Catching up with the some of the 2012 class

In December, Chas Roemer was selected as president of the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education for 2013.

Brian Dixon published the innovative guidebook Social Media for School Leaders through Jossey-Bass and was also named to Baton Rouge Business Report‘s Top 40 Under 40 class for 2012.

Nick Hwang is working on several music and art projects, including an interactive “Exquisite Corpse” piece at this month’s Surreal Salon Soiree on Jan. 26 at Baton Rouge Gallery and a storefront video installation with BR Walls Project this Spring.

The Young and the Restless star Jessica Heap is developing a new web-based series based in Los Angeles.

Former LSU soccer star and Homecoming Queen Mo Isom has returned to her native Atlanta, is working on a series of motivational, multi-media and athletics projects.

Colt Patin, an award-winning chef, is now mentoring the next generation as an instructor at the Louisiana Culinary Institute in Baton Rouge and co-author of LCI’s Cajun Creole Textbook.

In July, Amy Mitchell-Smith helped secure the deal to bring more independent films to Manship Theatre while her Cienega Motion Picture Group is working with local, Sundance-accepted filmmaker Zack Godshall on his latest feature project, set for production in the spring of 2013.