Tiger of the Week Album by Donna Weng Friedman ’80 Highlights Underrepresented Composers The classical pianist says music gave her ‘clarity and hope’ after anti-Asian slurs
Tiger of the Week Ryan McDonough ’93 Made a Film About His Hometown ‘The story I wanted to tell was a personal one about going home’
Tiger of the Week Stacey Vanek Smith ’99 Is Teaching Machiavelli to Working Women Pay inequity made Smith think ‘more about Machiavelli and how to navigate things that feel unfair’
Tiger of the Week 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
Tiger of the Week Paul Hanle ’69 Is Educating Judges About Climate Science ‘There is an opportunity for us to have a much broader appreciation of science,’ Hanle says
Tiger of the Week Amanda Ramcharan ’11 Helps Develop Technology to Improve Farming In her spare time, Ramcharan is restoring an 1870 Victorian mansion in St. Louis
Tiger of the Week Matthew Spellberg *17 Seeks New Ideas for a Better World Spellberg plans to expand the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation’s mission beyond disarmament
Tiger of the Week Kevin Wilkes ’83 is Restoring the Home of Activist Paul Robeson The house will serve as a gallery, a meeting space for nonprofits, and temporary housing
Tiger of the Week Mythology Scholar Robert Segal *84 Shapes Religious Studies Gnostic myths ‘postulate worlds and gods beyond our own,’ Segal says
Tiger of the Week Sports Psychologist Michelle Garvin ’07 Joins the Detroit Lions Garvin is the team’s first-ever mental skills specialist/clinician
Tiger of the Week In Portraits, Photographer Robin Resch *03 Captures What’s Irreplaceable ‘It’s beautiful, the difference in freedom of expression’
Tiger of the Week Lizzie Bird ’17 Sets British Steeplechase Record in Olympic Final Believing she could get to Tokyo ‘kept me going these last two years,’ Bird says
Tiger of the Week Howard Wainer *68 and Michael Friendly *71 Give Data Meaning The longtime friends penned a book on the history of turning numbers into images
Tiger of the Week Tamar Laddy ’94 Penned a Hallmark Movie for Christmas in July ‘It’s a love letter to my in-laws and their Christmas traditions’
Tiger of the Week Writer Melissa Balmain ’87 Adds a Twist of Humor to Fairy Tales ‘They got rescued, they lived happily ever after — yawn!’
Tiger of the Week Sean Rubin ’09 Writes Book for Children Healing From Trauma With his wife Dr. Lucy Guarnera ’09, Rubin tells the true story of a tree that survived 9/11
Tiger of the Week 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’
Tiger of the Week Keisha Blain *14 Creates a ‘Primary Source’ for Black Voices In a new book, Blain hopes to capture for future historians what Black people in the U.S. are thinking now
Tiger of the Week Ana Leyva ’11 Helps Families Teach Spanish to Next Generation Leyva’s startup offers tools to promote bilingualism at home
Tiger of the Week Dr. Tina Carroll-Scott ’88 Is Vaccinating Her South Miami Community ‘We need to pivot now, because our communities are being devastated’