Our Wildwood, Volume 47

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Meet Our Newest Board Members

Christine Cho

FAMILY: Christine and her husband, Sean, have two children enrolled at Wildwood (Class of ’28 and ’31). BUSINESS AND BACKGROUND: Christine is a pediatric emergency medicine physician at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles and Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at Keck School of Medicine of USC. She is a director of the pediatric emergency medicine fellowship and the director of education for the Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine. Her academic interests include mentorship, self-reflection/self-directed

learning and how professionalism is taught and learned (also her research when she completed her Masters in Education). She received a B.S. in Biology from Yale University where she later also trained in pediatrics. She completed medical school and a masters in public health at Rutgers University-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and her pediatric emergency medicine fellowship at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

Michael Kaplan

FAMILY: Michael and his wife, Dena, have two children, including one current Wildwood student (Class of ‘29) BUSINESS AND BACKGROUND: Michael (Mike) is a partner of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, focusing on advising private equity firms and their portfolio companies in mergers and acquisitions, securities offerings and general corporate matters. He is dedicated to serving his community, having provided pro bono legal services to Bright Star Schools, a nonprofit operator of charter schools serving underprivileged

communities in Los Angeles, the Etta Israel Center, a charity for youth and adults with special needs, and veterans and local small businesses in partnership with Levitt Quinn and Public Counsel Law Center. Mike received a B.A., cum laude , from Yale University and a J.D., cum laude , from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

Elizabeth Parry

FAMILY: Elizabeth is the parent of two Wildwood students (Class of ‘22 and ‘25).

BUSINESS AND BACKGROUND: Elizabeth is a native of Boston, Massachusetts, and holds a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Architecture from Rice University. Simultaneous to finishing school, she co-founded an architecture consulting firm based in New York City, growing it to seventeen employees before selling her stake. Upon moving to Los Angeles, Elizabeth used her organizational and leadership skills volunteering full time for Habitat for Humanity, as well as serving on the board of

her homeowners’ association and as secretary for a grassroots community group dedicated to preserving the Santa Monica Mountains’ environmental habitats. Recently, Elizabeth served on Wildwood’s Capital Campaign Committee and has served on the school’s Advancement Committee since 2020.

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