Class Notes

Matthew Mangini, LA10, completed an orthopaedic surgery residency at San Antonio Uniformed Services Health Education Consortium in San Antonio, Texas, and is serving on active duty for the U.S. Army as an orthopaedic surgeon at William Beaumont Army Medical Center in El Paso, Texas.

Mark Hikin, LW10, GB10, recently joined Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc., as vice president-real estate legal affairs.

Nicolas Novick Goldstein, LA10, is a resident physician at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

Scott Friedman, LA10, and his wife, Lindsey, founded Tot Travel Kit to make family travel with infants and toddlers easier. Tot Travel Kit delivers the supplies tots need — including diapers, toiletries, snacks and toys — to families wherever they are staying. Website: https://TotTravelKit.com

Ekta Prakash Desai, GA10, was named partner, design lead and a top four leader at SchenkelShultz Architecture. She has been with the Orlando, Fla., firm since 2018. 

Lauren Kupersmith, LW09, SW09, shared news of the birth of a daughter, Kaycen Dalia. The family lives in the Washington, D.C., suburbs, where Kupersmith works as a federal prosecutor in the Department of Justice’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section.

Jessica Kronstadt, LW09, became the 101st president of the Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles. Her parents, The Hon. John Kronstadt and Justice Helen Bendix, administered the oath and swore her into office. The organization advocates for women attorneys, women judges, persons of color, the disadvantaged and the underrepresented in Southern California. Kronstadt is a deputy district attorney with the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office.

Adam Greenstein, EN08, was honored in November 2020 by the Washington, D.C., section of the Institute of Transportation Engineers, which tapped him for the Amy Polk and Selman Altun Young Professional of the Year Award. 

Joe Shumow, LA07, was selected for inclusion in the 2021 edition of The Best Lawyers in America. Shumow is a real estate attorney with Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren s.c., based in the firm’s Madison, Wis., office.

Donghoon Lee, EN07, EN07, SI07, is an assistant professor in the genetics and genomic sciences and the psychiatry departments at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. His research focuses on computational psychiatric genomics.