I am really grateful for having known Anca and having had her as a friend: she was a brilliant academic, a true Renaissance scholar, knowledgeable about various fields and disciplines. We would be having a beer and alternating between discussions about Marxism and the Frankfurt School and her descriptions of the time-series analyses. She was a beautiful, genuine, lively and amazing person; one of very few women at Annenberg with short hair beautifully and stylishly cut by her Cornel (I kept joking that I wished he could cut mine too!), always smiling, and coming to school on a little bike that she would take indoors.
It is easy to acknowledge the loss and quickly return to our own preoccupations and obligations. Please reflect on this tragedy and join me in sending warm thoughts, love and gratitude to her and her family.
Magdalena