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SUMMARY:Alumni-Faculty Forum — Beyond the Page: Nonfiction Narratives and the Future of Storytelling
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by the Alumni Association of Princeton University \nPanelists:      \nJames Lieber ’71\nFounding Partner\, Lieber Hammer Huber Paul & Hoffman \nEva Aridjis-Fuentes ’96\nFilm Director and Writer \nBrady Walkinshaw ’06\nFounder and Chief Executive Officer\, Noisy Creek \nLillian Xu ’16\nVice President of Podcasts\, Vox Media \n\nPANELISTS\nJames Lieber ’71\nA civil rights lawyer and Supreme Court practitioner\, James Lieber writes on law and society\, including crime\, prisons\, street gangs\, trials\, drugs\, sentencing\, fraud\, labor\, bioethics and voting rights for The Atlantic\, The New York Times Magazine\, The Nation\, Mother Jones\, The Village Voice\, The Washington Post\, The Wall Street Journal\, Social Policy and others. His books include “Friendly Takeover: How an Employee Buyout Saved a Steel Town\,” nominated for a Pulitzer Prize; “Rats in the Grain: The Dirty Tricks and Trials of Archer Daniels Midland\,” serialized in Regardie’s magazine; and “Killer Care: How Medical Error Became America’s Third Largest Cause of Death\, and What Can Be Done About It\,” twice an Amazon bestseller. His current project is an imagined 1879 case against Huckleberry Finn for killing his father. \nEva Aridjis-Fuentes ’96\nEva Aridjis-Fuentes is a Mexican-American filmmaker and writer. She directed the narrative features “The Favor” and “The Blue Eyes” and the documentaries “Children of the Street\,” “La Santa Muerte” (narrated by Gael García Bernal)\, “Chuy\,” “The Wolf Man” and “Goodbye Horses: The Many Lives of Q Lazzarus.” Her films screened at many festivals\, including Sundance and Edinburgh\, in theaters in the U.S.\, Mexico and the U.K.\, and on the Sundance and Criterion channels. They have all been nominated for or won prizes\, including two Ariel awards (Mexican Academy awards) for “Children of the Street\,” and the audience awards for best documentary at the Morelia\, Harlem and Musical Écran festivals for “Goodbye Horses: The Many Lives of Q Lazzarus.” Aridis-Fuentes attended New York University’s Graduate Film program\, where she later taught screenwriting. A writer for “Narcos: Mexico\,” Season 2 (Netflix)\, she also wrote the graphic novel “Monarca” (2022). \nBrady Walkinshaw ’06\nBrady Walkinshaw is the founder of Noisy Creek\, a media company dedicated to reinvigorating local newspapers and media outlets nationwide. Prior to Noisy Creek\, Brady was the CEO of Earth Alliance and CEO of Grist.org\, an American nonprofit online magazine founded in 1999 that publishes environmental news and commentary. Walkinshaw has also served as a state representative in Washington. Through his work\, he has developed an outstanding perspective on the changing media landscape on policy issues. \nLillian Xu ’16\nIn her role at Vox Media\, Lillian Xu leads growth\, talent partnerships and show development\, working with podcasts like “Today\, Explained” and shows led by Kara Swisher\, Scott Galloway\, Esther Perel\, Marques Brownlee\, Brené Brown\, Adam Grant\, Sue Bird\, Jake Sullivan and more. Prior to Vox Media\, she worked at New York Public Radio and like many Princeton grads\, she started her career in consulting. In college\, Xu studied Chinese politics\, snuck in as many creative writing classes as possible and spent many hours singing with the Glee Club and the Tigerlilies. She now lives in New York\, where she is professionally obligated to listen to a lot of podcasts and can also be found playing racquet sports\, making tea and talking to random people in cafés.
