Karen Hastie Williams, barrier-breaking lawyer, dies at 76 \u2014 The New York Times<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nNews outlets around the country reported on the trailblazing achievements of Black lawyer Karen Hastie Williams, who died July 7 at age 76.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In 1974, Hastie Williams became the first Black woman hired as a clerk on the Supreme Court, working for Justice Thurgood Marshall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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In 2005, NAACP Legal Defense Fund board members Karen Hastie Williams ’66 and James Nabrit ’52 pose for a photograph during their annual meeting. Williams, who died in July, was a “barrier-breaking lawyer,” said The New York Times.<\/em> Nabrit, who died in 2013, was an NAACP Legal Defense Fund litigator who argued landmark civil rights cases before the Supreme Court. (Michael Appleton for Bates College)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n\u201cShe was the first woman and the first person of color to make partner at Crowell & Moring, a white-shoe law firm in Washington, D.C., and she repeated the same achievement on a series of corporate and nonprofit boards,\u201d according to The New York Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\nShe and her husband were \u201camong the capital\u2019s power elite, part of a generation of Black professionals who had entered the establishment in the post-civil rights era. Mrs. Williams made it a point to give back. At Crowell, on corporate boards and in a long list of nonprofit positions, she set herself up as one of the city\u2019s leading mentors for women and people of color in legal and government circles, propelling dozens of promising young lawyers into successful careers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Read the stories: <\/p>\n\n\n\n
- \u201cKaren Hastie Williams, barrier-breaking lawyer, dies at 76<\/a>,\u201d The New York Times<\/em>, <\/em>Aug. 8, 2021<\/li>
- “Karen Hastie Williams was a trailblazer and a voice to remember,<\/a>” The Washington Post<\/em>, July 24, 2021<\/li>
- “LDF mourns the passing of longtime board member Karen Hastie Williams<\/a>,” LDF, Aug. 11, 2021<\/li>
- “Remembering Karen Hastie Williams, legal trailblazer who opened doors for many<\/a>,” DC Bar<\/em>, July 27, 2021<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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Al Fereshetian and Curtis Johnson, Bates athletics<\/h3>\n\n\n\nCurtis Johnson taking baton from Al Fereshetian as Bates men\u2019s track and cross country coach \u2014 Lewiston Sun Journal<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nSpeaking to Wil Kramlich of the Lewiston Sun Journal<\/em>, Al Fereshetian used a track analogy to explain his decision to retire after 26 years as head coach of men’s cross country and track and field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\u201cYou know, you want to pass that baton,\u201d said Fereshetian, who has been succeeded by Curtis Johnson, an assistant coach since 2016<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2018\/06\/161015_fereshetian-X_Country_States_Men_0931.jpg\")
Head coach Al Fereshetian (left) encourages his cross country runners to the finish of the 2015 Maine State Championship at Pineland Farms in New Gloucester, Maine. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nIf one of the runners in a relay race gets too tired, Fereshetian explained, \u201cthen you almost are stumbling to pass that exchange, and that doesn\u2019t make for…a very successful relay. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cSo, I feel like I\u2019ve been able to maintain a good pace up to this point, but I can see if I hung in there too much longer I\u2019d probably be hitting that point where I wouldn\u2019t be able to keep moving that baton the way I want to \u2014 and the way it needs to for the team to be successful.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
- Read the story: \u201cCurtis Johnson taking baton from Al Fereshetian as Bates men\u2019s track and cross country coach<\/a>,\u201d Lewiston Sun Journal<\/em>, June 26, 2021<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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Curtis Johnson succeeds Al Fereshetian as head coach of men’s cross country and track and field. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nJohn Baughman, politics faculty<\/h3>\n\n\n\nCelebrities running for office are boosted by the political moment \u2014 Teen Vogue<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nAssociate Professor of Politics John Baughman tells Teen Vogue<\/em> writer Tyler Baum that celebrities with little political experience who run for office can take advantage of the growth of \u201cnegative partisanship.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\nThat\u2019s the tendency, explains Baughman, of many voters \u201cnot simply to support their own party…but to actually vote against the other party\u2019s candidates.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
When a voter is motivated to vote against one candidate, it lowers the bar for what it takes to earn the vote, says Baughman, opening the door for a celebrity or other newcomer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
