Brandeis Magazine

Arjun Appadurai teaches part time at the Hertie School of Governance, in Berlin — where he lives with his wife, Gabika, and their 5-year-old son, Kabir — and occasionally travels to New York City to teach at NYU. His older son, Alok, and 6-year-old grandson, Sequoia, live in Tucson. Arjun invites Brandeis friends who visit Berlin to contact him. Paul Fleisher’s latest book is “A Friend in Need Is a Man’s Best Dog,” a retrospective collection of humor, essays and other short pieces written over the past 35 years. Rick Horowitz leads writing workshops for bar associations and other groups through his company, Prime Prose. Once a syndicated newspaper columnist and a weekly commentator on Milwaukee Public TV, Rick can now be found on Instagram (@rickinthememetime). Having gone from 600-word columns, to 400-word commentaries, to 280-character tweets, to memes, he says he nervously awaits the day when he’ll communicate entirely by emoji. Martha Kanter, former U.S. undersecretary of education, is the executive director of the national College Promise Campaign. Based in Washington, D.C., the organization has more than 300 College Promise programs in 44 states, with more planned for this year. College Promise aims to keep a college education affordable, including at America’s community colleges. Sara (Levinsky) Rigler is working on her sixth book, about reincarnated souls, focusing on people born after 1945 who have had dreams, flashbacks, panic attacks and phobias associated with the Holocaust. Lauren Katzowitz Shenfield’s firm, Philanthropy Advisors, includes a new specialty: helping the recently retired address their family and philanthropic goals.