Class Notes Category: Career
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Abraham Tabaie ’05
Abraham A. Tabaie ’05 has been promoted to partner in the Palo Alto office of global law firm Skadden Arps. His law practice focuses on large-scale commercial business litigation, often involving trade secret misappropriation, privacy, and hacking claims, products liability defense and unfair competition litigation. Tabaie practices at the federal and state levels, as well…
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Ron Enfield ’66
A scene from the story “Hands” by Ron Enfield ’66 will be the finale in this year’s “Healing Voices” performance on May 7 at the McCarter Theatre in Princeton, N.J. The program this year will be virtual, and free to the public. “Healing Voices” dramatizes works of New Jersey writers about caregiving. “Hands” is a…
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Jasmin Darznik ’94
Ballantine Books has just published “The Bohemians,” a novel by New York Times bestselling author Jasmin Darznik ’94. The book, Darznik’s third, has been named by Ms. Magazine as one of the most anticipated books of 2021 and by Bustle.com as one of the most anticipated books of Spring 2021. The novel’s central character is…
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Chad T. Hanson ’90, Ph.D.
A new book by Chad T. Hanson ’90, Ph.D., “Smokescreen: Debunking Wildfire Myths to Save Our Forests and Our Climate,” is set to be published by the University of Kentucky Press. From the press release: Smokescreen cuts through years of misunderstanding and misdirection to make an impassioned, evidence-based argument for a new era of forest…
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Leslie Rasmussen ’84
The debut novel by Leslie Rasmussen ’84, “After Happily Ever After,” has just been released. Rasmussen earned her bachelor’s degree in communications studies and went on to write television comedies. She wrote for Gerald McRaney, Burt Reynolds, Roseanne Barr, Norm McDonald, Drew Carey and Ralph Macchio as well as “The Wild Thornberrys” and “Sweet Valley…
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David Robert McKenzie ’78
David Robert McKenzie ‘78 has written and had published “The Chair,” a saga of twenty-two generations of American women from the same family whose lineage, ancestors and descendants, are tracked over five hundred years — mothers and their daughters, all whose first names begin with the cursive letter “L” and a timeless pine, “The Chair,”…
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Nazli Tatar, M.Arch. ’17
Nazli Tatar, M.Arch. ’17, has been promoted to associate at CO Architects in Los Angeles, Calif. Originally from Turkey, Tatar joined CO in 2017 as a digital experience designer. She researches and applies new technologies in virtual and augmented reality to the design process. Through interactive applications and user experience prototypes, her efforts enable the…
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Samantha N. Smith ’13
Samantha N. Smith ’13 has joined International law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP as an associate in their Dallas office’s complex commercial litigation practice. She focuses on a broad range of complex commercial litigation disputes, including matters involving breach of contract and bankruptcy-related litigation. Smith earned her B.A. in history and her J.D. from…
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Alex C. Nisenbaum ’04, J.D. ’08
Alex C. Nisenbaum ’04, J.D. ’08, has joined Blank Rome LLP’s Corporate, M&A, and Securities group, enhancing the firm’s privacy, security and data protection practice. He is part of a team that will also establish a new office for Blank Rome in Orange County, Calif. Nisenbaum synthesizes the patchwork of state and federal legal requirements…
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Christina Christie, Ph.D. ’01
Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Emily A. Carter announced the appointment of Christina (Tina) Christie, Ph.D. ’01, as Wasserman Dean of the UCLA School of Education and Information Studies (Ed&IS), effective April 1. A UCLA Ed&IS alumna and faculty member, Dr. Christie is professor of education and has served as interim dean of the school…