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Statement on Hampshire Halloween

… asking whether it was a predominantly white Afrobeat band and expressing concerns about cultural appropriation and the need to respect marginalized cultures. The students … the band in question, but wished to raise larger questions and have a deeper conversation within our own community. The …

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Hampshire Students Recognized at Grinspoon Virtual Celebration of Entrepreneurial Spirit

… college presidents, faculty, entrepreneurs, investors, and students. The event, hosted by the Grinspoon Entrepreneurship Initiative (EI) and usually held as an in-person banquet, recognized student entrepreneurs from 14 local colleges and universities who have persisted with their ventures …

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Kimberly Chang's New Book Earns National Acclaim

… of occupation by the Japanese, World War II, a civil war, and the Communist revolution. Published under her Chinese … that stands at the crossroads of fiction, memoir, history, and anthropology. It has garnered praise in, among other places, the Los Angeles Review of Books and The Massachusetts Review , which hailed Chang’s book as …

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Julia Botero 02S

… of working with the editors of the column, Dan Jones and Miya Lee, to bring the most emotional personal essays to … podcasts at Gimlet Media, reported on local politics and agriculture with North Country Public Radio, and produced interviews and news segments with the programs …

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Notable Alumni

Jonathan Friedland 77F

… for Netflix. He has spent more than 20 years in journalism and communications Friedland leads a global team responsible … communications, social media, brand public relations, and publicity for original Netflix shows such as Orange is the New Black and House of Cards —and has overseen the international …

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Dance Dept. Presents 'AGAIN: Moving Into a Movement'

… of graduating students Narieka Masla, Rikkia Pereira, and Julia Warren, performed by Five College students and other members of the community. AGAIN: Moving into a … expresses the embodied research of loss, relationship, and self. Performances will be Thursday, April 6 through …

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Abraham Ravett

… Abraham Ravett Abraham Ravett holds a B.F.A and M.F.A in filmmaking and photography and has been an independent filmmaker for the past …

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Response to ICE Ruling

… Response to ICE Ruling Students, Staff, and Faculty, Yesterday, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), released a new rule requiring … full online operations. The ruling is deliberately cruel and manifestly unjust. It is transparently intended to …

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Hampshire College Works to Develop Anti-Racist Plan of Action

… of this process, the Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion (IDI) took stock of how Hampshire has fared in … first Inventory of Anti-Racist Education, Actions, and Support Systems , which compiles a list of concrete steps that staff and faculty across campus are currently taking or planning to …

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Notable Alumni

Gabrielle Hamilton 83F

… Gabrielle Hamilton is the chef/owner of Prune restaurant and the author of New York Times bestsellers Blood, Bones & Butter and Prune Hamilton is the chef/owner of PRUNE, which she … has been recognized in all major press, both nationally and internationally, and is regularly cited in the top 100 …

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Constance Valis Hill

… Studies from New York University; M.A. in Dance Research and Reconstruction from City College of the University of New … from the International Society of Ballroom Dance; Neutral and a Character Mask certificate from Pierre LeFevre at the … American Dance, Conservatoire d'arts Dramatique in Paris, and New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. As a …

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Women's Cross-Country Team Wins Conference Championship

… in Randolph, Vt. The team finished with 35 points and a 31:46 average time for 6k. Lara Matthias took second overall, Liz O’Brien was third, and Ash Lamoreaux earned fifth — and all earned All-Conference individual honors. “It felt …

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When Identity Trumps Self-Interest

… school carpool. A Worcester, Massachusetts, native, she and her best friend often drove to school with her friend’s mother. “I admired her mother and felt close to her,” Brochu says. “She’d been able to … in a high-paying managerial position. She was confident and independent. Yet this woman used feminist as a dirty …

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Div III Profile: Project Partners Design Natural Haircare Product Venture

… “Have you ever read the back of your shampoo bottle, and struggled to figure out what those ingredients really … in the process of launching lymph + honey, a natural hair and body care LLC debuting products in stores this November. … have multiple chemical sensitivities—super sensitive skin and hair, so I can’t use most products,” Fuller says. “I’d go …

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It's On You: Symposium Shows What it Takes to be an Entrepreneur

… in amazing experiences over her decades in theater, and can be applied to any interest or career. Hamilton is cofounder and artistic director of KO Festival of Performance, a themed … festival of original performances, workshops, internships, and residencies in the Pioneer Valley, western Massachusetts. …

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Preventing HIV: Teaching Thai Teens to Invest in Themselves

… Dobro. "How do you take complex molecular biology topics and make people care about them, understand them, and make behavior changes because of that knowledge?" In … country's Ministry of Health to teach infection prevention and control in hospitals. She worked with science faculty …

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Hampshire Places High In National RecycleMania Tournament

… national RecycleMania Tournament, a friendly competition and benchmarking tool for college and university recycling programs to promote waste reduction … period each spring, colleges across the United States and Canada report the amount of recycling and trash collected …

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"It Was A Building That Spoke The Loudest"

… community came together to celebrate the milestone. And as with all things Hampshire, they were here to learn, to … day’s theme, “What Buildings Should Do: Environmentalism and Environmental Justice,” att acted a wide range of alums, parents, friends, students, faculty, and staff — from entrepreneurs to architects to activists — …

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Aligning Admissions With Mission

… With Mission Meredith Twombly, Dean of Enrollment and Retention This article originally appeared in the … at Hampshire College, rebels against lectures and passive learning, champions of self-designed majors and project-based learning, had let down our guard and were …

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Notable Alumni

Sarah Goldfinger 94F

… 94F Sarah Goldfinger 94F Sarah Goldfinger is a producer and writer on television shows such as Brothers & Sisters , Hawaii Five-0 , Grimm , and Jane the Virgin Sarah Goldfinger graduated from Hampshire College with a B.A. in creative writing and literature in 1998.  After graduating, she became the …

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Hampshire College's Climate Justice League Attends Students for Just & Stable Future Conference

… Climate Justice League attended the Students for a Just and Stable Future conference and networking retreat in Worcester, MA. The weekend soon became more than we had ever expected, and we left with many new friends and resources to help our …

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Div III Profile: Suhilah Booker Studies Benefits of Movement to Early Learners

… thesis on integrating movement in education — and an example of a student making the most of Hampshire’s … verbalizing their understanding of concepts would open up and engage more,” she says. “After that, I read an article by … F. Johnson Library, Booker pored through academic articles and studied concepts such as Laban’s movement analysis and

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Alum Seth Freed Wessler 03F's short film “The Facility” About ICE Detention Now Streaming

… Wessler 03F is based on his reporting, “ Fear, Illness and Death in ICE Detention: How a Protest Grew on the Inside … the COVID-19 pandemic. Utilizing video chat recordings and news footage, he exposes the dire situation detainees … two detainees, a Colombian asylum-seeker Andrea Manrique and Barahona-Marriaga, an immigrant from Honduras. “I thought …

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Unpacking Uber

… Sacrifice in the 21st Century: Notes on Labor, Uber, and Capitalist Social Control,” Ongweso writes that Uber’s … says. “Its goal is to dominate the transportation market and then replace human drivers with self-driving cars.” … Div III is a multi-perspective analysis at the local and global political and economic processes, historical and

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Animated Film Takes Owen Neuburger from Div III to Pixar

… the following year with Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences Chris Perry, an Academy Award-winner for … at Pixar. “Those two fields go well together side by side, and I use both a lot professionally,” he says. Neuburger … his Div III Computer Graphics Production as a Leader and Generalist. At the core of the project was Union , a …

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