Class Notes

Stella Kamm, LA13, LW16, and Kyle Christopher Mallinak were married July 25, 2020. Both are practicing attorneys in Nashville, Tenn.

Kyungbong Jung, GB13, is a senior manager at Woori Bank’s Dubai branch, where he works in the trade finance and syndication loan area.

Brooke Husic, LA13, and Sid Sivakumar, a graduate research assistant at WashU, had a crossword puzzle published in The New York Times on Saturday, Aug. 8, 2020.

Jessica Goldberg, LA13, and Louis Ernst, EN13, who met during the second day of orientation at WashU, moved their wedding date from 2020 to August 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. After graduating from WashU, both went on to earn a master’s degree from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Goldberg is a product marketing manager at Microsoft, and Ernst is a corporate strategy manager at Life Fitness.

Sam Franklin, LA13, was named 2020 Seattle District Young Entrepreneur of the Year by the U.S. Small Business Administration. Franklin founded Greenvelope.com, a paperless stationery company, out of his dorm room at WashU. The company — offering custom-animated digital wedding invitations, birthday and holiday cards, and invitations — grew from a one-person startup to employ a full-time staff of 14 and now serves 5,000 business clients in 35 countries.

Jay E. Evans, LA13, is a tax associate in the New York City office of Debevoise & Plimpton. 

Claire Downs, LA13, is back home in Baltimore, working as an animal operations specialist at the Maryland Zoo. Downs oversaw the replacement of all lighting in animal buildings with LED bulbs, improving energy efficiency and saving the zoo thousands of dollars per year.

Jason Dorn, EN13, is a captain in the U.S. Air Force, flying C-17s at Charleston (S.C.) Air Force Base.

Bridgette Zou, LA12, FA12, shares with great pride of authorship that her debut children’s book, Norman and the Nom Nom Factory (Astra Publishing House, Starberry Books Single Titles, 2018), was featured on Julie Andrews’ podcast, “Julie’s Library.” Andrews was joined by Lee Overtree and Peter McNerney from the “Story Pirates” podcast to voice characters to help bring the book to life. Zou both wrote and illustrated the book.

Gabriel Magraner, LA12, earned a master’s degree focusing on politics and culture in Brazil and the Caribbean from New York University’s Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies.