Stop accusing Tim Scott of racial heresy for being a Republican \u2014 Washington Post<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nIn an op-ed for The Washington Post<\/em>, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Tyler Austin Harper addressed the perception that Republican U.S. Sen. Tim Scott is a \u201crace traitor\u201d for his conservative politics. <\/p>\n\n\n\nWhite politicians, Harper wrote, \u201care permitted to adopt a wide swath of political opinions without accusations of insanity, insincerity or self-hatred.\u201d However, the \u201cwindow on acceptable Black political discourse is extremely narrow.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cPoliticians and political figures who don\u2019t fit neatly within tightly calibrated models of Black political thought \u2014 which is to say, somewhere between the normie liberal center and the progressive fringe \u2014 are objects of exoticization that would have made a 19th-century anthropologist blush.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A few weeks earlier, Harper, whose writing on culture, politics, and the environment has appeared in a number of outlets, including Slate, Salon, and the BBC, wrote an opinion essay for The Boston Globe<\/em> about his experience<\/a> as a Black professor who is an expert on 19th- and 20th-century British literature, \u201cthe infamous \u2018dead white men\u2019 of European art and letters,\u201d and how he has had to defend his scholarly interest and \u201cfight the assertion that I should spend my time researching authors who share my skin color.\u201d He said he finds such criticism troubling: \u201can assault on the very idea of literature and art.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n- Read the story: \u201cStop accusing Tim Scott of racial heresy for being a Republican<\/a>,\u201d The Washington Post<\/em>, June 26, 2023<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nBates Dance Festival<\/h3>\n\n\n\n10 dance events to enjoy this summer \u2014 WBUR<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2023\/06\/A.I.M-by-Kyle-Abraham_An-Untitled-Love_Promo_Donovan-Reed_01_Photo-by-Carrie-Schneider-900x600.webp\")
One performance to look forward to is “An Untitled Love,” by Kyle Abraham’s contemporary dance company, A.I.M., in Schaeffer Theatre July 7-9. (Photo by Carrie Schneider)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\u201cThe hills and the beaches will be alive with sights and sounds of dancers as their troupes head for the countryside in search of fresh air, sand, and new stages,\u201d noted Iris Fanger in a preview of 10 dance events to enjoy this summer for WBUR<\/em>, a list that includes the Bates Dance Festival<\/a>. Fanger specifically highlighted the festival\u2019s intriguing thematic presentations \u201crelated to race and identity.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n- Read more: \u201c10 dance events to enjoy this summer<\/a>,\u201d WBUR<\/em>, June 15, 2023<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nLaura Poppick \u201910<\/h3>\n\n\n\nA quaint Maine island with a billion year-old secret \u2014 Down East<\/em> magazine<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n![\"Laura](\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2023\/06\/Laura-Poppick_Molly-Haley_26.webp\")
Laura Poppick ’10 (Photo courtesy of Laura Poppick)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\nScience and environmental journalist Laura Poppick \u201910, a regular contributor to Down East <\/em>magazine, tapped into her Bates geology major for a first-person story about what researchers say are Maine\u2019s (and quite possibly New England\u2019s) very oldest rocks, found on 700 Acre Island in Penobscot Bay.<\/p>\n\n\n\nThe ancient rocks on 700 Acre Island, she wrote, \u201cformed more than a billion years ago, when life consisted mostly of microbial goo. The rest of Maine\u2019s bedrock formed much more recently, with most of it dating less than 500 million years old \u2014 still plenty ancient, but from an era when the planet was more recognizable as the place we inhabit today.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt\u2019s been more than a decade since I was a geology undergrad at Bates College,\u201d wrote Poppick. Since then, she added, \u201cI\u2019ve maintained an interest in rocks and the stories stuck within them. I find they offer a salve to the frenetic nature of the present. They can tell us, with a plain sort of wisdom, where we came from eons ago and where we might be going eons from now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n- Read the story: \u201cA quaint Maine island with a billion year-old secret<\/a>,\u201d Down East <\/em>magazine, June 2023 <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nHallie Herz \u201911<\/h3>\n\n\n\nA new queer-focused outdoor gear library in Portland encourages the LGBTQ+ community to get outdoors \u2014 Maine Public<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nMaine Public<\/em>\u2019s Carol Bousquet talked to Hallie Herz \u201911 and their partner, Eva Fury, about their startup nonprofit, Kindling Collective in Portland, the nation\u2019s first queer-focused outdoor gear library<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"In](\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2023\/06\/230615_Kindling_Collective_0289_A.webp\")
