by huntera2 | Apr 29, 2021 | Latest Books by Alums
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...
by huntera2 | Apr 29, 2021 | Latest Books by Alums
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...
by huntera2 | Apr 29, 2021 | Latest Books by Alums
In her latest novel, Antiquities (Knopf 2021), Cynthia Ozick, Jan. ’46 has crafted a narrative that captures the shifting meanings of the past, and how our experience colors those meanings. She writes of an individual who looks back on his years as a trustee with a...
by huntera2 | Apr 29, 2021 | Latest Books by Alums
In lost and found departments (Cornerstone Press 2020), Heather Dubrow ’62 has compiled a collection of poems that address loss and occasional recovery – of words, of people, of memories, and of literary genres. The collection includes found poetry and monologues, to...
by huntera2 | Apr 28, 2021 | Latest Books by Alums
In publishing Urban Wild Life: A Collection of Poems for Autumn 2020 (Xlibris 2020), Jacqueline Strachan-Laughlin ’71 has returned to her first love, poetry. Now in her sixth decade, she has issued a first person, 21st century narrative that...
by huntera2 | Apr 28, 2021 | Latest Books by Alums
Kip Zegers is retired HCHS faculty. Publishing his eleventh book, A Room in the House of Time (Dos Madres Press 2020), he uses poetry to revisit the intimate bonds of family; to address his role in an urban setting as a teacher, husband, and citizen;...
by huntera2 | Apr 28, 2021 | Diversity News & Profiles
Vanessa Nadal ’00, attorney, chemical engineer, and the wife of Lin-Manuel Miranda ’98, has co-created an innovative course on cosmetics regulations at the Fashion Law Institute at Fordham University. Drawn from a combination of her passions and experience, the...
by huntera2 | Apr 28, 2021 | Diversity News & Profiles
Laura TAYLOR Swain ’75 began her career as a law clerk for Judge Constance Baker Motley, the first African-American woman to serve as a federal judge in the United States. She later worked in private practice with the law firm Debevoise & Plimpton. In 1996,...
by huntera2 | Mar 31, 2021 | Alum Highlights
Joshua Geltzer ’01 has joined the White House in a role working to counter domestic violent extremism. Appointed as Special Assistant to President Biden and Special Advisor to the Secretary of Homeland Security, he will work alongside the Homeland Security...
by huntera2 | Mar 31, 2021 | Alum Highlights
The Outside Story premieres April 30Casimir Nozkowski ’94 will be releasing his first feature film, The Outside Story, on Friday, April 30. The film is a drama/comedy about Charles Young, a broken-hearted video editor. Perceiving a betrayal of...
