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Alumni Spotlight

Q&A With Jess Phoenix, M.F.A. ’18

A Q&A with Jess Phoenix, M.F.A. ’18—volcanologist, natural hazards expert, nonprofit founder, and author—about her career, writing rituals, and the book that she came to Goucher to draft.

Alumni Spotlight

Q&A: Darl Andrew Packard ’04

“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.”

Alumni Spotlight

Q&A: Camille Baudot Wheeler ’63

Social services executive

Alumni Spotlight

Q&A With Melinda Burdette ’72

Goucher trustee

Alumni Spotlight

Q&A: Justin Holbrook ’10

2017 Baltimore City Teacher of the Year

Alumni Spotlight

Q&A With Vince Connelly ’98

Owner, Connelly & Associates Fundraising, LLC

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Q&A With Risa Gorelick ’91

Dissertation/writing coach, Defend & Publish, LLC

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Q&A With Maya Alexandri

Novelist, short story writer, medical student

Alumni Spotlight

Q&A With Mary DeArment ’83

Owner & designer, Mary DeArment Word Art

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Q&A With Beth Goldsmith ’72, M.Ed. ’73

Trustee and philanthropist

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Q&A: Jon Soderberg ’90

“I was blessed with exceptional professors and mentors; Jean Harvey Baker, Joe Morton and Julie Jeffery most notably.”

Alumni Spotlight

Q&A: Lisa Stromberg ’83

“Hot Steel concert/party in September at the College Center Courtyard, our first party with boys invited! This is where I met my husband in 1979.”

Alumni Spotlight

Q&A: Kimberlee Van Newkirk Shaffir ’83, P ’15

“I left Goucher thinking that I could do practically anything if I just put my mind to it and I still feel that way today.”

Goucher Today

Intro to Curiosity

Provost Leslie Lewis on student inquiry, the new Goucher curriculum, and why intro classes just don’t work

Goucher Today

Mindful Melodies

Last semester’s mindfulness theme found Goucher President José Antonio Bowen in a contemplative mood, so he put together an album of meditative tunes with engineer Daniel Chase.