Brandeis Magazine

Rob Lindeman is director of the Human Interface Technology Lab at the University of Canterbury, in Christchurch, New Zealand. Rob, who moved to New Zealand in 2016, says he and his family enjoy Middle Earth. John McCarthy leads a veterans affairs program evaluation center in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and is a research associate professor in psychiatry at the University of Michigan. Last year, John made a couple of long bicycle trips to Ann Arbor: from New York City in May and from Washington, D.C., in July. He and Michelle Hollander have two children, Noah and Miranda. Dena (Citron) Samuels is consulting full time as a mindfulness-based diversity, equity and inclusion author, speaker and leadership trainer after leaving a tenured position at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. Her most recent book is “The Mindfulness Effect: An Unexpected Path to Healing, Connection and Social Justice,” published last fall. Aaron Weisman was appointed a United States attorney for the District of Rhode Island by President Donald Trump in October. Reva (Schlessinger) Winston reports her daughter, Lily, became a bat mitzvah in November, with Cara Aber and Darlene Brenner Matthews in attendance. In December, Reva and family enjoyed an adventure in Israel.