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Class Notes: 1985

Class of 1985 Christina G. Cordoza

Christina G. Cordoza ’85, an attorney in the Walnut Creek office of Littler, the world’s largest employment and labor law practice representing management, has been elevated to shareholder, effective January 1, 2025. Across its U.S., Mexico and Singapore offices, the firm elevated 28 attorneys to shareholder status. Cordoza is a trusted legal adviser to business owners, in-house counsel, and...

Class of 1985 Barry Zellen

Barry Zellen, M.A. ’85 writes: On July 26, 2024, my 14th book, Arctic Exceptionalism: Cooperation in a Contested World, a structural realist analysis of the enduring geopolitical roots of Arctic cooperation and the stabilizing impact of the fourth image (indigenous polities and tribal dynamics) on Arctic international relations, came to press (Boulder: Lynne Rienner Books, 335 pages).

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Class of 1985 Susannah Kennedy

Author Susannah Kennedy's memoir will be published September 12, 2023, by new women's publishing company Sibylline Press. Kennedy was a student at U.C. Berkeley and earned her BA with honors in political science in 1985.  

Daring to "read" Jane-45 years of her mother's hidden diaries-after Jane's death is like unlatching Pandora's Box. For a year, Susannah...

Class of 1985 John Randall “Randy” Stephenson

John Randall "Randy" Stephenson is pleased to announce the publication of his first book entitled: "Blood In Your Boots: Navy SEAL Stories from the Silver Strand (1957-1967)". The book consists of a series of true stories about his father, Capt. John M. "Maxie" Stephenson, Jr. USNR, who served as an officer and operator in Navy SEAL Team One and Underwater Demolition Team 12 from 1957 to 1967...

Class of 1985 Patrick Slavin

Patrick Slavin has accepted a letter of appointment as the Communications Lead at the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. Previously he worked for the United Nations for 25 years, serving in Pakistan, Jerusalem, Haiti, New York, and across Africa. 

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