Brandeis Magazine

Debbi Finkelstein is director of education and partnerships at Castle in the Clouds, a mansion and mountaintop estate in Moultonborough, New Hampshire. Matthew Konjoian is an academic services senior professional at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. He and his wife have bought a house in Denver’s Virginia Village neighborhood. Their post-COVID-vaccine travels have included a Brandeis campus visit, their first in eight years. Ilana Herring Livingstone, who works as a licensed Realtor, celebrated the first birthday of daughter Cayla Bloom in November. Kristen Lee Sergeant released her third studio album, “Falling,” on Tiger Turn records in February. Maya Sigel has wrapped Season 1 as production designer of “Hello Tomorrow!” — a retro-futuristic show set in the 1950s — for Apple TV+. A graduate of the American Film Institute’s MFA program in production design, she has more than 15 years’ experience in films, television and commercials. Nicole Steinberg, of Newtown, Pennsylvania, was named the 2021 Bucks County poet laureate, chosen from dozens of entrants. Michael Weinstein-Reiman, who received his PhD in music theory from Columbia University, is assistant professor of music theory at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.