Class Notes Category: Career

The firm at which Elena Mund ’10 is CPA and partner, Nasif, Hicks, Harris & Co. LLP, is celebrating its 50th year in business. Mund joined the firm in 2011. She provides tax planning, consulting, compliance and tax preparation services for individuals and closely held businesses. She specializes in international tax issues as a significant…

Donna Bulseco ’75, a longtime journalist based in New York City and editor-in-chief of Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine, has put together an anthology, “Where It Hurts: Dispatches from the Emotional Frontlines of Medicine,” which will be published on March 24 by New York City publisher The Experiment. She earned her bachelor’s degree in…

Matthew Hofer ’11, a shareholder in Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck’s Natural Resources Department, has joined the board of directors of State Street Ballet, a renowned international dance company based in Santa Barbara, California. During his two-year term, he will participate in board meetings and governance decisions, attend the company’s events, promote the organization and support…

Timmons Group has announced that Lauren Sullivan ’10, PMP, is one of the newest shareholders of the firm in the technology and GIS group. Through this and other strategic promotions, Timmons Group continues to expand its technology-focused service offerings to better support clients in navigating increasingly complex geospatial and data-driven challenges. By investing in advanced…

The newest book by Gigi Berardi, M.A. ’88, “Bianca’s Cure” (She Writes Press/Simon & Schuster) will be released Feb. 10 and has already received favorable reviews including in Kirkus and BookLife, and has been included in a select list for BookSirens. An article published by Western Washington University, where she is a professor of urban…

Areen Babajanian ’08, who earned his B.A. summa cum laude in economics, has been named partner in the Los Angeles office of Fisher Phillips. Known for his tactical mastery of California wage-and-hour law, Babajanian’s career is defined by his unique perspective from “both sides of the v.” Formerly a prominent plaintiffs’ side advocate, he now…

Christopher Baylor, Ph.D. ’12, a lecturer in the political science department, has released a new book, “The Case Against Political Parties,” which is available to all, free of charge. Baylor is featured in a UCLA Newsroom article, in which he discusses his motivation for writing the book, his thoughts on the nature of political partisanship,…

Jacob Bloom, M.A. ’15, AIA, LFA, has been named a senior associate for the 2026 business year by CambridgeSeven, a prominent architecture and design firm headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Since joining the firm in 2011, Bloom has built a reputation as a multi-disciplined designer with a strong foundation in modeling and lighting, paired with a…

Shaun I. Abuzalaf ’08 has joined the Los Angeles office of Fox Rothschild as a Partner in the Litigation Department. “We are thrilled to welcome Shaun to Fox and we look forward to him joining the accomplished team of litigators who regularly handle complex and high-stakes disputes for our valued clients,” said Darrell D. Miller,…

On Dec. 18, 2025, The Music Center announced that Celesta M. Billeci ’88, the lauded Miller McCune executive director emerita of the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) Arts & Lectures, will join L.A.’s performing arts center as principal strategic dance advisor for the institution’s Glorya Kaufman Presents Dance at The Music Center series. Billeci,…