Jennifer Altmann

Shariffa Chelimo Ali Explores Race and Sexuality on the Stage

Larry Trachtenberg ’76 Bookends 50 Years of the New York City Marathon

Trachtenberg is the only runner to complete both the first race and the 50th

Meena Bose *96 Studies the Most Defining Presidential Decisions

Bose spoke with PAW about the deliberative styles of presidents past and present

Andrew Bruck ’05 Is New Jersey’s First LGBTQ+ Attorney General

As an undergraduate, Bruck dreamed of serving in government, but ‘assumed it was never going to be possible’ as a gay man

Professor Shamus Khan Examines the Role Elites Play in Inequality

Shamus Khan’s research unveils the effects of culture, gender, and advantage

Q&A: Agustín Fuentes on the Pandemic and Human Connection

‘Humans have evolved over hundreds of thousands of years in concert with others’

Isadora Moura Mota Unearths the Fight for Freedom in Brazil

Album by Donna Weng Friedman ’80 Highlights Underrepresented Composers

The classical pianist says music gave her ‘clarity and hope’ after anti-Asian slurs

Anthony Shu ’16 and Jeffrey Zhenhua Liu ’16 Explore Asian American Food

‘There are experiences that Asians have that are not often told and need to be told’

Curriculum Vitae: Professor Edmund White Blazed a Trail in Gay Literature

His novels and memoirs are ‘funny, sexy, passionate, and gorgeously written’

Ana Leyva ’11 Helps Families Teach Spanish to Next Generation

Leyva’s startup offers tools to promote bilingualism at home

Elena Araoz Leads Research on Socially Distant Theater

Five online works in the project stretch the limits of imagination and tech for online performances

Amanda Ramcharan ’11 Helps Develop Technology to Improve Farming

In her spare time, Ramcharan is restoring an 1870 Victorian mansion in St. Louis

Joy Mboya ’85 Is Developing Artists in Kenyan Communities

Mboya’s GoDown Arts Centre is the largest multidisciplinary arts space in East Africa

Sarah Beth Durst ’96 Conjures Magical Worlds In Her Novels

‘Fantasy is a literature of hope and empowerment,’ says Durst

Connor Diemand-Yauman ’10 Provides Job Training to Boost Low- Wage Workers

Diemand-Yauman co-founded Merit America to help those without college degrees reach middle-income occupations

First-Year Students Re-create Casual Campus Conversations in Podcast

‘We want to replace what is missing from everyday interactions,’ says Antek Hasiura ’24

Faculty Start Semester With Land Acknowledgements, Preferred Pronouns

These efforts seek to address some of the important — and at times divisive — cultural issues being debated in the last several years

Lives: Robby Browne ’71

His Door Was Always Open

Columnist Catherine Rampell ’07 Shows Why Policy Changes Matter

At 29, Rampell became one of the youngest columnists in The Washington Post’s history

Facing Failure

On a Campus Full of High Achievers, What Does it Mean to be Resilient?

Novelist and Editor Rakesh Satyal ’02 Raises Marginalized Voices

‘As an editor, I hope to publish books that produce a window onto the world’

Learning ‘Through Making,’ Students Explore Why Art Matters

‘They might discover an art form that they didn’t realize they love,’ said theater professor Stacy Wolf

New York Times Reporter Danielle Ivory ’05 Leads Project Tracking COVID

‘I love to dig really deeply into what I’m covering and piece together a mystery,’ Ivory says