Class Notes

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?

Joseph D. Shumow, LW07, a shareholder and chair of the Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren real estate practice, was included on the 2023 The Best Lawyers in Americalist.

Orly Henry, LA07, an attorney, was named a shareholder at Littler’s Chicago office. Henry is a litigator who defends the interests of employers in a wide variety of employment matters, with a particular focus on biometric data privacy issues, restrictive covenants and trade secrets.

Catherine Kelly, LA06, was appointed associate dean of academic affairs and professor of justice and rule of law at the Africa Center for Strategic Studies, an academic institution within the U.S. Department of Defense. She frequently travels to Africa for executive-level programming with senior African military and civilian officials.

Crystal M. Moten, LA04, joined the Obama Presidential Center Museum as its inaugural curator of collections and exhibitions in October 2022. Her book titled Continually Working: Black Women, Community Intellectualism and Economic Justice in Postwar Milwaukee(Vanderbilt University Press) was released in March.