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Victoria University Alumni Milestones: Summer 2025
Adam John Borovilos Vic 0T5 and his wife Veronika welcomed a son, Kassian Tas Alexander Borovilos on June 12, 2025. Proud relatives include grandparents Anita and John Borovilos Vic 7T0, aunt Alexa Borovilos Vic 0T4 and siblings Maksym and Kami.
Raymond Cox Vic 7T6 has been awarded the status of professor emeritus of finance at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, B.C. He studied biology at Vic and then earned a CPA, MBA (University of Windsor) and PhD (Michigan State University). Some of his research interests include corporate finance, bank failures, bankruptcy and business cycles.
Angie (Eggert) Littlefield Vic 6T9 published Walking with Oma: A Memoir (Now or Never, 2025). Littlefield follows the 600-kilometre walk her Jewish grandmother took in 1945 from the Theresienstadt Concentration Camp in what was then Czechoslovakia to Hamburg, Germany. The memoir tackles issues of identity, complicity and intergenerational trauma.
Emily Ohanjanians Vic 0T4 secured a two-book deal with Ballantine Books at Random House Canada. Ohanjanian, a former editor at Harlequin, will publish her debut novel, The Book Tour, in two parts. The publishers describe it as a “hilarious, sexy, rom-com about a debut author and her new publicist who find themselves crossing the professional line when sparks fly on her book tour.”
Jennifer O’Kell Vic 0T6 published her first full-length novel, The Maker of Spells. She is a fantasy writer and self-described enthusiast of ethical quandaries of psychological depth, spells, dragons and love triangles. The novel centres around a spellwright and diplomat who is drawn into a web of political intrigue and romantic complications in a world where magic and diplomacy intertwine.
Alexandra Palmer Vic 7T9 published Christian Dior visionnaire: 1947–1957 (Martinière BL, 2024) a French edition of her Dior: A New Look, a New Enterprise 1947–57 (Victoria and Albert Museum, 2009, 2019). The archivist at the house of Dior Paris, Soizic Pfaff, called the book her “bible,” Palmer noted. She is a former senior curator of global fashion and textiles at the Royal Ontario Museum and chair of its Veronika Gervers Fellowship. Palmer is a Chevalier in the Ordre des Palmes académiques, a French national order awarded to distinguished academics and teachers for their services to universities, education and science.
Jesse Sherrett Vic 0T3 is now a partner of the legal firm Sterlington PLLC in New York City. Sherrett is an international arbitration lawyer who has represented clients over the last decade in large commercial disputes heard before international arbitration tribunals.
From Lindsay Zier-Vogel Vic 0T5 comes an insightful and heart-rending exploration of motherhood, grief and the search for identity in The Fun Times Brigade (Book*hug Press, 2025). The novel examines the enduring challenges of reconciling being an artist with being a mother.
