Class Notes Category: Career
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Andrew Demetriou ’76
Andrew Demetriou ’76 has joined the Los Angeles office of Husch Blackwell as senior counsel. He will join the firm’s Healthcare, Life Sciences & Education industry group and its Corporate/M&A practice teams. Demetriou is a dean of the healthcare law bar nationally and has served as a business and legal advisor to healthcare organizations for…
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Jasmin Darznik ’94, Ph.D.
New York Times bestselling author Jasmin Darznik ’94, Ph.D., was recently appointed chair of the MFA in Writing Program at California College of the Arts in San Francisco, where she is also an associate professor. Read Darznik’s previous class notes: 2021 2020
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Kendy Rivera Cárdenas, M.A. ’14, Cert. ’16, Ph.D. ’20
Kendy Rivera Cárdenas, M.A. ’14, Cert. ’16, Ph.D. ’20, a Tijuana-based migration field specialist and former senior public administration analyst with the UCLA Labor Center’s Global Solidarity Project, worked with the UCLA Dream Resource Center’s summer fellows to help coordinate a gathering of 60 Asian American and Pacific Islander labor leaders and immigration activists from…
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Brian Boxer Wachler ’89, M.D.
A new book by Brian Boxer Wachler ’89, M.D., “Influenced: The Impact of Social Media on Our Perception,” will be released Nov. 1. From the book’s press release: Is anyone safe from succumbing to a social media addiction? In “Influenced: The Impact of Social Media on Our Perception,” Boxer Wachler takes on that thorny question. A…
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Shirley Wang ’90
Shirley Wang ’90 is the subject of a story on the CIO Views website, describing her unlikely career path, which started with her founding her company, PlastPro, in 1994 and now finds her as the longest-standing CEO in the previously male-dominated fiberglass door industry. “Most people underestimated us,” the article quotes Wang as saying. “No…
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Colin M. Kawaguchi ’08
Nevers, Palazzo, Packard, Wildermuth, & Wynner, PC (NPW) announced that Colin M. Kawaguchi ’08 has been elevated to shareholder of the firm effective July 1. Kawaguchi joined NPW in 2015 as a business and corporate transactional attorney and specializes in sell-side M&A (merger and acquisition) deals. He counsels emerging and established companies in the areas…
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John R. Bamford ’99
Nevers, Palazzo, Packard, Wildermuth, & Wynner, PC (NPW) announced that John R. Bamford ’99 has been elevated to shareholder of the firm effective July 1. Bamford is an experienced, successful litigator who has prosecuted and defended complex business disputes in federal courts, state courts and in arbitration. Since joining NPW in 2017, he has successfully…
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Mary Stilwell ’13
Mary Stilwell ’13 and her mother, Heidi Stilwell, have gone into business together as owners and operators of the only InXpress franchise serving Santa Barbara County. The global brand has more than 400 franchises operating in 14 different countries and offers 20 years of insight and world-class technology that’s disrupting traditional shipping services around the…
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Steve Strauss ’81
The latest book by Steve Strauss ’81, “Your Small Business Boom: Explosive Ideas to Grow Your Business, Make More Money, and Thrive in a Volatile World,” was published last October. Strauss has been USA Today’s small business columnist for over 20 years and has now written 18 books, mostly about small business and entrepreneurship. The…
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Jessica Gipson ’95, Ph.D.
Dr. Jessica Gipson ’95, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor in the department of community health sciences, has been appointed director of the Bixby Center on Population and Reproductive Health (Bixby Center) and the Fred H. Bixby Chair in Population and Reproductive Health Science (Bixby Chair), effective July 1. “The Bixby Center on Population…