I (Natalie) enjoyed lunch with dear friend Melanie Bowen, who continues a stellar career as president and chief operating officer of Mindoula, “a next-generation population health management company that identifies, engages, and serves populations with complex behavioral health, medical, and social challenges across the continuum of care.” She’s also a proud parent of Jacob ’28; twin sister Dora is at Carnegie Mellon University and husband Josh Glazeroff continues to work in the U.S. Foreign Service.

The Dartmouth Magnuson Center for Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame recently inducted Lew Cirne, founder of New Relic, which “provides businesses with a software-as-a-service platform that monitors, analyzes, and enhances its web and mobile software as customers are using it.” Lew founded his first company, Wily Technologies, in 1998, founded New Relic in 2008, and shared that “building software remains an incredibly joyful creative process for me, as is company-building.” Class attendees included Steve Rodgers, Andrew Beebe, Will Griffith, Charles Preuss, Bill Lapcevic, Dave Krause, Lisa Overton,and Munir Haddad. Munir also caught up with Doug Roeder over coffee while out in California.

In February the Women’s Capital Venture Summit will honor Christy (Neumann) Richardson, chief investment officer of the Sobrato Organization for “her work as a limited partner and her continued support of the venture industry during her time with Sobrato, the William & Flora Hewlett Foundation, and Thomas Weisel Partners.” Christy currently “oversees Sobrato Capital, manages Sobrato Philanthropies’ investment portfolio, leads impact investment activities, and advises on overall asset allocation.” Give a rouse!

Marisol Negrón, Ph.D., an associate professor of American studies and Latino studies at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, wrote Made in NuYoRico: Fania Records, Latin Music, and Salsa’s Nuyorican Meanings, which publisher Duke University Press describes as “the cultural history of salsa over a 50-year period that begins in 1964, showing how salsa became embedded in Nuyorican identity among New York City’s poor and working-class diasporic Puerto Rican population.”

Rachel Byrne’s inaugural young-adult novel, Predestined, debuted in September to fabulous reviews; it’s available on Amazon (paperback or audio) with a fun video trailer on YouTube and first chapter preview on rachelbyrneauthor.com.

Elsa Mehary launched her Radiant Genius Podcast. She shares it “was created to inspire feminine-led entrepreneurs in their business journey with sustainability in wellness, leadership, tech, and lifestyle wisdom.” Find it on Instagram: @radiantgeniuspod.

Jason Barabas, director of the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Public Policy and government professor, created The Dartmouth Poll (TDP) in conjunction with his fall course on election polling. TDP “seeks to ask a diverse and representative group of adults questions about their electoral preferences, attitudes, views, and levels of participation. The polls sometimes focus on elections, but other topics may include local issues, public policies, or other types of engagement.” Additional details can be found at rockefeller.dartmouth.edu.

Random fun news: Dan Subin posted a great photo as Tom Cruise’s wingman and Nicola Zesiger Mullen met the pope!

—Natalie Weidener Kupinsky, 1 Stanmore Court, Potomac, MD 20854; natalie.weidener.kupinsky.93@dartmouth.edu; Munir Haddad, P.O. Box 1754, Vineyard Haven, MA 02568; munir.s.haddad.93@alum.dartmouth.org