Posted on June 21, 2017
FOND Bone Broth: A Modern Family Business
Sisters Alysa (Obert) Seeland ’11 and Anna Obert ’16 are proving that family businesses are not something of the past; their new company, FOND Bone Broth, has found success in a hungry market.
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Posted on June 5, 2017
How Language Study Shaped Stephen Zani’s Mindset
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Posted on June 1, 2017
Julie Korn ’02: Art and Play in Niger
CURE Niger, a children’s hospital in Africa where Josh ’05 and Julie ’02 Korn serve, has a new playground for patients, funded in part by the sales of final artwork by students in the Gordon IN Orvieto program.
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Posted on May 22, 2017
Alumni in the Peace Corps: Building Cultural Bridges in Nicaragua
While studying at Gordon, Anna Jonker ’14 was met with a life-changing opportunity that began when she met a Peace Corps representative at a career fair and received a nudge of encouragement from Dr. Dorothy Boorse (biology).
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Posted on May 1, 2017
Alumni in the Peace Corps: Cross-Cultural Understanding in Ghana
Since 2015, Roland has been serving as an agriculture volunteer in northern Ghana, where he teaches farm management practices and helps groups of farmers form mutually beneficial partnerships.
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Posted on April 21, 2017
Conversation Leading to Communion: A New Paradigm of Mentorship
Collaboration, Bruce Herman says, “is about getting outside of yourself and your own preoccupations and listening for and building toward common ground with others."
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Posted on March 1, 2017
Sarah Hague ’14: Liaison in Federal Legislature
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Posted on February 8, 2017
Samuel Tsoi ’07: Navigating the Concrete Jungle by Returning to Roots
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Posted on December 29, 2016
Alumni in the Peace Corps: Classrooms and Community in Costa Rica
Ryan Wilkens ’15 fell in love with Costa Rica during his junior year at Gordon, when he spent a semester in San Jose for the Latin American Studies Program. Now he is six months into his two-year Peace Corps term, teaching English at an elementary school.
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Posted on December 23, 2016
Ian Good ’11: New York Philharmonic Staff & Published Composer
Since graduating from Gordon in 2011, Ian Good has published arrangements, received composing commissions, and landed a job at the oldest symphony orchestra in the country, the New York Philharmonic.
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Posted on December 14, 2016
Alumni in the Peace Corps: Community and Diplomacy in Madagascar
International affairs grad Emma Barclay ’16 is currently a Peace Corps volunteer on the African island of Madagascar as part of her long-term goal to join the United States Foreign Service.
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Posted on December 9, 2016
Fashion and Activism: How Julie Overby '06 Uses Her Passion for Good
A communication arts major, she was skilled in writing, designing and art—and she knew that she wanted to make a change in the world by helping to end human trafficking.
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