Brandeis Magazine

Matthew Bank is a trauma surgeon and chief of acute-care surgery at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, New York, as well as program director of the hospital’s Surgical Critical Care Fellowship. He has 7-year-old triplets, two boys and a girl. In October, Stephanie Gillman Doyle completed a certificate in youth and theology at Princeton Theological Seminary’s Institute for Youth Ministry. She lives in New Jersey with husband Mike, their two sons, and a basement full of Legos — her husband has published “Beautiful Lego,” a series of art books on the colorful building blocks. Elisa Drake is editor-in-chief of the Alpha Phi International Fraternity magazine and is helping her husband, Kevin, grow his new business, the Chicago Biltong Company. Biltong is a snack popular in South Africa (like jerky, but better, Elisa reports). The couple lives in the Chicago area with their two daughters. Ted Frank argued Frank v. Gaos before the U.S. Supreme Court in October, resulting in a New York Times profile and front-page coverage in USA Today. He’s been invited to speak about the case at Yale, Harvard and the University of Chicago. This year, he and four other attorneys started the Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute, a free-market nonprofit public-interest law firm. Gisela Germano is senior vice president at Boston communications and marketing firm State6. Janet Henner is a partner at immigration-services law firm Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy in its New York office. She was named 2019 Lawyer of the Year for immigration law in New York City by Best Lawyers in America. Larry Kahn is a partner at New Dimensions in Technology, a permanent-placement firm focused on the Boston-area high-tech industry. He and wife Risa are parents to Ben, a freshman in high school, and Arielle, a sixth-grader. Larry enjoys golf, tennis and volunteering. After serving as lead pastor of Community Church at Holliston United Methodist Church for 20 years, Kil Joon Park, P’22, is starting ReNew, a United Methodist Church faith community in South Pasadena, California. Jeremy Pressman lives in Oslo, Norway. Through a Fulbright award, he is participating in a research project on the 40th anniversary of the 1979 Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty. In September, Randall Puljek-Shank was awarded a PhD in political science by Radboud University, in the Netherlands. His dissertation is titled “Legitimacy and the Civic Agency of Civil Society Actors in Bosnia and Herzegovina.” He lives in Sarajevo with his wife, Amela, and 11-year-old son, Isak. Randall teaches two courses and has a consulting practice focused on peacebuilding program evaluation and organizational development. Linda Schlossberg was awarded a 2019 Literary Arts Fellowship by the Somerville Arts Council and Mass Cultural Council. Michael Wolf made aliyah after 12 years as a neuroradiologist at Philadelphia’s Thomas Jefferson University. He lives in Tel Aviv. Julian Zelizer is the co-author of “Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974.” His earlier book, “The Fierce Urgency of Now,” was awarded the D.B. Hardeman Prize for best book on the U.S. Congress.