Brandeis Magazine

Nigel Cohen is professor of business law at the Blinn College District in Central Texas. He earned an LLM in risk management from Texas A&M University in 2019. In February, Aarti Gupta was named a professor of global environmental governance in the environmental policy group at Wageningen University, in the Netherlands. She has worked with the group since 2006. Julie Hoffman-Marshall is a member of the parent group that created TrueNorth, an inclusive 12-acre co-housing community in Colorado that fosters full lives for families who live with autism and cognitive challenges. TrueNorth includes a community farm, chickens, horses, and a professional kitchen and cafe. Jason Levine is a partner in the Washington, D.C., office of international law firm Alston & Bird. His practice focuses on complex business disputes, antitrust class-action defense and damage claims against the federal government. He also serves on the U.S. Chamber Litigation Center’s liability reform litigation advisory committee. Nadia Marin is an attorney and activist, and the co-executive director of the National Day Laborer Organizing Network. In June, she addressed the public health, economic and safety needs of communities of color during the coronavirus pandemic and the ongoing national protests in a panel hosted by the Long Island (New York) Advocate and the Press Club of Long Island. Jeffrey Stein, founder and managing partner of financial advisory firm Stein Advisors, has been named chief restructuring officer at Whiting Petroleum Corporation. Suzanne Tuchin is a clinical social worker at Fresenius Kidney Care, a dialysis clinic in Warwick, Rhode Island. She lives in East Greenwich with her 18-year-old twin boys. Her 21-year-old son is a college senior. Julian Zelizer, a professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University, was featured on an episode of the Princeton podcast “Politics and Polls.” He discussed the Black Lives Matter protests, and how social media and technology have boosted the movement. (Julian talks about his latest book, “Burning Down the House: Newt Gingrich, the Fall of a Speaker and the Rise of the New Republican Party,” in this issue of Brandeis Magazine.)