Brandeis Magazine

Micah Berman co-authored “The New Public Health Law: A Transdisciplinary Approach to Practice and Advocacy” (Oxford University Press, 2018), which provides a road map for crafting, enacting, monitoring and improving public health laws. Shachar Gilad, who lives in New York, is the CEO of SoundBetter, a talent marketplace for musicians. Dayna Kurtz, whose book “Mother Matters: A Holistic Guide to Being a Happy, Healthy Mom” was published in April, wrote a Washington Post Op-Ed on the child-care crisis in America. Samantha (Elster) Ratner and husband Josh ’99 celebrated daughter Yael’s bat mitzvah in November 2017 on Long Island. Anna (Barys) Hughes, Kimberly (Kroopnick) Kaplan, Dan Litvak ’99 and Shana Ratner ’02 celebrated with the family. Samantha is a podiatrist and wound specialist in private practice on Long Island, and Josh is a deputy general counsel at fixed-income investment manager PIMCO in New York City. Adena Santiago has joined Husch Blackwell’s food and agribusiness industry group as senior counsel in the Washington, D.C., office. Adena’s nationwide practice assists brewers, winemakers, distillers and other alcohol-industry players in all aspects of licensing, labeling and compliance. For the second year in a row, Abrah Salk Zion won first place in the photography category of the Best of the Best of the Southcoast (Massachusetts).