Brandeis Magazine

Anna (Natsume) Gribben is marketing manager at Starbucks, overseeing multichannel campaigns for the global coffee brand’s U.S. company-owned stores. Ashley Hodes, a general and endocrine surgeon, is senior medical-safety director at Medtronic. She and husband Dickie are parents to Eleanor, who is 3 1/2 years old, and Beatrix, who is 1 1/2 years old. Bezalel Stern is the consumer protection and advertising partner in the Washington, D.C., office of law firm Manatt, Phelps & Phillips. Beverly (Levine) Tsacoyianis earned a 2022 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award for her first book, “Disturbing Spirits: Mental Illness, Trauma, and Treatment in Modern Syria and Lebanon.” She is an associate professor of history at the University of Memphis. She and husband Matt ’03 are the parents of twin boys. Janna Meyrowitz Turner co-founded VCs for Repro, a coalition of venture-capital investors who support abortion as a human right and an economic imperative. Natasha Ushomirsky is senior program officer at Barr Foundation, a Boston-based education nonprofit focused on research and advocacy for the high academic achievement of all students.