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Michelle A. Kawka graduated with her MBA in health-care administration from Post University in Waterbury, Connecticut, in May 2026. She works as the senior manager for strategic partnerships at Post University, helping health-care workers, especially RNs, achieve bachelor’s, master’s, nurse practitioner, and doctorate degrees.  Michelle lives in upper Manhattan with her husband, Robert Johnston, and enjoys spending time at their house in the Poconos, horseback riding, swimming in the lake, and enjoying nature. 

Brook Wilensky-Lanford’s second book came out in June—A God-Shaped Nation: Five Hundred Years of Religion in America (Grove Press)! It’s a big one, and it took her 10 years to write, so she is now also celebrating having some time on her hands.  

From August 7 to September 27, Elsie Kagan presented her solo art show, the drop falls,in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Elsie’s fluid, AI–informed landscapes explored the evolving relationship between human creativity, artificial intelligence, and the natural world. Elsie is founder and executive director of Interlude Artist Residency, a nonprofit that supports artists and their families. She and Carl Robichaud (at Longview Philanthropy) live in South Park Slope, Brooklyn, with their three children.

After seven years building the organization and team at Beyond Plastics with former US EPA regional administrator Judith Enck, Eve Fox moved on to a new adventure in the waste reduction/reuse/refill/ overconsumption movement as the development and marketing director of The Story of Stuff Project this summer. She is thrilled to see her former Beyond Plastics colleague, Megan Wolff’s new organization, P-SNAP (The Physician and Scientist Network Addressing Plastics and Health), taking off. Eve ran into Claire Tranchese at the 50th reunion of the Abode of the Message, a Sufi community in New Lebanon, New York, last summer. Eve continues to write a weekly roundup of good news to help combat the emotional toll of doomscrolling at evefox.substack.com/ (all posts are free).

After 20 years as a public school principal, Arthur Baraf is now the curriculum, instruction, and career and technical education director at the Met High School in Providence, Rhode Island, ready to learn and serve his students in a new capacity. He recently hung out with Bill Foster in Newport, meeting his new baby, River James.  Arthur also saw Kevin Uehlinger and his band High Time play an amazing show at LPR in Greenwich Village in June, and he saw King Gizzard with King Greg Tuzzolo ’00 in Queens in late August. Arthur also regularly talks with Jed Koslow, who is in Berlin working as a lawyer and bakery owner.

David Andrews ’02 and Lena Sadowitz “attended a high school graduation party for our son’s friend group and had a time-warp moment when Morley and Tom Cleary ’98 sat down with us! It was so much fun to reconnect with them after 27 years and to find we share a mutual friend through our kids!” 

David and Lena live in northern Connecticut with their kids (18, 16, 13, and 10) and dog, and they will provide good coffee for visitors! Lena has been lucky enough to attend conferences this year that let her see and eat baked goods with E Gunnison ’98, Marcus Chung ’98, and Abby Posner ’98. She also had a professional visit with Jill Kantrowitz ’98 at work at her school.

Kevin and his family spent a good chunk of the summer on Lake Sebago in Maine. A highlight was picking blueberries with his kids, which he turned into blueberry cobbler using the recipe from Joan Miller, wife of economics professor Dick Miller. Joan used to make it every year at Homecoming, which was a highlight for all graduated econ nerds!