associate at Davis Polk & Wardwell in the San Francisco Bay Area. Class contact: Sarah Nadeau ([email protected]). 2010 Medical Avrom Caplan finished his residency in internal medicine earlier this summer and is now starting dermatology at UPenn. Grace Charles, now Grace Tassa, married David Tassa this past May and moved to Los Angeles where she started working as an attending physician at UCLA. Lilengi Edirwickrema will spend this year as a clinical fellow in neuro-ophthalmology and orbit at Johns Hopkins. From 2017-2019 she will be a clinical instructor and ASOPRS oculoplastic and orbital surgery fellow at UC San Diego. Rachel Hadler completed an anesthesia residency and a critical care fellowship, and is now in the middle of a palliative care fellowship at Memorial Sloan-Kettering in New York. Jason Liebowitz is the ambulatory chief resident at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. Karen Revere is completing a fellowship in oculoplastics and orbital surgery at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Nathan Stall is a geriatric medicine fellow at the University of Toronto. He and Tali Bogler were married in Toronto in June. Steph Weiss is an assistant professor of emergency medicine at the University of Florida College of Medicine- Jacksonville. Class contact: Grace Tassa ([email protected]). 2010 Seminary Bilal Ansari is the dean of students and director of student life at Zaytuna College in Berkeley, CA. Jillian Cameron is the director of InterfaithFamily/Boston. Meghan Roth Clayton is the pastor of the Salem Church, a United Methodist Church in Mathews, VA. She is expecting a new baby later this year! Chris Hadley is assistant professor of systematic theology at the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University. Sara Metz is an assistant rabbi and the director of the religious school at Congregation Torat El in Oakhurst, NJ. She gave birth to her second child, Eitan Navi Metz, at the end of July! Hannah Rose Peck is the assistant dean of student affairs at Yale College. Noam Raucher is the senior rabbi at Pasadena Jewish Temple & Center in Pasadena, CA. Class contact: Hannah Peck ([email protected]). 2011 Journalism Kelly Boyce is still working at the Dart Center at Columbia and has run into Thorin a few times. Laura Murray is back on the East Coast, reporting on NYC's homeless LGBT youth with a CUNY urban reporting fellowship. Gianna Palmer, who has spent the past 2.5+ years at the BBC, accepted a new job at Earwolf. She will be producing Katie Couric's new podcast and another podcast called Fake the Nation, hosted by comedian Negin Farsad. Class contact: Kelly Boyce ([email protected]). 2011 Law James Allred is a pharmaceutical and biotechnology law associate at Hogan Lovells in Washington, DC. Elle Gilley has finished her first of two years clerking for Judge Rosemary Barkett on the Iran-US Claims Tribunal, located in The Hague, Netherlands. She plans to return to private practice mid-2017. Bobby Gray is a litigation associate at Munger, Tolles & Olson in Los Angeles. Krista Nelson is an associate in the Litigation Group at Barack Ferrazzano Kirschbaum & Nagelberg in Chicago. Dan Rubin is working in the Healthcare group at McDermott Will & Emery in Boston, Massachusetts, prior to which he completed a clerkship for the Honorable Juan R. Torruella of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. Brian Soucek is acting professor of law at UC Davis. In May of 2015 he received the Dukeminier Award, which recognizes the best sexual orientation and gender identity legal scholarship published in the previous year. Class contact: Elle Gilley ([email protected]). 2011 Medical Pierre Ankomah (Internal Medicine Residency at Mass. General), CJ Chang (Emergency Medicine Residency at Harvard), Alessa Colaianni (Surgery at Mass. Eye & Ear), Jonathan Levin (NICU Fellowship at Boston Children’s Hospital), and Elliot Rabinowitz (Pediatric Pulmonary Fellowship at Boston Children’s Hospital) have all managed to meet up together at least once in Boston. They look forward to future reunions. Irina Livshitz is an ophthalmology resident at University Hospitals of Cleveland. Julia Lubsen started a fellowship in geriatrics at UW in Madison, WI. Steph Pursich started a maternal fetal medicine fellowship back in New York at Columbia. She will be getting married in September! Haleh Van Vliet, after unexpectedly staying in Wisconsin for an extra year s/p residency, has moved to the Colorado Springs area where she and her husband have purchased their first home. She is working at the St. Mary- Corwin Hospital Emergency Department in Pueblo, CO, a Catholic faith-based level III trauma center that belongs to the Centura Health System. She also reports that her son is now 16 months old and doing great. Class contact: Jonathan Levin ([email protected]). 