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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.
P. Gabrielle Foreman ’86 is co-founder of the Colored Conventions Project, which has worked to make available six decades of Black political organizing information vital to the abolitionist movement and African-American activism.
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Charles Brewer ’81, who founded MindSpring Enterprises—one of the most successful Internet service providers in the 1990s—now works to develop a compact, walkable, and environmentally conscious community in the town of Las Catalinas, Costa Rica.
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As the Executive Director of the Missoula Writing Collaborative, Caroline Patterson ’78 has made it her mission to introduce the students of western Montana to poetry so that they can gain a deeper appreciation of language and begin to produce poetic works themselves.
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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