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AitN: April 8, 2019

Roy Altman ’04

Kristin Simmons ’12
On March 30, The New York Times published “50 Years of Affirmative Action: What Went Right, and What It Got Wrong.” For the article, the Times tracked down many of the nearly 50 black students in Columbia’s Class of 1973, who arrived on campus as freshmen in 1969. Among those featured in the article are Gregory Peterson ’73, LAW’85; Julius Gonzalez ’73; Gary Friday ’73, PS’84; Eric Coleman ’73; Les Goodson and Darryl T. Downing.
Two alumni made Crain’s New York Business’ “40 Under 40” list for 2019: Carlos Cuevas ’05, PH’12, SIPA’12 (executive VP of Somos) and Hicham Oudghiri ’06 (co-founder and CEO of Enigma). Somos is a network of about 2,500 providers that works with more than 650,000 Medicaid beneficiaries across the city. Cuevas says of the company: “We’re really trying to bring the promise of American health care back with community-based physicians.” Oudghiri co-founded Enigma with Marc DaCosta ’06; the company “taps into the open-data trove released by municipalities across the country” and “utilizes big data to make real-world events less mysterious.”
Ace Patterson ’11’s new album “Airplane Mode” debuted at number three on the iTunes Top 40 US Hip-Hop Album Chart. It also placed at number 50 on the Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop Album Sales Chart for the week of April 6.
Eugene L. Meyer ’64’s narrative nonfiction book, FIVE FOR FREEDOM: The African American Soldiers in John Brown’s Army, won the 2019 award for Outstanding Biography/History book from the American Society of Journalists and Authors. Meyer also won in ASJA’s Outstanding Blog Post category for a post on the Pittsburgh synagogue mass shooting.
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