Class Notes Category: Career
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Jen Yu, MBA ’11
Skincare company Jaxon Lane, founded by Jen Yu, MBA ’11, has been named one of America’s fastest growing companies by Inc. Magazine.
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Cassie Craun Ferguson ’99
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…
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Lisa Hartouni ’80
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…
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Jacey S. Dean, Cert. ’16
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.”
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Richard W. Schiesser, Cert. ’79
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…
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Salomon Alcocer Guajardo ’88
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.…
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Anne Luke ’00
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…
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Kim Gottlieb-Walker ’68
After a 50-year career as a photographer and two successful coffeetable photography books (“On Set with John Carpenter” and “Bob Marley and the Golden Age of Reggae”), Kim Gottlieb-Walker ’68 has recently published her first novel, “Lenswoman in Love – a novel of the 1960s & ’70s.” Gottlieb-Walker began her career as a photographer shooting…
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Jacqueline Jean Barrios, Ph.D. ’21
A new book by Jacqueline Jean Barrios, Ph.D. ’21, who earned her doctorate in English literature, is set to be published this month. “Dear Charles Dickens, Love, South LA: Literature, Place, and Belonging” tells the story of how students at Foshay Learning Center, a public school in South Los Angeles, studied Charles Dickens as part…
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Ilona Stricof ’11, Ph.D.
The first TEDx Talk by Ilona (Gerbakher) Stricof ’11, Ph.D., was just published on YouTube. “The talk, ‘Bodies and Souls on the Road: An Abbasidist in Guangzhou,’ tells the story of how my family moved to Guangzhou, China — based on a coin flip — and how that journey led me to see the city’s…