Class Notes

Alexandra Deeley, LW14, and Aaron C. Trump, LW14, celebrated the birth of their first child, William Foster Trump, in 2023. They are excited to share that Foster is healthy and quickly growing.

Arif Soto, GR11, advises clients on capital-raising transactions, general corporate and securities matters, corporate governance, stock exchange listings, mergers and acquisitions, and federal and state securities law compliance. In addition, he counsels public company clients on 1933 Act compliance and ongoing 1934 Act reporting obligations, stock exchange rules and other compliance matters.

Ashley (Pearson) Hoolihan, AIA,GA11, SI11,was named to Building Design + Construction’s (BD+C) elite 40 Under 40 class of 2023. She is LEED green associate and project manager and associate at Trivers, a St. Louis–based architecture, planning, urban design and interiors firm. Hoolihan worked on several WashU building projects including the Women’s Building renovation, which won a Merit Award from AIA St. Louis. She also worked on the January Hall and Umrath Hall renovations. Hoolihan served as the Society for College and University Planning 2023 North Central Regional Conference chair and previously as an adjunct lecturer at WashU.

Stephen Hoeplinger, LW09, was named as counsel in the Capes Sokol litigation practice group. He has legal background in real estate and employment litigation, representing businesses and individuals. Previously, Hoeplinger served as an assistant attorney general with the Office of the Attorney General for the State of Missouri.

Emilie Boone, GR08, had her first book, A Nimble Arc: James Van Der Zee and Photography (Duke University Press, September 2023), published. The book explores Van Der Zee’s photographic work over the course of the 20th century, showing how it foregrounded aspects of Black daily life in the United States and in the larger African diaspora.

David Addison, EMBA08, recently joined Guy Carpenter & Co. as managing director, head of life and annuities, Americas. Guy Carpenter is the insurance brokerage arm of the Marsh McLennan group of companies.

Shreepada Tripathy, LA07, was promoted to associate professor of medicine at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine in Springfield, Illinois, in May 2022. He joined SIU in 2016 as an assistant professor and is board certified in pediatrics.

Faye Raquel Gleisser, LA06, was promoted to associate professor of contemporary art and critical theory at Indiana University, Bloomington. Additionally, she wrote Risk Work: Making Art and Guerrilla Tactics in Punitive America, 1967-1987 (University of Chicago Press, October 2023).

Katherine Karr-Cornejo, LA05, was promoted to professor of Spanish at Whitworth University in Spokane, Washington. She has been at the university since 2012.

Alison Small, LA04, is head of film at Brownstone Productions and helped the studio produce Cocaine Bear and Bottoms. The successful movies helped Brownstone play a significant role in bringing back the R-rated comedy, which has struggled to gain traction in the past years. Small told Variety magazine that the challenge of an R-rated movie “is that whenever there’s something that’s perceived as a failure, it just makes it harder and harder to get similar types of movies made.” Small had previous roles at Paramount Pictures, DreamWorks SKG and Warner Bros. Television Group.