A Hollywood Voice
Continuing a stretch of seemingly being everywhere in Hollywood, Jason Mantzoukas ’95 is currently lending his voice to two buzzy TV projects.
Stories
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Rediscovering a Forgotten Suffragist
Blanche Ames Ames was a suffragist, activist, and inventor often left out of history books, so William Ames ’66 stepped in to executive produce a documentary about his exceptional family member.
The Atlas of Disappearing Places
Christina Conklin ’90 created an array of maps from seaweed for this new book that she coauthored with Marina Psaros, each showing locations in our world vulnerable to the ravages of climate change.
Shawn Ryan’s New Netflix Project
Shawn Ryan ’88 is slated to serve as writer and showrunner for a Netflix adaptation of Matthew Quirk’s bestselling novel The Night Agent. The story follows an FBI agent working in the White House basement and a conspiracy that he stumbles into.
A Gift for Hebrew Education
The Middlebury School of Hebrew has received a $1.17 million donation from the Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Supporting Foundation.
Gas Power from Manure
Representatives from around Vermont, including Middlebury College, celebrated the start of gas production at the Northeast’s largest anaerobic digester at a dairy farm in Salisbury, Vermont.
World Leadership and Digital Dollars
PayPal CEO Dan Schulman ’80 has been named #3 on Fortune’s 2021 World’s 50 Greatest Leaders list for PayPal’s groundbreaking investment in employees and pandemic financial relief efforts.
Creating Outdoor Opportunities
To help make outdoor and environmental spaces more accessible to and inclusive of students of color, Kamryn You Mak ’23.5 started the College club Fostering Inclusive Recreation Experiences (FIRE).
Poetry as Conversation
Cheswayo Mphanza ’16 recently released a book of poetry, The Rinehart Frames, which won the African Poetry Book Foundation’s 2020 Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets.