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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
Actress and software engineer Lyndsey Scott ’06 embodies the driving curiosity and deep versatility of Amherst alumni.
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.
After a string of high-paying jobs in banking, Cristian Hinojosa ’00 realized that happiness meant following his heart, which led to a career change with the Dallas Fire Department. Now as a firefighter and paramedic, Capt. Hinojosa says, “I won the lottery when it comes to jobs.”
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Sasha Blair-Goldensohn ’98 was a computer science at Google’s Manhattan headquarters when, one day in July 2009, he was walking through Central Park and a tree branch fell on him. When he returned to his job in 2011, he was a paraplegic wheelchair user and an advocate for accessibility.
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Miranda Marraccini ’12 was in the third year of her Ph.D. program in Princeton University’s English department when she learned about the Victoria Press, a London-based women’s-rights activist group from 1860. Starting in 2016, she set to work organizing their information for VictoriaPressCircle.org.
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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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