In This Issue

Anastasia Curwood ’96
Feature

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
Feature

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.

Emily Murase. Photo by Heather Diehl.
Feature

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.

Thomas Brogan and Natalia Vogeikoff-Brogan at the Idaean Cave in Crete.
Our Bryn Mawr

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.

Astra Bryant ’08 in her lab. Photo by Emma Trivette.
Research

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.

Alex Rudolph and Maria Davila Rudolph at the 2008 party.
Our Bryn Mawr

Each year for 25 years, Maria Davila Rudolph ’81 and her husband, Alex Rudolph, HC ’82, have thrown a Bi-Co holiday party so great, it’s worth braving the LA traffic.

LA Admitted Student Reception 2026
Our Bryn Mawr

Two students formed a friendship at the Admitted Student Reception this spring in LA.

Kim Cassidy class
Class Act

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.

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