Joy Osmanski, MFA, stars in
Santa Clarita Diet, a Netflix
original series.
2004
Rachel Axler, MFA, wrote a
piece for The New Yorker, “
Behold Your Newest Silver-Screen
Sex Goddess, Jane Neighbor.”
Duc Huynh, MPIA, is a senior
analyst in the strategic planning
department at Saudi Aramco in
Saudi Arabia.
Michelle Lee, Revelle, and
Aaron Ho, Revelle ’05, were
married in San Diego.
Henry Maar, Warren, is the
Agnese N. Haury Fellow at the
Cold War Center at New York
University in New York.
2005
Bin Feng, MS, is co-founder and
CEO of Microduino, an international company that aims to
create easy-to-use electronics
hardware, based in Los Angeles.
Anne L. Roddy, Warren, is vice
president of the Chesterfield
Bar Association in Chesterfield,
Va. She is an attorney at the law
firm of FloranceGordonBrown,
P.C. in Richmond, Va.
2006
Katie Brown, Muir, is the D.C.
regional coordinator for the
National Center for Montessori
in the Public Sector in Washington, DC.
Jennifer Chang, MFA, is the
head of undergraduate acting at
UC San Diego.
Roberta Brodsky Connors,
MPIA, is vice president of administration for Bay Wa r.e. Solar Systems in Murrieta, Calif.
Bonnie He, Marshall, is pursuing acting and writing in Los Angeles, Calif. She was in a short
film titled Jameson First Shot.
Jamie Schau, Muir, MPIA ’ 11,
is an internships advisor for
Latin America programs at
Oregon State University in
Corvallis, Ore.
2007
Peter Foo, MPIA, is the program
director in the Afghanistan region of Chemonics International
in Washington, DC.
Isaac Mehl, PhD, started his
own company, Dr. Discount,
reselling scientific equipment
in San Diego.
Andrew M. Radin, Warren, is
the chief business officer and
co-founder of twoXAR, a pharmaceutical company selected
as one of the 20 Emerging
Pharmaceutical Leaders for
2016 by Pharmaceutical Executive magazine.
Josh Tobiessen, MFA, wrote a
play, Lone Star Spirits, which
was a Critics’ Pick in The New
York Times.
2009
Jennifer Barclay Newsham,
MFA, received the 2016 Smith
Prize for Political Theatre for
her project, Ripe Frenzy, which
examines the role that media
plays in perpetuating mass
shootings in the United States.
Neej Parikh, Revelle, is founder
and CEO of AthletiQA, a social
Q&A platform where athletes,
experts and sports fans can
connect on relevant sports topics, based in Menlo Park, Calif.
Jiehae Park, MFA, is a 2016
Princess Grace Award Winner,
completing her residency at
Baryshnikov Arts Center in
New York.
2010
Brian Mallis, MPIA, is a senior
web developer at Sony in
San Diego.
Ronald McCants, MFA, is a writer for the ABC television series,
Speechless.
Shannon Cummings Morris,
MPIA, is founder of a global
food subscription box, Spiced
Pantry, based in Yarmouth,
Maine.
2011
Carol Cabrera, Muir, is the
creator and founder of Invisible
Storybook, a project that collaborates with underrepresented
communities to create children’s storybooks.
2012
Lauren Yee, MFA, wrote the
play, King of the Yees, produced
by The Goodman Theatre in
Chicago, Ill.
2013
Hannah Andrews, Revelle,
is a licensed, board-certified
genetic counselor working at
the Cancer Center of Santa
Barbara with Sansum Clinic.
Joshua K. Brody, MFA, directed
King of Yees by Lauren Yee, MFA
’ 12, at The Goodman Theatre
in Chicago, Ill. He also directed
The Last Tiger in Haiti by Jeff
Agustin, MFA ’ 14, at the La Jolla
Playhouse and Berkeley Repertory Theater in Berkeley, Calif.
Regan Linton, MFA, is the interim artistic director at Phamaly
Theatre Company in Denver,
Colo.
Christopher Scott Murillo, MFA,
is a 2016 Princess Grace Award
Winner and a resident scenic
designer for Playwright’s Arena
in Los Angeles.
Maurice Williams, MFA, stars
in BuzzFeed Motion Pictures’
11-episode scripted comedy
Broke.
2014
Leeann Hsueh, Warren, is an
associate music producer with
the Disneyland Resort music
department in Anaheim, Calif.
Kate Jopson, MFA, directed
Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night
with Coeurage Theatre
Company in Burbank, Calif.
Hoang Ly, Revelle, is a student
at the University of Southern
California’s School of Pharmacy
in Los Angeles, Calif.
Lori Melkonian, Roosevelt, is
working at SYNICS, a financial
marketing organization, as a
field director in both Los Angeles and San Diego, Calif.
Kolby Pronenko, Roosevelt,
works for Cor Tech Labs, a
quantitative brain imaging analysis software company based in
La Jolla.
2015
Stephen Foster, PhD,
and Lindsey Handley, PhD,
co-founded ThoughtSTEM,
a startup that aims to provide
the most effective education in
computer science. It received
a $750,000 small business
innovation research grant
from the U.S. National Science
Foundation to accelerate the
development of its Minecraft
modding and computer science
education software.
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