- Read the story: \u201cCelebrities running for office are boosted by the political moment<\/a>,\u201d Teen Vogue<\/em>, July 22, 2021<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nAlexandria Onuoha ’20<\/h3>\n\n\n\nProtecting Black women college students from “far-right misogynoir” \u2014 Suffolk University News<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nIn a Q&A interview with Suffolk University News, Alexandria Onuoha ’20, a doctoral student in applied developmental psychology at the university, talked about researching the impact of far-right ideologies on Black woman college students. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Using ideas developed by feminist scholar Moya Bailey, who coined the term “misogynoir” to describe the racist misogyny directed toward Black women, Onuoha is exploring what she calls “far-right misogynoir,” the “direct hate and prejudice towards Black women from far-right groups and individuals.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2021\/08\/200120_MLK_Keynote_0889.jpeg\")
In January 2020, Alexandria Onuoha \u201920 offered student greetings at the college’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day keynote session. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nIn her psychology studies at Bates, she says, “at first I didn\u2019t see myself reflected as a Black woman.” As her coursework and skills deepened, “I learned I can study things about my community in a scientific way that can impact change.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n
That culminated in a senior thesis on “attitudes toward Black LBGTQIA+ individuals and whether religious commitment affects perceptions toward them. I became more and more interested in the Black women college experience.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
- Read the story: “Protecting Black women college students from ‘far-right misogynoir<\/a>,'” Suffolk University news, April 8, 2021<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nAndrew Kennedy, chemistry and biochemistry faculty<\/h3>\n\n\n\nBates College professor guiding students through COVID-19 data \u2014 Lewiston Sun Journal<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nIn a Q&A with the Lewiston Sun Journal<\/em>, Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry Andrew Kennedy explains how two students inspired a data-visualization project to track COVID statistics among schools of the New England Small College Athletic Conference during the 2020\u201321 academic year.<\/p>\n\n\n\nJillian Serrano \u201921 and Wuyue Zhou \u201921 were student researchers in the Kennedy lab, which focuses on epigenetics: how genes can change their function without being altered themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n
The pair \u201cwanted to have a sense for how outbreaks would unfold at other, similarly sized colleges that were also coming back to their campuses in-person,\u201d Kennedy said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The result was a dashboard updated daily with information about COVID in the NESCAC. The two students \u201cdid everything,\u201d Kennedy says. \u201cI would simply meet with them daily for data visualization and to discuss what the data might mean.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The power of data became clear in late March, when Bates saw a surge in student cases. Based on data from similar spikes and lockdowns at other NESCAC campuses during the year, \u201cit was predictable that a lockdown [at Bates] would be able to arrest the spread of the virus on campus without exceeding available isolation housing for infected students.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
From April 1 to 13, Bates implemented in-room restrictions for all students, which stopped the surge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
- Read the story: \u201cAndrew Kennedy \u2014 Bates College professor guiding students through COVID-19 data<\/a>,\u201d Lewiston Sun Journal<\/em>, July 25, 2021<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nAmy Belding Brown \u201969<\/h3>\n\n\n\nAn Irish immigrant saves the work of a brilliant poet in Emily\u2019s House<\/em> \u2014 Booktrib<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2021\/08\/9780593199633.jpeg\")
<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nAuthor Amy Belding Brown \u201969 is a \u201cmaster of historical fiction,\u201d says a Booktrib<\/em> review describing Brown\u2019s new novel, Emily\u2019s House,<\/em> as \u201cemotionally satisfying because of Brown\u2019s exquisite writing.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\nThe novel explores the relationship between poet Emily Dickinson and her confidante, Margaret Maher, the Irish maid responsible for saving Dickinson\u2019s work from certain destruction, albeit against the poet\u2019s expressed wishes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
- Read the story: \u201cAn Irish immigrant saves the work of a brilliant poet in Emily\u2019s House,<\/em><\/a>\u201d Booktrib<\/em>, Aug. 3, 2021<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nJulia Sleeper \u201908 and Kimberly Sullivan \u201913<\/h3>\n\n\n\nTree Street Youth celebrates 10 years of community, safety and hope \u2014 Lewiston Sun Journal<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nThe Lewiston Sun Journal<\/em> looked back at the humble beginnings of Tree Street Youth, founded as a summer activities camp in 2011 by Julia Sleeper \u201908 and Kim Sullivan \u201913 and now a robust nonprofit offering a range of youth-centered programs and partnerships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\u201cThe building where Tree Street Youth started in 2011 had been a paint shop,\u201d writes Sun Journal<\/em> intern Ellie Wolfe \u201923. \u201cAfter that, it was a preschool. Then it was a big, empty building.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2021\/08\/E_130531_Tree_Street__0192.jpg\")
