Class Notes Category: Career
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Hector De Leon ’24
Hector De Leon ’24 has completed an Assembly Fellowship as a member of the 2023-24 Capital Fellows Programs cohort. De Leon earned bachelor’s degrees in public affairs, geography, labor studies, and Chicana/o studies.
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Thomas Van ’96, J.D. ’00
Thomas Van ’96, J.D. ’00, has joined the Financial Services Litigation team in McGlinchey Stafford’s Irvine office as Of Counsel. “It is quite exciting to add a financial services litigator of Thomas’s prominence to our roster here in California,” said Michelle McCliman, Irvine Office Managing Member. “We look forward to complimenting the caliber of financial…
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Mia Wenjen, MBA ’93
The newest picture book by Mia Wenjen, MBA ’93, “We Sing From the Heart,” was released in October. “It’s about Simon Tam’s 8-year journey to trademark his band’s name, The Slants,” said the author. “He won in a Supreme Court decision that also revealed structural racism in our judicial system.” The work was recently selected as…
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Viktorya Saroyan ’20
Viktorya Saroyan ’20 has joined Helsell Fetterman, a Seattle-based law firm serving businesses, organizations and individuals. She will be working in the firm’s commercial litigation practice group. Saroyan graduated summa cum laude from the UCLA, earning her bachelor’s degree in sociology. She then earned her J.D. from the University of Iowa College of Law in…
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Salomon Alcocer Guajardo ’88
The last book of a nine-volume series by Salomon Alcocer Guajardo ’88 on the assessment of organizational diversity has been released by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. The nine books are: Assessing organizational diversity with the Simpson index; Assessing organizational diversity with the Shannon index; Assessing organizational diversity with the Heip index; Assessing organizational diversity with the…
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Grace Gelone ’21
Grace Gelone ’21 has joined Hamburg, Rubin, Mullin, Maxwell & Lupin as a member of the firm’s Trusts and Estates department. She assists clients with the preparation of wills, trusts, directives and powers of attorneys. Her goal is to make sure her client’s intentions and goals are fully met in ways that reduce tax liability…
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Lauren Tresp ’09
Lauren Tresp ’09, founder, publisher, and editor-in-chief of Southwest Contemporary, an award-winning contemporary arts publication reaching more than 280,000 readers per year, is celebrating the fifth anniversary of the venture. Headquartered in Santa Fe, New Mexico, since 2019, Southwest Contemporary publishes arts journalism and critical perspectives on contemporary arts and culture throughout the American West…
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Jason Tanamor, Cert. ’24
A new young adult Filipino superhero novel, “The Legend of Sensei Tsinelas” by Filipino-American author Jason Tanamor, will be released on May 13, 2025, during Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. A synopsis of the book: Between a tsinelas-wielding superhero, a major social studies project, and take-out boxes of adobo and lumpia,…
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Alberto Retana ’09
Community Coalition, led by CEO & President Alberto Retana ’09, is celebrating the launch of “Alta / A Human Atlas of a City of Angels” at the Getty Center in Los Angeles. In partnership with Getty for PST ART, Alta preserves the untold stories of 100 remarkable individuals making a positive change in L.A. County.…
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Mindy C. Hsu ’08
Mindy C. Hsu ’08 has been added to Goldberg Segalla’s Workers’ Compensation practice group in Orange County, California. For more than 10 years, Hsu has focused her practice on workers’ compensation matters throughout southern California, primarily representing employers, insurance carriers and third-party administrators. She handles every aspect of the claims process, from developing case work-ups…