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Dipak Rajhansa, AB ’92, was elected chairman of the board of Feeding Northeast Florida. FNEFL covers a 12-county area distributing 35 million pounds of food and serving over 270,000 food insecure individuals annually.

Patsy McNeil, AB ’92, began a fulfilling career in emergency medicine and health care after graduating from Vanderbilt Medical School in 1996. She is currently the executive vice president, second in command, and system chief medical officer of Adventist Healthcare, a health-care organization near Washington, D.C., that is headquartered in Gaithersburg, Maryland.

Edya Kalev, AB ’92, is currently living in New York City and teaching gentle self-care called The MELT Method. The care involves gentle massaging techniques along with soft tools that increases fluid flow through the body’s connective tissue, reducing pain, stiffness, stress and tension. She also taught MELT classes in Nicaragua in a retreat center […]

Benjamin S. Abella, AB ’92, was appointed the Mount Sinai Professor and System Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. In this role, he has oversight responsibility for the seven emergency medicine clinical sites and two emergency medicine residency programs in the Mount Sinai Health System […]

Eric Schnall’s debut novel, I Make Envy on Your Disco (Zero Street/UNP, May 2024), has won the 2024 Barbara DiBernard Prize in Fiction. Schnall, AB ’92, is also a theatrical producer who won the Tony Award for the Broadway revival of Hedwig and the Angry Inch and the Lucille Lortel Award for Fleabag. (For more on Schnall, see the 2017 Washington Magazine […]

Zachary Hemmelgarn, AB ’92, is director of design and projects for Cipriani. Previously, he worked for 20 years with the designer Thierry Despont in Tribeca, New York. There he was project architect for the renovation of the Hotel Ritz in Paris, along with other prominent commissions. Hemmelgarn has one son who is a junior at […]

Paul Ruggieri, HS92, recently published his sixth book, Confessions of a Surgeon: A Deeper Cut. It is a memoir about his experiences as a surgeon.

Jordan Forman, BU92, was named partner at Fox Rothschild’s Atlanta office. Forman represents and defends businesses in contract claims and the full range of commercial disputes.

DL Warfield, FA92, was commissioned to design the in-ground bronze casted monuments for the Black Music & Entertainment Walk of Fame, located in front of Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta. The second induction year ceremony was held Feb. 28, 2023. The walk of fame has inducted icons including James Brown, Michael Jackson, Prince, Beyoncé, Stevie Wonder, […]

Beth Hendler-Grunt, BU92, the founder and president of Next Great Step, penned The Next Great Step: The Parents’ Guide to Launching Your New Grad Into a Career(Merack Publishing, September 2022). As the mom of a recent college graduate and a college sophomore, she has firsthand experience. She has been featured in The Wall Street Journal […]