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Class Notes feature films, and currently concentrates his efforts on raising financing to bring projects he has developed at his own production company, Outside The Box Motion Pictures, to the screen. Prof. Jeremy Kagan '63 and Josh Siegel '92 on the set of "Shot" 1993 Karen Pittelman, author, social activist and musician, is also a writing coach (The Writers Remedy www.writersremedy.com.) In 2006 and 2007 she published, respectively, Classified: How to Stop Hiding Your Privilege and Use it for Social Change and Creating Change through Family Philanthropy: The Next Generation (Soft Skull Press). Karen's poetry has been published in Keyhole, Blip, The Pinch, New South, Sojourner, and Oberon. In 1999, she co-founded the Chahara Foundation, a fund run by and for low-income women activists in Boston, and, in 2012 she co-founded The Trans Justice Funding Project www.transjusticefundingproject.org, which supports grassroots trans-led groups across the country, and where she serves as Administrative Coordinator. Pittleman also writes songs for her Brooklyn-based queer country band Karen & The Sorrows http://www.karenandthesorrows.com whose album "The Names of Things" was voted one of Freeform American Roots Chart's best debut albums of 2014. 1994 Glenn Danas shared the news that in January 2015 he "was made a partner at my law firm, Capstone Law, APC in Los Angeles. In March 2015 I won a CLAY Award (California Lawyer Attorney of the Year) in Employment Law." Glenn, along with two Capstone colleagues, won a California Supreme Court decision invalidating employers' mandatory arbitration agreements that attempt to force employees to waive claims under the Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA). The CLAY Award is among the most prestigious given to California attorneys. 1995 James Grimmelmann focuses his writing on trying "to help lawyers and technologists understand each other." Examples can be found in articles on the Volkswagon emissions reporting scandal, and on Facebook conducting user-based research. After teaching at the University of Maryland School of Law he will join the faculty of Cornell Tech in fall 2016 "as the first law professor in residence there, living out my dream of collaborating directly with computer scientists and information scholars. Stage I will be helping launch Cornell's new LLM program in Law, Technology and Entrepreneurship." Dr. Jennifer Capla, a plastic surgeon, is one of the few in her field who is fellowship-trained in body contouring after weight loss surgery. Her patients have included contestants on the reality television show "The Biggest Loser." In spring 2015 she undertook her most challenging case ever: spear-heading and performing excess skin removal surgery on Paul Mason who was once the world's heaviest man. Dr. Capla's work was covered by the New York Times, CBS News, the BBC and more. Mason's experience was covered on "The View" and was the subject of a TLC special. http://www.nytimes. com/2015/04/23/us/paul-mason-weight-losssurgery.html?_r=0 Photo credit: northshorelij.com Stella Lee is a partner in the architectural firm Bureau V, which designed the exciting new music performance, recording and creative space National Sawdust in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Lee is married to architect Marcus Jacobi. The couple are the parents of 3-year-old Lucas (pictured here). 1996 Save the Date, September 24, 2016, for HM Homecoming and the 20th Reunion of the Class of 1996. Emily GeorgeNeugeborn and Ian Neugeborn welcomed to the world their daughter, Eloise Byrd Neugeborn, born 7/15/15 at 7:14 a.m. weighing 6 pounds 1.4 ounces. Emily Stern McKeogh and her husband Christopher McKeogh welcomed their first child, Matthew Henry, on December 6, 2014. Ephram Lustgarten and his wife Sara were excited to announce the arrival of Chloe Arielle Lustgarten, on July 25, 2015, at 10:57pm, 7 lbs 15.5 oz, 20 inches. Joelle (HM 2030) enjoys playing with her copper-blonde little sister. Carolyn Nurnberg Spungin and Scott Spungin welcomed their son Benjamin Ryan on November 14, 2014. He joined big sister Lindsay Jana. Kira Orange Jones was recognized in 2015 as one of TIME Magazine's "100 Most Influential People." Describing her work with Teach for America in New Orleans TIME editor Walter Isaacson wrote: "... among the amazing aspects of the comeback of New Orleans is the reinvention of its school system...Kira Orange Jones, a Bronx native, was one of the critical engines of innovation. As Teach for America's executive director in New Orleans, she attracted educators from across the U.S. and developed ways for reformers, community members and veteran teachers to respect and learn from one another. To preserve the reforms, she ran for Louisiana's board of education and upset an entrenched incumbent... Since 2005, the ontime graduation rate has gone from over 50% to nearly 75%, the number going to college has more than doubled, and New Orleans now outperforms cities like Chicago, Denver and Miami on ACT tests." Anthony Ramirez II, John Martin and Greig Bennett work together these days, Horace Mann Magazine Summer 2016 53 http://james.grimmelmann.net/ http://www.nbc.com/the-biggest-loser http://www.writersremedy.com http://www.keyholepress.com/magazine/ http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/23/us/paul-mason-weight-loss-surgery.html?_r=0 http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/23/us/paul-mason-weight-loss-surgery.html?_r=0 http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/23/us/paul-mason-weight-loss-surgery.html?_r=0 http://www.transjusticefundingproject.org http://www.transjusticefundingproject.org http://www.karenandthesorrows.com http://www.karenandthesorrows.com http://www.tcmnradio.com/far/far_best2014.htm http://www.tcmnradio.com/far/far_best2014.htm http://www.northshorelij.com

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