Katrina Ramirez-Meyers ’11 gained her passion for social justice—as well as her appreciation for batteries—from lessons she learned across the world.
Ron Antlitz, M.A.T. ’99 is a teacher with a vision for how much more could be possible.
Young Alumni Spotlight: Meet Zachary Reese
Meet Ashley Bent, Van Meter Club member
Jennifer Barrett Cox spends all her time helping kids. She works with the school system by day and runs a nonprofit by night.
As the president and CEO of the Downtown Development District of New Orleans, Davon Barbour is helping his adopted city tackle its issues.
First Lieutenant Bryce Harrison is currently stationed at Camp Casey in South Korea, just over 10 miles from the DMZ between North Korea and South Korea.
Combining law and public policy to help disadvantaged communities is a sweet spot that Delaney Green discovered at Goucher.
Margaret Grun Kibben ’82 is the 61st chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives and the first woman to hold that role in its history.
Debbie Roffman ’68 is a sexuality educator, one whose expertise is highly sought after around the country—both in classrooms for students and in books for parents.
As a doctor specializing in high-risk pregnancy, Paula Mahone empowered her patients to have a voice in their medical care—whether they were having one baby or seven.
Warren Dorsey was the first Black man to graduate from Goucher. The 100-year-old microbiologist, teacher, and principal overcame many obstacles to get the education he dreamed of.
Nash earned a scholarship to study zoology at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, and used money from her 1940 Queen Maryland beauty contest winnings to pay for room and board.
“How do we make the job market fair?” Daly tries to answer this question by developing systems that examine data to place candidates in quality roles.
Jennifer Hyde Sachs ’90, an entrepreneur and public speaker, recently spoke with the Goucher community about her life in Beijing and the bilingual school she started.
For his global work and local impact, Goucher College and the AAGC are proud to present Dante Disparte ’00 with the 2020 Elizabeth Statuta Baker ’70 Public Service Award.
Alice G. Pinderhughes ’73 likes to help—she needs to help. She became a lawyer because of Perry Mason, after all, who always cleared his clients’ names on TV.
Betsy Hestnes ’58 was a little girl in the 1940s who loved all creatures—the insects from her father’s garden, stray cats, and horses, especially horses.
Alicia Copeland ’01 loved to teach, and she decided she was never going to be an administrator—that she was certain of.
Baltimore County Executive John Olszewski Jr. ’04 grew up near the steel mills at Sparrow’s Point. Seeing the community lose access to good jobs affected him deeply.
Frances Lentz set out to provide families with information and to improve the perception of mental illness.
In February 2019, Goucher College honored Dr. La Jerne Terry Cornish with the Marguerite Barland ’60 Merit Award.
With a concentration in environmental science, Sam Glickstein was already interested in intensive agriculture when he got the chance to build a prototype of a hydroponic system in Goucher’s greenhouse.
Glass doors and walls are very important to Andres Zapata ’98, co-founder of idfive, a marketing company in Baltimore.
It is 9 a.m. the day before Thanksgiving, and Robert Bull ’93 is cooking a southern homemade feast for 50 people. It’s something he and his wife do every year.
Elizabeth Ellers ’81’s Goucher experience has been a series of memorable moments and undaunted firsts that have defined her life since graduation.
Todd Troester ’15 has been building connections and helping others his entire life. Recently, his passions have led him to a kind of social activism.
After serving for more than a decade on the Goucher College Board of Trustees, Ruth Shapiro Lenrow ’74 became board chair in July, previously serving as the board’s secretary and vice chair, as well as gala chair for two years.
Breaking gender stereotypes and pushing boundaries has been a familiar theme to The Honorable Paula Stern, Ph.D. ’67.
Kat Elicker ’19 has long been steeped in Goucher history. Her mother, Jillian Storms ’80, P ’19 is an alumna, and Elicker grew up coming to art gallery openings on campus. But when it came time to apply to college, Elicker didn’t see herself at Goucher, as she wanted to create her own path. Her mom […]
At a recent event, a Jesuit priest’s words resonated with Miriam E. Katowitz ’73. She recalls him saying, “We are beneficiaries of a legacy we did not create. We are stewards of a legacy that we will not benefit from.” For more than a decade, Katowitz has served on the Goucher College Board of Trustees, […]
After five years at Niagara University teaching abstract algebra and practical statistics, a faculty position opened at Goucher College. Phong Le ’03 was only a year away from tenure, but he says the decision came down to where he wanted his career to go. This was Le's [UNDAUNTED] moment.
2018 Marguerite Barland ’60 Merit Award Recipient To Receive Award at 12th Annual Jewel Robinson Dinner.
Minnie Waters Shorter ’73
Amtrak writer-in-residence watches the world go by.
Ross Shaffer ’10 takes to the air
"If pressed I would title myself a Jack-of-all trades. So I may not know exactly what my “career” is but I know what I do and why I do it."
Social Services Executive
Fleischman and her classmates have been looking back as they gear up for their 50th reunion, organizing get-togethers to drum up enthusiasm.
By Chris Landers No one can accuse Theo Emery M.F.A. ’14 of choosing an easy topic. His book, Hellfire Boys, due out in November, is subtitled “The Birth of the U.S. Chemical Warfare Service and the Race for the World’s Deadliest Weapons,” and deals with the American response to German chemical weapons during World War […]
By Molly Englund Jill Sisson Quinn M.F.A. ’08, like many of the writers who have gone through Goucher’s Creative Nonfiction Program, was fairly established in her writing career when she came to graduate school. While working as a high school English teacher, she had published several personal essays that dealt with developing a sense of place, […]
By Chris Landers Porscha Burke M.F.A. ’17 has a simple answer for how she became a publishing manager and associate editor at Random House 13 years ago: prayer. The self-described “unapologetic Christian girl” isn’t exaggerating. She did pray for direction. Three years out from the University of Virginia, she was working in the music business, […]
Jean Guerrero M.F.A. ’15 was majoring in journalism at USC, and everyone kept reminding her it was a struggling industry. But through internships and hard work, Guerrero proved otherwise.
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