URL:https://reunions.princeton.edu/event/beyond-the-page-nonfiction-narratives-and-the-future-of-storytelling/
LOCATION:McCosh 10\, NJ\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alumni-Faculty Forum
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SUMMARY:Alumni-Faculty Forum — The Campus and the Constitution: Free Speech\, Civil Discourse and Academic Freedom
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by the Alumni Association of Princeton University \nModerator:\nMartin S. Flaherty ’81  \n  \nPanelists:      \nJerry Blakemore ’76\nVice Chancellor for Institutional Integrity and General Counsel\, University of North Carolina at Greensboro \nAlysa Christmas Rollock ’81\nVice President for Ethics and Compliance\, Purdue University \nJennifer Rexford ’91\nProvost\, Princeton University \nSusan Ridgely ’96\nProfessor\, University of Wisconsin-Madison \n\nPANELISTS\nJerry Blakemore ’76\nJerry Blakemore has more than 30 years of experience in higher education administration and law. In his current role\, he oversees all legal\, regulatory and compliance matters for UNC Greensboro and offers guidance to the board of trustees\, the chancellor and other university administrators on a wide range of issues. Blakemore earned his B.A. in political science at Princeton and later graduated from the University of Illinois Chicago School of Law. While at Princeton\, he served as secretary of the undergraduate assembly and vice chair of the Third World Center governance board. Additionally\, Blakemore has held the position of chair of the board of directors for the National Association of College and University Attorneys\, a professional organization with more than 5\,000 attorney representatives. \nAlysa Christmas Rollock ’81\nAlysa Christmas Rollock ’81 is Purdue University’s vice president for ethics and compliance. In that role\, she serves as the University’s chief ethics and compliance officer\, as well as its equal opportunity officer. In her position\, she supervises the University’s Office for Civil Rights and its Policy Office and serves as special legal counsel upon appointment. Rollock oversees the University’s efforts to communicate to all faculty\, staff\, students and contractors Purdue’s commitment to freedom of expression\, and the rights and responsibilities associated with it\, including serving as a presenter in the University’s annual new student orientation program on freedom of expression. Before joining Purdue\, she was an associate professor of law at Indiana University-Bloomington\, where her research and teaching were concentrated in the areas of corporate law and finance\, securities regulation and professional responsibility. A history major at Princeton\, Rollock earned her law degree from Yale University.  \nJennifer Rexford ’91\nJennifer Rexford is the provost\, Gordon Y.S. Wu Professor of Engineering and professor of computer science at Princeton University.  She received her B.S.E. degree in electrical engineering from Princeton\, and her Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of Michigan. Before joining Princeton in 2005\, Rexford worked for eight years at AT&T Labs-Research. Her research focuses on computer networking with the goal of making future networks worthy of the trust society increasingly places in them. She is co-author of the books “Web Protocols and Practice” (2001) and “The Real Internet Architecture: Past\, Present\, and Future Evolution” (2024) and co-editor of “She’s an Engineer? Princeton Alumnae Reflect” (1993). Rexford is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences\, the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Sciences. \nSusan Ridgely ’96\nSusan Ridgely\, a professor of religious studies\, uses ethnographic case studies to integrate the category of age into the analytic triad of race\, class and gender in the study of American religious traditions and American culture more broadly. Her most recent book is “One True Church: An American Story of Race\, Family\, and Religion” (2026). She is also the author of “Practicing What the Doctor Preached: At Home with Focus on the Family” (2016) and “When I was a Child: Children’s Interpretations of First Communion” (2005)\, as well as editor of “The Study of Children in Religions: A Methods Handbook” (2011) and “The Bloomsbury Reader in Childhood and Religion” (2017). In 2026-27\, she will serve as interim director of the Institute for Research in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin. 
