RE Log Fall 2018

)$// Ransom Everglades LOG 77 Sheila Bhandari Bangalore, Associate General Counsel at Aristocrat Technologies writes, “Honored and grateful to have been recognized by the Association of Corporate Counsel as one of its 2018 Top 30-Somethings today, along with my amazing colleagues throughout the globe making positive changes within their communities!” Lanny Grossman writes, “ Brett Scheiner ’96 and I traveled to El Salvador over Memorial Day weekend ZLWK WKH QRQ SUR¿W 2QH.LG 2QH:RUOG ( www.onekidoneworld.org ) to help make over an underprivileged elementary school. The RE alumni knocked down defunct brick outhouses to make way for a larger playground, painted classrooms and best of all, played soccer with the kids. It would appear St Alban’s Day had a last- ing impression! “ Darcy (Rashford) Smith and her hus- band, Morgan, welcomed their 11th child to the family in May. Ruby Rose Smith was born on May 17, 2018. Darcy lives in Findlay, Ohio, and keeps busy home- schooling the children. Annie Lord ZDV SUR¿OHG LQ WKH ³0RYHUV´ section of Indulge magazine ( https:// bit.ly/2uVDv5H IRU KHU HɣRUWV WR HQG Miami’s housing crisis. The online pub- lication examined her return to Miami in December as the new executive director RI 0LDPL +RPHV IRU $OO D QRQ SURILW that works to create anG SUHVHUYH DIIRUGDEOH KRXVLQJ *URZLQJ up, Annie said, she was troubled by the income disparity she saw while driving to school at Coconut Grove Elementary and then Ransom Everglades.”I was aware at a really early age of the stark contrast between the house I lived in and the apartments that my classmates lived in,” Lord told the magazine. “It breaks my heart. I drive through the West Grove every day and it looks unchanged. No RQH FDQ EH ILQDQFLDOO\ VDIH LI WKH\ FDQ¶W OLYH LQ D KRPH WKH\ FDQ DIIRUG ´ 6KH DOVR said: “The question is, how can we bal-ance the desire to be a city where people want to stay and build businesses and homes and raise families, and be a place that takes care of its workforce? You’ve got to create the groundwork for invest-ment and ensure that your community is inclusive.” Annie previously served as WKH &KLHI 3URJUDP 2IILFHU IRU &LW\6TXDUH in Dallas, where she oversaw homeless housing programs, a food pantry, foster youth services, a health clinic and family ODZ ILUP 6KH DOVR ZDV 9LFH 3UHVLGHQW RI Community Development for Citibank, where she stewarded grants to housing providers and other community organiza- tions. Annie holds bachelor’s and master’s GHJUHHV IURP +DUYDUG 8QLYHUVLW\ 6KH served as the director of the South Florida Community Development Coalition EHIRUH PRYLQJ WR 'DOODV ¿YH \HDUV DJR Photograph by Nick Garcia. Indulge . 1996 Class Agents: Veronica Alcorta (veronicaalcorta@gmail.com ), Indi Avila (letticia@aol.com ), Nelly Farra (nelly.farra@gmail.com ), Roberto Erana (rerana@hotmail.com) , Claudia Miyar Angles (claudia@claudiamiyar.com) Brett Scheiner , see Lanny Grossman ’95. 1997 Class Agents: Enrique Conde (enrique.a.conde@gmail.com ), Cristina Rasco Davis (cristinaldavis@gmail.com ), Danny Echavarria (Daniel.echavar- ria@gmail.com ), Kanchan Sakhrani Lalwani (kanchani@aol.com) , Javi Millares (jmillares@millares.net ), Jessi Tamayo (jessitamayo@gmail.com ) Daniel Echavarria , see A.J. Namad ’00. Rina Jackubowicz , founder of Rina Yoga, has been teaching yoga for several years and is widely recognized as an excel- lent yoga teacher! Rina just published a book called “The Yoga Mind: 52 Essential Principles of Yoga Philosophy to Deepen your Practice” that was released on May 1. Here is the link: https://am ]n.to/2Tr= ɴɷ<.