RE LOG Fall 2024

30 Ransom Everglades LOG FALL 2024 On Campus Ransom Everglades’ commitment to the health and wellness of its students was on display at the 7th-Grade Health Symposium, an event May 9 at the middle school that showcased dozens of student projects and featured an informative medical roundtable with medical experts with RE ties. Medical doctors Chad Perlyn, Gautam Yagnik, Heather Mason ’96 , Mythili Ghanta and Sri Nagalla answered questions and offered students healthcare tips and wellness guidance. Seventh-grade teachers Alex Gunner, Robin Escobedo and Bridgette Laskey organized the first-time event. Two days before at the upper school, Perlyn addressed students at the Lewis Family Auditorium on his RE students interested in entrepreneurship organized an executive roundtable at the Lewis Family Auditorium that included five of the most respected financial and business leaders in Miami – four of whom are also Ransom Everglades parents. Ken Griffin, Chief Executive Officer at Citadel; Edgardo Defortuna, CEO of Fortune International; Daniel Sundheim, CEO of D1 Capital; Leon Shaulov, CEO of Maplelane Capital; and Wade Davis, CEO of Univision joined Miami Venturing Entrepreneurs President Eduardo Michelsen ’25 on the Lewis Family Auditorium stage at the conclusion of the South Florida Economic Ransom Everglades conference. Seventh-grade symposium explores health and wellness RE students meet financial and business leaders in Miami The panelists answered questions about the effects of artificial intelligence on business and markets, and they also discussed Miami’s place in the changing economic landscape. The event closed the May 3 student-run conference that highlighted business projects from students at RE and other local schools. Michelsen, Seba Vella ’25 , Sebastian van de Kreeke ’25 , Christopher Tsialas ’26 , Edgardo Defortuna ’25 and Olivia Michelsen ’26 planned and carried out the conference under the direction of MVE club advisor Brandon King. Ken Griffin, Edgardo Defortuna, Daniel Sundheim, Leon Shaulov, Wade Davis, Eduardo Michelsen ’25 career as a pediatric plastic surgeon specializing in physical abnormalities and facial injuries. The Senior Vice President at Nicklaus Children’s Health System, Perlyn shared his path to life- saving surgeries from a spontaneous trip to Haiti to staff a field hospital set up in the wake of the 2010 earthquake. The officers in RE’s HealthcaRE club, Sophie Ansin ’25 , Anna Lavernia ’25 and Sydney Schimel ’26 , arranged that visit.