Brandeis Magazine

Kenneth Bello has been named to the 2022 Massachusetts Super Lawyers List in the employment and labor category. He is of counsel at Barclay Damon in the law firm’s Boston office. In September, television writer/producer Marta Kauffman, H’20, hosted a Los Angeles fundraiser for the Democratic National Committee. First lady Jill Biden was a featured guest. Rosa Lowinger is the author of “Dwell Time: A Memoir of Art, Exile, and Repair,” which will be released by Row House Publishing in October. A dual exploration of fraught family relationships and art conservation, the book includes mentions of Rosa’s work at the Rose Art Museum and lessons learned from Brandeis fine-arts professor Joachim Gaehde. Gwen Marcus, who retired as Showtime Networks’ executive vice president and general counsel in 2021, serves as Distinguished Practitioner and adviser in the entertainment, arts, and sports law program at the University of Miami School of Law. She is also board chair at the Theatre Development Fund, which works to make theater affordable for all. In April, Gwen and Nancy Alpert ’75 celebrated their 40th anniversary. Linda B. Parker drew on her Brandeis theater roots after a 35-year hiatus, performing her own stand-up material at the Erma Bombeck Writers’ Workshop in October. She writes, “A big thank-you to the incredible Wendy Liebman for convincing me to do it.” Steve Saklad reports the May/June issue of the Art Directors Guild magazine featured an article on the design process of the film “Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret,” for which he was production designer. Another of his films, an exorcism drama by Lee Daniels called “The Deliverance,” will be released this year on Netflix. Alan Spatrick is a reporter on Fig City News, a Newton, Massachusetts, weekly newspaper seeking to fill the local-news void. When he’s not reporting on police matters or nature hikes, he attends wife Kaj Wilson’s film classes at the Coolidge Corner Theatre. Eric Stern has retired from the practice of law after 41 years, the last 24 at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, where he led the real estate practice for 17 years. Eric is a recipient of Lexology’s 2022 Client’s Choice Award for Real Estate (USA) and in November was elected a trustee of the Foreign Policy Research Institute, an international-policy think tank. Shirley Werner is immersed in the study of the Augustan poet Horace (65-8 B.C.). She’s written four articles on his work that are either forthcoming or under consideration. Shirley lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, with husband William Johnson, a Duke University dean. Daughter Benita Xiaogu Johnson is a biology and studio art major at Oberlin.