Brandeis Magazine

Beth (Bowman) AlFayad wrote that she and her husband, Mohammad, welcomed their second child in March and planned to open a restaurant serving Middle Eastern cuisine in July. In May, she earned a master’s degree in program evaluation from the University of Rochester, where she works as operations manager in the Center for Community Leadership. On May 4, Mariah Rich Collins and James Collins ’09 welcomed James Patrick V. The new baby joins big sister Hadley. Eddie Ebani and his wife, Joyce, welcomed their first child, daughter Sandra Sophia, on March 27. In July, he began a neuroradiology fellowship at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center. Rebecca Ellis graduated from Michigan State in December with a doctorate in curriculum, instruction and teacher education. Stefan Isaac and Lynda Bachman plan to marry in Cedarhurst, New York, in September. Though they both lived in Usen their freshman year, they did not start dating until they were cast in an Undergraduate Theater Collective play senior year. Since then, they’ve moved from Waltham to San Francisco and back to Boston, where Stefan is a research fellow at Harvard Medical School and Lynda teaches theater at Gann Academy, just a few miles from where they first met. Anna Kaufman is founder and “chief badass” of a speech coaching and training business, Speak Like a Badass. Through group workshops and individual coaching, she helps people unleash their inner badass through communication. On April 12, Gabe Marwell and his wife, Shea, welcomed a son, Benjamin Michael. Bekah Richards married Aden Stinebrickner-Kauffman in Snellville, Georgia, on Aug. 10. Chris Payson was in the wedding party. Adam Ross and his wife, Eliya, welcomed a baby girl, Libi Ruth, who was born in February in Jerusalem. Adam is an urban planner in the Israeli Ministry of Finance, responsible for national infrastructure projects.