Class Notes: 2015
Becky Mancero ’15 has been promoted to partner at SPZ Legal, a boutique law firm representing high-growth startups. Since joining SPZ Legal in 2021, Becky has played a central role in the firm’s startup and venture capital practice, advising clients on entity formation, equity compensation, financing transactions, corporate governance, commercialization, and mergers and acquisitions. Prior to...
Joseph Godlewski ’15 published his newest book The Architecture of the Bight of Biafra: Spatial Entanglements with Routledge Press. Based on fieldwork and archival research conducted during his time at Cal, the book examines the intersection of race and the built environment in the region now known as southeastern Nigeria. Enmeshed in the history of slavery, colonialism, and the modern...
Matej Silecky is the Director of a documentary about Ukrainian history that began airing on PBS stations nationwide in April 2022, timing that coincided with Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The film, Baba Babee Skazala, tells the little-known story of Ukrainian children torn from their homes in the crush between the Nazi and Soviet fronts in World War II. The parallels of their experiences to those...
