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Judge Gardner III, EN07, was promoted to assistant to the president and CEO of Atlanta Gas Light and Chattanooga Gas. Previously, he was director of corporate safety at Nicor Gas. Gardner, his wife, Dominique, and their two young daughters, Isabella (6) and Lindsey (1), have relocated from Chicago to Atlanta.

Jessica Pryde, LA07, published her first book, a collection of essays titled Black Love Matters: Real Talk on Romance, Being Seen, and Happily Ever Afters (­Berkley, ­February 2022). Pryde writes that her studies in the Interdisciplinary Project in the ­Humanities and the undergraduate honors fellowship at WashU spurred her desire to gather and edit this […]

Leana Wen, MD07, wrote Lifelines: A Doctor’s Journey in the Fight for Public Health (Metropolitan Books, July 2021). Much of the book focuses on the work Wen did in Baltimore to tackle the opioid epidemic, improve maternal and child health, and address violence as a public health issue.

Rebecca S. Silverman, LA07, earned a master of public health degree from the University of Illinois Chicago in May 2021.

Daniel Mamah, GM07, was tapped for the Dr. John M. Anderson Excellence in Mental Health Award by the St. Louis American Foundation/St. Louis Children’s Service Fund for his significant contributions in the field of behavioral health. He is the founder and director of the Washington Early Recognition Center at the School of Medicine, which identifies and treats young people in the […]

Rebecca Lester, SW07, earned a 2021 Eileen Basker Memorial Prize Honorable Mention from the Society for Medical Anthropology for Famished: Eating Disorders and Failed Care in America (University of California Press, November 2021). Lester is a professor of sociocultural anthropology at WashU.

Mario Treto Jr., LA07, is acting secretary of the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation, having been named by Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker and with approval by the Illinois Senate pending. In this role, he oversees the regulation of over 1.2 million licenses for doctors, nurses, pharmacists, real estate agents and cosmetologists; almost 200 state-charter […]

Rory Lucey, FA07, illustrated Bad Sister (First Second Books, July 2021), a middle-grade graphic novel by Charise Mericle Harper. Lucey lives in New Jersey with his wife and two cats.

Danielle Barav-Johnson, LA07, joined Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton as counsel on the firm’s bankruptcy and financial restructuring team in Atlanta. Previously, Barav-Johnson was with Jones Day.

Joe Shumow, LA07, was selected for inclusion in the 2021 edition of The Best Lawyers in America. Shumow is a real estate attorney with Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren s.c., based in the firm’s Madison, Wis., office.