Class Notes Category: Accolades
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Lily Lewis ’17
Lily Lewis ’17 was named to the Forbes 2025 “30 Under 30” list, which noted: As a partner manager at Twitch, Lily Lewis oversees over 100 of the platform’s top creators, working to ensure streamers like Ironmouse, a Puerto-Rican streamer with an immunodeficiency, have equal opportunities. She has created educational materials to help streamers secure…
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Molly F. Mielke ’21
Molly F. Mielke ’21 was named to the Forbes 2025 “30 Under 30” list, which noted: Potential backers raised their eyebrows when Mielke, a film student turned graphic designer, decided to launch her venture firm. Mielke had designed products at Figma and Notion and consulted for companies including Stripe and Retool, but she had no…
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Rak Garg ’18
Rak Garg ’18 was named to the Forbes 2025 “30 Under 30” list, which noted: Garg became Bain Capital Ventures’ youngest-ever partner in 2024, three years after joining the firm. He’s deployed more than $150 million into startups, especially in cybersecurity and AI infrastructure, such as Unstructured, Cleanlab, Pallet and Poolside. Previously, Garg launched BCV…
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Anna Nordstrom ’19
Anna Nordstrom ’19 was named to the Forbes 2025 “30 Under 30” list, which noted: Anna Nordstrom is the product manager in charge of TikTok’s STEM feed, a feed dedicated to educational content within the TikTok app focused on science, technology, engineering and math. Nordstrom has launched the feed in over 40 countries. Before joining…
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Andre Jones ’17
Andre Jones ’17 was named to the Forbes 2025 “30 Under 30” list, which noted: Andre Jones is a digital talent agent at Hollywood agency William Morris Endeavor, where he’s focused on social media partnerships and digital growth strategy for BIPOC and LGBTQ+ content creators including Druski and Rickey Thompson (both 30 Under 30 Social…
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Shane Shahrestani ’16
Shane Shahrestani ’16, co-founder of StrokeDx, was named to the Forbes 2025 “30 Under 30” list, which noted: There are two different primary types of strokes. Diagnosing the correct one is crucial-but can take hours. [StrokeDx] has developed portable imaging devices that determine stroke type in minutes. The company has raised over $7 million in…
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Kristina Windham ’17
Kristina Windham ’17 was named to the Forbes 2025 “30 Under 30” list, which noted: Kristina Windham runs business development at Maximum Effort, the production company and creative agency founded by Ryan Reynolds and George Dewey. In her role, she identifies the right brand partners for the creative agency, leads commercial growth for sports assets…
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Omarr Rambert, J.D. ’20
Omarr Rambert, J.D. ’20, was named to the Forbes 2025 “30 Under 30” list, which noted: Distribution, licensing and intellectual property rights are some of the most important topics in Hollywood, and as an associate entertainment attorney at law firm Sheppard Mullin, Omarr Rambert sits at the intersection of all of it. Rambert works with…
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Ivan Lee ’21
Ivan Lee ’21 was chosen by the Knowles Teacher Initiative as a member of its 2024 Cohort of Teaching Fellows. This year, 31 promising high school mathematics and science teachers who are just beginning their careers were awarded Knowles Teaching Fellowships. Lee started his first year of teaching at Del Mar High School, San Jose,…
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Barry Kurtz ’70
Barry Kurtz ’70, a leading franchise attorney at Lewitt Hackman, has been chosen one of the 200 Most Influential by the Los Angeles Business Journal “Inside the Valley.” Kurtz earned his bachelor’s degree in political science. Read his previous UCLA Alumni class note here.