Class Notes

Daniel Hebert, GL20, joined Syracuse University as an assistant teaching professor of business management in fall 2022.

Tracee (Orlove) Fruman, LA00, was appointed as an administrative law judge for the Maryland Office of Administrative Hearings.

Tasha Jordan, SW18, GR18, a seventh grade science teacher at Ferguson Middle School, was named Ferguson-Florissant School District’s Teacher of the Year for 2023. Jordan has been described as “a beacon of equity and creativity for her students by actively engaging them in lessons while pushing their critical thinking skills. She holds her students in high regard, and when stepping into her classroom, you understand that the feeling is mutual.”

Shawntelle Fisher, SW18, founder and CEO of The SoulFisher Ministries, received a 2023 Women Trailblazer Award from the University of Missouri–St. Louis (UMSL). Honoring the achievements of exceptional UMSL women who have paved the way for others, the award is bestowed annually during Women’s History Month.

Sara Miller, BU17, started a student organization while attending WashU called Student Organ Donation Advocates (SODA), having been inspired after her older sister’s organ donation saved a life. SODA now has more than 50 chapters across the country on high school, college and graduate school campuses.

Beth Miller, GR17, penned The Most Painful Choice: A Dog Owner’s Story of Behavioral Euthanasia (McFarland Publishing, March 2023), which tells her family’s experience with Champ, a rescued German shepherd. Champ suffered physically and mentally from neglect and trauma from his first years of life. As well as recounting her family’s attempts to help Champ, in the book Miller discusses behavioral euthanasia as a compassionate choice for unmanageable aggression, reactivity, biting or severe anxiety.

Julia (Soscia) Lowery, EN17, SI18, and Christopher Lowery, EN16, SI16, who met on campus during Julia’s sophomore year, in July celebrated their first wedding anniversary. They write that they are grateful to WashU for bringing them together and hold the university and St. Louis dear to their hearts.

Christine Lung, LA16, is a health-care investor at Valspring Capital, formerly Bain Capital Ventures, making growth equity investments within the health-care ecosystem.

Briana Bostic, LA16, recently defended her dissertation — “Geographic Context and Teacher Perceptions: Associations with Teachers’ Job Demands and Resources, Classroom Quality, and Child Outcomes in Head Start Settings” — at The Johns Hopkins School of Education and was awarded a doctorate in education. Last year, the publishing company she founded, The Black Heron Company, released two children’s books, To Fly by the Sun and Martin from Mars: Making Time. The books provide instructional guidance for learning in any setting, highlighting the infinite imaginative power of young Black children.

Arian Jadbabaie, LA15, gave science demonstrations at the Los Angeles Maker Faire and City of STEM Festival in April. Jadbabaie has been involved in science outreach activities and events since his undergraduate years at WashU.