Alumni

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   2000s,  Alumni,  Entrepreneurship

   Cannabis Trailblazer

   Michael Sims ’00 is the co-owner of Middlebury-based FLORA, one of three stores in Vermont to welcome long lines of customers on October 1, the first day of legal recreational cannabis sales.

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   2000s,  Alumni,  Athletics,  Identity

   A Boost for Adaptive Sports

   In September 2022, the 17th annual Kelly Brush Ride raised more than $1 million to help people with spinal cord injuries afford cost-prohibitive adaptive sports equipment.

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   1990s,  Middlebury College,  Alumni,  Arts, Language, Culture,  Staff

   Fridge on the Fritz

   When life gave her a failing fridge, Jessie Raymond ’90 made…melted ice cream drinks. Read her latest humor column in the Addison Independent.

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   2020s,  Language Schools,  Alumni,  Arts, Language, Culture,  Equity & Justice

   Spanish as an Avenue for Peace

   Madeline Doane attended the Spanish immersion program at Middlebury Language Schools this summer as a Kathryn Davis Fellow for Peace.

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   2010s,  Alumni,  Identity,  Politics & Government

   Young Alumna Shakes up the Pentagon

   After working on the Biden campaign in 2020, Elsa Alvarado ’18 secured a position as director of strategic communications for the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Legislative Affairs.

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   1990s,  Alumni,  Arts, Language, Culture,  Identity

   Get Loud for Carol Tonge Mack

   With her memoir, Being Bernadette: From Polite Silence to Finding the Black Girl Magic Within, Carol Tonge Mack ’95 advocates for challenging polite silence.

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   2010s,  Alumni,  Arts, Language, Culture

   Laughing through Pain with Alyssa Limperis ’12

   In her special, No Bad Days, recently released on Peacock, Alyssa Limperis ’12 melds grief and humor.

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   2000s,  Alumni,  Experience

   Sharing the journey to recovery

   Clay Moorhead ’02 shares his motivation for giving back to Middlebury. Sober for nearly six years, Moorhead wants to help others who face addiction. “There is a better way of life,” he says.

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   2010s,  Bread Loaf Writers' Conferences,  Alumni,  Arts, Language, Culture,  Equity & Justice,  Identity

   In the Face of Gentrification

   Former Bread Loaf Fellow Cleyvis Natera’s debut novel, Neruda on the Park, is a portrait of how gentrification impacts a Dominican family in New York City.

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    2000s,  Alumni,  Arts, Language, Culture,  Identity

    Mister Miss America

    Neil D’Astolfo ’07.5 portrays Derek Tyler Taylor, the first male contestant in his small-town beauty pageant, in the off-Broadway solo show Mister Miss America at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater.