Remembering “Grandma” Inez Sewell

June 21, 1928 – August 9, 2021 Born in Havana Cuba, Inez was the third of five children.  At the age of five, Inez’s family moved to Kingston, Jamaica, and then to the Parish of Saint James. Her mother was a seamstress and dressmaker, and her father was a farmer...
AlumNotes: Healing the Community

AlumNotes: Healing the Community

The latest issue of AlumNotes presents stories of alumnae who have been a source of support to their communities during the COVID-19 pandemic. Collectively, we have experienced a year like no other, with conditions that look set to continue. We offer this issue,...

A Thorough Analysis of Our Rights

In his much-anticipated book, How Rights Went Wrong: Why Our Obsession with Rights is Tearing America Apart (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021), Jamal Greene ’95 illustrates how our approach to rights is dividing the country.We believe that holding a...

Writing of Bonds of Intimacy

In How Other People Make Love (Wayne State University Press 2021), Thisbe Nissen ’90chronicles the lives and choices of people questioning the heteronormative institution of marriage. Not best-served by established conventions and conventional mores, these...