RE LOG Fall 2017

74 Ransom Everglades LOG FALL 2017 the faculty and resources at RE to help them realize their ambitions to promote change through grassroots efforts. Thaler, who has a master’s degree from Johns Hopkins, is a project developer at SunConnect USA who previously worked at Conergy as a project development associate. He was also a senior associate for the Energy Future Coalition for the United Nations Foundation. Gelber, a senior scientist for Atkins North America, graduated from the University of Miami with a degree in Wildlife Management. He worked in resource management at Biscayne National Park for nearly five years and developed a ground water remedial action plan for a Superfund site in North Miami. Calleros Gauger serves as Vice President and Sustainability Project Manager at ArquitectonicaGEO. He has worked as project manager for the Perez Art Museum and Trinidad and Tobago’s National Museum of Science. He has also managed multiple projects on the waterfront, creating resilient designs that address sea-level rise and increased risk from storm surge. 1995 Jeff Baena , a writer/director best known for “I Heart Huckabees,” “Joshy” and “The Little Hours,” has been working on a new short-film project entitled “Uncles” that stars Adam Pally ( The Mindy Project ) and Finn Wolfhard ( Stranger Things ). Jeff received a grant to make the film by The Borscht Corp, a Miami-based non-profit interested in furthering Miami onscreen. Kevin Grossfeld and his wife Stephanie are the proud parents of Gigi Marilu Grossfeld, born on March 20, 2017. Big brothers Tyler and Preston are crazy about their new baby sister. David Marc Harris is a father of four and an attorney. David spent 10 years in the magazine publishing industry before embarking on a law career focused on entertainment and multimedia. David has represented Grammy-winning rock group The Flaming Lips, and has worked and photographed such musicians as Perry Farrell, the creator of Lollapalooza; Radiohead; R.E.M.; and Pearl Jam. David is also the founder of Remzy.com. Remzy connects real estate brokers and agents with off-market homeowners. Remzy is disrupting real estate technology by creating access to the entire U.S. residential inventory, and letting agents make an offer on any home, even if it’s not for sale. This past March, David served as a judge for the RE Business Challenge along with Nelly Farra ’96, Michael Greenberg ’79 and Seth Cassel ’98. See Michael Greenberg ’79. 1996 Nelly Farra, see Michael Greenberg ’79 1997 Cristina Rasco Davis and her husband, Charles, hosted a mini NYC reunion this past February for members of the Class of 1997 living in the area at their home to help build excitement for their 20-Year Reunion in April. Pictured are L-R: Susanna Forteleoni, Adam Bernstein, Enrique Conde, Nicole Rand and hostess Cristy Davis. Pearce Klevan and his wife Mary welcomed Cillian Pearce Klevan to their family on May 17, 2017. He joins brother Sean (6) and sister Cara (4) who are overjoyed with their new baby brother. Pearce continues to serve as a financial advisor with Merrill Lynch Wealth Management, and now serves as the resident director at The Falls office. Pedro Kos screened his film Bending the Arc at the Miami Film Festival this past spring. Bending the Arc , which was named Best Documentary Feature Film at the Greenwich International Film Festival, is a 2017 documentary that tells the story of Partners In Health doctors and humanitarians Jim Yong Kim, Ophelia Dahl and Paul Farmer, who through the Boston-based non-profit have been devoted to innovative health care in impoverished nations. Kos and fellow director Kief Davidson follow their ongoing struggle to treat and eradicate tuberculosis and HIV/ AIDS in rural areas of Haiti, Peru and Rwanda. They primarily use a traditional documentary format, mixing earlier video footage and current interviews to tell the story of how Kim, Dahl and Farmer developed Partners In Health. Where they deviate a bit is in showing older footage to their protagonists, in order to elicit their present-day reactions. This film was also screened at the Sundance and San Francisco Film Festivals. Class Notes