URL:https://reunions.princeton.edu/event/the-campus-and-the-constitution-free-speech-civil-discourse-and-academic-freedom/
LOCATION:McCosh 10\, NJ\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alumni-Faculty Forum
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SUMMARY:Alumni-Faculty Forum — The Future of Food\, Public Health and How We Feed the World
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by the Alumni Association of Princeton University \nModerator:\nAllison Carruth  \n  \nPanelists:      \nJohn Seabrook ’81\nAuthor; Staff Writer\, New Yorker \nShaun Kennedy ’86\nDirector\, The Food System Institute; and Associate Professor of Food Systems\, University of Minnesota (retired)  \nAbigail Neely ’01 \nLaura Kahn *01\nCo-Founder\, One Health Initiative \n\nPANELISTS\nJohn Seabrook ’81\nJohn Seabrook is a longtime staff writer at The New Yorker\, where his writing on technology\, music and culture has been widely anthologized. He is also the author of six books\, including “Nobrow: The Culture of Marketing\, The Marketing of Culture”; the best-selling “The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory”; and “The Spinach King: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty\,” a family memoir about the Seabrooks of South Jersey and their pioneering role in frozen vegetables. \nShaun Kennedy ’86\nShaun Kennedy served as director of the National Center for Food Protection and Defense (NCFPD)\, a federally funded\, multi-institution research center focused on protecting our food system from accidental and intentional failures. With programs from discovery science to real-time risk communication\, NCFPD contributed significantly to advancing the resilience of our food systems. Kennedy’s research focuses on how the complex\, adaptive systems that provide our food and agriculture products function\, concentrating on failure modes and resiliency. This includes annually characterizing food system risk for federal agencies and exploring systems at the intersection of agriculture and the environment where infectious diseases can emerge. A strong advocate for science informing public policy\, Kennedy designed and ran the first food system exercise for the Group of Eight\, an intergovernmental political forum\, to understand how communications and policy differences would unfold in an event. These efforts have changed how food system risk is managed globally. \nLaura Kahn *02\nA physician\, author and educator\, Laura Kahn leads a pro bono team of interdisciplinary professionals at the One Health Initiative who promote the concept that human\, animal\, plant\, environmental and ecosystem health are linked. Their 20-year advocacy effort has led to the endorsement and\, in some cases\, the adoption of One Health by organizations such as the World Health Organization\, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations\, the American Medical Association\, the American Veterinary Medical Association and the American Public Health Association. Kahn worked as a research scholar with the Program on Science and Global Security from 2002 to 2021 at Princeton’s School of Public and International Affairs. She has published three books\, including “One Health and the Politics of Antimicrobial Resistance” (2016) and “One Health and the Politics of COVID-19\,” (2024). Kahn’s many awards include the Presidential Award for Meritorious Service from the American Association of Public Health Physicians.
URL:https://reunions.princeton.edu/event/the-future-of-food-public-health-and-how-we-feed-the-world/
LOCATION:Frist Campus Center\, Multipurpose Room\, Princeton University\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08540\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alumni-Faculty Forum
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SUMMARY:Alumni-Faculty Forum — Healing the System: Opportunities and Challenges in Modern Public Health
