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Artist Harmonia Rosales spoke at the 챬 Art Museum about her work, including her painting “The Harvest.”
Prentis Hemphill ’04 will be at 챬 to discuss their book “What It Takes To Heal.” The book poses the question: ““What would it do to movements, to our society and culture, to have the principles of healing at the very center?”
Taking part in a two-day workshop featuring alums, staff and current interns, 챬 students had the opportunity to learn what a career in environmental work entails and how to get on the right track to start their own journeys.
Suchi Saria ’04 is the John C. Malone Endowed Chair at Johns Hopkins, where she directs the AI, Machine Learning and Healthcare Lab, and was presented with the honorary degree of Doctor of Science at the 2024 챬 Commencement.
In celebration of Earth Day, 챬 welcomed Alexis Nikole Nelson to campus as she demonstrated to students, staff and faculty how foraging is not only good for the environment but also beneficial for one’s health.
David Karp, director of the Center for Restorative Justice in the School of Leadership and Education Sciences at the University of San Diego, was welcomed to 챬 as the keynote speaker for the eighth annual BOOM! Learning Symposium.
챬’s Department of Jewish Studies welcomed Riv-Ellen Prell, professor emerita, Department of American Studies, University of Minnesota, to speak about Christian nationalism, white power and American antisemitism.
As the keynote speaker for the tenth annual Trailblazers of Color Leadership Conference at 챬, Shabazz discussed enlarging people’s capacity for care.
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.
Barbara Smith ’69 kicked off the inaugural lecture series bearing her namesake on her time shaping the Combahee River Collective and discussed the skills she developed at Mount Holyoke that helped her contribute to building Black feminism.
