Profiles

By Todd Stone ’05.  Alok Appadurai ’00 recently said that for most everything he has done professionally, he’s been able to take out his business card, look anybody in the eye, and say: “This is the work I do and I’m pr…

In Nataly Kogan’s native Russia, there’s a saying: “To write is like to pee. You should only do it if you can’t hold it anymore.” She gives the same advice to young people who ask her about starting a business. [caption…

Down a steep drop on an unimproved road in rural Vermont lies a picturesque 500-acre farm where Sivan Cotel ’05 is toiling with a small group of business partners to build a brand for a beverage most associated with the …

  [caption id="attachment_696" align="alignleft" width="300"] Josh Lerner ’00 directs the Participatory Budgeting Project—or PB. This New York-based nonprofit assists citizens in taking on a key role in community b…

  [caption id="attachment_694" align="alignleft" width="300"] Amanda (Mandy) Snyder ’00. Photo: Sarah Robinson[/caption] By Nancy Fontaine It’s the end of a busy day. You rush into the kitchen with a bag of groce…

  [caption id="attachment_688" align="alignleft" width="300"] Stacey Matthias ’94 likens her research on child development — “understanding how a child’s mind works”— to a “mind-blowing” course at Wesleyan taught b…