RE Log Spring 2019

48 Ransom Everglades LOG SPRING 2019 Class Notes Charlie Rua continues to grow his local real estate brokerage. In 2018, he launched Rua Realty’s commercial division with the hiring of the former Assistant Director of Planning and Zoning for the City of Miami, Luciana L. Gonzalez. This past year also marked Rua Realty’s best performance with more than $11 million in residential sales transactions. Charlie is looking forward to another blessed year and is so thankful for the numerous Ransom Everglades alumni clients, friends and partners that have helped make his success possible. He shares his enthusiasm and commit- ment to the community by continuing to serve on the Coral Gables Parks and Recreation Board, Sunset Elementary SEED board and most recently, the RE Class of 1998 Reunion Committee. Pictured, Charlie Rua and Luciana L. Gonzalez. (Photo courtesy of Jonathan Dann, former RE football coach, of JDannPhotography.) Andrew Amendola writes, “Here’s a pic of me and my family: wife Angela, Blanca (4) and Joaquin (3) taken in the Turks and Caicos. We live in Miami Beach.” Justin Marks writes, “After 16.5 years, I will be leaving Microsoft and join- ing a startup called UIPath, a leader in robotics process automation. Luckily, this new position allows me to still live in Redmond, Wash.” Kathleen Eagan Murray writes, “I wanted to take this opportunity to thank my class- mates and the larger Ransom Everglades community for the love and support that you’ve shown me through the years, and particularly since March 17, 2017, when our two-year-old son Lionel James Murray (photographed in navy) died of sudden and unexplained causes in his sleep, or SUDC, Sudden Unexplained Death in Childhood. The Ransom Everglades community was a large factor in raising nearly $250,000 to build the Lionel Murray Memorial Playground in an underserved neighbor- hood of Los Angeles, where we live. With my husband Matt and older son Calvin, we welcomed Alma Judith Murray (pho- tographed in floral blanket) in May 2018, who has brought us much- needed joy. I have returned to work at the public interest law firm Public Counsel where I focus on consumer fraud. Schedule permitting, I am looking forward to seeing many of you at our 20-Year Reunion this spring!” Rebeca Raney exhibited at PULSE Contemporary Art Fair, Miami Beach Dec. 6-9, 2018. Her maximalist instal- lation “Ghost Garden,” made largely from hand-painted Crêpe de Chine silk, was showcased at the VIP lounge for the duration of the fair. Pictured above with art teacher Astrid Dalins. Fernando Tamayo , a partner at the Miami law firm Coffey Burlington, was hired as an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Miami School of Law. He will be teaching International Anti- Corruption Law and Practice in the 2019 spring semester. 2000 Class Agents: Olivia Arellano Espinosa (Olivia.arellano@gmail.com) , Dwanita Fields (dwanitaf@gmail. com), Kate Samson Valois (kateelizabethvalois@gmail.com ) Frank Maderal joined the law firm of Colson Hicks Eidson in Coral Gables after six years as a federal prosecutor for the United States Attorney’s Office. Natalia Salas joined the University of Miami in May 2018 as Assistant General Counsel.