Class Notes

Jennifer Gormley, LA07, is working in substance abuse prevention for a nonprofit in southwest Oklahoma. She has one son.

Anne (Newsome) Wynter, LA06, authored a children’s book that will be released this fall: Everybody in the Red Brick Building (Balzer + Bray, October 2021). The picture book tells the story of an apartment building and the dynamic city sounds that awaken residents until soothing city sounds lull them back to sleep

Ashley Hairston Doughty, FA06, is an assistant professor of art at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Also a designer and storyteller, she incorporates socioeconomic, racial and gender-based issues in her work.

Nicholas Zagar, GF05, an associate broker with CARR, has completed over 1,000 real estate transactions since the start of his career. He works with landlords and commercial and health-care tenants in office and retail leasing, priding himself on his “design eye” and ability to guide clients from start to finish.

Shannon Puopolo, LA05, a stockholder in Henderson, Franklin, Starnes & Holt, P.A., was honored by Business Observer magazine, which named her to its 40 Under 40 list. Puopolo is chair of the law firm’s hiring committee and focuses her practice on complex business litigation.

Vincent Flewellen, SW05, chief diversity officer at Webster University, was selected by St. Louis Business Journal as a member of its 2020 Class of Diverse Business Leaders.

Alexis (Bergman) Wintrob, LA04, tapped into her work in perfumery and forecasting global beauty and fragrance trends at Procter & Gamble to write and self-publish a children’s book, Za Za’s Scent-Sational Super Power (2020). She operates ADB Consulting, a strategy, trends and fragrance consultancy.

Abigail Dumes, LA04, authored Divided Bodies: Lyme Disease, Contested Illness, and Evidence-Based Medicine (Duke University Press, 2020 ). The book explores the Lyme disease controversy, shedding light on the relationship between contested illness and evidence-based medicine in the United States. Dumes is assistant professor of women’s and gender studies at the University of Michigan.

Deia Schlosberg, LA03, FA03, is film director/producer for Pale Blue Dot Media, a New York City–based film and media production company. She was the director, producer and cinematographer for The Story of Plastic, which aired on the Discovery Channel in April 2020.

Avital Livny, LA02, penned Trust and the Islamic Advantage: Religious-Based Movements in Turkey and the Muslim World (Cambridge University Press, 2020), which is based on her dissertation research. She writes that she can see a clear thread from her course work at WashU to her research and teaching today. Livny is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.