In the Spring 2023 Quarterly, Ifetayo Harvey ’14, founder of the People of Color Psychedelic Collective, is interviewed by Simran Sethi ’92, founder of the Asian Psychedelic Collective, about the impact of incarceration on families, drug policy reform, and why she created the collective.

Anu Aiyengar ’91 is one of five South Asian Americans to make Barron’s list of the “100 Most Influential Women in U.S. Finance.” She is the global head of Mergers & Acquisitions at J.P. Morgan and a Smith College trustee.

Kara Jackson ’23, a singer-songwriter, musician, and writer from Oak Park, Illinois, and a National Youth Poet Laureate from 2019 to 2020, talks to Pitchfork about her “mournful, joyful, unapologetic music.”

Read about the three faculty members who are this year’s Sherrerd Teaching Award winners: Jay Garfield, professor of philosophy; Barbara Kellum, professor of art; and Erin Pineda, professor of government.

The Smith Athletics Giving Challenge on April 20 is a 24-hour competition to raise funds for Pioneer Athletics. Please donate and help provide our student-athletes with the resources they need to compete at the highest level.

Susan Hood ’76 recently received a Christopher Award for her book Alias Anna, a novel-in-verse that tells the true story of two young Ukrainian Jewish sisters who use their piano playing talents to outwit the Nazis during World War II.

Canadian American composer Luna Pearl Woolf, MA ’02, recently created a commissioned work for the violin as a test piece for Canada’s Concours Musical International de Montréal, an elite-level competition for classical musicians.

On WWLP.com’s Mass Appeal, James Lowenthal, professor of astronomy at Smith and the president of the Massachusetts Chapter of the International Dark-Sky Association, is interviewed about light pollution and how it’s impacting life on Earth.

Read this review of Lauren Willig’s latest work of historical fiction, Two Wars and a Wedding—about Smith graduate Betsy Hayes and her best friend Ava—in which Willig is described as “an expert wordsmith who writes thoroughly enjoyable stories.”

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Selected items from the news media featuring Smith College people and programs

Smith hosts Culinary Innovators Challenge

Prof. Mariana Abarca: A critical moment for Earth’s insects

Prof. David Howlett on declining religious affiliation

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