Hallie Herz \u201811 (right) and their partner, Eva Fury, founded Kindling Collective in an effort to help the LGBTQ+ community access the outdoors in a safe, fulfilling and affordable way. Focusing on joy, Hertz said, is central to their mission. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nThe mission of Kindling Collective is to help folks feel comfortable about camping, hiking, and other outdoor pursuits, to provide \u201ca pathway into those beautiful embodied joyful experiences outside,\u201d said Fury, \u201cbut in a way that people feel they can access without as much fear.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The nonprofit\u2019s membership model is also focused on economic justice, said Herz. “So based on resources and money, the more you have, the more you pay. The less you have, the less you pay.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n- Read the story: \u201cA new queer focused outdoor gear library in Portland encourages the LGBTQ+ community to get outdoors<\/a>,\u201d Maine Public<\/em>, June 16, 2023<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nEllie Vance ’21<\/h3>\n\n\n\nEllie Vance reaps a harvest as FoodCorps teacher at Lewiston schools \u2014 Lewiston Sun Journal<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n![\"Ellie](\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2023\/06\/246A4893-8A72-4DA4-BD50-0CBD1E15284A_1_105_c.webp\")
Ellie Vance ’21, stands outside a greenhouse she helped fill at Montello Elementary School in Lewiston. (Photo courtesy of Ellie Vance)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\nEllie Vance \u201921 spoke with the Lewiston Sun Journal<\/em>\u2019s Andrew Rice about her experience teaching students at a local elementary school about gardening, sustainability, and cooking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\u201cBy giving students access to gardening and cooking, we can broaden their horizons and expand their curiosity around food,\u201d said Vance. \u201cWhen they have that curiosity, they have more agency over their food and knowing what foods they like to eat and what they don\u2019t like.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The program at Montello Elementary School is sponsored by St. Mary\u2019s Nutrition Center in Lewiston and FoodCorps, a national nonprofit focused on connecting students to healthy food in schools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Vance next is heading to Tufts University for graduate studies in agriculture, food, and environmental studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n- Read the story: \u201cKudos: Ellie Vance reaps a harvest as FoodCorps teacher at Lewiston schools<\/a>,\u201d Lewiston Sun Journal<\/em>, June 2, 2023<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nJim Nutting ’76 <\/h3>\n\n\n\nLisbon Falls art studio creates stained glass masterpieces<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nMaine Art Glass in Lisbon Falls, where Jim Nutting \u201976 operates his studio and gallery \u2014 and his own \u201cbug museum\u201d \u2014 was featured in Maine Home+Design<\/em> and WGME<\/em>, and he talked about how his biology major at Bates College led him to creating bug-themed stained glass pieces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\u201cMy entire life, I\u2019ve collected anything that has to do with natural history,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019ve been collecting butterflies longer than I\u2019ve been working with glass.\u201d (Which he\u2019s been doing for 43 years.) In addition to teaching classes and making his own art, Nutting performs stained glass restoration and repair. “I love crafting. I love making things. I love collecting things and I enjoy sharing it and teaching it,\u201d Nutting said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Read more: <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n- \u201cAll things bright & beautiful<\/a>,\u201d Maine Home+Design<\/em>, June, 2023<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- \u201cLisbon Falls art studio creates stained glass masterpieces<\/a>,\u201d WGME<\/em>, May 11, 2023<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nStephen Hoad ’72 <\/h3>\n\n\n\nSeeing their needs, teachers use technology to help visually impaired students thrive in the classroom \u2014 Lewiston Sun Journal<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nFor a story about educational resources for visually impaired students in Maine, the Lewiston Sun Journal<\/em>\u2019s Vanessa Paolella \u201921 interviewed Stephen Hoad ’72, who talked about his experience growing up blind decades ago in New Jersey. As a child, Hoad had extensive access to school books in braille. But at Bates, his textbooks were only available on tape. Today, people with visual impairments use speech screen readers to read text on their computer screens. <\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"Reunion](\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2023\/06\/220609_Reunion_Thursday_0154-900x600.webp\")
Stephen Hoad ’72 (right) enjoys a meal in Commons with his wife, Helen Hoad, and classmates during Reunion in June 2022. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\u201cThere has to be a mindset within each person that teaches a blind student that that blind student is normal,\u201d Hoad said. \u201cThat\u2019s very hard.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He added that visually impaired children need to learn life skills alongside an academic education. \u201cI know some older blind folks who have really suffered because they weren\u2019t taught some of the skills, not just computer skills, but some of the general skills that are very necessary to operate as an independent blind person.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n- Read the story: \u201cSeeing their needs, teachers use technology to help visually impaired students thrive in the classroom<\/a>,\u201d Lewiston Sun Journal<\/em>, June 10, 2023<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nJean Thompson ’82<\/h3>\n\n\n\nMeet Jean Thompson, the woman making a social impact through chocolate \u2014 Forbes<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nSpeaking with Forbes<\/em>, Jean Thompson \u201982, owner and CEO of Seattle Chocolates, shared advice on aligning a career with a life purpose.