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Avery Farmer, Henry McNeil and Noah Wheaton

Why They Came Back

June 12, 2022 When Amherst's 199th Commencement for the class of 2020 finally took place, in-person, on June 11, 2022, we asked the graduates one simple question: Why did you come back?
Students in commencement regalia jumping in celebration

Commencement 2020: Closure, Finally

Michael Elliott, incoming president, meets student on the academic quad.

Introducing Michael Elliott ’92, Amherst’s Next President

Harith Khawaja ’19

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Washington and Lee University Women’s Lacrosse Coach Brooke O’Brien ’03 Exits for Amherst

Virginia’s Roanoke Times notes O’Brien’s departure from W&L to return to her alma mater as lacrosse coach. “Amherst needed a new coach to replace Christine Paradis, who has retired. Paradis led Amherst to the NCAA crown in 2003, when O’Brien—then known by her maiden name of Diamond—was her star goalkeeper.”

Honoring Charles Hamilton Houston (Class of 1915), the Man who Killed Jim Crow

Face2FaceAfrica.com highlights the life, career and legacy of Houston, the attorney best known for crafting “the civil rights strategy that led to the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1954 decision Brown v. Board of Education, which stated that schools had to be desegregated.”

Interview with Lawyer Angela Reddock-Wright ’91

Best Lawyers presents a Q&A with Reddock-Wright about “her beginnings, her career, her new book, the impact of the pandemic on the workplace, the appointment of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson and other topical legal issues.” She is the founder and managing partner of the Reddock Law Group of Los Angeles and a neutral with the California dispute resolution firm Judicate West.

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Inside the Spring 2022 issue: the story of Tamara Johnson ’73; a grammar lesson from Tess Taylor ’99; a look into the world of environmental offsets, and more.

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