Elizabeth “Libby” Hohmann, Class of 1980
The early days of the Covid-19 pandemic were terrifying. Confirmed U.S. Covid deaths grew from eight—total—in early March 2020 to more than 1,000 every day just a month later. Three weeks after that,...
View ArticleAnouk Dey, Class of 2009, and Katherine Krieg Fischer, Class of 2008
The obstacles could have paralyzed you: You were here. The problem was there. You were young, just college students. The problem had roots centuries old. There were just two of you; hundreds of...
View ArticleLina M. Khan, Class of 2010
When you edited The Williams Record, your job was to report the news. Now, as chair of the Federal Trade Commission, you’re making headlines, not writing them. Under your leadership, the FTC accused...
View ArticlePamela Council, Class of 2007
Imagine a place of peace and protection in a time of trauma. Deep within it: a serene, colorful, multi-tiered fountain. Wrapped by pink and magenta clouds. Sheltered by silk. This sanctuary is shielded...
View ArticleThe Honorable Anita Earls, Class of 1981
Living as a biracial child adopted into a biracial family. Being a child in a family that integrated a previously all-white Seattle neighborhood. Helping organize students at this college to combat...
View ArticlePhilip O. Geier, Class of 1970
Here’s a radical notion: An interdependent world is ill-served when leadership develops independently. If the first time a leader encounters another culture or perspective is during a conversation on...
View ArticleRebecca G. Haile, Class of 1986
A refugee forced at 11 to flee violence in your native Ethiopia, you and your family wound up in what must have seemed a strange and unlikely place: Minnesota. Some might describe your subsequent life...
View ArticleRobbi Behr, Class of 1997
You are, respectively, the illustrator and author of critically acclaimed, very popular children’s books. You are husband and wife. You are busy parents of four, living in a hayloft on the Eastern...
View ArticleMatthew Swanson, Class of 1997
You are, respectively, the illustrator and author of critically acclaimed, very popular children’s books. You are husband and wife. You are busy parents of four, living in a hayloft on the Eastern...
View ArticleRobert Kim, Class of 1992
The law governing equity in education is shifting rapidly these days. So rapidly that, while completing a legal casebook, you joked recently that it’s hard “to type and delete at the same time.”...
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