Class Notes Category: Career

Simone Drucker, Cert. ’21, started her own independent landscape architecture practice in July. Her studio, Compound Eye Landscape Architecture, began with the wish to deepen her commitment to the art and craft of designing landscapes and gardens. “From ‘desk to dirt,’ as a full process practitioner, I can assist with every step of the design…

Justin O. Cooper, Cert. ’22, served as producer, line producer, editor and post-production supervisor on the film “Beverly, Evelyn, Gloria & Willa…Still Standing,” which is preparing for its 2027 festival season. He was approached to work on the documentary during the 2026 awards season by acclaimed actress, director and producer Vanessa Bell Calloway (“Coming to…

A new new women’s fiction novel by New York Times best-selling author has Carri Karuhn is set to be released Nov. 10. Set in L.A. and inspired by her own experience surviving the devastating 2007 Corral Canyon wildfire in California that took her home, “Not Everything Burns” balances heartbreak with humor as a determined journalist…

Skincare company Jaxon Lane, founded by Jen Yu, MBA ’11, has been named one of America’s fastest growing companies by Inc. Magazine.

Cassie Craun Ferguson ’99, a pediatric emergency medicine physician and professor of pediatrics at the Medical College of Wisconsin, recently published her first book, “The Only Life You Could Save: Becoming a Doctor. Staying Human,” exploring how physicians and other health professionals can preserve their humanity throughout training and practice. The book combines evidence from…

Following a devastating series of cyberattacks that took down her digital archives, Lisa Hartouni ’80 has launched a campaign to rebuild her web infrastructure, safeguard 40 years of documentary history and finalize “From Here to Manzanar,” an extensive archival and testimonial project documenting the forced removal of Japanese Americans from Terminal Island during World War…

Jacey S. Dean, Cert. ’16, is about to hit her 5-year job anniversary as the treasurer/comptroller for the City of Ashland, Wisconsin. She can also be seen as Aunt Pam in the 2026 faith-based film “My 7 Grandmas.”

A new memoir by Richard W. Schiesser, Cert. ’79, “92 Hours,” details the tragic death of his 18-year-old son, Ben, the events leading up to it, and the lessons to be learned by those experiencing mental health challenges – and, in the case of teenagers and young adults – their parents. “Ben entered his adolescent…

Salomon Alcocer Guajardo ’88 published two research articles on the application of count-based indices of variation. His article on age diversity in municipal departments was published in the Journal of Applied Quantitative Methods. His article on the application of count-based and probability-based indices of variation was published in the Journal of Statistics & Management Systems.…

Anne Luke ’00 announced the Sept. 1 release of her debut book, “Translating Your Teen: 10 Strategies for Understanding and Empowering Your Kid,” published by Johns Hopkins University Press. As a teen and parent coach, speaker and expert in adolescent development, Luke brings deep insight drawn from spending 25,000 hours in meaningful conversations with high…