Class Notes: 2003
Jenny Yu ’03 has joined national law firm Epstein Becker Green in Los Angeles as a member of the firm’s Employment, Labor & Workforce Management practice. A courtroom veteran at the state and district court levels, Yu is an experienced employment litigator who focuses on wage and hour matters, class actions, representative actions under PAGA, wrongful termination claims, and more....
Pablo Sergio Serrato ’03 has been promoted to Chief Intelligence & Insights Officer at Iron Light, a public affairs company recognized as Campaigns & Elections' Public Affairs Firm of the Year for 2024, as well as Inc. 5000 Honoree for 2023, and 2024. In his new role, Pablo is instrumental in helping clients engage audiences, motivate voters, and solve wicked problems by leading a team...
Bamieh & De Smeth, PLC, a law firm with offices in Santa Barbara and Ventura, is celebrating 10 years of serving the Santa Barbara community. Danielle De Smeth ’03, a Ventura County native and Santa Barbara resident, joined the firm in 2013 and opened the Santa Barbara office two years later. She became managing partner in 2019 and helped expand the firm’s civil and family law practice...
Dr. Haleh Massey ’03 writes: "On August 26, 2025, my debut middle grade graphic novel, Say Something, Poupeh Babaee! (Little Bee), illustrated by Ghazal Qadri, will be published. The story follows an Iranian girl who develops selective mutism after being separated from her parents due to the 2017 Muslim travel ban. While it is a deeply personal and culturally specific story, the themes are...
Lisa Quiroga graduated from UC Berkeley with a degree in English in 2003. Fifteen years later, her life turned upside down when her father died in a car accident in summer 2018. While sorting his belongings, she found two old shoeboxes full of handwritten letters. Not knowing what they were, she took them all home in a plastic tote and promptly forgot about them.
During the Covid outbreak,...
Dr. Colin D. Dewey (BA English '03; PhD Cornell '11) will begin a year-long sabbatical in 2023 following promotion to Professor of English and Chair of the Department of Culture and Communication at CSU Maritime Academy in Vallejo, CA. His work on maritime culture in the long eighteenth century combines traditional academic research with his three decades as a merchant seafarer before coming...
