Vassar College was mentioned in News10, WAMC, and Poughkeepsie Journal articles about efforts to establish polling places on New York college campuses. The College and Meryl Streep ’71, P’08,’13 were mentioned in News10 and WPDH stories about the actor’s recent visit to campus to accept the AAVC Distinguished Achievement Award. Vassar was included in a Yahoo! News article about colleges with “no-loan” policies.

Leah Goodridge ’04, Managing Attorney for Housing Policy at Mobilization for Justice, Inc., received a Diversity Champion award from the New York City Bar Association and recently spoke on the association’s podcast, Building Belonging, about professionalism as a racial construct.

Blumhouse CEO and Founder Jason Blum ’91 talked about the latest Halloween film with Jamie Lee Curtis on the Late Late Show with James Corden.

Dr. Ebony Boulware ’91 was named Dean of Wake Forest University School of Medicine and Chief Science Officer of Atrium Health, as noted by PR Newswire.

Morgan Monaco ’06 was appointed President of the Prospect Park Alliance, as noted by the New York Times.

Filmmaker Noah Baumbach ’91 talked about his latest film, an adaptation of Don DeLillo’s White Noise, as noted in Yahoo! Entertainment.

Mia Mask, Professor of Film on the Mary Riepma Ross ’32 Chair, interviewed actor Pam Grier for the British Film Institute.

Mary-Kay Lombino, Deputy Director and Curator of the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, was quoted in a New York Times article about the new David Rockefeller Creative Arts Center in the lower Hudson Valley.

David Ambroz ’02 spoke to NPR about surviving on the streets of New York City as a homeless child and about his new memoir, A Place Called Home.

Erica Weiner-Amachi ’03, a teacher, participated in a Jeopardy! “Second Chance” competition, as noted by Philly Voice.

Michaela Coplen ’18 was named a Marshall Scholar, which will allow her to pursue an MPhil in International Relations at the University of Oxford. 

Victoria Abut ’18, a student at Harvard Law School, wrote a Corporate Compliance Insights article about corruption in Brazilian politics. 

Attorney Carrie Goldberg ’99 was quoted in an NPR story about a lawsuit against Amazon for allegedly selling suicide kits to teenagers.

Danushi Fernando, Director of LGBTQ+ and Gender Resources, was quoted in a Self article.

Zachary Wagner ’07 was named Chief Product Officer at StraighterLine, as noted by the Washington Business Journal.

Theresa “Terri” O’Shea ’76, former AAVC Executive Director, was remembered in the Poughkeepsie Journal.

Yanajaha Kafi Moragne-Patterson ’06, Senior Program Director of College and Career Success at the University of Chicago Inclusive Economy Lab, will serve as a member of the Illinois Torture Inquiry and Relief Commission, as noted by myradiolink.com.

The Maroon remembered Dr. Iris Mack ’78, who was the first Black woman to teach applied mathematics at the MIT Sloan School of Management. 

Mariya Abdulkaf ’15 was named Supervising Audience Editor of the New York Times Video Department, as noted by the NYT.

Author and leader of the School Garden Support Organization Whitney Cohen ’99 of Life Lab will be the keynote speaker at a conference on school and youth gardening, as noted in a Columbus Dispatch article.

Frederick Deknatel ’08, Executive Editor of Democracy in Exile, wrote a chapter on reconstruction in Syria in the recently published Cultural Heritage and Mass Atrocities, as noted by Getty.

Whitney W. Donhauser ’89, former Director and President of the Museum of the City of New York, was named Deputy Director and Chief Advancement Officer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, as noted by TheCityLife.org.

The work of photographer Caleb Stein ’17 was the subject of an Argonaut story.

Dr. Cathy Drennan ’85, a professor of chemistry and biology at MIT, was the recipient of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 2023 William C. Rose Award, as noted by ASBMB.

Taylor Gee ’23 was quoted in a New York Times article about young knitters attending the New York State Sheep and Wool Festival.

Photo credits: Goodridge, Laura Merrill; Ambroz, courtesy of the subject; O’Shea, Dmitri Kasterine.

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