“Job” Class Notes
Charlotte Russell (Col ’08 CM)
Charlotte Miller Russell (Col ’04 CM) opened Charlotte Russell Contemporary, a contemporary art gallery in Raleigh, North Carolina, on Jan. 8, 2021 with a focus on underrepesented, emerging and mid-career artists.
Carolyn Reynolds (Col ’88 CM)
Carolyn Ann Reynolds (Col ’88 CM) co-founded the Pandemic Action Network, a partnership of international organizations, non-governmental organizations, businesses and philanthropies whose mission is to drive collective action to end COVID-19 and ensure the world is better prepared for the next pandemic.
Andrew Strelka (Col ’02)
Andrew Strelka (Col ’02) has been appointed senior tax counsel at the White House. His prior government service includes the IRS, the Washington, D.C. U.S. Attorney’s Office, the Department of Justice Tax Division, and a similar tax advisory role in the Obama White House. Before joining the Biden-Harris administration, Strelka practiced tax law at Latham & Watkins. He credits his success in navigating the Internal Revenue Code with a drive he developed after coming in a disappointing second place in the Gus Burger eating competition.
Sharon Kressel (Col ’05, Med ’12 CM)
Sharon Rubin Kressel (Col ’05, Med ’12 CM) is launching a new tech-enabled and patient experience-focused OB-GYN practice in Washington, D.C., Liv by Advantia Health, in March of 2021. She and her husband, Jason, live in Maryland with their two sons, Aaron, 2, and Max,1.
Lisa Garrison Toti (Col ’93 CM)
Lisa Garrison Toti (Col ’93 CM) was named president of Accura HealthCare. Accura is based in Iowa and operates several healthcare centers providing skilled nursing and rehabilitation, assisted living, and independent living services in Iowa, Minnesota, South Dakota and Nebraska.
John Zacharia (Col ’92 CM)
John H. Zacharia (Col ’92, Law ’95 CM) founded Zacharia Law in Washington, D.C., in June 2019. His practice centers on representing clients in matters involving intellectual property violations, cyber threats, domestic and international commercial litigation, and administrative law. Before starting his firm, Zacharia spent more than 17 years at the U.S. Department of Justice, including 12 years as a federal prosecutor at the Justice Department’s Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section. Zacharia currently teaches intellectual property criminal law at the George Washington University School of Law.
Sherrie Westin (Col ’80 CM)
Sherrie Sandy Westin (Col ’80 CM) was named president of Sesame Workshop, the non-profit educational organization behind Sesame Street. She serves as Sesame Workshop’s chief mission ambassador, raising awareness, developing strategic partnerships, and cultivating philanthropic support to further the Workshop’s mission to help children everywhere grow smarter, stronger and kinder. Westin spearheaded a partnership to create the largest early childhood intervention in the history of humanitarian response, bringing early education to refugee children in the Syrian response region. Working with the International Rescue Committee, she led Sesame Workshop’s efforts to win a historic $100 million grant from the MacArthur Foundation to fund this work. With an additional $100 million grant from the LEGO Foundation, this initiative has expanded to Bangladesh.
Chris Payne (Engr ’87, Engr ’96 CM)
Chris Payne (Engr ’87, ’96 CM) was appointed as president and chief executive cfficer of MBP, a nationally recognized construction management and consulting firm. As president and CEO, Payne will focus on long-term strategic goals, growing the firm’s market share, and meeting the needs of clients in a continually evolving industry.
Kristin Duggan (Col ’98 CM)
Kristin Zielinski Duggan (Col ’98) was promoted to partner at Hogan Lovells. Based in the Washington, D.C. office, she is a member of the firm’s global regulatory group.
Martha Peters (Col ’90 CM)
Martha Cabell Peters (Col ’90) was appointed assistant provost at Montana State University.
Joan Herlong (Col ’81)
Joan Herlong (Col ’81), a real estate agent based in Greenville, South Carolina, is launching a Clemson office of Joan Herlong Associates Sotheby’s International Realty to better serve clients in South Carolina’s Upstate.
Marcus Ruscetti (Col ’08 CM)
Marcus Ruscetti (Col ’08 CM) recently began teaching as an assistant professor in the Department of Molecular Cell and Cancer Biology at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. His laboratory investigates the dynamic interactions between tumors and the body’s immune system in cancer.
Nayna Agrawal (Col ’98)
Nayna Agrawal (Col ’98) has worked on six animation shows this year with Netflix, Mattel, DreamWorks and Apple. Her plays were workshopped and/or received readings with several Los Angeles and New York theater collectives. Her radio play, Plucker, was featured in an LA Times article and was selected for production by L.A.’s Antaeus Theater Company. She has been selected from 850 applicants to participate in the inaugural XYZ Salon for South Asian artists in Hollywood and will be paired with veteran comedy writer, Vera Santamaria for the year. She is currently a 2021 Cimientos playwright with NYC-based theater, Iati. She just signed with Disney to write on a new animation feature film.
Michael Burger (Col ’90 CM)
Michael Adam Burger (Col ’90) is currently a partner in the law firm of Santiago Burger and a managing member in Neutral Mediation Group, both concentrating in the resolution of commercial and fiduciary relationship disputes. Mike is also a volunteer firefighter. He lives in Brighton, New York, with his wife, Anne, and their daughter, Jane. The family hopes to visit Grounds in 2021 for the 30th reunion, which was canceled due to the COVID-19 virus pandemic.
Kevin Doyle (Educ ’99 CM)
Kevin Doyle (Educ ’99 CM), has been named the dean of the Hazelden Betty Ford Graduate School of Addiction Studies outside Minneapolis and will begin in early 2021.
Steve Williams (Col ’86 CM)
Steve Williams (Col ’86) continues his work at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia as dean of the College of Rehabilitation Sciences, the Jesse B. Michie Professor and Chair of the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, and the Enterprise Senior Vice President for Post-Acute and Rehabilitation Services at Jefferson Health.
Shannon Reaves (Col ’97)
Shannon Reaves (Col ’97) was promoted to partner at Stroock & Stroock & Lavan’s Washington, D.C., office.
David Landin (Col ’68, Law ’72 CM)
David Craig Landin (Col ’68, Law ’72 CM) has established the Landin Law Group, for which the primary office is in Richmond, Virginia.
David Williams (Col ’78, Darden ’82 CM)
David M. Williams (Col ’78, Darden ’82) joined Commonwealth Commercial Partners, a national commercial real estate and real estate private equity firm, as a senior vice president at the firm’s headquarters in Richmond, Virginia. He and his wife live in Richmond, and their son, Preston Williams (Engr ’11), lives and works in Boston.
Gunes Hopson (Col ’97, Law ’01 CM)
Gunes Ozcan Hopson (Col ’97, Law ’01 CM) has joined My Path Unwinding Travel as an independent travel concierge and advisor, specializing in luxury and family travel. Gunes continues to enjoy writing for her travel blog, fotogenictravel.com, and offers photography services through fotogenicrichmond.com. Additionally, she still practices law full-time as associate general counsel at Automattic, Inc.
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