Class Notes

Emma Tyler, LA15, was promoted to associate director for governmental affairs in the Office of the Secretary of Transportation. As a presidential appointee, Tyler supports Secretary Pete Buttigieg’s engagements with members of Congress and the implementation of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.

Zack Kessinger, BU15, LW18, an All-American college baseball player at WashU, was selected to be the next associate counsel for the Texas Rangers baseball team at their stadium in Arlington, Texas.

Catherine (Rafferty-Millett) Quatrano, LA12, and Alexander Quatrano, LA12, welcomed a second child, David Ralph Quatrano, in October 2022. David shares his middle name with his great-grandfather Ralph Quatrano, emeritus dean and the Spencer T. Olin Professor Emeritus of Biology. 

Andy DeSoto, GR11, GR15, the newly appointed senior adviser for the social, behavioral and economic sciences directorate of the National Science Foundation, is working to establish partnerships within and outside of NSF to grow these sciences opportunities to advance the NSF’s mission.

Laura Mart, FA10, was promoted to associate curator at Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles. She co-curated the original exhibition “‘I’ll Have What She’s Having’: The Jewish Deli,” which had national tour stops in New York City (New York Historical Society); Houston (Holocaust Museum Houston); and Skokie, Ill. (Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center).

Kate (Lincoff) Lewis, LW09, who practices family law in Denver, recently completed the Leadville 100 Mile endurance race and the Crested Butte 55. She is married to Adam Lewis, LW09, who also practices in Denver. Both were named to the 2023 Best Colorado Lawyers list in their chosen fields, and Kate was also recognized as a Super Lawyer 2022. They have two children.

Patrick Burden, LA09, spoke at the 12th International Conference on Health, Wellness & Society at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. His topic, prioritizing wholeness, addressed strategies for wellness practice in medical schools.

Ian Weaver, GF08, had a solo exhibition, “WAKE: Ian Weaver,” at Fort Worth (Texas) Contemporary Arts, August-September 2022. His work explores memory, considering how individuals and communities, specifically the Black Bottom area of Chicago’s West Side, construct their own identities. When large parts of this multiethnic community were destroyed in the 1950s to construct an expressway, residents lost much of their material history.

Elisabeth Rennell Hosmer, EN08, was selected as a 2022 Society of Women Engineers Emerging Leader in recognition of her outstanding leadership skills and significant accomplishments in the field of engineering. One of only 10 recipients to be so honored, she was recognized at the organization’s October 2022 national conference

Jeffrey Binder, LA08, wrote Language and the Rise of the Algorithm (University of Chicago Press, November 2022), a history of the idea of algorithm from the 16th century to the rise of machine learning. The book reveals how recent developments in artificial intelligence are reopening an issue that troubled mathematicians well before the computer age: How do you draw the line between computational rules and the complexities of making systems comprehensible to people?