A Hollywood Voice
Continuing a stretch of seemingly being everywhere in Hollywood, Jason Mantzoukas ’95 is currently lending his voice to two buzzy TV projects.
Stories
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Rediscovering a Forgotten Suffragist
Blanche Ames Ames was a suffragist, activist, and inventor often left out of history books, so William Ames ’66 stepped in to executive produce a documentary about his exceptional family member.
The Atlas of Disappearing Places
Christina Conklin ’90 created an array of maps from seaweed for this new book that she coauthored with Marina Psaros, each showing locations in our world vulnerable to the ravages of climate change.
Shawn Ryan’s New Netflix Project
Shawn Ryan ’88 is slated to serve as writer and showrunner for a Netflix adaptation of Matthew Quirk’s bestselling novel The Night Agent. The story follows an FBI agent working in the White House basement and a conspiracy that he stumbles into.
World Leadership and Digital Dollars
PayPal CEO Dan Schulman ’80 has been named #3 on Fortune’s 2021 World’s 50 Greatest Leaders list for PayPal’s groundbreaking investment in employees and pandemic financial relief efforts.
Poetry as Conversation
Cheswayo Mphanza ’16 recently released a book of poetry, The Rinehart Frames, which won the African Poetry Book Foundation’s 2020 Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets.
The Price of Dreams
Greg Naughton ’90 examines the joys and struggles of making it as a musician in the film The Independents.
Fighting for Cultural Survival
Middlebury Institute alumna Danika Robison MPA ’19 documented a story of injustice, unionization, and the hard-fought preservation of a pre-Inca language and culture in Ecuador.
Award-Winning Animated Film
A new animated film by Jon Portman ’13 called Malady of Mine has won several awards and screened at festivals in the U.S., Prague, and Montreal.