Class Notes

Yvonne Osei, GA16, has her work on display through Jan. 1, 2024, at the Saint Louis Art Museum’s The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century. Osei is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans performance art, video, photography, textile design, garment construction and site-specific installations. In demand as a speaker, she has been a visiting scholar at universities in Ghana, Kansas and Indiana and given a TEDx talk in St. Louis. Osei also leads training sessions for business professionals at COCAbiz.

Emma Tyler, LA15, started work at the Environmental Protection Agency as the deputy associate administrator for house affairs.

Jeffrey Lee, GA15, Christopher Taurasi, GA15, and Lexi White, GA15, founders of Level Studio Architecture, recently won the 2023 Forge Prize for their EV Charging Infrastructure Concept. Their concept is defined by striking steel canopies that offer shade and vistas in an engaging space that loops and takes about 15 minutes to explore. The trio has been working together since meeting at WashU 10 years ago and is a little over a year into formalizing their office. They state there is no doubt that their dedication to materiality and craft shares a lineage to their time studying at Sam Fox.

Britt England, LW13, took a new role as commercial attorney and director for Flagship Facility Services, Inc., after more than 10 years of legal, contracts and business experience. She has a law license in D.C. and recently volunteered with the WashU Law 10-year reunion committee as class giving leader, raising donations from alumni for the annual fund.

Dennis James Sweeney, LA10, penned You’re the Woods Too (Essay Press, May 2023). Formally inventive and grounded in personal story, You’re the Woods lives in the thicket where the forest becomes human and the human becomes a journey into intimacy, flight and the need to find ourselves in the natural world.

Lauren Elizabeth Peters, LA10, wrote Fashion Before Plus-Size: Bodies, Bias, and the Birth of an Industry (Bloomsbury Academic, July 2023). It is the first book to trace the origins and history of plus-size fashion and the nature and evolution of weight bias in the fashion industry. Peters is an assistant professor in the Fashion Studies Department at Columbia College Chicago.

Mai-Lan Ho, MD08, was promoted to professor of radiology at the University of Missouri in 2022. This year, she was named vice chair of operations and innovation, medical director of radiology, physician director of radiology informatics, and division director of neuroradiology at the university. She lectures for national/international radiology societies and has served as a visiting professor in Sweden, Brazil, Vietnam, Ghana, Netherlands and Thailand. Ho is currently editing her fourth book on child neurology after publishing Neuroradiology Signs in 2014, The AAWR Pocket Mentor in 2021 and Pediatric Neuroimaging: State-of-the-Art in 2021.

Christopher Luna, BS07, LW10, has joined Foster Garvey as of counsel in their tax and benefits practice group. He advises clients on a wide array of income tax and transactional matters.

Michelle Smirnova, LA06, penned The Prescription-to-Prison Pipeline: The Medicalization and Criminalization of Pain (Duke University Press, March 2023). The book presents compelling data to examine how the relationships among trauma, physical pain, medical care, crime, drug use and incarceration are interwoven and
co-created. It tells stories that humanize those who are often demonized in popular imagination. Smirnova is associate professor of sociology and affiliate faculty of race, ethnic and gender studies at the University of Missouri–Kansas City.

Lauren (Miller) Hoye, SW06, a partner with Willig, Williams & Davidson, was named a 2023 Pennsylvania Super Lawyer. Hoye advocates for labor unions and individual employees before state and federal courts around the country. She is an arbitrator in the compulsory arbitration program of the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas and is a volunteer with the Support Center for Child Advocates, representing abused children in the child welfare system.