Tiger of the Week

Lex Brown ’12 is Teaching the Value of a Multimedia Approach to Art

Bill Urschel ’78 Is Documenting Climate Change in Alaska

‘If we can share some of the wonders of Alaska with others, we believe that people will care more about the natural world’

Jeff Perry ’68’s Scholarship Is Elevating ‘the Father of Harlem Radicalism’

As an independent scholar, Perry has extensively chronicled the ideas of Hubert Harrison

Playwright Charles White ’72 and Actor Eric Yang ’17 Are Teaming Up

Their off-Broadway play centers on prejudice and forbidden love in the 1920s Mississippi Delta

Taleeb Noormohamed ’98 is Fighting Canada’s Misinformation Problem

As a member of Canada’s Parliament, Noormohamed seeks to bring people together

Ryan Benitez ’15 Is Connecting African Students With Universities

SAT tutoring in Uganda started Benitez on the road to starting a college-access nonprofit

Jessica Welsh ’14 Wrote One of 2021’s Best Unproduced Screenplays

Welsh’s script about singer Shania Twain made Hollywood’s annual Black List

Ogemdi Ude ’16 Turns Grief Into Joy Through Dance

After a dance career of fits and starts, Ude’s choreography is taking off

Julia Storm ’96 Is Helping Parents Navigate Screen Time

‘I advise parents to do a little less lecturing and a little more asking,’ Storm says

Architect Peter Wheelwright ’75 Tells a Multigenerational Saga

‘Writing fiction … helps us to imagine what we could be in a better world’

Physician Lauren Peccoralo ’01 Is Helping Doctors and Nurses With Burnout

At Mount Sinai hospital, Peccoralo is working on a new center to address mental-health concerns among workers

Producer Jeff Ingold ’90 Guides ‘Ted Lasso’ From Behind the Scenes

The character reminds Ingold of the late Princeton squash coach Bob Callahan ’77

Ornithologist John Fitzpatrick *78 Fosters Deep Connection to Birds

‘Early on, I said birds supply so many different powerful opportunities,’ Fitzpatrick says

Fletcher Harper ’85 Is Building an Environmental Movement on Faith

‘There’s no spiritual life that does not involve, does not start, intimately and inescapably, with the Earth’

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Emergency Physician Kimathi Cooper ’09 Fields COVID Questions

‘I feel it is my job to bring evidence-based information to the forefront’

Cam Stout ’80 Is Sharing His Story About Mental Health

‘I want to knock down that stigma,’ Stout says

After 50 Years Fencing, Paul Epply-Schmidt ’83 Is Still Winning

Epply-Schmidt won gold at the U.S. Fencing’s Veteran National Championships in August

Joe Hernández-Kolski ’96 Counters COVID Misinformation With Comedy

The online video series tackles misinformation circulating in the Spanish-speaking community

Chris Long ’97 and Angie Long ’97 Are All In on Women’s Soccer

The Longs are building the first stadium meant just for a U.S. National Women’s Soccer League team

Journalist Shannon Osaka ’17 Brings Perspective to Climate Change

‘I’ve always been pretty anti-‘doom and gloom,’’ says Osaka, an environmental journalist

Through Poetry, Joshua Bennett *16 Speaks ‘to the Human Soul’

‘I was always trying to express the music in my head with the people I trusted’

Attorney Sandy Musumeci ’94 Helped Win a Wrongful Conviction Suit

‘You’re not doing anybody any good if you’re prosecuting the wrong person’

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

Leanne Smith *08 Is Leading Australia’s National Human Rights Commission

Twenty years after her first job with the group, Smith is returning as chief executive