Class Notes

Martin S. Lee, LA92, LA92, was named chief marketing officer at Sport Clips Haircuts. Lee has more than 15 years of marketing experience with brands including SIRIUS XM Radio, Sears Holdings, Sleepy’s and Shopko. He is on the advisory boards of The Perfect Game Foundation, College Scholar Foundation and Barrington Youth Baseball.

Doug Sesnowitz, LA91, a partner at Ulmer & Berne LLP, was elected to the firm’s management committee. Sesnowitz represents companies in a range of industries in complex corporate, commercial and financing matters.

Risé Sanders-Weir, LA91, was an executive producer on “We Are Witnesses: Chicago,” which was nominated for an Emmy in the News & Documentary-Outstanding New Approaches category. As part of The Marshall Project, the short-video series presented intimate portraits of Chicagoans touched by the criminal justice system. Website: www.themarshallproject.org/we-are-witnesses/chicago

Jeff Ross, LA90, was promoted to senior managing director-head of investments at Generate Capital, an investor in sustainability across energy, transportation, water, agriculture and waste-to-value. He is a frequent speaker on topics of sustainability, investing and technology. Ross lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife, Mary, and three children.

Doug Isenberg, LA90, an attorney at law with the GigaLaw Firm, was appointed to the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre’s domain name dispute resolution panel. Isenberg continues serving as a domain name panelist for other Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy providers, including the World Intellectual Property Organization.

Julia Weber, LA89, SW94, LW94, is implementation director with Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence and teaches domestic violence law at Golden Gate University School of Law. Weber recently co-authored “Dramatic Spike in Firearm Sales During COVID-19 Endangers Survivors,” which appeared in Family & Intimate Partner Violence Quarterly. She lives in San Francisco with her partner, Charles Fineberg, EN87, EN87, and son, Zach, a college sophomore.

Greg Stewart, GM89, is senior vice president of scientific affairs at Sio Gene Therapies (formerly Axovant), in New York City, supporting the development of gene therapy for neurological disorders.

Lynne (Rubenstein) Sorkin, AR89, GA91, joined the Chicago office of FGM Architects as principal, working on the firm’s PK-12 school design team. Previously, Sorkin was director of the education practice for bKL Architecture and an owner’s representative for large, multiyear capital improvement programs.

CB Knoepfle, EN89, self-published Dice or Die: Investigations into a Fantasy Campaign Milieu (World Audiences Inc., 2020). The book takes a plunge into a productive fantasy campaign milieu discussion and features an in-depth, eclectic examination of classes, denizens, communities, milieu, campaigns and more. 

Robert D. Schollmeyer, LW88, retired as an associate circuit judge from the 20th Judicial Circuit Court in Missouri and began working as a chief senior assistant district attorney in Fulton County, Ga., focusing on police shooting cases.