Julia Sleeper ’08 (left) and Kim Sullivan ’13, seen in 2013, co-founded Tree Street Youth Center in 2011. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nSleeper, who is now Tree Street\u2019s executive director, recalls how she and Sullivan \u201cpainted it up, designed a summer camp, and ended up running our very first summer program in 2011, with eight teenagers from the neighborhood as street leaders.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
- Read the story: \u201cTree Street Youth celebrates 10 years of community, safety and hope<\/a>,\u201d Lewiston Sun Journal<\/em>, July 18, 2021<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nJenn Lemkin Bouchard \u201999<\/h3>\n\n\n\nJenn Bouchard returns to Mystic Saturday \u2014 The Westerly Sun<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nThe Sun <\/em>of Westerly, R.I., profiled Jenn Bouchard \u201999, author of the novel First Course, <\/em>when she returned to the area for a book signing at Banks Square Books in Mystic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2021\/08\/9781952816499.webp\")
<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nBouchard spent part of her childhood in nearby Gales Ferry, Conn., when her father was executive officer of the USS Groton <\/em>submarine in the mid-1980s. \u201cComing back is a bit of a homecoming for me,” Bouchard said. <\/p>\n\n\n\nBouchard\u2019s novel tells the story of 24-year-old Janie Whitman, who after a series of life-altering catastrophes retreats to her family\u2019s summer house in Maine, where she seeks solace and stability among family, friends, and food, and finds romance along the way. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
As a review in The Bedford Citizen<\/em><\/a> notes, the book is “about food \u2014 and a lot more.”<\/p>\n\n\n\nThe novel is set in Cape Elizabeth, Maine. Bouchard told the local paper<\/a> that Maine has been a touchstone since her first college visit to Bates. <\/p>\n\n\n\n“I had moved every two or three years throughout my life due to my father\u2019s Navy career as a naval submariner, and I was so excited about the prospect of staying somewhere for four years.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
- Read the story: \u201cJenn Bouchard returns to Mystic Saturday<\/a>,\u201d The Westerly Sun<\/em>, July 22, 2021<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nNancy Hohmann \u201968<\/h3>\n\n\n\nBelle, the Oxford Hills therapy dog, knows when someone needs her \u2014 Advertiser Democrat<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nA feature story in the Advertiser Democrat<\/em> of Norway, Maine, notes that \u201cNancy Hohmann and her therapy dog, Belle, are regulars at schools and nursing homes around the Oxford Hills of western Maine.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\nHohmann and Belle began their routine after Hohmann saw \u201chow much pleasure a visiting therapy dog brought to her mother during her final days.\u201d The retired public school educator \u201cdecided doing the same would be a good way to pay it forward: by providing that joy to others.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2021\/08\/2010_Nancy_Hohmann_F9950_PGJ.jpg\")
Nancy Hohmann ’68 works with a student at Riding to the Top Therapeutic Riding Center in 2010. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nHohmann, who has long experience helping people gain confidence by engaging with animals, including therapeutic horseback riding, describes Belle as \u201cthree-quarters golden retriever and one-quarter Irish setter craziness, which makes her all the more interesting,\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
- Read the story: \u201cBelle, the Oxford Hills therapy dog, knows when someone needs her<\/a>,\u201d Advertiser Democrat<\/em>, July 28, 2021<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nAllen Kendunga \u201918<\/h3>\n\n\n\nKickstarting Rwandan careers with entrepreneurship training \u2014 Ladderwork<\/em>s<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nIn a Q&A story with Ladderworks<\/em>, Allen Kendunga talks about founding Talent Match in Rwanda to help college students develop entrepreneurial skills through career development programs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u201cThere is a saying that \u2018to whom much is given, much is expected,\u2019 and I believe I have been given much, so it\u2019s high time I gave back,\u201d Kendunga said. \u201cI also strongly believe that the right education and platforms can transform lives. I have seen firsthand what young people can do if they are given the tools, information, and support to transform their communities.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
News outlets around the country reported on the trailblazing achievements of Black lawyer Karen Hastie Williams, who died July 7 at age 76.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In 1974, Hastie Williams became the first Black woman hired as a clerk on the Supreme Court, working for Justice Thurgood Marshall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cShe was the first woman and the first person of color to make partner at Crowell & Moring, a white-shoe law firm in Washington, D.C., and she repeated the same achievement on a series of corporate and nonprofit boards,\u201d according to The New York Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n She and her husband were \u201camong the capital\u2019s power elite, part of a generation of Black professionals who had entered the establishment in the post-civil rights era. Mrs. Williams made it a point to give back. At Crowell, on corporate boards and in a long list of nonprofit positions, she set herself up as one of the city\u2019s leading mentors for women and people of color in legal and government circles, propelling dozens of promising young lawyers into successful careers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Read the stories: <\/p>\n\n\n\n Speaking to Wil Kramlich of the Lewiston Sun Journal<\/em>, Al Fereshetian used a track analogy to explain his decision to retire after 26 years as head coach of men’s cross country and track and field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cYou know, you want to pass that baton,\u201d said Fereshetian, who has been succeeded by Curtis Johnson, an assistant coach since 2016<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If one of the runners in a relay race gets too tired, Fereshetian explained, \u201cthen you almost are stumbling to pass that exchange, and that doesn\u2019t make for…a very successful relay. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cSo, I feel like I\u2019ve been able to maintain a good pace up to this point, but I can see if I hung in there too much longer I\u2019d probably be hitting that point where I wouldn\u2019t be able to keep moving that baton the way I want to \u2014 and the way it needs to for the team to be successful.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Associate Professor of Politics John Baughman tells Teen Vogue<\/em> writer Tyler Baum that celebrities with little political experience who run for office can take advantage of the growth of \u201cnegative partisanship.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n That\u2019s the tendency, explains Baughman, of many voters \u201cnot simply to support their own party…but to actually vote against the other party\u2019s candidates.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n When a voter is motivated to vote against one candidate, it lowers the bar for what it takes to earn the vote, says Baughman, opening the door for a celebrity or other newcomer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In a Q&A interview with Suffolk University News, Alexandria Onuoha ’20, a doctoral student in applied developmental psychology at the university, talked about researching the impact of far-right ideologies on Black woman college students. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Using ideas developed by feminist scholar Moya Bailey, who coined the term “misogynoir” to describe the racist misogyny directed toward Black women, Onuoha is exploring what she calls “far-right misogynoir,” the “direct hate and prejudice towards Black women from far-right groups and individuals.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n In her psychology studies at Bates, she says, “at first I didn\u2019t see myself reflected as a Black woman.” As her coursework and skills deepened, “I learned I can study things about my community in a scientific way that can impact change.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n That culminated in a senior thesis on “attitudes toward Black LBGTQIA+ individuals and whether religious commitment affects perceptions toward them. I became more and more interested in the Black women college experience.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n In a Q&A with the Lewiston Sun Journal<\/em>, Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry Andrew Kennedy explains how two students inspired a data-visualization project to track COVID statistics among schools of the New England Small College Athletic Conference during the 2020\u201321 academic year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Jillian Serrano \u201921 and Wuyue Zhou \u201921 were student researchers in the Kennedy lab, which focuses on epigenetics: how genes can change their function without being altered themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n The pair \u201cwanted to have a sense for how outbreaks would unfold at other, similarly sized colleges that were also coming back to their campuses in-person,\u201d Kennedy said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The result was a dashboard updated daily with information about COVID in the NESCAC. The two students \u201cdid everything,\u201d Kennedy says. \u201cI would simply meet with them daily for data visualization and to discuss what the data might mean.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The power of data became clear in late March, when Bates saw a surge in student cases. Based on data from similar spikes and lockdowns at other NESCAC campuses during the year, \u201cit was predictable that a lockdown [at Bates] would be able to arrest the spread of the virus on campus without exceeding available isolation housing for infected students.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n From April 1 to 13, Bates implemented in-room restrictions for all students, which stopped the surge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Author Amy Belding Brown \u201969 is a \u201cmaster of historical fiction,\u201d says a Booktrib<\/em> review describing Brown\u2019s new novel, Emily\u2019s House,<\/em> as \u201cemotionally satisfying because of Brown\u2019s exquisite writing.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n The novel explores the relationship between poet Emily Dickinson and her confidante, Margaret Maher, the Irish maid responsible for saving Dickinson\u2019s work from certain destruction, albeit against the poet\u2019s expressed wishes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Lewiston Sun Journal<\/em> looked back at the humble beginnings of Tree Street Youth, founded as a summer activities camp in 2011 by Julia Sleeper \u201908 and Kim Sullivan \u201913 and now a robust nonprofit offering a range of youth-centered programs and partnerships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe building where Tree Street Youth started in 2011 had been a paint shop,\u201d writes Sun Journal<\/em> intern Ellie Wolfe \u201923. \u201cAfter that, it was a preschool. Then it was a big, empty building.