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Anastasia C. Curwood ’96 has long been interested in how horses represent power. Six years ago, she co-founded a nonprofit organization to empower riders of color.

Alexandra DeSorbo-Quinn ’07 leads Pilot Light, a Chicago-based nonprofit that uses food to teach science, math, history, and more, through flexible lessons that can be adopted and adapted by teachers nationwide.

As executive director of the Japantown Task Force, Emily Murase ’87 is working to preserve and promote one of the country’s last remaining Japantowns.

Astra Bryant ’08 began studying brains at Bryn Mawr. Now she leads a lab researching a little-studied parasitic worm that has affected more than 600 million people worldwide.

The 2026–27 academic year includes offerings from President Emeritus Kim Cassidy, President Wendy Cadge, and a conversation series led by President Emeritus Mary Patterson McPherson.

As the next director of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Thomas Brogan, M.A. ’90, Ph.D. ’99, highlights the long, shared history of the American School and Bryn Mawr College.

In August, a new opera premiered in Tokyo, Japan, that tells the story of how Umeko Tsuda, class of 1893, studied at Bryn Mawr and went on to found Tsuda University in her home country.

Over the past few years, counseling and mental health services have expanded through the efforts of both staff and student workers. The goal is to bring a holistic view of wellness to the entire campus.

From PCOS to Paxlovid, alumnae/i research has real-world results.