Kathy DeGioia Eastwood D’76 shares her reflections on life’s journey from a member of Dartmouth’s first female class. I arrived at Dartmouth from Silicon Valley as part of the first freshman class with women, having basically zero knowledge about the college and its reputation. All I knew is that there was a lot of hiking …
Isabella Vanasse Shares a Holiday Musing Squeezing out of the backseat of a 2-door car, wearing the sweatpants I had slept in. Silky brown hair tied high at my crown. Evergreen trees line the playfields dripping icy fingers, buffering residences. Listening to stillness. No children present. The bounce of a ball. The middle child is …
Selassie Atadika, D’98, shares her story in the 50 for 50 Podcast Selassie Atadika ’98 has two lifelong passions: world travel and food. She honed in on those passions at Dartmouth, majoring in geography modified with environmental studies—while always maintaining her lifelong love of food. After graduation, she became a globe-trotting, internationally acclaimed chef …
AlexAnna Salmon, D’08, shares her story in the 50 for 50 Podcast. Growing up in the village of Igiugig in the Bristol Bay region of southwestern Alaska, home to about 70 tribal members, Salmon was always the only student in her grade. She spent happy days at the feet of elders, soaking up language and …
Liz Davis, D’89, shares how her daugther’s diabetes diagnosis changed the way she mothers When it comes to motherhood, I set the bar low. I don’t want my children to have too much to live up to. Ever since becoming a mother, I have been ambivalent about society’s expectations for living up to that title, …
Bianca Smith, D’12, shares her story in the 50 for 50 Podcast. Less than a decade after graduating from Dartmouth, where she majored in sociology and played on the varsity softball and baseball club teams, Bianca Smith joined the Red Sox as a minor league coach—the first Black woman in history to reach that goal. …
Olivia Goodwin, D’21, shares their story in the 50 for 50 Podcast. The most recent graduate in the series, Olivia Goodwin came to Dartmouth as a pole vaulter, joined the women’s track and field team, and majored in sociology. Goodwin, who uses they-them pronouns, found many ways to help other students feel affirmed and accepted …
Margot Yecies, D’15, Discusses Navigating My Way from Dartmouth to a Career in the Performing Arts
Carmen Lopez, D’97, shares her story in the 50 for 50 Podcast. Growing up in the Navajo Nation, Carmen Lopez had never heard of the Ivy League when she became spellbound by a guest speaker at her high school: Dr. Lori Arviso Alvord, Dartmouth Class of 1979, the first female Navajo surgeon. Arriving on …
Samantha Schnee, D’92, Shares How Dartmouth prepared Me for Everything from Wall Street to Motherhood
