Category: Alumni

Political Science majors Leah Greenberg ’08 and Ezra Levin ’07 made the list for their work on Indivisible, a hyperlocal community organizing movement.

Eunice Ajambo ’06 received the 2015 Global Female Leadership Impact Award and was inducted into the Global Women Leaders Hall of Fame at the South America-Africa-Middle East-Asia Women Summit held in Dubai.

Edward Bearnot’s article was published in the Fall 2013 Secrecy & Security issue of the World Policy Journal.

Bailey Ulbricht op-ed piece in The Baltimore Sun.

Ben Jacoff ’07 is profiled by the Peace Corps’ Midwest recruiting office in a Feb. 5 blog post.

Political Science Department majors Gracie Ogilby ’12 POSC (Belmont, Mass.) and Niki Tomita ’12 POSI (Redwood City, Calif.) earned two of the 40 fellowships from the Thomas J. Watson Foundation.…

Senior Max Bearak (Pelham, N.Y.) authored a post for the New York Times “Green” blog, recapping his experience as a wilderness ranger in Nevada’s Humboldt National Forest this summer. His main focus was mapping the unexplored areas of Humboldt NF. He secured the position through the Student Conservation Association, which places successful applicants into about 4,200 positions each year. “I’m already longing to return to the wilderness as my classes begin,” he writes at the end of this post. “Something out West really beckoned to me, and following that call is a decision I’ll never regret.”

Jonathan Capehart ’89, a contributor for MSNBC and editorial writer at the Washington Post, appeared on “The Last Word” with Lawrence O’Donnell on Wednesday, April 27, discussing potential Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump’s assertion that current President Barack Obama wasn’t a “good student” during his time at Occidental College or at Columbia University. At the end of the segment, Capehart shares with the audience how Carleton gave him a chance as a student, allowing him to develop his skills. He is now a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, having won the award in 1999 for his 16-month editorial campaign to save the famed Apollo Theatre in Harlem when he worked for the New York Daily News.

Caitlin Fleming‘s paper “Tuning In and Turning Out: A Study on Influence of News Media on Voting in the 2004 Elections” has been accepted for publication in the 2008 Missouri Valley Journal of Social Science.