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Would you ride in one? If you do, it might grow on you. “Having ridden in the vehicles, you've got to feel it to believe it,” says Lucas Watson ’94, chief marketing officer for Cruise, a self-driving car company.
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It’s a job, which means it comes with deadlines, bottom lines, clients, crazy hours, and stress. Such things are rendered incidental, however, when reverential colleagues gather to watch the uncrating of a Monet. Six Hamilton alumni who work at the venerable auction house Sotheby’s New York talk about what they do.
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Hamilton marks a decade of need-blind admission — a bold commitment to access and opportunity.
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Though she found her job “through a happy coincidence,” it’s clear that the power of the Hamilton alumni-student network and a palpable enthusiasm for biology led Amelia Boyd ’20 to her upcoming position as an allergist research assistant.
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When Nancy Dolliver K’75 joined The Capitol Steps more than 20 years ago, she mostly played politicians’ wives because female politicos were scarce. Now that situation is changing, providing the troupe with a growing pool of women power-players.
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As a math teacher in the Houston Independent School District, Max Akuamoah-Boateng ’09 kept a stash of apples and extra food from the cafeteria, and even bought food for students who were hungry.
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After graduation, art history major Lila Reid ’20 will spend the year as an intern at the Williamstown Art Conservation Center in Massachusetts. The paid opportunity will provide her with the experience necessary to study art conservation at the graduate level.
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As co-founder and CEO of Equileap, Diana van Maasdijk ’93 is a global force in the fight for workplace gender equity.
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Ask the recently retired president of Purchase College, State University of New, what he’ll miss most about his position, and he distills it into two words: “The kids.”
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Hamilton TEDx welcomed Erik Wemple ’86, a media critic with The Washington Post, and Yael Bromberg, chief counsel of voting rights at the Andrew Goodman Foundation, on Feb. 15 to explore issues of political polarization, voter disenfranchisement, and the role of the media in the United States. The program, titled “20/20: Political Divisions,” proved especially relevant in the context of the seminal election coming up in November.
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