Class Notes

Rachel Iverson, MA ’24, accepted a job at
UC Santa Barbara as a resident director for the undergraduate apartments community.

Laurence Chen, AB ’24, accepted placement in the 2026 cohort of Yenching Academy, a selective program at Peking University in Beijing. As a Yenching Scholar, Chen will research how public policy can be effectively leveraged to improve population health.  

Brooke Bulmash, AB ’21, earned graduate degrees from the University of Michigan in May 2025 in landscape architecture and in urban and regional planning. She is a landscape designer and planner at a civil engineering firm in Metro Detroit.

Aloukik Rana, BS ’20, MA ’23, lives in New York City and works as a senior associate of global research and data management at Synergos.

Matt Rains, MBA ’19, is running for Montana’s 1st congressional district seat in the U.S. House of Representatives in the November general election.

Nicole Nidea, AB ’19, was honored as part of the Organ Donation and Transplant Alliance’s inaugural 40 Under 40 list in recognition of her leadership of Student Organ Donation Advocates (SODA), a nonprofit co-founded by Sara (Miller) Royf, BSBA ’17. Nidea led the original SODA chapter at WashU.

Serena Solin, MFA ’18, published her first full-length poetry collection. A Barer Sky (Winter Editions, April 2026) draws on sources from Dostoyevsky to Boyz n the Hood, Emerson to Olson, the Puritans to Honda Civics.

Judah Silver, AB ’18, was named to Forbes 30 Under 30 in the Games category. A talent agent at United Talent Agency, Silver represents leading game developers including KO_OP, Nyamakop, Variable State, Landfall and Gylee Games. To date, he has closed more than 20 deals totaling $30 million in raised funds.

Ariel (Kobliner) Kauvar, BSBA ’17,founded Wulfsohn Rousso, a fine jewelry house, with Emily Rubin, BFA ’17. Drawing on backgrounds in business strategy, private equity and luxury retail, they created the brand to reinterpret heirloom design for the modern woman.

Andrew Glantz, BSBA ’17, announced that Swipe Savvy has acquired his startup GiftAMeal, which will stay headquartered in St. Louis. Over 1,200 restaurant locations across the U.S. use GiftAMeal, which has helped provide nearly three million meals through local food banks.