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Jon Fisher ’94

As AAVC celebrates its 150th year, we are highlighting a few notable alums—this month, Silicon Valley entrepreneur Jon Fisher, a self-described “ideas guy” who founded his first tech company before he had even graduated.

Deidre Nansen McCloskey, Distinguished Professor Emerita of Economics and History and Adjunct Professor of English and Communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

The world’s economy has been growing at an impressive rate for the past two centuries—and the engine driving that growth is the freedom entrepreneurs have to test new ideas. That was the theme of a lecture delivered on the Vassar campus by economist Deidre Nansen McCloskey.