In a new Midd Moment podcast episode, Annie Weinberg ’10 shared how she left a successful finance career to pursue her passion for education and eventually founded the Alexander Twilight Academy, which provides rigorous academic and mentoring support for under-resourced students.
The LA Times reports that a new study coauthored by Eli Susman ’18 found that extending kindness and self-compassion in a daily 20-second meditation lowered stress and improved mental health for study participants.
Chris Wood ’88 heads Trout Unlimited, whose Priority Waters initiative is coordinating disparate watershed conservation projects among government agencies and partner organizations to expand the scope and impact on landscapes.
Baby Carl’s Happy Apocalypse, a podcast from the New Perennials project, takes a comedic approach to serious topics like climate change and socioeconomic inequality.
Lauren Markham ’05 reckons with the global migration crisis, the limits of journalism in addressing it, and her own family’s emigration from Greece in her new book, A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging.
Lauren Sayula ’23 initially planned to major in computer science but pivoted to film and media culture halfway through college after rediscovering her passion for video editing.