Class Notes Category: Career
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Lulu Chiu Gomez, J.D. ’12
Lulu Chiu Gomez, J.D. ’12, an associate in the Los Angeles office of Snell & Wilmer, has been elected as the Young Lawyer Division (YLD) Liaison to the Governing Committee of the American Bar Association, Forum on Franchising. Gomez began her two-year term on August 14, 2017. At Snell & Wilmer, Gomez’s practice is concentrated…
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Tracy Wei Costantino ’92
Tracy Wei Costantino ’92 has joined the Los Angeles office of Jackson Lewis P.C. as a Principal. Costantino has 20 years of experience representing employers in the full spectrum of labor and employment law matters.
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Theresa Fay-Bustillos, J.D. ’80
Theresa Fay-Bustillos, J.D. ’80, joined the Blue Shield of California Foundation as chief program director. In this role, she will lead the overall strategy, design, and management of all the Foundation’s programmatic and grant-making activities, as well as its strategic planning, organizational learning, and evaluation. Fay-Bustillos has been a trial attorney with the U.S. Department…
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Edwin Siswanto ’94
Edwin Siswanto ’94 recently completed nine years as cost controller / lead project controls with Fluor Construction in the U.S. and has been the project manager for TOTO Japan’s new corporate headquarters and its Jakarta, Indonesia showroom since late 2015.
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Todd A. Abrahamson ’92
Capt. Todd A. Abrahamson ’92 became commanding officer of U.S. Naval Support Activity Naples, Italy on Aug. 3, 2017. A native of Santa Monica, Abrahamson received his bachelor of arts degree in political science and was commissioned through the ROTC program. After earning a master of arts in national security and strategic studies at the…
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Robert von Dassanowsky ’85, M.A. ‘88, Ph.D. ‘92
Robert von Dassanowsky ’85, M.A. ’88, Ph.D. ’92, has been selected by the Salzburg Institute to be its 2018 Visiting Scholar and will also present two lectures as part of the University of Salzburg’s eminent Salzburger “Hochschulwochen” Lecture Series. Dassanowsky earned his Ph.D. at UCLA in Germanic Studies in 1992 and returned as Visiting Professor…
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Noel B. Vales ’92
Noel B. Vales ’92 has joined the New York office of Robinson+Cole’s Real Estate + Development Group. Vales handles commercial real estate transactions, with an emphasis on the representation of institutional lenders in complex structured financing transactions. In addition, Mr. Vales assists lenders with financing transactions for affordable housing projects throughout the country, including mortgage…
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Kathleen Sheldon, M.A. ’77, Ph.D. ’88
A new book by Kathleen Sheldon, M.A. ’77, Ph.D. ’88, “African Women: Early History to the 21st Century,” has been published by Indiana University Press. Sheldon is a historian who has primarily written about African women and Mozambique. She previously authored “Pounders of Grain: A History of Women, Work, and Politics in Mozambique“ and edited “Courtyards,…
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Brian Rouff ’77
Brian Rouff ’77 has entered into a publishing agreement with venerable gaming publisher Huntington Press to re-launch the company’s fiction division with Rouff’s newest novel, “The House Always Wins.” Described as part road trip, part coming-of-age saga, part mystery and part ghost story, the book is scheduled to be released this fall. This is Rouff’s…
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Cailin Crockett ’10
UCLA Alumni Scholar and third-generation Bruin Cailin Crockett ’10 (Life Member) is making a difference through policy on behalf of survivors of domestic and sexual violence. She credits UCLA with igniting her passion for activism and public service. Read more here: http://www.college.ucla.edu/2017/01/09/where-are-they-now-cailin-crockett/.