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n Sleeper, who is now Tree Street\u2019s executive director, recalls how she and Sullivan \u201cpainted it up, designed a summer camp, and ended up running our very first summer program in 2011, with eight teenagers from the neighborhood as street leaders.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Sun <\/em>of Westerly, R.I., profiled Jenn Bouchard \u201999, author of the novel First Course, <\/em>when she returned to the area for a book signing at Banks Square Books in Mystic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Bouchard spent part of her childhood in nearby Gales Ferry, Conn., when her father was executive officer of the USS Groton <\/em>submarine in the mid-1980s. \u201cComing back is a bit of a homecoming for me,” Bouchard said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Bouchard\u2019s novel tells the story of 24-year-old Janie Whitman, who after a series of life-altering catastrophes retreats to her family\u2019s summer house in Maine, where she seeks solace and stability among family, friends, and food, and finds romance along the way. <\/p>\n\n\n\n As a review in The Bedford Citizen<\/em><\/a> notes, the book is “about food \u2014 and a lot more.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n The novel is set in Cape Elizabeth, Maine. Bouchard told the local paper<\/a> that Maine has been a touchstone since her first college visit to Bates. <\/p>\n\n\n\n “I had moved every two or three years throughout my life due to my father\u2019s Navy career as a naval submariner, and I was so excited about the prospect of staying somewhere for four years.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n A feature story in the Advertiser Democrat<\/em> of Norway, Maine, notes that \u201cNancy Hohmann and her therapy dog, Belle, are regulars at schools and nursing homes around the Oxford Hills of western Maine.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hohmann and Belle began their routine after Hohmann saw \u201chow much pleasure a visiting therapy dog brought to her mother during her final days.\u201d The retired public school educator \u201cdecided doing the same would be a good way to pay it forward: by providing that joy to others.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n Hohmann, who has long experience helping people gain confidence by engaging with animals, including therapeutic horseback riding, describes Belle as \u201cthree-quarters golden retriever and one-quarter Irish setter craziness, which makes her all the more interesting,\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n In a Q&A story with Ladderworks<\/em>, Allen Kendunga talks about founding Talent Match in Rwanda to help college students develop entrepreneurial skills through career development programs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n \u201cThere is a saying that \u2018to whom much is given, much is expected,\u2019 and I believe I have been given much, so it\u2019s high time I gave back,\u201d Kendunga said. \u201cI also strongly believe that the right education and platforms can transform lives. I have seen firsthand what young people can do if they are given the tools, information, and support to transform their communities.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Al Fereshetian and Curtis Johnson, Bates athletics<\/h3>\n\n\n\nCurtis Johnson taking baton from Al Fereshetian as Bates men\u2019s track and cross country coach \u2014 Lewiston Sun Journal<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nJohn Baughman, politics faculty<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Celebrities running for office are boosted by the political moment \u2014 Teen Vogue<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nAlexandria Onuoha ’20<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Protecting Black women college students from “far-right misogynoir” \u2014 Suffolk University News<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nAndrew Kennedy, chemistry and biochemistry faculty<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Bates College professor guiding students through COVID-19 data \u2014 Lewiston Sun Journal<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nAmy Belding Brown \u201969<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
An Irish immigrant saves the work of a brilliant poet in Emily\u2019s House<\/em> \u2014 Booktrib<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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\n\n\n\nJulia Sleeper \u201908 and Kimberly Sullivan \u201913<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Tree Street Youth celebrates 10 years of community, safety and hope \u2014 Lewiston Sun Journal<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nJenn Lemkin Bouchard \u201999<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Jenn Bouchard returns to Mystic Saturday \u2014 The Westerly Sun<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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\n\n\n\nNancy Hohmann \u201968<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Belle, the Oxford Hills therapy dog, knows when someone needs her \u2014 Advertiser Democrat<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nAllen Kendunga \u201918<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Kickstarting Rwandan careers with entrepreneurship training \u2014 Ladderwork<\/em>s<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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