Class Notes

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.

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.