Class Notes

Victoria Boren, OT11, hung up her scrubs in skilled nursing and home health care to take a full-time position as an academic fieldwork coordinator at Eastern Virginia Career College. She sometimes teaches labs, concepts in aging, concepts in mental health and a professional seminar at the school.

Ashlee (Minton) Vieregger, LW10, was named to the Des Moines Business Record’s 40 Under 40 list in 2020. She is vice president, managing wealth advisor at Bankers Trust Company in Des Moines, Iowa.

Balazs Martonffy, LA10, received the 2020 John McCain Dissertation Award at the 2020 Munich Security Conference. The award recognizes exceptional academic achievements in the field of political science, with an emphasis on the transatlantic relationship. Martonffy, who is a fellow at the International Center for Security and Leadership and an assistant professor at the National University of Public Service, won the award for his doctoral thesis analyzing why alliances find it more difficult to cooperate in peacetime: “Analysis Paralysis: Threat Perception and Incohesion in NATO, 1960–1980.”

Mark Hikin, GB10, LW10, is an associate with Sklar Kirsh, a corporate, real estate, entertainment, litigation and bankruptcy law firm with offices in Los Angeles and Pasadena, Calif.

Mark Haynes, GB10, is the manager of employee relations at Amazon. An attorney, he consults with business leaders on labor and employment policy across Amazon’s global operations. Previously, he worked at Boeing.

Brian Coleman, PMBA10, was promoted to principal at Baum Capital Partners, in Kansas City, Mo. Coleman works with business owners and managers, service providers, intermediaries and capital providers to originate, evaluate, execute and manage investments.

Dennis Cho, GL10, LW12, is the executive director of Sorin Corporation, a global trading company in the base metal and chemical industry headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.

Vir Singh, LA09, completed a residency in emergency medicine in the University of Central Florida Ocala Emergency Medicine Residency Program. He then began his career in Brownsville, Texas, where he is working in emergency department administration and operations. 

Alicia Bellezza-Watts, SW09, is the Atlanta chair of WashU Engage. The initiative, co-led by the Gephardt Institute and the Washington University Alumni Association, encourages alumni to engage in civic and community engagement opportunities in the cities where they live and work.

Paul Anderson, LA09, is associate general counsel, intellectual property, and commercial counsel at Forbes, Inc.