About Amherst at 200: Celebrating Mind, Heart, and Community
Since 1821, Amherst has prepared critical and creative thinkers for lives of purpose and discovery. Amherst at 200: Celebrating Mind, Heart, and Community, released as a part of our Bicentennial celebration and narrated by Tony, Emmy and Golden Globe winner Jeffrey Wright ’87, showcases the stories of 10 graduates from 70 years ago until the present. Each story is both a snapshot of life on campus and a reflection of the richness of an Amherst education. Tony Jack ’07, through personal experience and social research, explores how race and class impact the academic experience. Kathy Chia ’88 shows how the liberal arts can inform the architectural design process. Bill Pritchard ’53 describes how the College can change and grow without sacrificing what makes it special. Plus, current Amherst president Biddy Martin and past presidents Tony Marx and Tom Gerety reflect on their experiences at the College and the importance of the liberal arts in higher education. Listen to the stories and voices that make up the 200-year history of Amherst. Produced by Cadence13, in collaboration with Amherst College.
Former Amherst trustee Bill Ford ’83 is CEO of General Atlantic, a private equity firm that is based in New York but active around the globe in the climate, consumer, life sciences, healthcare, and technology sectors. He talks with President Biddy Martin about business, philanthropy and the relevance of a liberal arts education to a rapidly changing world.
Transcript: https://bit.ly/AmherstBillFordTranscript
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4 May 2022
13 | Rebecca Segal
Rebecca Segal ’18 was a transfer student, a neuroscience major and Amherst’s first U.S. Army ROTC member in 24 years. Now she’s a field artillery officer and a first lieutenant. In this interview with President Biddy Martin, she describes all of these experiences, plus the three lasting lessons she learned in her college courses.
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29 Apr 2022
12 | Fede and Ale Sucre
Federico and Alejandro Sucre are twin brothers who grew up in Caracas, Venezuela; attended high school in New Mexico and Wales, respectively; and then both enrolled in Amherst’s class of 2013. They converse with President Biddy Martin about their academic and career paths, the sense of community they found on the men’s soccer team and more.
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27 Apr 2022
11 | Rosanne Haggerty
President Biddy Martin speaks with Rosanne Haggerty ’82, former Amherst trustee and current president and CEO of Community Solutions, about how the organization strives toward a lasting end to homelessness in communities nationwide. Both Haggerty herself and Community Solutions have won MacArthur Foundation awards for their work.
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22 Dec 2021
10 | Kirk Johnson
Kirk Johnson ’82 is the Sant Director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. He digs deep into his passion for paleontology and geology, as well as his memories of Amherst. And he takes a panoramic view of the future of the College and the planet.
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17 Dec 2021
9 | Meron Hirpa
Dr. Meron Hirpa ’11 is a physician focused on public health and health equity in Cincinnati and Ethiopia. She recalls bidding an emotional farewell to her family and enrolling at Amherst as a first-generation college student, in pursuit of her longtime dream of becoming a doctor. Find out how the telementoring and QuestBridge programs, as well as faculty, staff and alumni, helped her blaze her path.
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15 Dec 2021
8 | Bill Pritchard
While still an undergraduate, William H. Pritchard ’53 “decided that there was nothing in the world that I would rather do than come back and teach at Amherst”—and that’s exactly what he did. Pritchard, now the Henry Clay Folger Professor of English, Emeritus, looks back on more than 70 years of learning, teaching and institutional change.
Transcript: https://bit.ly/AmherstBillPritchardTranscript
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10 Dec 2021
7 | Chris Lehane
Chris Lehane ’90 is currently a global policy and communications executive at Airbnb and previously served as special assistant counsel in the Clinton White House. As a college student, he got the chance to have pizza with another future U.S. president. Lehane shares this story and other memories and insights from his days as a political activist and athlete at Amherst.
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8 Dec 2021
6 | Christine Croasdaile
Now a J.D./M.B.A. candidate at Howard University, Christine Ayanna Croasdaile ’17 looks back to her many activities at Amherst: majoring in Black studies and Spanish, engaging with Black and Caribbean student organizations, and taking on a key role in the activist movement known as Amherst Uprising. Croasdaile also looks ahead, sharing her hopes for the College’s future.
Transcript: https://bit.ly/AmherstChristineCroasdaileTranscript
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3 Dec 2021
5 | Pat Fitzgerald
As a federal prosecutor, Pat Fitzgerald ’82 has worked on multiple high-profile legal cases, including those related to the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and the 1998 attacks on U.S. embassies in East Africa. Here, the former Amherst trustee looks back on the most indelible moments of his career and on the many lessons he learned when arrived at the College from a Catholic high school in Manhattan.
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1 Dec 2021
4 | Becky Rwakabukoza
Becky Rwakabukoza ’14 grew up in Mubende, Uganda, the youngest in a family of 10 children and the highest-ranking student in her district. In this episode, she describes her journey to and through Amherst as a Koenig Scholar and what she has learned about feminist advocacy in a Ugandan context.
Transcript: https://bit.ly/AmherstBeckyRwakabukozaTranscript
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19 Nov 2021
3 | Kathy Chia
Math, fine arts, physics, drama, philosophy, travel, guidance from faculty: Kathy Chia ’88—co-principal of Desai Chia Architecture and a former Amherst trustee—outlines how every element of her liberal arts education has helped to shape her thinking as an architect.
Transcript: https://bit.ly/AmherstKathyChiaTranscript
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17 Nov 2021
2 | Freddie Bryant
Jazz guitarist, composer, bandleader and professor Freddie Bryant ’87 takes us back to his childhood among artists and musicians in Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Then he reflects on how his Amherst experience shaped his understanding of racial identity as well as his musical career. This episode features music performed by Bryant and his parents, Beatrice Rippy and Carroll Hollister, class of 1922.
Transcript: https://bit.ly/AmherstFreddieBryantTranscript
Music, in order of appearance:
Kaleidoscope by Freddie Bryant
This, and My Heart performed by Beatrice Rippy Hollister
Come Slowly, Eden performed by Beatrice Rippy Hollister
Trouble Man performed by Beatrice Rippy Hollister
By, an’ By performed by Todd Duncan, Piano by Carroll Hollister
Ev’ry Time I Feel the Spirit performed by Todd Duncan, Piano by Carroll Hollister
I’m Goin’ to Tell God All My Troubles performed by Todd Duncan, Piano by Carroll Hollister
Serena by Freddie Bryant
Hommage by Freddie Bryant
Aria from “Acias y Galatae” performed by Beatrice Rippy Hollister
More World...More Jazz by Freddie Bryant
Mother to Son performed by Beatrice Rippy Hollister
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12 Nov 2021
1 | Tony Jack
Sociologist Anthony Abraham “Tony” Jack ’07 is the author of The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students. In this episode, he describes his own experience as a first-generation, low-income student at Amherst—and how he made it all the way to the front page of The New York Times and on to a Ph.D. and professorship at Harvard.
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12 Nov 2021
Presidents in Conversation
Amherst College President Biddy Martin convenes with two of her predecessors, Tony Marx and Tom Gerety, for a discussion moderated by Cullen Murphy ’74. The three presidents compare notes on the meaning and value of a liberal arts education, the surprises they found at Amherst, the challenges of their leadership roles and their advice to their successor for guiding the College into the future.
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28 Oct 2021
Welcome to Amherst at 200: Celebrating Mind, Heart, and Community
For 200 years, Amherst College has proven the value of the liberal arts. Beginning this fall, Amherst celebrates the stories of 10 alumni whose time at Amherst College spans seven decades. Listen to the stories and voices that make up the proud 200-year history of Amherst.
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