Class Notes Category: Career
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Orna Walters ’88
Holistic dating coach, author and keynote speaker Orna Walters ’88 has co-authored a book, “Getting It Right This Time,” which breaks down the process of creating love into simple action steps to heal your heart and find your forever person. Subtitled “Break Free from Your Hidden Blocks to Lasting Love,” the book was written with…
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Doug Ward, M.F.A. ’11
A new book co-written by Doug Ward, M.F.A. ’11, “I Felt the Cheers — The Remarkable Silent Life of Curtis Pride,” detailing the life of deaf major league baseball player Curtis Pride, has just been released. From the book’s website: On a September night in Montreal in 1993, Curtis Pride got his first Major League…
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Lloyd Lim, J.D. ’90
The third short story collection by Lloyd Lim, J.D. ’90, was recently released. “The Glass Gift and Other Stories” has 15 new stories, three slightly revised stories and four poems described as “fun and macabre” by the author. The stories delve into themes of love, loss, moral dilemmas and the absurdity of the human condition.…
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Kelsey Dempsey ’22
Kelsey Dempsey ’22 is a social media content creator at Duolingo, creating viral content that has generated over one billion organic impressions. Honored recently by AdAge at their NextGen marketing conference in New York as one of “24 Gen Z’ers to Watch in Marketing,” Dempsey credited her experience on the UCLA Student Affairs media team…
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Joy Chen ’23
Joy Chen ’23 is a multi-disciplinary designer with a practice focused on brand, graphic and illustration design. Interested in the intersection of technology and design to foster storytelling, her work spans industries with clients and brands such as Instagram, YouTube, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Graza, Coach New York and more. Honored recently by AdAge at…
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Michael McCorry Rose ’02
Musician, Broadway star and actor Michael McCorry Rose ’02 appeared in the 2024 film “Wicked” as the Wiz-O-Mania narrator in the “One Short Day” scene.
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Salomon Alcocer Guajardo ’88
A research article by Salomon Alcocer Guajardo ’88 has been published in International Journal of Management and Data Analytics. The article applies the diversity indices that Guajardo developed based on the Gleason, Margalef, and Menhinick count-based diversity indices. These indices are applied to compensation data obtained from 71 City of New York municipal departments. The…
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Steven Bowie ’81
A book by Steven Bowie ’81, “Concerto for Cootie: The Life and Times of Cootie Williams,” will be published this fall by University Press of Mississippi. From the press release: Jazz legend Cootie Williams left home to start his career as a professional musician at the age of fifteen. In 1940, after eleven years as…
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Anne Soon Choi, M.P.H. ’12, M.S.W. ’12
Anne Soon Choi, M.P.H. ’12, M.S.W. ’12, has written a biography of former Los Angeles coroner Dr. Thomas Noguchi. From the press release: “L.A. Coroner” (Third State Books) to be released April 22, is the first biography of Noguchi, the controversial “Coroner to the Stars” whose career intersected with some of the most infamous deaths…
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Dana (Gaier) Ellis ’19
Dana (Gaier) Ellis ’19 will be watching the Oscars on Sunday, March 2, with greater interest than most, as the blockbuster film “Wicked,” on which she worked as a casting assistant, is up for 10 awards. Ellis, who majored in communication studies, is also a performer herself, having provided the voice of Edith in the…