Alumni | Middlebury

Black and White portrait of suffragist Blanche Ames Ames

1960s, Middlebury College, Alumni, Equity & Justice

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.

Map of the world made from seaweed. Some countries are painted red while others are painted green.

1990s, Middlebury College, Alumni, Arts, Language, Culture, Environment, Science & Tech

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.

A portrait of Screenwriter Shawn Ryan next to the book cover image of Mattew Quirk’s "The Night Agent"

1980s, Middlebury College, Alumni, Arts, Language, Culture

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.

Dan Schulman in black sweater and jeans against a black backdrop

1980s, Middlebury College, Alumni, Entrepreneurship, Equity & Justice, Science & Tech

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.

a bowed human figure in patchwork colors facing an empty red chair

2010s, Bread Loaf Writers' Conferences, Middlebury College, Alumni, Arts, Language, Culture, Identity

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.

three bandmates carrying instruments while walking and talking, with an illustrated road-scape behind them

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

The Price of Dreams

Greg Naughton ’90 examines the joys and struggles of making it as a musician in the film The Independents.

the rust-red roofs of an Ecuadorian factory backed by a brilliant blue sky

2010s, Middlebury Institute of International Studies, Alumni, Arts, Language, Culture, Equity & Justice, Identity

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.

still image from the work "static range," showing the fuzzy outline of a Himalayan mountain range

2000s, Bread Loaf School of English, Alumni, Arts, Language, Culture, Environment

Art for the Earth

Bread Loaf student and multimedia artist Himali Singh Soin ’08 is using her art to raise awareness and funds for ecological and community sustainability in the Himalayas.

an illustration of three different feminine people of differing skin tones and body shapes wearing SheFly pants with the mountains in the background

2010s, Middlebury College, Alumni, Entrepreneurship, Environment, Equity & Justice, Experience

Alum Startup Wins Accelerator Contest

SheFly Apparel beat out over 100 startups to win one of four spots in the Moosejaw Outdoor Acceleration program.

animation still showing a man in his spacious kitchen, looking over his shoulder at the dog begging for scraps to his left

2010s, Middlebury College, Alumni, Arts, Language, Culture

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.