Caring For the Land
In a new memoir, A Little Bit of Land, poet and farmer Jessica Gigot ’01 discusses food systems, women farmers, and her path from suburbia to agriculture.
Stories
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Field Notes in Refugee Resettlement
When Alyssa Serrano MAIPD ’22 starts her career this fall as a program officer at a Washington, D.C.–based resettlement agency, she’ll bring a wealth of firsthand experience.
A Boost for Adaptive Sports
In September 2022, the 17th annual Kelly Brush Ride raised more than $1 million to help people with spinal cord injuries afford cost-prohibitive adaptive sports equipment.
Young Alumna Shakes up the Pentagon
After working on the Biden campaign in 2020, Elsa Alvarado ’18 secured a position as director of strategic communications for the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Legislative Affairs.
Get Loud for Carol Tonge Mack
With her memoir, Being Bernadette: From Polite Silence to Finding the Black Girl Magic Within, Carol Tonge Mack ’95 advocates for challenging polite silence.
Brain Blasts
Clinton Cave, an assistant professor of neuroscience at Middlebury, runs a lab at the College focused on studying how brain cells communicate.
In the Face of Gentrification
Former Bread Loaf Fellow Cleyvis Natera’s debut novel, Neruda on the Park, is a portrait of how gentrification impacts a Dominican family in New York City.
Mister Miss America
Neil D’Astolfo ’07.5 portrays Derek Tyler Taylor, the first male contestant in his small-town beauty pageant, in the off-Broadway solo show Mister Miss America at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater.
Vermont Prize for Visual Art
Visual artist, graffiti scholar, and educator Will Kasso Condry has been selected for the first Vermont Prize, a new endeavor aimed at celebrating and supporting the best visual art being made in Vermont.