Class Notes

Emilie Boone, GR08, had her first book, A Nimble Arc: James Van Der Zee and Photography (Duke University Press, September 2023), published. The book explores Van Der Zee’s photographic work over the course of the 20th century, showing how it foregrounded aspects of Black daily life in the United States and in the larger African diaspora.

David Addison, EMBA08, recently joined Guy Carpenter & Co. as managing director, head of life and annuities, Americas. Guy Carpenter is the insurance brokerage arm of the Marsh McLennan group of companies.

Shreepada Tripathy, LA07, was promoted to associate professor of medicine at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine in Springfield, Illinois, in May 2022. He joined SIU in 2016 as an assistant professor and is board certified in pediatrics.

Faye Raquel Gleisser, LA06, was promoted to associate professor of contemporary art and critical theory at Indiana University, Bloomington. Additionally, she wrote Risk Work: Making Art and Guerrilla Tactics in Punitive America, 1967-1987 (University of Chicago Press, October 2023).

Katherine Karr-Cornejo, LA05, was promoted to professor of Spanish at Whitworth University in Spokane, Washington. She has been at the university since 2012.

Alison Small, LA04, is head of film at Brownstone Productions and helped the studio produce Cocaine Bear and Bottoms. The successful movies helped Brownstone play a significant role in bringing back the R-rated comedy, which has struggled to gain traction in the past years. Small told Variety magazine that the challenge of an R-rated movie “is that whenever there’s something that’s perceived as a failure, it just makes it harder and harder to get similar types of movies made.” Small had previous roles at Paramount Pictures, DreamWorks SKG and Warner Bros. Television Group.

Ashwin Unnikrishnan, LA03, was awarded an inaugural “Breakthrough Fellowship” by the Leukemia Foundation to support his lab’s research to develop more effective treatments for the blood disease. The valuable funds will help his lab pursue cutting-edge research for acute myeloid leukemia (AML) by targeting RNA slicing, a molecular pathway that Unnikrishnan’s lab has discovered is frequently altered in people with AML. Unnikrishnan is a renowned cancer researcher and the head of the molecular mechanisms in the leukemia laboratory at the Lowy Cancer Research Centre at the University of New South Wales.

Jason Simon Sheinkopf, EN03, is completing a master’s degree in computer science at Georgia Tech with a specialization in machine learning.

Renée Robichaux, LA03, penned a debut novel, Agent Gatz: A Great Gatsby Prequel (Loredan Publishing, September 2023). In the book, which Goodreads called “amazing historical fiction,” a young Jay Gatsby finds himself working as a foreign spy. The unexpected appearance of a woman from his past, famed journalist Ella Kaye, soon complicates his mission. Robichaux lives in Los Angeles and writes under the pen name R.M. Spencer.

Robin Wenneker, EMBA02, was elected chair of the University of Missouri Board of Curators, on which she has served since being appointed in 2020 by Missouri Gov. Mike Parson. Wenneker is managing partner of CPW Partnership, a family business that owns commercial, residential and agricultural land holdings. Earlier, she worked for Procter & Gamble, the 1996 Paralympic Games and Marketing Mix.