Brandeis Magazine

Natalie Cazeau, a family medicine physician, traveled from Portland, Oregon, to New York City for the July 4th weekend in 2025, hanging out with Alex Davidson, Julia Elman, Claire Steinman and Marisa Viets. “Great laughs, meals and memories were shared,” she reports.

Arielle Kaplan is a student at Hebrew Union College’s Debbie Friedman School of Sacred Music, on a journey to cantorial ordination.

Anna Kaufman married Alix Dieudonne in July 2025.

Linnea Sage began hosting “The Jewish Dating Game” a year ago. The monthly show matches singles live on a New York City stage for dates at local restaurants.

Mark Garibyan, a partner in the litigation and investigations group at law firm Seward & Kissel, was recognized as a leading commercial litigation attorney in the 2026 edition of Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch. Mark is based in the firm’s New York City office.

Philip Lu is one of 18 conservation professionals selected to join the 2025 Kinship Conservation Fellows cohort. The fellows collaborate to address conservation challenges worldwide.

Arielle Schwartz celebrated the publication of her first children’s book, “Iggy the Incredible Ice Cream,” in November 2024.

Katherine Kolios is a student in the Mid-Career Master in Public Administration program at the Harvard Kennedy School.

Savannah Pearlman and Nate Rosenbloom ’14 welcomed daughter Minerva Avalon Rosenbloom in August 2024. The family lives in Washington, D.C., where Savannah is a lecturer in Howard University’s philosophy department.

Harrison Goldspiel reports he is working on a PhD in Maine, “studying wetlands and weird salamanders.” He lives on the Penobscot River.

Ariel Hascal married Neil Winston on June 1, 2024, in Boston’s Seaport District. Ariel’s mom is Sara Hascal ’19, P’13, P’21, director of the Hebrew program at Brandeis.

Elena Livak has earned a master’s degree in library and information science.

Rachel (Goldenberg) and Alex Pilger welcomed their first child in June 2024.

Anastasia Austin left the media organization/think tank InSight Crime after five years to cycle the Andes and write about South America for Al Jazeera, The Guardian and The New Humanitarian. She is the co-founder of OffMap Media, an independent media project.

Chenyu Li, who has a PhD in social studies education from Columbia University’s Teachers College, is an assistant professor of foundations and secondary education at Indiana University South Bend. He previously taught social studies at a public high school in Queens, New York.

Jennifer Mandelbaum earned the 2025 Health Policy Advocacy Award from the Society of Behavioral Medicine. She has served in the New Hampshire House of Representatives since 2024.

Ilana Mittleman married Gabriel Weinstein, GSAS’18, on March 2, 2025, in New Rochelle, New York, surrounded by Brandeis friends.

Kristi Bray and husband Greg welcomed a son on July 10, 2025.

No Class Notes submissions this issue.

No Class Notes submissions this issue.

Rachel Goldstein and Tazio De Tomassi were wed on Labor Day 2024. Many Brandeisians attended the Catskills ceremony, including Rachel’s sister Leah ’25.

Zain Walker is an assistant U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia through the Attorney General’s Honors Program at the U.S. Department of Justice. Zain earned a JD from Northeastern University School of Law in 2024.

In 2023, Leah McNeil became a bone marrow donor for a young woman diagnosed with paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria, a disease that affects the bone marrow and red blood cells. Leah had registered as a donor in 2015 during a Gift of Life drive on the Brandeis campus. She and her recipient, who lives in North Carolina, met for the first time in April 2025, when they threw out the first pitch at a Red Sox game in Fenway Park. Leah, a resident of Somerville, Massachusetts, is a social worker.