2011 Seminary Amy Chapman is studying for comprehensive exams and has moved back to Massachusetts as her doctoral coursework is complete. She is also working at a parish near Boston as director of faith formation. Steven Cottam remains the youth minister at Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church in Richmond, VA. He works alongside his wife, who serves at the same church as the Christian Formation Coordinator. Their daughter Jacqueline Nicole is almost two. Rachel Heath has moved to Nashville with her partner Elena. After working for four years at the University of Chicago in various capacities, she is beginning a PhD program in Theological Studies at Vanderbilt University. Her academic focus is theologies of multiplicity and the theo-ethical implications of power, privilege, gender, and representation in multifaith/interfaith contexts. Despite the move, Rachel will continue to serve on the executive committee for the National Association of College and University Chaplains (NACUC), a professional network that brings together chaplains from various traditions. Craig Phillips lives in the DC metro area, where he works as a User Experience Designer with a digital consulting agency, Celerity. Besides changing careers in the past month, Craig and his wife also experienced exciting newness with the birth of their first child, Aliya, in May. Bethany Slater and her husband Stephen are living in Glens Falls, NY, this summer. Stephen is working as the rabbi of a Conservative synagogue there and Bethany is reading for her comprehensive exams and fulfilling her duties as a rebbetzin. She is also teaching a course at the synagogue on the structure and meaning of the Jewish prayer service and helping to plan a set of lectures for this coming year on professional ethics, inspired by FASPE. At the end of the summer the Slaters will be moving to their new home in Providence, RI where Bethany will continue working towards her PhD in Comparative Theology at Boston College. Class contact: Bethany Slater ([email protected]). 2012 Journalism Alex Boyd is a reporter for Metro News in Edmonton, Alberta. Sergey Gordeev continues to work as news anchor and an interview show host at NTV America, the leading Russian TV channel broadcasting nationally in the U.S. Laurie Guthmann started a new job as a video producer for ATTN and lives in Los Angeles. Subrina Hudson is a reporter for the Los Angeles Business Journal. Her recent stories have ranged from covering a new vodka business to the sale of one of California’s largest dairies to a Vietnamese firm. Yimou Lee remains a Reuters correspondent, covering business news in Hong Kong, with a particular focus on Hong Kong real estate and Chinese technology industries. Brielle Morgan recently joined Discourse Media, a Vancouver-based start-up that aims to report deeply and collaboratively and to facilitate conversations about solutions to complex social issues. She writes “never have I felt so aligned with the spirit of my workplace and the aspirations of my colleagues.” Paromita Pain continues with her Ph.D. studies at the University of Texas, Austin. She has been busy presenting papers at a number of conferences this past year including the AEJMC in Minneapolis and WAPOR in Austin. Aleksandra Sagan accepted a full time job at The Canadian Press (Canada's wire service) in December and started there in January as a business reporter. She covers media, Telecom, some retail, and the business of food. She also got engaged and is getting married in September. Grzegorz Tomczewski works in media relations for the Polin Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw. Class contact: Laurie Guthmann ([email protected]). 2012 Law Nila Bala is an assistant public defender in the Baltimore City Public Defender’s office. Starting in September she will be working on a bail review project trying to see if the system can end the use of cash bails, which harm indigent clients.