Transformative change practitioner. This succinct bio from his LinkedIn profile describes what drew Maanav Thakore (BA EDU ’05) to Goddard College. It is also a thread that runs through his life’s work: in an adolescent group home in Colorado and an afterschool program in Minneapolis, as a musician in New Orleans, then a community organizer… Continue reading Maanav Thakore: What it means to be alive in this time
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Caleb Pitkin Continues Family Legacy at Goddard
Dustin Byerly (BA RUP ’01) had the honor of sitting down with Caleb Pitkin (BA ’80), grandson of Founding President Tim Pitkin, at his home to discuss the long history of the Pitkin family and his own experience at Goddard College. DB: How did you find Goddard? CP: My family has been involved with Goddard… Continue reading Caleb Pitkin Continues Family Legacy at Goddard
Alumni Respond to the Global Refugee Crisis
Margaret Hosmer Martens (BA ADP ’81, MA CMHC) spent 15 years living in French-speaking Africa with her family. These were formative years that shaped her lifelong concern for refugees. Here is her story: “A Personal Experience with Refugees” I had my first contact with Angolan refugees who fled to Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo… Continue reading Alumni Respond to the Global Refugee Crisis
The Sounds of a Movement: Goddard Alumni Vocalize for #BlackLivesMatter
by Gunner Scott (IBA ’09) Black queer activists Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi created the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter in 2013 as a call to action against the acquittal of George Zimmerman for the killing of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. That simple hashtag ignited a movement, bringing a media spotlight to a reality in Black communities… Continue reading The Sounds of a Movement: Goddard Alumni Vocalize for #BlackLivesMatter
Days for Girls: Q & A with Celeste Mergens
Celeste A. Mergens (MFAW ’06) of Lynden, Wash., is the executive director and founder of Days for Girls International (www.daysforgirls.org), which was featured in the January 2014 issue of Oprah Magazine. Global Washington, a Seattle-based organization whose mission is to promote international development by coordinating the efforts of other globally-minded philanthropic, research and business organizations… Continue reading Days for Girls: Q & A with Celeste Mergens
“To Know More Ways to Heal” Grace Asagra Stanley
By Kim Pereira Grace Asagra Stanley, a 2013 graduate of the MA in Health Arts and Sciences program at Goddard, radiates calm yet luminous energy as she tells me about her upbringing and its relationship to interdisciplinary approaches to health. Born in the Philippines, she was raised with what she calls a “cultural community type… Continue reading “To Know More Ways to Heal” Grace Asagra Stanley
Victory Stand: Alumnus Activist, Educator, and Olympian Tommie Smith Receives Award at Goddard
by Dustin Byerly (BA RUP ’01) There are few images that capture and preserve the essence of an entire movement and moment in time better than the photographs of Tommie Smith, John Carlos and Peter Norman at the 1968 Summer Olympic Games in Mexico City. Tommie Smith had just won the gold medal for the… Continue reading Victory Stand: Alumnus Activist, Educator, and Olympian Tommie Smith Receives Award at Goddard