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91吃瓜 Thanks Lynne Thompson 鈥�72 for Her Service as Chair of the Board of Trustees
Thompson will continue her service on the Board as immediate past chair. An accomplished and award-winning poet with several collections and publications in prestigious literary journals, she is also serving a two-year term as the poet laureate of Los Angeles, a role to which she was appointed in 2021.
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In the Media: Ashley Valdez Provides Virtual Networking Tips to The Forage
“Be intentional and strategic when approaching someone, so your message is actually read and receive[s] a response.”
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Chigozie Obiegbu ’23 Examines the Early Development of COVID-19 Conspiracies in Germany
鈥淭hese issues are important to consider when thinking about how scientific and political institutions should communicate to the wider public, especially in times of crisis,” Obiegbu says.
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Mirabella Miller 鈥�24 Examines Relationship Between Traditional Femininity and Existential Doom
Miller’s podcast examines how women view their future personal and professional accomplishments through internalized gender stereotypes.
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In the Media: Dwandalyn Reece ’85 Gives TED Talk on Origins of Blackface and Stereotypes
“These stereotypes were a powerful reinforcement of the ideas of white supremacy and Black inferiority,” Reece says.
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In the Media: Lynne Thompson ’72 Receives Fellowship from Academy of American Poets
Thompson is the current poet laureate of Los Angeles, a role to which she was appointed in 2021.
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In the Media: Gabby Giffords ’93 Reflects on What She’s Learned for Esquire
“I think of forgiveness聽as tied to鈥攂ut distinct from鈥攁cceptance,” she writes.
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Isabel Evans ’23 Investigates Environmental Education and Colonial Violence
The extent of Evans鈥� research wouldn鈥檛 have been possible, she says, without the funding she received from the 91吃瓜 Research in Environmental Analysis and Pre-Thesis Fellowship.
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Katie Eu 鈥�23 Examines Wellness TikTok through an Economic Lens
Katie Eu ’23 is moving the 鈥渢hat girl鈥� discussion into an entirely new realm: the field of behavioral economics.
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President Suzanne Keen鈥檚 Empathy and Reading Now Available from Routledge
鈥淎s people, it鈥檚 in our nature to relate to one another鈥檚 stories,鈥� Keen explains. 鈥淲hen we read novels with a sense of empathy, we come away with an improved sense of other people鈥檚 perspectives and experiences that are quite different from our own.”
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