by huntera2 | Apr 28, 2020 | Alum Highlights
Recent grad Anna Beloborodova ’17 founded a nonprofit that provides virtual childcare services to families affected by the coronavirus outbreak. Hearts Over Hands engages currently-enrolled college students who volunteer their time to give children ages 6-16 video...
by huntera2 | Apr 14, 2020 | Alum Highlights
Simone Policano ’12 is one of the co-founders of Invisible Hands Deliver, a network of volunteers in their twenties who have been delivering groceries and supplies to those most at risk from COVID-19, including the elderly, the disabled, and the immunocompromised....
by huntera2 | Apr 7, 2020 | Alum Highlights
Sewell Chan ’94, who left The New York Times to serve as the Los Angeles Times’ Deputy Managing Editor, has transitioned into a new role at the organization. In April, 2020, Chan assumed the position of editor of the publication’s Editorial, Op-Ed, and Sunday Opinion...
by huntera2 | Apr 2, 2020 | Latest Books by Alums
Franci’s War (Penguin 2020) is a World War II memoir written by the late mother of Helen Epstein ‘65. Born into a privileged family in Prague, Franci Rabinek Epstein was a spirited young fashion designer who lied to Dr. Mengele at an Auschwitz selection by saying she...
by huntera2 | Mar 30, 2020 | Brick Prison and Beyond
There is good news to share from the Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA), which is led by alumna Nancy YAO Maasbach ’90. The January 2020 fire that gutted a nearby building housing over 80,000 items from its archives was less severe than expected. While portions of...
by huntera2 | Mar 6, 2020 | Alum Highlights
Frances SCHIFF Wills ’59 was appointed to the New York State Board of Regents in March 2020. Wills, a retired schools superintendent, has served in education for over fifty years; twenty-five of which were spent in Maine. In New York, she had most recently served as...
by huntera2 | Mar 5, 2020 | Latest Books by Alums
In These Ghosts Are Family (Simon & Schuster 2020), a debut novel by Maisy Card ’00, tells of the emotional entanglements that have arisen from a long-kept family secret. Central to the story are the decisions of a patriarch, whose actions have had a powerful...
by huntera2 | Feb 28, 2020 | Alum Highlights
Robert Lopez has received another award for his songwriting, this time for the compositions that he and his wife, Kristen Anderson-Lopez, created for Frozen 2. Now in its sixth year, the Variety Artisans award recognizes distinctive contributions to the filmmaking...
by huntera2 | Feb 4, 2020 | Alum Highlights
Supreme Court Associate Justice Elena Kagan ’77 was named the 2020 recipient of the New York State Bar Association’s (NYSBA) Gold Medal for Distinguished Service in the Law. Presented annually, the award is given to a lawyer who has achieved “outstanding legal...
by huntera2 | Feb 2, 2020 | Alum Highlights
Recording Engineer Barry Werger ’87 is among the 2020 Grammy award winners for Best Classical Compendium, The Poetry of Places. The album features works for solo piano, two, pianos, percussion, electronics, voice, and toy piano that have been inspired by exquisite...
