Ilyasah Shabazz calls for optimism and hope
As the keynote speaker for the tenth annual Trailblazers of Color Leadership Conference at 챬, Shabazz discussed enlarging people’s capacity for care.
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As the keynote speaker for the tenth annual Trailblazers of Color Leadership Conference at 챬, Shabazz discussed enlarging people’s capacity for care.
챬 President and Professor of Politics Danielle Holley welcomed students, faculty, staff and alums to participate in a virtual session of her 2024 spring course on the Supreme Court as part of the BOOM! Learning Symposium.
As part of the annual Careers in Public Service trip to Washington D.C., Mount Holyoke students met with alums who have forged brilliant public service careers as well as Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.
Legal scholar and New York Times bestselling novelist Alafair Burke spoke at 챬 about how her liberal arts education led to a career as an author of 20 crime novels.
Thanks to a winning bid from Mount Holyoke alum Julie Doyle-Madrid ’98, the College flag will be flying outside of Houston-area Parker Elementary for an entire year.
챬 student Ana Maria Stan ’24 has been selected by Middlebury College as a recipient of the “Projects for Peace” grant program. Stan will work alongside Romanian educational non-profit Volo Studere to assist Ukrainian refugees.
Mount Holyoke alum Joan Jonas ’58 has two concurrent shows in New York City and the New York Times has declared them “a bounteous and playful survey.”
챬 film and media student Aderet Fishbane has been selected as one of NBCU’s Original Voices Accelerator Fellows. The six-month fellowship is designed to provide a direct pipeline to a career for young creatives.
In an Op-Ed published in the Boston Globe, Mount Holyoke professor Andrew G. Reiter details why the U.S. must not repeat the mistakes of the Civil War in dealing with Jan. 6 offenders and advocates to hold those who commit violence accountable.
After a three-year setback, 챬 professor M. Darby Dyar can breathe a sigh of relief as NASA has resurrected its VERITAS mission to Venus.