Brandeis Magazine

Jennifer Gillman recently launched Gillman Strategic Group, helping unhappy law-firm partners and solo practitioners with their own clients find a perfect fit at another New Jersey law firm. She represents the lawyers she works with, not the firms they join. Tabitha Karch is director of private events at the Ridge Club, a private golf club in Sandwich, Massachusetts. Antonie Knoppers, IBS MA’95, who lives in Amsterdam, teaches speech and voice in the theater schools at Maastricht University and the University of Amsterdam, and presents leadership trainings at the Rotterdam School of Management. He is writing a book on leadership presence. Dania (Sacks) March, who lives in Oakland, California, is a licensed psychotherapist in private practice, specializing in adolescents, life transitions, trauma and the LGBTQ+ community. In addition, she is an educational trainer, offers well-being coaching and consults with school districts. She is also an anti-oppression activist and a happy dog owner. Tova (Abrams) Markowitz is an elementary reading specialist in Long Beach, New York, as well as an adjunct professor at Queens College and St. John’s University. A mom to a high-schooler and a college freshman, she is pursuing a doctorate in education leadership. Erica (Schultz) Yakovetz is director of communications and programming at the Jewish Federation of Northwest Indiana. She attended the Jewish Federations of North America Professional Institute in Baltimore in February. She and her husband, Aaron, celebrate their fifth wedding anniversary this year; daughter Aria is 3 1/2.