Spring 2008 Undergraduate Alumni Notes
PPS ’07
Marisa Adelson is working at RAND Corp. in Washington, D.C., as a health policy research assistant.
Yoav Lurie moved to Washington, D.C., to work as managing director, development, for Teach for America.
PPS ’05
Ashley Carlson is attending Harvard University for a master’s degree in public health, which she expects to receive in June 2009. She recently was awarded the Rappaport Public Policy Fellowship through Harvard's Kennedy School as well as the Albert J. Schweitzer Fellowship in Public Service.
Christopher Scoville started a new job in February as communications and development associate for the Economy League of Greater Philadelphia. He works with Executive Director Steven Wray (’86).
PPS ’03
Logan Allin recently joined PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP in New York City as a director in advisory services, focused on advising financial services firms.
Rebecca Koenig Berrebi will graduate in May from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York City, and will begin working as a corporate law associate at the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP in the fall.
Melanie Oberman, John Solomon and Brian Gagnon started a young professional organization called Young Consultants of DC (www.ycdc.org). YCDC’s goals are to support member education, provide for growth of personal and professional relationships and to make a positive impact on the local community.
PPS ’02
Elizabeth Lincicome, formerly Elizabeth Fulk, was married in August 2007. She and her husband, Scott, live in Washington, D.C.’s Adams Morgan neighborhood. Elizabeth is a senior media associate at the Heritage Foundation and is pursuing a master’s degree in political communications at Johns Hopkins University. Her husband is an attorney in international trade at White and Case LLP.
PPS ’01
Jessica Rosen will graduate from the University of Virginia School of Medicine in May and will start her residency in emergency medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in July.
Taylor West is serving as communications director for Rep. Mark Udall’s campaign for U.S. Senate in Colorado.
PPS ’99
Jared Green serves as vice president of business development at Heritage Auction Galleries in Dallas, where he advises clients on the market for their collections and identifies and pursues new partnerships and acquisition opportunities for the company. After years in the consulting world as a business strategy analyst for Ernst & Young and an MBA from Emory’s Goizueta Business School, Jared joined Heritage Auctions to pursue his longtime passion for contemporary art.
PPS ’98
Matt Ferraguto started a new job in Boston in December 2007 as director of communications for the national center of Reach Out and Read, a nationwide nonprofit that trains doctors and nurses to advise parents about the importance of reading aloud. The nonprofit also provides new books for distribution to young children during regular pediatric check-ups. Matt had worked for six years as U.S. Rep. Stephen F. Lynch’s (D-MA) press secretary and previously was Sen. Edward M. Kennedy’s (D-MA) deputy press secretary.
Randy Kenna lives in Washington, D.C., and is married. After two years in marketing and four years as a lawyer, he now develops apartment buildings for Archstone Smith.
Angela Tsai is courtside reporter and multimedia host for the Sacramento Kings basketball team. She formerly anchored the news for NBA TV, and hosted “NBA Timeout,” a lifestyle show for the NBA. Angela married actor Michael Hollick in September 2007.
PPS ’97
Stephen Elmore (’97), center, a budget analyst with the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Budget met with Bono, right, activist and lead singer with the band U2, in January to discuss increasing U.S. aid to other countries for HIV/AIDS, TB, malaria and poverty relief. Also present for the meeting with Committee Chairman Rep. John Spratt (D-NC) was Spratt’s senior legislative assistant Spencer Johnson.
PPS ’95
Bo Lamb is an associate at the Boston law firm Hanify & King, and focuses on business and intellectual property litigation.
PPS ’94
Colby Walton is senior vice president of Cooksey Communications, an Irving, Texas-based public relations and marketing communications firm specializing in public policy issues such as long-term regional water planning, transportation and natural gas exploration.
PPS ’93
Tyler Mulligan was appointed an assistant professor of public law and government at the School of Government at UNC-Chapel Hill. He will focus his research and advisory work in the areas of community development, economic development and affordable housing.
PPS ’91
John (Jack) Conway was elected Kentucky's 49th attorney general and began his term in office in January. Jack is the second-youngest AG ever elected in Kentucky and one of the youngest serving in the United States.
Karen Hanson started a new job as executive director of the Freedom Prize Foundation, whose mission to reward innovations that reduce U.S. dependence on oil.
PPS ’89
Bob Blumenfield is in a hotly contested race for the California State Assembly and welcomes participation from PPS alumni.
PPS ’88
Marc Supcoff has opened construction and real estate law offices in New York City. He has a blog on current housing and construction law issues, supcoffconstructionlaw.wordpress.com, and welcomes your comments.
PPS ’85
Steven R. Goodman recently published his first book, College Admissions Together: It Takes a Family,through Capital Books.
Ralph (“Scout”) Walton is general manager of Saddlehorn, a new Montana mountain and lake community.
PPS ’83
Linda Port continues to practice law in Mintz Levin’s Boston office, principally doing tax-exempt financings for nonprofit hospitals and colleges. She also serves as a member of the Town of Hingham’s advisory committee.
PPS ’82
Pam Hendrickson, former global head of capital advisory businesses at J.P. Morgan’s private bank, left that job in February to become the first chief operating officer for Riverside Co., a private-equity firm.
PPS ’80
Tom Gibson is chairman and CEO of The Coulter Companies. Coulter Nonprofit Management, a unit of The Coulter Companies, has been recognized by the American Business Ethics Awards as one of the top three businesses in the United States with 250 employees or less.
PPS ’79
David Garman retired in January 2007 after 27 years of federal government service. He was most recently the under secretary of energy. Prior to that, he was an assistant secretary of energy for efficiency and renewable energy. Upon his retirement, Garman started the consulting firm Decker Garman Sullivan LLC, which advises clients on energy, science, management and environmental sustainability issues.
PPS ’78
Ross Harris started his own business, The Harris Partners, in February 2007. The company focuses on marketing consulting and communications, and is based in Greensboro, N.C., with clients across the country.
Haim Watzman recently started a blog at http://southjerusalem.com called “South Jerusalem: Gershom Gorenberg and Haim Watzman: A Progressive, Skeptical Blog on Israel, Judaism, Culture, Politics, and Literature.”
PPS ’75
Richard A. Schwartz was honored for his longtime service as president of the Development Foundation of the North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching (NCCAT) with the presentation of a fully endowed honored educator scholarship in his name. Schwartz is the senior partner of Schwartz & Shaw, a Raleigh law firm specializing in education law.
