Brandeis Magazine

Esther Adler is associate curator of drawing and prints at New York City’s Museum of Modern Art. In February, she lectured on multiple pieces at the Kauffman Gallery at Shippensburg University, in Pennsylvania, and spoke about her experiences as a curator. Labid Aziz is chief operating officer and chief financial officer at Wayfarer Studios, headquartered in Los Angeles (check out the Alumni Profile about Labid in this issue). He writes, “Brandeis truly did get me to where I am today. Thanks especially to faculty members Henry Felt, Charles Reed Jr. and Gordy Fellman, and to Ann Carol Grossman ’69 and Arnie Reisman ’64 for everything they did for me.” Shai Fuxman, who was appointed to the Natick (Massachusetts) School Committee in 2019, was running for an elected one-year term in 2020. He is the former chair of the Natick Special Education Parent Advisory Council. Jeremy Greenberg’s company Avenue Group has launched a new podcast series, “Follow the Leader,” which puts you inside the mind of company CEOs as they guide their businesses through make-or-break moments. Ingrid Manevitz is a partner at law firm Seyfarth Shaw. She is co-chair of the New York State Bar Association’s condominiums and cooperatives committee, and a member of the New York State Bar Association’s Real Property Law Section executive committee. Philip Meer is the CEO of PatientKeeper, a software solutions company that helps streamline clinician workflow. He has been a leader at software and health-care IT organizations for more than 20 years. David Nurenberg has written a book, “What Does Injustice Have To Do With Me? Engaging Privileged White Students With Social Justice” (Rowman & Littlefield, 2020). He’s been a teacher for 20 years. He writes, “I describe myself as still very much in the process of learning how to be anti-racist myself and am not ‘fully woke’ (if there is such a thing) at all.” A Perspective essay written by David about his work appears in this issue. Michael Siegel won the Democratic nomination for a U.S. House seat representing Texas’ 10th Congressional District. Jenny Small celebrated the publication of her third book, “Critical Religious Pluralism in Higher Education: A Social Justice Framework To Support Religious Diversity,” which was released by Routledge in March.