Aloyse Blair Brown ’96

I am the first woman to run for Hamilton County Mayor in Tennessee and am told that my campaign had profound impact on peoples perceptions of local politics, what politicians look like, and who they are. I won the Democratic primary in May with 70% of the vote, but lost the general election in August […]

Will Shenton ’09

I’ve been loving my new job at The Richmond Neighborhood Center, a San Francisco nonprofit providing free and low-cost after-school programs, food pantries, home-delivered groceries for seniors, and neighborhood events. Since I last wrote in 2016, I became a founding member of the SF chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America, and I’ve been proud […]

Nicholas Thacher ’63

Last December Nick and Sally Thacher moved into their house in Santa Barbara after Nick’s retirement from stomping out ignorance in the New England educational vineyard, becoming legal California residents for the first time since 1976. The “grand plan” is to spend winter and spring in California and summer and fall in the Berkshires. Classmates […]

Virginia S. Shannon ’07

After graduating Middlebury, I launched right into a year-long training program for environmental campaigns and organizing called Green Corps and spent all of last year moving around the country with different organizations. I was first placed in Michigan City, Indiana to work on the Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal campaign, followed by Denver for a clean […]