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David Perlman, BSBA ’04, relocated with his family from New York City to Auckland, New Zealand, to raise their two young children and secure permanent residency, providing a strong Plan B in the face of accelerating climate change.

Mike McKeon, JD ’04, joined the law firm of Segal McCambridge as a shareholder in 2025. He works out of the Philadelphia office and specializes in commercial litigation, product liability and personal injury defense matters. While working full time as an attorney, McKeon also served as an elected official and represented residents of Lower Merion […]

Sara Reardon, AB ’04, DPT ’07, a board-certified pelvic floor physical therapist who has been helping women with pelvic floor dysfunction, released her first book, FLOORED: A Woman’s Guide to Pelvic Floor Health at Every Age and Stage (Harper Collins Publishing, June 2025). FLOORED is a rallying cry for women’s health and a guide for […]

Tatum Getty, BSBA ’04, is a founding general partner of THENA Capital, a specialist venture capital firm backing early-stage UK-based medical technology startups. In March, the firm announced the first close of its inaugural UK medtech fund backed by the British Business Bank. As well as providing capital, THENA works closely with startups to bring […]

Florencia (Smith) Robertson, MSOT ’04, penned Unexpected: A Novel of Change and Friendship (Writeway Publishing, September 2024). The fictional novel finds a 40-plus-year-old woman at the door of a career-changing promotion, but an unexpected pregnancy shatters her confidence. A poor start to nursing her baby lands her in a lactation support group where she acquires […]

Sam Hirst, AB ’04, wrote Against the Liberal Order: The Soviet Union, Turkey, and Statist Internationalism, 1919-1939 (Oxford University Press, June 2024). The book grew directly out of his studies in history and Russian at WashU. Hirst is an assistant professor of international relations at Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey.

Ryan Nieuwendaal, AM ’04, PhD ’08, recently celebrated his 15th year of service at the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) Materials Science and Engineering Division. Nieuwendaal started as an NRC-NIST postdoc after graduating from WashU and has been employed at NIST ever since. In May 2025, he will serve as chair of the Practical […]

Diane M. Steinkamp, MBA ’04, married Darin L. Schreier on Sept. 9, 2023, in Steinkamp’s hometown of Centralia, Illinois. The couple, who live in St. Louis, honeymooned on the island of St. Lucia. Diane is a vice president and privately held investment manager at Commerce Trust, a division of Commerce Bank, and Darin is the mechanical […]

Ryan Lawson, BFA ’04, was named to Architectural Digest’s AD100 2024 list, which recognizes the top talents in interior decoration, architecture and landscape design. Lawson and the interior design firm he founded in 2005 have become known for sophisticated, layered interiors that convey a sense of having been collected and refined over many years but […]

Victoria Houseman, PhD ’04, an associate professor of history at the University of Wisconsin–River Falls, penned a biography on the classicist Edith Hamilton titled American Classicist: The Life and Loves of Edith Hamilton (Princeton University Press, October 2023). Hamilton was the author of The Greek Way and Mythology among other works.