Alumnae/i Profiles

Dissolving Boundaries
In a photograph in the home of Gail Twersky-Reimer, a small girl has just dashed across a room during a Hasidic wedding ceremony into the arms of the rabbi. He’s her grandfather, so the man with the long grey beard could not be more pleased. But as the spiritual leader of his congregation, he is the object of criticism... | full story

A Groom with a Clue
Getting married? If you’re the bride, take center stage. But what if you’re the groom? Is your only significance to be the slightly inebriated guy in a powder-blue tuxedo who slips the ring on the bride’s finger and then is ignored for the rest of the reception... | full story

Making Trouble
“I’m a troublemaker,” Tasha Flournoy announces proudly. “People make assumptions about me, and I call them on that.” She is uniquely positioned to do so: Flournoy is one of two recipients of the 2002 Syracuse University Newhouse Fellowship Graduate Newspaper program, established by Samuel Newhouse and the Newhouse Foundation... | full story

Family Tree
If you’re thinking of creating the usual kind of family tree—a typical who’s who among your ancestors—think again, advises Robin L. Bennett. “People spend all this time getting genealogy records—who their grandparents were, and where they were married and buried—but they don’t ask what they died from,” says the graduate of Sarah Lawrence’s Graduate Program in Human Genetics... | full story