Brandeis Magazine

After serving as in-house counsel for several global solar companies, Renee Robin has launched RESD, a private consulting practice that works on projects and planning related to carbon reduction. She and husband Scott McCreary have two sons, Aaron (34) and Miles (29). Six years ago, the family started Pepper Lane Farm in California’s West Sonoma County, where they grow organic apples, olives, tomatoes, and natural-dye plants. Marcy Schwartz works at her family business, Highway Displays, a billboard company in Poughkeepsie, New York. She recently accepted an award from Poughkeepsie’s Regional Chamber of Commerce to mark her company’s 100th anniversary. She’s also started Save Our Deer, a grassroots effort that seeks to stop Vassar College from mass-shooting white-tailed deer. Previously, she worked in Manhattan for 20 years as a labor and employment lawyer to the Fortune 500. In the spring, Donna Tarutz, GSAS MA’79, visited Israel, meeting up with Ellen Haber and Moshe Kranc in Jerusalem. She writes, “Although I had studied in Israel, including during my Hornstein Program seminar, this was my first opportunity to just sightsee.” Louis Woolf will retire from his role as president and CEO of the Harvard Medical School affiliate Hebrew SeniorLife at the end of June. Louis has led the Hebrew SeniorLife system since 2009. Robert Zimmerman in August won the Democratic primary for New York’s 3rd Congressional District, earning an endorsement from former Sen. Hillary Clinton. He lost to his Republican opponent in the November election.