Class Notes Category: Career
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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…
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Nicholas Behrman, J.D. ’16
Corporate attorney Nicholas Behrman, J.D. ’16, has been promoted to partner by Reicker, Pfau, Pyle & McRoy, a premier full-service law firm in Santa Barbara. An attorney at the firm since 2019, Behrman has extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions, emerging companies, debt and equity financings, real estate transactions, business ventures, and general contract and…
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Jason Fair ’08
Jason Fair ’08, has been named managing partner of national trial law firm Robins Kaplan’s Los Angeles and Silicon Valley offices. He succeeds Michael Geibelson, who has held the position since 2015. With nearly a decade of experience at Robins Kaplan, Fair brings a deep understanding of the firm’s culture and strategic goals, making him…
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Carlos Vidueira, MBA ’91
Carlos Vidueira, MBA ’91, has been appointed by Governor Ron DeSantis to the Health Care District of Palm Beach County, Florida. Vidueira is the vice president of Huizenga Holdings, Inc. Active in his community, he is a board member of the Superyacht Life Foundation and Northend RISE. Vidueira earned his bachelor’s degree in business administration…