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by the Alumni Association of Princeton University \nModerator:\nOlga Troyanskaya  \n  \nPanelists:      \nGil Omenn ’61\nHarold T. Shapiro Distinguished University Professor in the Gilbert S. Omenn Department of Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics\, Internal Medicine\, Human Genetics & Genomics\, and Environmental Health\, University of Michigan \nHerman Taylor Jr. ’76\nEndowed Professor of Medicine and Director of the Cardiovascular Research Institute\, Morehouse School of Medicine \nJennifer Cannistra ’01\nExecutive Director\, National Health Law Program \nMartin Mejia ’21\nHIV Program Coordinator\, LifeLong Medical Care \n\nPANELISTS\nGil Omenn ’61\nAfter his Princeton graduation\, at which he delivered the Latin salutatorian address\, Gil Omenn earned an M.D. from Harvard and a Ph.D. in genetics from University of Washington. He was elected to the National Academy of Medicine and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. More broadly\, Omenn was a White House Fellow at the Atomic Energy Commission in the Nixon and Ford administrations\, associate director of the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy and of the Office of Management & Budget in the Carter administration\, chair of the Presidential/Congressional Commission on Risk Assessment & Risk Management during the Clinton administration\, president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science\, and a director of Amgen Inc. and Rohm & Haas Company. He and his wife\, Martha Darling *70\, endowed the Omenn-Darling Bioengineering Institute at Princeton and SINSI fellowships and an annual lecture at the School of Public and International Affairs.  \nHerman Taylor Jr. ’76\nHerman Taylor is a cardiologist\, physician-scientist and nationally recognized leader in cardiovascular research and public health. In his role at the Morehouse School of Medicine\, he leads interdisciplinary work spanning clinical medicine\, population science\, community engagement and emerging approaches in genomics and data-driven health innovation. Taylor is widely known for his pioneering leadership of the Jackson Heart Study and other major work that has advanced understanding of cardiovascular health\, disease and resilience in diverse communities\, and for his longstanding commitment to expanding the reach of medical research. He received the American Heart Association’s Clinical Research Prize and the American College of Cardiology’s Douglas Award and is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine. He has authored more than 300 peer-reviewed publications. A proud Princeton alumnus\, Taylor values mentorship\, service and family life. He and his wife have three children and two grandchildren.  \nJennifer Cannistra ’01\nJennifer Cannistra leads national efforts to protect and advance health rights for low-income and underserved individuals through her role at the nonprofit National Health Law Program. She previously led health and human services offices at federal and local levels. From 2021 to 2025\, she served as deputy assistant secretary for policy in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Administration for Children and Families (ACF)\, leading ACF’s $26 billion portfolio advancing child and family well-being. Before ACF\, she held leadership roles in D.C. government overseeing behavioral health and homelessness. Cannistra also served for eight years in the Obama administration\, including running the HHS regulations and policy office and working on the Affordable Care Act at the White House and HHS. She received her A.B. from the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs\, her master of science from Oxford University and her juris doctor from Harvard Law School.  \nMartin Mejia ’21\nAs an HIV program coordinator in San Francisco’s East Bay area\, Martin Mejia focuses on managing grants\, implementing training and coordinating reporting needs while also being a case manager to people living with HIV. He began his work at LifeLong Medical Care as a pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) navigator and HIV case manager. In that role\, he provided patient education on PrEP\, HIV and sexual health\, and he connected people living with HIV to resources aimed at minimizing barriers to care\, such as transportation\, food insecurity and housing. Mejia now uses this knowledge to construct programs to provide better HIV care and education and to meet people where they are.
