Class Notes Category: Career
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Susan Krumplitsch ’93
Susan Krumplitsch ’93 has joined DLA Piper’s patent litigation practice and life science sector as a partner in the firm’s in Silicon Valley office. Krumplitsch, a psychology major as an undergraduate, has extensive experience representing and providing counsel to pharmaceutical, biotechnology, chemical and medical device companies in patent litigation and other intellectual property matters. See…
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Zaurbek Tsorojev, M.S. ’19
Zaurbek Tsorojev, M.S. ’19, is working on building a startup – Everydae – that aims to profoundly change the way students learn by creating a digital tutor that personalizes the experience to each student and gamifies the whole process. Tsorojev’s graduate degree is in computer and electrical engineering.
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Suzanne Park, MBA ’02
Suzanne Park, MBA ’02, is releasing the young adult romantic comedy “The Perfect Escape” (April 7, 2020, Sourcebooks) and contemporary women’s fiction novel “Loathe At First Sight” (Aug. 8, 2020, Avon). In her former life as a stand up comedian, Park was a finalist in the Oxygen Network’s “Girls Behaving Badly” talent search, and was…
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Shelby M. (Lundahl) Barsam ’14
Shelby M. Barsam ’14 has joined Downey Brand, a prominent law firm with offices in Sacramento, San Francisco, Stockton and Reno, as a first-year associate. She was a summer associate at the firm in 2018 and recently passed the California Bar Exam. The firm’s press release notes that Barsam “brings a unique and creative problem-solving…
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Yeni “Violeta” Garcia, M.Ed. ’06
Dr. Violeta Garcia, M.Ed. ’06, has been selected as Denver Urban Gardens’ new executive director. “It is an exciting time at DUG as we enter our 35th year of growing healthy food and healthy communities throughout Metro Denver,” said Ramonna Robinson, president of DUG’s board of directors. “I’m thrilled that Dr. Violeta Garcia is joining…
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Maria Strong ’85
Maria Strong ’85 (Life member) has been appointed to lead the U.S. Copyright Office as Acting Register of Copyrights. On Dec. 18, 2019, Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden announced that she had appointed Strong as Acting Register of Copyrights and Director of the U.S. Copyright Office, effective Jan. 5, 2020. “I am pleased to announce…
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Vanessa Foltyn Roman ’08
Vanessa Foltyn Roman ’08 has been promoted to partner at Akin Gump. Roman advises financial institutions, borrowers, distributors and independent production companies on the production, financing and distribution of film and television projects. She also works with clients to address issues related to the rapidly changing landscape of the entertainment industry, including the proliferation of…
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William L. Davis, Ph.D. ’16
“Visions in a Seer Stone: Joseph Smith and the Making of the Book of Mormon,” by William L. Davis, Ph.D. ’16, will be published by UNC Press on May 25. In this interdisciplinary work, Davis examines Joseph Smith’s 1829 creation of the Book of Mormon, the foundational text of the Latter Day Saint movement. Positioning…
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Marc McGuire ’73, J.D. ’76
The first book by Marc McGuire ’73, J.D. ’76, a political thriller, is to be published April 16 by Black Rose Writing. In “Missions,” computer scientist Doyle O’Gara follows a terrorism investigation spanning Paris to Washington, D.C., while also exploring the deeper themes about the extent we as humans go to in order to support…
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Heather R. Parker ’90, M.A. ’93, Ph.D. ’96
Alumna and historian Heather R. Parker ’90, M.A. ’93, Ph.D. ’96, was appointed dean of The College of Arts and Sciences at Saint Leo University in January 2020. She had filled the post on an interim basis since November 2018. Parker joined the teaching faculty of the university as an assistant professor in August 2006…