<\/p>\n\n\n\nFirst, she offered, \u201ctry lots of jobs and expose yourself to different industries when you\u2019re young.\u201d From that, \u201cyou will quickly discover what you enjoy doing the most \u2014 your genius. Then commit yourself to spending most of your time in that genius zone.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Second, don\u2019t put yourself on a timetable. \u201cYour life purpose will come when it comes; there\u2019s no deadline or right time to learn this. I was in my late 40s when I realized that the chocolate company was so much more than a job for me. Go easy on yourself and the clock; the purpose will reveal itself along the way.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Thompson is aligning her mission as a CEO with sustainability and empowering girls and women, because \u201cas business owners, we have the power and responsibility to leave our industries and the world in a better place,\u201d she said. \u201cWhen it becomes clear how you can best serve, it becomes a purpose.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n- Read the story: \u201cMeet Jean Thompson, the woman making a social impact through chocolate<\/a>,\u201d Forbes<\/em>, June 12, 2023<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nAdriana Pastor ’25<\/h3>\n\n\n\nThis island and its birds are like a Hitchcock movie: it\u2019s madness, but also part miracle \u2014 The Boston Globe<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n![\"Adriana](\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2023\/06\/PXL_20230614_123211900-676x900.webp\")
Adriana Pastor ’25 of Asuncion, Paraguay, poses with a roseate tern perched on her head at Bird Island in Buzzards Bay, Mass. (Photo courtesy of Adriana Pastor)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\nAn article in The Boston Globe<\/em> highlighting tern restoration efforts in Massachusetts quoted Adriana Pastor \u201925, a volunteer with MassWildlife, the state agency leading a project to support the endangered roseate terns that nest on three Buzzards Bay islands. <\/p>\n\n\n\nPastor volunteers on Bird Island, one of the three islands. It\u2019s not an easy place to work, wrote reporter Billy Baker, noting that there is no \u201creal way to prepare someone for the sensory overload that is Bird Island… The sound grows from a dull roar to a shattering shriek, and with it the realization from the crew \u2014 five young student volunteers \u2014 that they are going to spend the next five hours trapped inside a Hitchcock movie.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe first day here, I thought I was going to die,\u201d said Pastor. \u201cI was honestly wondering if I would ever see my family again. I wanted to leave. But now, I kind of love it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n- Read the story: \u201cThis island and its birds are like a Hitchcock movie \u2014 it\u2019s madness, but also part miracle<\/a>,\u201d The Boston Globe<\/em>, June 12, 2023<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nSarah Sherman-Stokes ’05, Rachel Silver \u201905<\/h3>\n\n\n\nTitan rescue efforts raise questions about whether migrants\u2019 lives are also worth saving \u2014 The Boston Globe<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nIn an opinion piece for The Boston Globe<\/em>, Bates classmates Sarah Sherman-Stokes ’05 and Rachel Silver \u201905 suggested that the rescue operation mounted for the Titan<\/em> submersible \u201craises questions about a differential valuation of human life.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2023\/06\/Twofer1-900x600.webp\")
Rachel Silver ’05 (left) is an assistant professor at York University\u2019s Faculty of Education and Centre for Refugee Studies in Toronto. Sarah Sherman-Stokes ’05 is a clinical associate professor of law and associate director of the Immigrants\u2019 Rights and Human Trafficking Clinic at Boston University School of Law. (Photos courtesy of Rachel Silver and Boston University)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nThe authors noted that \u201cthe political will and resources devoted to trying to save the wealthiest among us far outweigh those directed at trying to rescue the thousands of migrants and asylum seekers who have also been lost at sea in their search for safety.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sherman-Stokes is a clinical associate professor of law and associate director of the Immigrants\u2019 Rights and Human Trafficking Clinic at Boston University School of Law. Silver is an assistant professor at York University\u2019s Faculty of Education and Centre for Refugee Studies in Toronto.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In an op-ed for The Washington Post<\/em>, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Tyler Austin Harper addressed the perception that Republican U.S. Sen. Tim Scott is a \u201crace traitor\u201d for his conservative politics. <\/p>\n\n\n\n White politicians, Harper wrote, \u201care permitted to adopt a wide swath of political opinions without accusations of insanity, insincerity or self-hatred.\u201d However, the \u201cwindow on acceptable Black political discourse is extremely narrow.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cPoliticians and political figures who don\u2019t fit neatly within tightly calibrated models of Black political thought \u2014 which is to say, somewhere between the normie liberal center and the progressive fringe \u2014 are objects of exoticization that would have made a 19th-century anthropologist blush.