URL:https://reunions.princeton.edu/event/healing-the-system-opportunities-and-challenges-in-modern-public-health/
LOCATION:Briger Hall\, C112\, Princeton\, 08544\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alumni-Faculty Forum
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SUMMARY:Alumni-Faculty Forum — Shifting Global Powers: What Comes Next?
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by the Alumni Association of Princeton University \nModerator:\nJacob N. Shapiro\nVice Dean for Strategic Initiatives\, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs; John Foster Dulles Professor in International Affairs \n  \nPanelists:      \nJim Timbie ’66\nAnnenberg Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution\, Stanford University \nTensai Asfaw ’01 \n Mike Gallagher ’06\nHead of Defense\, Palantir Technologies \nCara Abercrombie *03\nSenior Adviser\, The Cohen Group \n  \n\nMODERATOR\nJacob N. Shapiro\nJacob N. Shapiro co-founded the Empirical Studies of Conflict Project and leads Princeton’s Accelerator initiative to advance research on the information environment. Shapiro has published extensively on conflict\, economic development\, security and technology\, including “The Terrorist’s Dilemma” (2013) and “Small Wars\, Big Data” (2018). His fieldwork spans Afghanistan\, Colombia\, India and Pakistan. A recipient of the 2016 Karl Deutsch Award from the International Studies Association\, he has advised government agencies\, NGOs and tech companies on security policy and foreign influence. Shapiro holds a Ph.D. in political science and an M.A. in economics from Stanford University\, and a B.A. from the University of Michigan. He is also a U.S. Navy veteran and recently served in the U.S. government. \n  \nPANELISTS\nJim Timbie ’66\nAs a scientist and senior adviser at the State Department from 1971 to 2016\, Jim Timbie played a central role in negotiating the nuclear arms reductions agreements with the Soviet Union and Russia\, and the nuclear agreement with Iran. In 2016\, he retired from the State Department and joined the Hoover Institution to work with former Secretary of State George Shultz ’42\, and he now co-manages the Global Policy and Strategy (GPS) Initiative that continues to explore issues that mattered to Shultz. Timbie is also chair of the National Academy of Sciences’ Track II dialogue with the Russian Academy. He has a Ph.D. in physics from Stanford University. \nMike Gallagher ’06\nMike Gallagher is head of defense for the software company Palantir Technologies and a distinguished fellow at the Hudson Institute. He represented Wisconsin’s 8th Congressional District (2017-24) and was chairman of the Select Committee on the Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party\, chairman of the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Cyber\, Information Technologies\, and Innovation\, and a member of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. From 2019 to 2021\, he served as co-chairman of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission. \nCara Abercrombie *03\nCara Abercrombie is a national security expert and senior adviser at a Washington\, D.C.-based strategic advisory firm. Previously\, she held numerous senior positions in the Pentagon and White House during a two-decade civil service career. During the Biden administration\, she served as acting deputy under secretary of defense for policy\, and was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as assistant secretary of defense for acquisition. From 2021 to 2023\, she served as deputy assistant to the president and coordinator for defense policy and arms control at the White House National Security Council. Throughout her time in government\, Abercrombie worked to advance U.S. relations with partners across the Indo-Pacific\, strengthening alliances and initiating groundbreaking defense cooperation with India. Abercrombie is a passionate advocate for epilepsy awareness and research. She is a member of CURE Epilepsy’s research committee and co-chair of the KPTN Alliance. \n 
URL:https://reunions.princeton.edu/event/shifting-global-powers-what-comes-next/
LOCATION:Robertson Hall\, Arthur Lewis Auditorium
CATEGORIES:Alumni-Faculty Forum
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SUMMARY:Alumni-Faculty Forum — Sustaining the Arts: Leadership\, Innovation and Public Responsibility
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by the Alumni Association of Princeton University \nModerator:\nStacy Wolf  \n  \nPanelists:      \nAlina Ziaja MacNichol ’81  \nDonna Joe ’86\nExecutive Vice President and General Counsel\, Corporation for Public Broadcasting \n Stephanie Leotsakos ’16\nComposer\, Conductor\, Soprano\, Violinist; Founder\, Gnotes by Stephanie\, LLC \nDeborah Lugo *14\nVice President of Programming and Education\, Hobby Center for the Performing Arts \n\nPANELISTS\nDonna Joe ’86\nDonna Joe is a corporate attorney with more than 25 years of in-house experience serving as a key thought partner and strategic adviser to boards\, CEOs\, senior executives and cross-functional business units. Since 2009\, she has worked in the nonprofit sector for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting\, leading complex commercial transactions\, managing compliance and procurement programs\, and providing strategic legal advice on corporate governance\, risk management and contracts. She is a former chair and board member of My Own Place — a nonprofit organization that provides a comprehensive range of services that support adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.  \nStephanie Leotsakos ’16\nStephanie Leotsakos is a Colombian Greek American musician and educator. Her recent conducting engagements include the premiere of Iris Karlin’s “Yehudit” with Hebrew Union College\, along with productions of Jeremy Beck’s “Black Water” with City Lyric Opera\, Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” with Amore Opera and Fauré’s Requiem with the Princeton University Glee Club. As the 2024 National Opera Association’s Dominick Argento Fellow\, she is pursuing a Ph.D. in composition at Rutgers University. Her original multimedia operas “OMG” and “Young Goodman Brown” have been performed in opera festivals and on concert stages nationally and internationally. A prizewinning soprano\, Leotsakos has performed with Amore Opera\, New York Lyric Opera Theatre and the Vermont Philharmonic Orchestra. She frequently performs both traditional and contemporary repertoire and continues to appear as a soloist and recitalist in the greater New York area. Her business\, Gnotes by Stephanie\, is an educational initiative developing creative resources and technologies for neurodivergent music learners. \nDeborah Lugo *14\nDeborah Lugo serves as the artistic lead for Houston’s Hobby Center for the Performing Arts\, driving creative vision and strategy execution for programming\, education and community engagement initiatives. Lugo is an established arts and education leader recognized for building exemplary institutions with a collaborative and inclusive approach. Previously\, Lugo served as the founding executive director of Arts Connect Houston\, where she helped build a community of more than 90 partner organizations from diverse sectors aligned in the mission of expanding equitable access to the arts for students across Houston. She also served as the executive director of Mercury Chamber Orchestra\, leading the organization as it grew from a Baroque ensemble to a renowned chamber orchestra. Originally from Puerto Rico\, Lugo holds a Master in Public Policy degree from Princeton University and a bachelor’s degree in violin performance from Florida International University. \n 
URL:https://reunions.princeton.edu/event/sustaining-the-arts-leadership-innovation-and-public-responsibility/
LOCATION:McCosh 10\, NJ\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alumni-Faculty Forum
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SUMMARY:Alumni-Faculty Forum — Feeling Good: Ancient Wisdom\, Modern Science and the Future of Mental Health
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by the Alumni Association of Princeton University \nModerator:\nMatthew C. Weiner\nAssociate Dean of Religious Life \n  \nPanelists:      \nStuart Sovatsky ’71\nPresident Emeritus\, Clinician\, Association for Transpersonal Psychology \nJud Brewer ’96\nDirector of Research and Innovation at the Mindfulness Center\, Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences\, Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior\, Brown University \nKristen Coke ’16\nHead of Core Product\, Calm \nDiana Chao ’21\nFounder and Executive Director\, Letters to Strangers \n  \n\nPANELISTS\nStuart Sovatsky ’71\nStuart Sovatsky\, with 50 years’ clinical psychology experience\, convened a 40-country spiritual conference in India cosponsored by the Dalai Lama and pioneered DSM-IV v62.89\, a clinical diagnostic code recognizing spiritual issues. He secretly consulted on post-Bosnian War “forgiveness” with the chair of the Non-Aligned Movement\, Janez Drnovšek\, and has received two awards for resolving “profiled shooter” crises without police. He received the first federal grant bringing meditation into juvenile lockups in 1976 and has authored books/chapters on Wittgensteinian/Buberian approaches to divorce; homicidal\, suicidal and other “terminal narratives”; the future of gender; and yogic monastic and family paths to enlightenment. Sovatsky cofounded the $34 million award-winning\, sustainable Greencity Lofts\, was the first Caucasian to chant with South African Sangoma shamans and consulted for the Johns Hopkins University psilocybin clinical study. His current interests are meditative approaches to gender dysphoria\, lifelong marriage and yogic “win-win” resolutions to the pro-life/pro-choice debate. \nJud Brewer ’96\nJudson Brewer (“Dr. Jud”) is a New York Times best-selling author and leading expert on habit change and the science of self-mastery. A psychiatrist specializing in anxiety and addictions\, he has developed evidence-based programs for smoking\, eating and anxiety. His translational research explores the neural mechanisms of mindfulness using fMRI and EEG. He has trained U.S. Olympic athletes\, coaches and foreign government ministers\, and his work has been featured on “60 Minutes” and in The New York Times\, Time and others. Brewer co-founded MindSciences\, MindshiftRecovery.org and Going Beyond Anxiety\, a next-gen approach that combines cutting-edge science and experiential learning to transform how people relate to anxiety (www.goingbeyondanxiety.com). His books include “The Craving Mind\,” “Unwinding Anxiety” and “The Hunger Habit.” He writes the Substack newsletter Inside the Curious Mind. \nKristen Coke ’16\nKristen Coke is a senior product leader passionate about designing meaningful experiences that support people’s emotional well-being. At Calm\, she leads product for the flagship Calm app\, focusing on how millions of users engage with mindfulness\, sleep and self-care tools every day. Her work spans AI-powered personalization\, habit-building features and partnerships that bring Calm to new audiences and platforms. Previously\, she led product at Peloton\, quip and IBM\, where she championed human-centered product design — crafting intuitive\, emotionally resonant experiences through empathy\, strategy and care. Coke is also the founder of The Wedding Strategist\, a boutique consultancy that helps couples plan intentional\, artful celebrations. A graduate of the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs\, Coke serves on the Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy’s Bridge Council and has held leadership roles with the Princeton Class of 2016 and Women In Product\, New York City.  \nDiana Chao ’21\nDiana Chao is a Buyi Chinese American social entrepreneur and the founder of Letters to Strangers (L2S)\, the largest global youth mental health nonprofit. Since founding L2S at age 14\, she has scaled the organization to impact more than half a million people across 70 countries. Chao recently completed an MBA at the University of Oxford as a Skoll Scholar\, where her work focuses on the intersection of social impact and global mental health infrastructure. A Princeton honors graduate\, Chao juggled a background as a NASA astrophysicist and United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change researcher alongside mental health advocacy. She was the lead author of the world’s first youth-for-youth mental health guidebook\, currently taught to more than 100\,000 students per year. Her honors include recognition by two U.S. presidents\, the 2021 Princess Diana Legacy Award and being named a 2020 L’Oréal Paris Woman of Worth.
