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This video is part of our on-going Alumni in the Field series, where alumni reflect on their career paths and how their Amherst experience shaped their lives
Luciana Duarte ‘93, a native Brazilian, who was originally set on being a literature major, but found herself adding a new subject after an experience many fellow alumni can relate to: she took a class and fell in love with anthropology.
The Amherst environment fosters lifelong friendships and sparks a deep and persistent desire to learn. Alumni are present in almost every walk of life. Some alumni are or have been prominent on the world scene and many others contribute to society in equally important though less public ways. A liberal arts education prepares students for careers, volunteer activities and individual interests and pursuits that are personally meaningful.
It’s not about what you have done since Amherst, but who you have become.
Jonathan Vinson ’93, a flight surgeon with the Air National Guard, applied for Operation Deep Freeze five years in a row. In December, he was finally deployed. He flew from Portland, Ore., to Christchurch, New Zealand, where he met the flight nurse and aeromedical evacuation technician he would be teamed with for the next six weeks.
Read Jonathan's story
Fitzgerald, an English and psychology major, founded her business, Tinkergarden, out of a concern that children no longer know what to do with their free time.
Read Meghan's story
How do you get humans to eat a destructive fish that’s also very hard to catch? A voracious and venomous apex predator is wreaking havoc up and down the East Coast and throughout the Caribbean. To fight it, we need a fleet of state-of-the-art robots that can venture into spaces beyond the reach of humanity.
Read Orin's story
Using her Amherst background as editor-in-chief of the student literary magazine Circus and writer for The Common, Xu is working on a book, Mami’s Tail, which is named for her mother and will combine her Watson observations and childhood memories.
Read JinJin's story