In this interview with the SAQ, Donna Hayward ’91, M.A.T. ’93, talks about being the 2023 National Principal of the Year and her passion for public education. “The public school system is our best common denominator. That’s where hope lies,” she says.

Loretta J. Ross, associate professor for the study of women and gender at Smith and a recent recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship Genius Grant, is interviewed on The Takeaway during Black Maternal Health Week.

Meet the new members of Smith’s board of trustees: Deborah Archer ’93, a Smith Medalist and president of the ACLU; Kate O’Brian ’80, president of Scripps News; and Ling Yang ’02, managing director at The Carlyle Group.

Nonbinary poet Karen Poppy ’98 talks with The Washington Blade about her first full-length poetry collection, Diving At The Lip Of The Water, that “unmasks society’s gender expectations and family systems.”

Elisabeth Armstrong, Smith professor and an author, most recently of Bury the Corpse of Colonialism: The Revolutionary Feminist Conference of 1949, joins Brian Becker on The Socialist Program to discuss her research.

Maria Mutka ’22 is the winner of the eighth annual Masoud Yazdani Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Film Scholarship for her article, “‘To Begin on Again’: A Study of Early Cinema’s Unique Influence on Modernist Literature.”

Benita Jackson, Smith professor of psychology, co-authored “Racism as a Source of Pain” with Kristine Molina ’05. The article was published in February in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.

Andy Rotman—professor of religion, Buddhist studies, and South Asian studies at Smith—is interviewed on the ABC podcast Soul Search about his book Hungry Ghosts (begin listening at 33:15).

In this op-ed, Diana Beach ’68 writes about the importance of access to misoprostol—prescribed not only for abortions but also for people who need care for other reasons, such as chronic autoimmune diseases, gastric ulcers, or a biopsy for cancer.

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