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  • A photo portrait of Sara Simon '13

    Data Driven

    Fall 2024

    Class Notes: Profile

    For almost a decade, Sara Simon ’13 built a career as a data journalist, with positions at the New York Times , Vermont Public Radio, and Spotlight PA, an investigate newsroom covering Pennsylvania. But this fall, she began a Ph.D. in history at Northwestern University.

  • A photo portrait of Charlotee  Ashamu ’01

    Cultural Leader

    Fall 2024

    Class Notes: Profile

    Charlotte Ashamu ’01 began her career working in global economic development before moving into the cultural heritage realm. She is now the director of international programs at the Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage at Yale University. Her big push in this new role has been to launch the Yale Directors Forum, a global fellowship that provides training for leaders at African cultural heritage institutions.

  • A photo portrait of Deborah Chung '74

    Concrete Achievements

    Fall 2024

    Class Notes: Profile

    A distinguished professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Deborah Chung ’74 developed a building product called “smart concrete.”

  • A photo of Jennie Gerard '66 working in the landscape around Lake Merritt in Oakland, Calif.

    Maintaining an Urban Oasis

    Fall 2024

    Class Notes: Profile

    On the last Saturday of each month, Jennie Gerard ’66 joins the Lake Merritt Weed Warriors, an all-volunteer band of gardeners she co-founded, to supplement public works staff by tackling much-needed weeding, planting, and mulching in the urban oasis in Oakland, Calif.