Baruch alumnus Dr. Brian Sheets hosts Give It To Me Straight, Doc, his very own TV show that airs on Cablevision Channel 88 in Connecticut. Each episode, Dr. Sheets chats with medical experts to explore and simplify complex topics, such as genetics, heart health, and endocrinology.
Hoodwinked in Harlem
Michele Ware (’94, MBA ’15) is the Creator/CEO of Harlem’s ‘Hoodwinked Escape,’ a recent entry in the growing craze of NYC “Escape Rooms.” Hoodwinked offers four unique, lifestyle themed-puzzle rooms that test problem-solving skills and collaboration.
Hometown Hero
For Ronald Kim (MPA ’06), politics is personal. This energetic second-term assemblyman was always inspired by “the idea of coming back to the neighborhood I grew up in, not only to help people, but also to empower the next generation of leaders to take ownership of local issues.”
In Memoriam: Amy Hagedorn (’58)
The College was saddened by the passing of Amy Hagedorn on September 8. The alumna was one of the first and among the most significant benefactors to Baruch’s Marxe School of Public and International Affairs (MSPIA). She was 79 years old.
The Law of Success
Baruch alumni Edward Labaton (’52) and Lawrence Sucharow (’71) serve, respectively, as partner and chairman at Labaton Sucharow LLP, a firm that has fought for corporate reform and prosecuted precedent-setting securities class actions, representing investors with collective assets under management of more than $2 trillion.
Grand Inspiration
Jeffrey H. Konis (MBA ’87) authored The Conversations We Never Had (2016, Outskirts Press), an exploration of his family’s history through a series of imagined conversations with his late grandmother, a Holocaust survivor.
Spreading the Word (Game)
Stewart Karlinsky (’70) does not want the language of his grandparents to become a dead language. So, he invented Kibitz: The Yiddish Word Game, a family-friendly card game that helps players learn the Yiddish language.
Old-School Refreshment
Elizabeth Alpern (MBA '15) knows the recipe for success. She chats about her latest project, The Gefilte Manifesto, a cookbook seeking to redefine traditional Jewish cuisine
Full Circle
On Thursday, September 22, Adam Neumann - founder and CEO of WeWork - returned to campus to speak to a crowd of more than 200 Baruch students, alumni, faculty, and staff as part of the Russell Banks CEO Leadership Lecture.