2010s
Golan Moskowitz, MA’12, PhD’18, is assistant professor of Jewish studies and the Catherine and Henry J. Gaisman Faculty Fellow at Tulane University. His book “Wild Visionary: Maurice Sendak in Queer Jewish Context” will be published in December by Stanford University Press. Brenna Schneider, Heller MBA’12, founder and CEO of active-wear company 99Degrees, responded to the COVID-19 pandemic by shifting the firm’s production over to making Level 1 isolation gowns for the medical community. Deborah Skolnick-Einhorn, PhD’12, is head of school at the Milton Gottesman Jewish Day School of the Nation’s Capital. Previously, she was associate dean at Hebrew College’s School of Jewish Education. Dennis Doherty, Rabb MS’13, has joined Kleinfelder, an organization that seeks to create and improve infrastructure, as a part of its engineering, construction management, design and environmental professional-services firm. Kleber Rendon, Rabb MS’14, is working at the U.S. Department of Defense in the area of information security, intel and cyber intel, having received a Top Secret clearance. Emily Sigalow, PhD’15, is the author of “American JewBu,” which looks at Jewish people who are interested in and practice Buddhism. The book, published by Princeton University Press in 2019, is based on her PhD dissertation. In May, Carole Allen, Heller MBA’17, became president-elect of the Massachusetts Medical Society. She was previously the organization’s vice president, and served for many years as a trustee and a delegate. Gail Carter, Heller MA’18, wrote a chapter in “The Making of a Successful Business Woman,” in which 20 entrepreneurs explain how they started their ventures. The book was named a No. 1 Amazon Best-Seller. Agueda Garcia Irizar, Heller MA’18, lives with husband Marcos in Bogotá, Colombia. One son is studying global health at Lund University, in Sweden. The other is working at Nike in Oregon. When it becomes easier to travel, “there is always a B&B at our home if you stop by for a long weekend,” she writes. Jill Marjorie Baren, Heller MBA’19, in May was named provost and vice president of academic affairs at University of the Sciences, in Philadelphia. David Marino, MA’19, is a news reporter at the Bangor Daily News, in Maine.
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