Class Notes: 1996
Peggy Li '96 has one of her jewelry creations featured in the upcoming film from Searchlight Pictures - The Supremes at Earl's All You Can Eat. Costume designer Whitney Anne Adams selected Peggy's Eye of the Sun Necklace to be worn throughout the film by the character of Barbara Jean, played by actress Sanaa Lathan. The movie, based on the novel by Edward Kelsey Moore and directed by Tina Mabry,...
Jill Cheng (BA Architecture, 1996), AIA, LEED AP BD+C, was recently promoted to Associate Principal at Los Angeles firm CO Architects. She has more than 20 years of experience in planning, design, and project management in institutional projects, include healthcare, higher education, justice, and K-12 facilities. A member of the firm from 2001-2017, Jill rejoined CO Architects in 2020 to lead the...
Devin Reese has always had a thing about turtles. Thanks to her Cal Berkeley training as a herpetologist (reptile and amphibian researcher), Devin has written the first scholarly book that's entirely about tortoises. She drafted it with Dr. George R. Zug, Smithsonian Emeritus, to offer up everything you'd want to know, plus things you wouldn't care to know, about the Testudinidae, the unique...
After graduating with a degree in Political Science, Cara Houser spent 20 years learning how to survive and ultimately thrive in the ultra-male, pressure cooker real estate development business. During that time, her teams produced over 3,000 homes in the San Francisco Bay Area, creating over $1.5B in value. Now she is a career strategist and empowerment coach helping high impact women leaders...
Melinda Ng's debut novel Mattie and the Machine has been released by Santa Monica Press (under the pen name Lynn Ng Quezon). The YA historical is a fictionalized account of 19th century inventor Margaret Knight's journey to obtaining her first patent.
Publishers Weekly wrote this about the book:
Nineteenth-century inventor Margaret "Mattie" E. Knight (1838-1914) struggles to win legal...
Michael Neuman, Ph.D. ’96, writes: “Happy to say I’ve moved to Point Reyes, where I kayak, swim, run, hike, and bike regularly; volunteer with several nonprofits; and see Byron Miller Ch.E. ’77. My sixth and seventh books, Handbook of Regional Design and Sustainable Infrastructure for Cities and Societies, came out last year after Engendering Cities was published in 2020, all by...
