tural solutions for humanitarian crises. She is a partner at DMK4, an architecture and design firm.
• Donald Vega took home the top prize at the 2010 Great American Jazz Piano Competition in Jacksonville, Fla.
’95 E. Felicia Brannon MPA launched an online cookie company, Felicia’s Sweets & Other Treats, at www.feliciassweets.com. She is executive director of community and local government relations at UCLA. • Keith Calmes DMA received an Outstanding Educator Award from the College of New Jersey for his work as a guitar teacher at Wall High School in Wall Township, N.J., where he has taught since 1995. • Wendy Goldman MS/MBA has been selected for a second term on the West Hollywood Women’s Advisory Board, which works toward achieving equal rights for women on a global basis. She is the founder and president of GeroBiz, a consulting practice that promotes age-neutral policies in the workplace.
’00 Erin Carufel signed on to the cast of The Lincoln Lawyer, a film starring Matthew McConaughey. Past credits include Untraceable and Without a Trace. • Kian Clineff MSW is foster care and adoptions director at Canyon Acres Children and Family Services in Orange County, Calif. • Lusine Mkrtchyan launched SPORTi, an official USC licensee of women’s apparel aimed at providing fashionable tops and dresses for female sport fanatics. • Brian Sapp of Santa Monica, Calif., launched www.Fuzzedout.com, a music discovery site that features songs from mostly unknown bands and engages users to vote and download their favorite new songs each week. • Mike Voight PhD co-authored Mental Toughness Training for Basketball: Maximizing Technical and Mental Mechanics. He is an assistant professor at Central Connecticut State University in New Britain, Conn.
’96 Maureen O’Keefe Hodge MSW and
her family moved back to California, after living in Nueva Suyapa, a slum community of Honduras, for the last four years. She helped start a nonprofit, Puerta al Mundo, that provides Hondurans with training in leadership development. • Christopher Johnston MAcc has been promoted from senior manager to partner at Ernst & Young LLP’s Orange County office. He has 14 years of experience serving public and private clients in the real estate, hospitality and construction industries. Johnston is a certified public accountant, and a board member of the City of Hope Construction Industries Alliance and the USC Leventhal Accounting Circle. • Jurline K. Redeaux MSW has established New Impression, a transitional housing facility in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles.
’97 Rebecca Wilke EdD is co-author of
The Leading Edge: 9 Strategies for Improving Internal and Intentional Leadership. She is co-founder of LEADon, Inc., a leadership development company based in San Diego.
’98 Karen Corey MSW is a licensed clinical social worker in private practice in Redondo Beach, Calif. • Nicholas Pinhey MPA, DPA ’03 participated in a congressional briefing on water quality from public supply wells. He is director of utility planning and projects for the city of Modesto, Calif. ’99 Tiffany Patterson of Costa Mesa,
Calif., is a senior sales manager for Allergan, a multi-specialty health-care company. She has worked for the company for three years and has received the Allergan Academy Award of Excellence in Training.
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’01 Alex Grager JD ’04, an attorney at Los
Angeles-based Feinberg Mindel Brandt & Klein LLP, passed the family law certification examination, the first step to becoming a certified family law specialist. • Sarah (Mast) Huoh was promoted to director of global communications at Edwards Lifesciences, a leader in cardiovascular disease treatments based in Irvine, Calif. She was an adjunct professor at the USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism. • Donna K. Lee MBA ’08 of Los Angeles recently participated in Ernst & Young’s Corporate Responsibility Fellows Program, which offers entrepreneurs the opportunity to work alongside Ernst & Young’s top-performing employees.
’02 Cory Hebenstreit recently earned
his MBA from New York University’s Stern School of Business and accepted a job in the diversified industries group of the investment banking division at J. P. Morgan. • Andrew Norman MM ’04 has been nominated by the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra in New York for its first installment of Project 440, a new method of commissioning chamber orchestra pieces from up-and-coming composers. He is one of 60 candidates who will be considered by the orchestra to compose new work to premiere during the 2011-2012 season.
’03 Karla Arriaran-Rodriguez MSW is a
counselor at Hart High School in Newhall, Calif. She also facilitates a group, Padres Unidos, to bridge the gap between Spanish-speaking parents and the school
community. • Alicia Taylor Bolton has been awarded the 2010 Fulbright Institute of International Education Dissertation Abroad Award. She will be traveling to São Paulo, Brazil, where she will research Brazil’s invisible children.
’04 Merritt Johnson is an engineer at GM’s Powertrain Advanced Technology Center in Torrance, Calif., and is working on the second-generation rear-wheel-drive hybrid program. She is the design-release engineer for the high-voltage electric cables that transfer power to the electric pump. ’05 Jerome Hruska recently graduated
from medical school at Touro University Nevada. • Leah Hruska received her master’s of education in school counseling from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. • Meghan Schinderle launched Intertwined, a special-events and wedding planning company. The company has offices in Los Angeles and Orange County, and its Web site and blog are at www.IntertwinedEvents.com. • Kristen Schultz has been accepted into the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. She was a fundraising analyst at EMILY’s List, a political action committee in Washington, D.C.
’06 Constance Dunn MA has authored Practical Glamour: Presenting Your Most Beautiful & Polished Self to the World, a grooming, style and etiquette manual. She is a writer and researcher and lives in Los Angeles and southern Florida. • Frank Harris III EdD of San Diego and Shaun R. Harper, founding executive director of the USC Rossier School of Education’s Ed.D. program, published College Men and Masculinities: Theory, Research, and Implications for Practice. • Bobby Ojose EdD published Mathematics Education: Perspectives on Issues and Methods of Instruction, a mathematics education text. He is an assistant professor at the University of Redlands, Calif. ’07 Rachel Cantrock MSW is a clinical social worker at UCLA Neuropsychiatric Hospital. • Cheryl Wengren is a morning news producer at KHSL-TV/KNVN-TV in Chico, Calif. She previously worked as a news producer and assignment editor at KBAK-TV/KBFX-TV in Bakersfield, Calif. • Courtney R. Wise MS was named a winner of Gulf Coast Business Review’s “40 Under 40,” an award program that recognizes young business leaders, professionals, entrepreneurs and executives from Tampa to Naples, Fla. She is executive director of Take Care Advisors, a geriatric care management firm that provides non-medical services to support older adults’ health and well-being. • Brandon Wu MBA of Covina,