Class Notes

John S.K. (“Keoni”) Kauwe III, GM07, who at age 40 was promoted to president of Brigham Young University-Hawaii, is the youngest president in the university’s history and one of the youngest college or university presidents in the Church Education System. Previously, Kauwe was dean of graduate studies at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah.

Chihmao Hsieh, GB07, is a research professor at SUNY Korea — a partnership between Stony Brook University, SUNY-The State University of New York and the South Korean government — and founding director of its Center for Global Entrepreneurship. For 2020-21, he is serving as a guest columnist for Maeil Business Newspaper, Korea’s most widely circulated financial daily. In 2019, Hsieh gave talks at the United Nations Secretariat and at the Asian Development Bank in Manila.

Lauren Herring, EMBA07, published Take Control of Your Job Search! 10 Emotions You Must Master to Land the Job (Simply Good Press, 2020). The owner of IMPACT Group, a global career development company, Herring is donating $100,000 in career coaching to job seekers in underserved communities to help improve the social justice narrative in the United States. 

Justin Wilke, EN06, SI07, with his wife, Holly, and their three children, Logan, Claire and Lauren, welcomed another child, Alice, to the world, March 19, 2020. Alice’s birth was an extra-special present for Holly, who has the same birthday as Alice. 

Sukanya Pyne, PT06, is the founder and president of ReJenga, a nonprofit organization that helps improve the rehabilitation of disabled people in the developing world by promoting sustainable rehab clinics in rural villages. She recently traveled to Panskura and Kolkata, India, where she will help create a rehab setting.

Catherine Kelly, LA06, is an assistant professor of justice and rule of law at the Africa Center for Strategic Studies, a center in the U.S. Department of Defense located on the National Defense University campus. She became a first-time author with the recent publication of Party Proliferation and Political Contestation in Africa: Senegal in Comparative Perspective (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020). Kelly was accepted into the Council on Foreign Relations as a term member.

Patrick Hill, PMBA06, was named senior vice president and chief financial officer of Allsup, a nationwide provider of disability representation and return-to-work services.

Maggie (Konich) Fiock, LA06, GR08, and her husband, Frank, welcomed their first child, Susanna Beatrice, in October 2019.

Kathryn Zuckerman, LA05, is executive director at CBS News, overseeing the planning and strategy of special programming. She is responsible for coordination between CBS divisions and the CBS News operation with respect to CBS entertainment, sports, sales, marketing, affiliate relations and air control, as well as internally for CBS News special events.

Joseph Frank, GR05, GR09, was promoted to senior manager-reporting and com-pliance, in the Washington University Human Resources Department. He is also an adjunct lecturer teaching human resources strategy in Olin Business School and an adjunct faculty member at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, Webster University and Fontbonne University.