Class Notes

 Lauren Santana (Col ’06, Educ ’07) has founded Curated Concierge in Charlottesville, helping families and professionals manage their busy lives. She recently launched Curated Campus to support UVA students and their families with move-in, move-out and summer storage. After 13 years as an elementary educator, she is excited to pivot while continuing her work of supporting families in a new way.

Steve Huntoon (Col ’78, Law ’82 CM) published his 100th trade press column on the electric power industry. He and his wife, Barbara, live in Wilmington, Delaware, and Boston, near their grandchildren, and in Miami Beach during the winter. He will be co-hosting a celebration of the Declaration’s 250th anniversary on July 4, 2026, at Jefferson Hall, West Range, on Grounds.

Scott Lambridis (Col ’99) will publish his debut novel, St. Ulphia’s Dead, with Regal House Publishing in July. A literary novel with a speculative edge, St. Ulphia’s Dead follows two researchers investigating an outbreak of apparent possession on a remote island, where the boundary between science and belief begins to erode. Lambridis, a former neurobiology student, lives in Washington state and earned his MFA from San Francisco State University.

Eugene Resnick (Col ’10 CM) has been selected as a finalist for the Social Action Award from the British Council‘s Study in UK Alumni Awards 2026. Resnick is an alumnus of The London School of Economics and Political Science and a graduate of a United Kingdom university.

Peter Gallagher (Engr ’96) was elected a partner at Egon Zehnder, a global leadership advisory firm. He works with boards and CEOs of public and private equity companies on executive search and leadership development, with a focus in biotech, pharma and the life sciences.

Erin Anderson (Col ’00, Educ ’04, ’15 CM) was appointed the William and Sheila Konar Director of Urban Education Success at the University of Rochester. Previously, she was an associate professor at the University of Denver. She has authored 39 journal articles, book chapters, reports and books, including the book, Leading Continuous Improvement in Schools: Enacting Leadership Standards to Advance Educational Quality and Equity, co-authored with former UVA researcher Kathleen M.W. Cunningham and current UVA professor David Eddy-Spicer.

Pamela Norsworthy (Col ’80 CM) published her second historical fiction novel, The Florentine Entanglement, in January. The Florentine Entanglement is a thriller involving the U-2 incident during the Cold War. Norsworthy previously received a nomination for Georgia Author of the Year for her debut novel War Bonds. Both books earned “Get It” tags from Kirkus Reviews. Norsworthy turned to fiction writing after many years as a journalist, with stints at CNN, WVIR-TV in Charlottesville, and other outlets. She lives in Atlanta with her husband, Cameron Gray Norsworthy (Col ’79), a retired Presbyterian pastor, musician and poet.

L. Flick Hatcher (Col ’77 CM) has published his second novel, Romancing Normal, with Bookbaby Press. A work of fiction that is alternately light-hearted and heart-breaking, the story follows Drew Carter’s quest to date gay away by finding the woman who so captivates his heart that his lust  for men is obliterated, leaving him free to fulfill “The Plan”: a great job, beautiful wife, 2.5 kids, white picket fence and Ford Country Squire station wagon. Maybe a pony. Set primarily at a fictionalized University of Virginia, the story follows Drew from straight to gay to grey. He discovers the joy of living authentically, fulfilling a plan even greater than he’d hoped for, proving that nice guys don’t finish last.

Thomas Siu (Law ’21), a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy Judge Advocate General’s Corps, was named Junior Officer of the Year for fiscal year 2025 at Defense Service Office Southeast in Norfolk, Virginia. He has served on active duty since 2021 and at Defense Service Office Southeast since 2023, where he represents those charged at courts-martial. He will transfer to the Navy’s appeals unit this summer.

Lynn Rivera (Engr ’83) has written Love in the Time of Autism: A Memoir, a collection of haibun essays about raising her son who has been diagnosed with autism. Sometimes funny, sometimes painful, her stories run the gamut of human emotion as she searches for answers to the questions of parenting a son on the autism spectrum. Though she offers little advice, she describes implicitly the transformation of her family, the growth of understanding and patience, and ultimately, the power of love.

Neil Liebowitz (Col ’78 CM) wrote his first novel, Deception: A psychiatrist’s stolen journal, under the pseudonym Aaron Riley. It follows two early career psychiatrists in their journey to balance the needs of their patients with their own needs. Liebowitz is a retired psychiatrist and founder of the Connecticut Anxiety & Depression Treatment Center. He has also written a memoir, Psychiatry in Techno colors: A psychiatrist’s memoir of lessons learned.

Sarah V. Schweig (Col ’07) completed her Ph.D. in philosophy at the New School for Social Research in New York City. Her dissertation, “Measures of Disorder: Poetry and Aesthetic Corruption in the Age of AI,” engages with the work of Stanley Cavell, Richard Rorty and Charles Taylor, among other philosophers and writers.

Don Slesnick (Col ’65 CM) was honored with the eponymous Don Slesnick Civic Vision Award by the Coral Gables Art Cinema at their annual gala. Slesnick, the former four-term mayor of Coral Gables, Florida, received the award from current mayor, Vince Lago. The award reads, “With gratitude for his vision, leadership, and enduring legacy.”

Caroline Dundervill (Educ ’20 CM) graduated from the West Virginia School of Medicine in May 2025. Dundervill is currently a first year OB/GYN resident at the University of Kentucky.

Andrew G. Lee (Col ’85, Med ’89 CM) was honored with a 2026 Voluntary Clinical Faculty Award from the Baylor College of Medicine chapter of Alpha Omega Alpha, a national medical honor society. He was first inducted as a student member of Alpha Omega Alpha at UVA School of Medicine in 1989 and is now the Herb and Jean Lyman Centennial Professor and Chair of Ophthalmology at the Blanton Eye Institute at Houston Methodist Hospital in Houston, Texas.

B. Cameron Webb (Col ’05) was appointed to a four-year term as health commissioner of the Virginia Department of Health by Governor Abigail Spanberger (Col ’01). Webb is a health policy expert and internal medicine physician. He assumed the role in January 2026.