Brandeis Magazine

Nicholas Brown is a member of the Maryland State Library Agency board.

Chao Huang is assistant general counsel/investor relations specialist at Provident Bank.

Tegan Kehoe is the research and adult program director at the Paul Revere Memorial Association, which oversees the Paul Revere House, in Boston’s North End neighborhood.

Faith Leener is the inaugural chief innovation officer at the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies, in Jerusalem.

Arun Narayanan is the author of the children’s picture book “Saving Santa” (Scoot Comics, 2023), which humorously portrays Santa Claus as the conflicted CEO of a modern business enterprise.

Geriatrician Ria Roberts is medical director at the Lowell (Massachusetts) Community Health Center’s Program for Healthy Aging.

Daniel Acheampong is on the board of directors of American Student Assistance, a nonprofit headquartered in Boston that helps middle and high school students make informed choices about their education and career goals. Daniel is co-founder of and general partner at venture capital firm Visible Hands.

Mitchell H. Berkowitz is associate rabbi at B’nai Israel Congregation in Rockville, Maryland.

Rachel Berman-Vaporis celebrated the birth of daughter Aelia Dvora on Sept. 19, 2023.

Jordan Caruso and Michelle Gellman welcomed their first son, Isaac Theodore Caruso, on Sept. 29, 2023.

Mark Garibyan is special counsel at law firm Schulte Roth & Zabel, based in its New York City office.

Kyle Gross is managing director at Citizens Private Bank, which provides high-touch client service to high-net-worth individuals, families, and businesses.

Aaron Louison, Heller MBA’17, and wife Lisa welcomed a daughter, Isabella Joy, on July 1, 2023.

Arielle Schwartz and Rick Alterbaum ’12, Heller MBA/MPP’16, welcomed their son, Benjamin Avi Alterbaum, on Oct. 6, 2023.

Samuel Datlof is a member of the labor law practice group at Willig, Williams & Davidson in Philadelphia. Formerly, he advocated for immigrant workers as the lead employment attorney at Justice at Work Pennsylvania.

Tova Katims and husband Evan celebrated the birth of daughter Riley Sage on Aug. 1, 2023.

Andrew Weissenberg is counsel at law firm Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney, based in New York City. Andrew focuses his practice on health-care transactional matters and regulatory compliance.

On Dec. 4, 2023, Josh and Elizabeth Fields Asen welcomed their second child, Leo Ray, who joins big sister Lily.

Rishika Assomull reports that, after making her debut on a Sotheby’s rostrum at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, she is now the first South Asian female auctioneer in the Far East. She also serves as a deputy director and senior specialist of modern art at Sotheby’s.

Candice Bautista-Biddle and wife Martha welcomed son Ridgely Mallari — “a giggly, smiley boy,” says Candice — on June 28, 2023.

Lydia Emmanouilidou and several colleagues earned the Daphne Caruana Galizia Prize for Journalism from the European Parliament for a multimedia investigation into the shipwreck off Pylos, Greece, that killed hundreds of migrants in June last year.

Earlier this year, public health researcher Jennifer Mandelbaum, running as a Democrat, was elected to fill a vacant New Hampshire House of Representatives seat, representing Newington and Portsmouth. In other news, she received the 2023 Early Career Award from the American Public Health Association’s public health education and health promotion section.

Last September, Hispanic Executive magazine named Beatriz Lopez to its 2023 30 Under 30 list. Beatriz is a senior multicultural and digital marketing manager at the Boston Red Sox organization.

Adam Ossip and Abbie Denemark Ossip ’16 celebrated the birth of their second son, Noah.

No Class Notes submissions this issue.

Amanda Anderson, who earned a PhD in women’s, gender, and sexuality studies from Emory University, is an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in African American Studies at Wesleyan University.

Eric Moyal, IBS MA’18, Rabb MS’22, is the founder and executive director of Project Insulin, a nonprofit based in Providence, Rhode Island, that seeks to give Americans access to affordable insulin.

Zhechen Meng, IBS MA’19, who owns six restaurants in Shanghai, in November 2023 hosted an alumni event at one of them with Maowei Zhu, IBS MA’06. About 50 alums enjoyed the food and wine, and the company.

Elizabeth Tilden has a fellowship at the National Institute on Aging, part of the National Institutes of Health, to research how aging and sleep impact cognitive functioning.

Andrew David Jacobson was interviewed last October on the NPR news program “All Things Considered” while he and a friend were sheltering in Tel Aviv after the Hamas attacks.

Morris Nadjar, IBS MA’20, married Sophia Abed on Sept. 5, 2023, in Brooklyn.