ALUMNI
UPDATES
1997
2004
ALLISON KERSKA (GOUIN) relocated with her company, Kelly Services,
to Switzerland for two years (2013-2015) to lead training, change
management and process design for the EMEA region.
REBECCA FRANK recently accepted a professorship and moved to Berlin.
Rebecca is now the Einstein Centre Digital Future Assistant Professor for
Information Management at the Berlin School of Library and Information
Science at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
JEANNETTE (DUPRE) GESSLER has two beautiful daughters ages 4 and 1.
2012
2013
MAOR COHEN graduated from Columbia Business School in 2019 and
co-founded n*gram health, which is developing therapeutic virtual reality
experiences for seniors with cognitive and physical impairment.
CASSANDRA (MILLS) VERES recently left Amazon to join Convoy, a Seattle
startup, as their Director of Learning and Development!
KATIE VAN DUSEN moved to Cleveland with partner, Robyn Trem, to
start school at Case Western University. Katie is doing an independent
study/fellowship on financing structures for community and economic
development in Cleveland. She is also still performing music and working
on her own album.
AMANDA KALT graduated with her Master of Public Health (MPH) in
Nutritional Sciences - Dietetics and Health Behavior & Health Education
from U-M in May 2020.
JESSICA MCCLAIN graduated from the MBA program, Ross School of
Business (Double wolverine!) and is starting new job at BCG in Chicago!
2006
2007
TARA THOMAS welcomed her second child to the world, Noemi Tessa
Sammut born 7/13/2019.
YUNG CHUNG had a baby girl, Willow!
MICHAEL KONWIAK married in 2018, and first child (Rory 7 months old) in
2019.
ADRIENNE WALLER has been oversees for almost 4 years now. Adrienne
has traveled to over 35 countries and lived on 4 continents. She was
recently invited to be a part of a women’s educational leadership
symposium and she started her own website to support educators
worldwide.
MEGAN MOORE recently got married in Detroit in October, 2019.
2014
2015
2016
KRISTEN REINKE was blessed with good timing in February 2020 with the
sale of her brick-and-mortar retail business, and amidst the COVID-19
shutdowns she has transitioned into a growing e-commerce venture, The
Gift Haus.
ADAM RUBENFIRE was named one of the Chicago Jewish United Fund’s
36 under 36 in 2019.
ANNA (MALONEY) TRETTER recently got married - February 22, 2020, just
before coronavirus started affecting the US!
MICHAEL SULLIVAN joined the BoD at Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and
Outsider Art.
2008
KATIE SBORDON accepted a new role at Amazon! Katie and her husband
relocated to Seattle about 4 months ago for his job and she is thrilled to
have found a role there.
ZOE VAN DYKE planned to get her JD at WashULaw but decided to reapply
to U-M and will be back in the fall!
MICALAH WEBSTER completed a year long Administrative Fellowship at
Spectrum Health. With the conclusion of her fellowship, Micalah is now
transitioning into a position within the HR department of Spectrum Health
as Manager of Talent Acquisition.
2009
ANDREW MALATESTA opened his own law firm in 2017 when he was 29.
Andrew exclusively represents employees in employment law matters --
helping individuals fight back when their employer violates the law.
2017
HUONG (NGUYEN) HALEY recently married and started a new job as a
Communications Manager.
MELINE QUIGLEY was recently promoted (September 2019).
NEIL TAMBE welcomed his second son, Myles Anil Tambe, in December,
2019.
LAUREN BRADY is expecting her first baby in October!
2018
KEVIN CORBETT recently played Kenickie in Grease at the Marriott Theatre
in Lincolnshire. He did motion capture/stunt work for the recent release of
Call of Duty: Warzone.
2010
VICOOL PATEL moved to Bangkok, Thailand post-MBA (Kellogg ‘16) and is
loving it!
RACHEL GRINGLAS received her Master’s of Public Health degree this
spring and will be moving to Washington D.C.!
REBECCA LEEMAN started a new job— from IBM Summit sales program to
Workforce Consulting at PwC.
22
2011
CAROLINE ROONEY SERRANO relocated to Mexico City, Mexico, where
she continues to run her personal styling company between CDMX and
San Francisco. Caroline also joined the board of A Moment of Magic, a
nonprofit organization dedicated to providing medically vulnerable children
with creative programming.
ANNA ZIELINSKI was recognized in Legal 500 for 2019.
2019
LILAH KALFUS is working part-time remotely for a start-up in New York
that is an incubator for social entrepreneurs and is very much connected
to her focus in corporate social responsibility while in the OS program.
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