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Victoria Rabuse, AB ’18, married Michael Smyla on Oct. 14, 2023, in St. Paul, Minnesota, with numerous beloved WashU classmates in attendance. The couple resides in Chicago, where Rabuse works for Kohler Energy on the corporate communications team.

Emily Duggins Ehling, AB ’18, MFA ’24, has joined the Department of Theatre at the University of Missouri, where she is teaching, choreographing and developing a dance curriculum.

Brandi Pikes, JD ’18, was named as states counsel for President Joe Biden’s campaign. Pikes is providing legal advice and guidance on employment, contracts, campaign finance and other matters. Previously, Pikes worked as an associate attorney at Winston & Strawn and served as a federal law clerk for Vanessa D. Gilmore, then a U.S. district judge of […]

Kaiwen Ku, MArch ’18, MLArch ’18, was promoted to associate at CO Architects in Los Angeles. She has worked on projects at UCI Health and Wichita State University.

Karen Hinkley, JD ’18, joined Davis Hartman Wright as a partner in the firm’s litigation and appellate practice groups. In December 2023, Hinkley was admitted to practice in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina and certified by the North Carolina Dispute Resolution Commission. She was named to the 2024 North […]

Jacob Levitan, LA18, completed a master’s in international relations at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in 2023. Prior to that, he lived and worked in Kazakhstan from September 2019–February 2020 working in think tanks focusing on international relations, specifically Russia. After Kazakhstan, he worked at the Caspian Policy Center and International Conflict Resolution […]

Tasha Jordan, SW18, GR18, a seventh grade science teacher at Ferguson Middle School, was named Ferguson-Florissant School District’s Teacher of the Year for 2023. Jordan has been described as “a beacon of equity and creativity for her students by actively engaging them in lessons while pushing their critical thinking skills. She holds her students in […]

Shawntelle Fisher, SW18, founder and CEO of The SoulFisher Ministries, received a 2023 Women Trailblazer Award from the University of Missouri–St. Louis (UMSL). Honoring the achievements of exceptional UMSL women who have paved the way for others, the award is bestowed annually during Women’s History Month.

Maya Sorini, LA18, won the 2023 Press 53 Poetry Award for Boneheap in the Lion’s Den, which beat out almost 400 other manuscripts. Press 53 is publishing her book this month, and Sorini will receive a $1,000 advance and 53 copies.

Maya J. Sorini, LA18, is a student at Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine. She has taught at Columbia University in the narrative medicine program and continues to work as a freelance narrative medicine workshop facilitator. Her work has appeared in medical humanities and literary journals, including Intima and the Journal of the American Medical Society. […]