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n A few weeks earlier, Harper, whose writing on culture, politics, and the environment has appeared in a number of outlets, including Slate, Salon, and the BBC, wrote an opinion essay for The Boston Globe<\/em> about his experience<\/a> as a Black professor who is an expert on 19th- and 20th-century British literature, \u201cthe infamous \u2018dead white men\u2019 of European art and letters,\u201d and how he has had to defend his scholarly interest and \u201cfight the assertion that I should spend my time researching authors who share my skin color.\u201d He said he finds such criticism troubling: \u201can assault on the very idea of literature and art.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe hills and the beaches will be alive with sights and sounds of dancers as their troupes head for the countryside in search of fresh air, sand, and new stages,\u201d noted Iris Fanger in a preview of 10 dance events to enjoy this summer for WBUR<\/em>, a list that includes the Bates Dance Festival<\/a>. Fanger specifically highlighted the festival\u2019s intriguing thematic presentations \u201crelated to race and identity.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Science and environmental journalist Laura Poppick \u201910, a regular contributor to Down East <\/em>magazine, tapped into her Bates geology major for a first-person story about what researchers say are Maine\u2019s (and quite possibly New England\u2019s) very oldest rocks, found on 700 Acre Island in Penobscot Bay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The ancient rocks on 700 Acre Island, she wrote, \u201cformed more than a billion years ago, when life consisted mostly of microbial goo. The rest of Maine\u2019s bedrock formed much more recently, with most of it dating less than 500 million years old \u2014 still plenty ancient, but from an era when the planet was more recognizable as the place we inhabit today.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt\u2019s been more than a decade since I was a geology undergrad at Bates College,\u201d wrote Poppick. Since then, she added, \u201cI\u2019ve maintained an interest in rocks and the stories stuck within them. I find they offer a salve to the frenetic nature of the present. They can tell us, with a plain sort of wisdom, where we came from eons ago and where we might be going eons from now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Maine Public<\/em>\u2019s Carol Bousquet talked to Hallie Herz \u201911 and their partner, Eva Fury, about their startup nonprofit, Kindling Collective in Portland, the nation\u2019s first queer-focused outdoor gear library<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The mission of Kindling Collective is to help folks feel comfortable about camping, hiking, and other outdoor pursuits, to provide \u201ca pathway into those beautiful embodied joyful experiences outside,\u201d said Fury, \u201cbut in a way that people feel they can access without as much fear.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n The nonprofit\u2019s membership model is also focused on economic justice, said Herz. “So based on resources and money, the more you have, the more you pay. The less you have, the less you pay.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ellie Vance \u201921 spoke with the Lewiston Sun Journal<\/em>\u2019s Andrew Rice about her experience teaching students at a local elementary school about gardening, sustainability, and cooking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cBy giving students access to gardening and cooking, we can broaden their horizons and expand their curiosity around food,\u201d said Vance. \u201cWhen they have that curiosity, they have more agency over their food and knowing what foods they like to eat and what they don\u2019t like.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The program at Montello Elementary School is sponsored by St. Mary\u2019s Nutrition Center in Lewiston and FoodCorps, a national nonprofit focused on connecting students to healthy food in schools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Vance next is heading to Tufts University for graduate studies in agriculture, food, and environmental studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Maine Art Glass in Lisbon Falls, where Jim Nutting \u201976 operates his studio and gallery \u2014 and his own \u201cbug museum\u201d \u2014 was featured in Maine Home+Design<\/em> and WGME<\/em>, and he talked about how his biology major at Bates College led him to creating bug-themed stained glass pieces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cMy entire life, I\u2019ve collected anything that has to do with natural history,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019ve been collecting butterflies longer than I\u2019ve been working with glass.\u201d (Which he\u2019s been doing for 43 years.) In addition to teaching classes and making his own art, Nutting performs stained glass restoration and repair. “I love crafting. I love making things. I love collecting things and I enjoy sharing it and teaching it,\u201d Nutting said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Read more: <\/p>\n\n\n\n For a story about educational resources for visually impaired students in Maine, the Lewiston Sun Journal<\/em>\u2019s Vanessa Paolella \u201921 interviewed Stephen Hoad ’72, who talked about his experience growing up blind decades ago in New Jersey. As a child, Hoad had extensive access to school books in braille. But at Bates, his textbooks were only available on tape. Today, people with visual impairments use speech screen readers to read text on their computer screens. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThere has to be a mindset within each person that teaches a blind student that that blind student is normal,\u201d Hoad said. \u201cThat\u2019s very hard.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n He added that visually impaired children need to learn life skills alongside an academic education. \u201cI know some older blind folks who have really suffered because they weren\u2019t taught some of the skills, not just computer skills, but some of the general skills that are very necessary to operate as an independent blind person.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Speaking with Forbes<\/em>, Jean Thompson \u201982, owner and CEO of Seattle Chocolates, shared advice on aligning a career with a life purpose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n First, she offered, \u201ctry lots of jobs and expose yourself to different industries when you\u2019re young.\u201d From that, \u201cyou will quickly discover what you enjoy doing the most \u2014 your genius. Then commit yourself to spending most of your time in that genius zone.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Second, don\u2019t put yourself on a timetable. \u201cYour life purpose will come when it comes; there\u2019s no deadline or right time to learn this. I was in my late 40s when I realized that the chocolate company was so much more than a job for me. Go easy on yourself and the clock; the purpose will reveal itself along the way.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thompson is aligning her mission as a CEO with sustainability and empowering girls and women, because \u201cas business owners, we have the power and responsibility to leave our industries and the world in a better place,\u201d she said. \u201cWhen it becomes clear how you can best serve, it becomes a purpose.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n An article in The Boston Globe<\/em> highlighting tern restoration efforts in Massachusetts quoted Adriana Pastor \u201925, a volunteer with MassWildlife, the state agency leading a project to support the endangered roseate terns that nest on three Buzzards Bay islands. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Pastor volunteers on Bird Island, one of the three islands. It\u2019s not an easy place to work, wrote reporter Billy Baker, noting that there is no \u201creal way to prepare someone for the sensory overload that is Bird Island… The sound grows from a dull roar to a shattering shriek, and with it the realization from the crew \u2014 five young student volunteers \u2014 that they are going to spend the next five hours trapped inside a Hitchcock movie.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe first day here, I thought I was going to die,\u201d said Pastor. \u201cI was honestly wondering if I would ever see my family again. I wanted to leave. But now, I kind of love it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n In an opinion piece for The Boston Globe<\/em>, Bates classmates Sarah Sherman-Stokes ’05 and Rachel Silver \u201905 suggested that the rescue operation mounted for the Titan<\/em> submersible \u201craises questions about a differential valuation of human life.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The authors noted that \u201cthe political will and resources devoted to trying to save the wealthiest among us far outweigh those directed at trying to rescue the thousands of migrants and asylum seekers who have also been lost at sea in their search for safety.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sherman-Stokes is a clinical associate professor of law and associate director of the Immigrants\u2019 Rights and Human Trafficking Clinic at Boston University School of Law. Silver is an assistant professor at York University\u2019s Faculty of Education and Centre for Refugee Studies in Toronto.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nBates Dance Festival<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
10 dance events to enjoy this summer \u2014 WBUR<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
\n
\n\n\n\nLaura Poppick \u201910<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
A quaint Maine island with a billion year-old secret \u2014 Down East<\/em> magazine<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
\n
\n\n\n\nHallie Herz \u201911<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
A new queer-focused outdoor gear library in Portland encourages the LGBTQ+ community to get outdoors \u2014 Maine Public<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
\n
\n\n\n\nEllie Vance ’21<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Ellie Vance reaps a harvest as FoodCorps teacher at Lewiston schools \u2014 Lewiston Sun Journal<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
\n
\n\n\n\nJim Nutting ’76 <\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Lisbon Falls art studio creates stained glass masterpieces<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
\n
\n\n\n\nStephen Hoad ’72 <\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Seeing their needs, teachers use technology to help visually impaired students thrive in the classroom \u2014 Lewiston Sun Journal<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
\n
\n\n\n\nJean Thompson ’82<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Meet Jean Thompson, the woman making a social impact through chocolate \u2014 Forbes<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
\n
\n\n\n\nAdriana Pastor ’25<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
This island and its birds are like a Hitchcock movie: it\u2019s madness, but also part miracle \u2014 The Boston Globe<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
\n
\n\n\n\nSarah Sherman-Stokes ’05, Rachel Silver \u201905<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Titan rescue efforts raise questions about whether migrants\u2019 lives are also worth saving \u2014 The Boston Globe<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n