URL:https://reunions.princeton.edu/event/feeling-good-ancient-wisdom-modern-science-and-the-future-of-mental-health/
LOCATION:Frist Campus Center\, Multi-Purpose Room (MPR)
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SUMMARY:Alumni-Faculty Forum — Does Every Vote Count? The Future of U.S. Elections
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by the Alumni Association of Princeton University \n  \nPanelists:      \nScott Rafferty ’76 *76\nAttorney \nTerri Sewell ’86\nUnited States Representative\, Alabama’s 7th Congressional District \nMelissa Kessler ’06\nAssistant Deputy Attorney General\, Colorado Attorney General’s Office \nSophia Cai ’21\nWhite House Reporter\, Politico \n\nPANELISTS\nScott Rafferty ’76 *76\nScott Rafferty practices administrative and election law in California. His recent practice has focused on minority voting rights. He co-founded Neighborhood Elections Now\, an organization that uses state law to create districts that increase the influence of Latino\, Asian and Black communities. Rafferty has represented candidates during the ballot counting process in close races\, including the 2006 Montana election where 3\,562 votes changed control of the U.S. Senate. After graduation\, he attended Yale Law School\, where he was named a Rhodes Scholar. At Oxford\, he wrote his doctoral dissertation on the privatization of British Telecom. Rafferty served as counsel to the U.S. House of Representatives Telecommunications subcommittee during the AT&T divestiture\, and as deputy director of the Administrative Conference of the United States during the Obama administration. He also worked as an attorney at O’Melveny and as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company. \nTerri Sewell ’86\nNow in her eighth term\, Terri Sewell is the first Black woman to serve in the Alabama congressional delegation. Sewell sits on the House Ways and Means Committee and the Committee on House Administration. During her time in Congress\, she has held several leadership positions\, including freshman class president in the 112th Congress and chief deputy whip in the 119th. She also serves on the Steering and Policy Committee that sets the policy direction of the Democratic Caucus and is a member of the Congressional Black Caucus and the New Democrat Coalition. She is co-chair of the Congressional Voting Rights Caucus\, vice-chair of the Congressional HBCU Caucus and co-chair of the Rural Caucus. A proud product of Alabama’s rural Black Belt\, Sewell is an honors graduate of Princeton (A.B.) and Oxford University in England (MLitt) and received her juris doctorate from Harvard Law School. \nMelissa Kessler ’06\nMelissa Kessler is a senior executive leader of the Colorado Attorney General’s Office overseeing the state’s Consumer Protection practice. Among many roles\, Kessler supervises election-related matters\, including enforcement of the Colorado Voting Rights Act. Prior to her role with the attorney general\, Kessler was chief legal officer to the Colorado secretary of state\, where she oversaw numerous novel legal issues\, including two voting-related U.S. Supreme Court cases\, legislative redistricting\, various ballot-access matters\, election-security issues and election access during COVID. She moved to Colorado following a career with the U.S. Department of Justice and a federal clerkship in the Eastern District of California. Kessler earned her juris doctorate from the William & Mary Law School and her A.B. in politics from Princeton. \nSophia Cai ’21\nSophia Cai is a White House reporter at Politico and co-author of West Wing Playbook\, Politico’s daily newsletter on the inner workings of the White House and Donald Trump’s unprecedented overhaul of the federal government. She is also building out Politico’s politics-of-sports coverage\, reporting on preparations for the FIFA World Cup and the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. Before joining Politico\, Cai covered the 2024 presidential campaign for Axios\, traveling nationwide to report on Trump’s bid to return to the White House and the broader GOP primary field. She previously reported on the White House and Congress for Bloomberg News\, where she was part of the team covering Trump’s last-minute airlift to Walter Reed\, the 2020 election and the aftermath of the Jan. 6 insurrection. She currently serves on the board of the Washington Press Club Foundation.
URL:https://reunions.princeton.edu/event/does-every-vote-count-the-future-of-us-elections/
LOCATION:McCosh 50\, Princeton University\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08540\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alumni-Faculty Forum
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SUMMARY:Alumni-Faculty Forum — Climate at the Crossroads: Energy\, Finance and Global Stability
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by the Alumni Association of Princeton University \nModerator:\nJesse Jenkins  \nAssociate Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment \nPanelists:      \nRobert Klee ’96\nSenior Lecturer\, Yale School of the Environment \nMarilyn Waite ’06\nManaging Director\, Capital for Sustainability \nMarcus Stewart ’11 \n  \n\nMODERATOR\nJesse Jenkins \nJesse Jenkins leads the Princeton ZERO Lab\, which focuses on improving and applying energy systems models to evaluate and optimize low-carbon energy technologies\, guide investment and research in innovative energy technologies\, and generate insights to improve energy and climate policy and planning. His scholarship and teaching have been recognized with multiple awards\, including the Howard B. Wentz\, Jr. Junior Faculty Award. Jenkins’ public impact on American energy policy has also been honored by inclusion on the TIME100 Next\, TIME100 Climate and Vox.com “Future Perfect 50” lists. He advises several clean-energy technology companies. Jenkins came to Princeton in 2019. \n  \nPANELISTS\nRobert Klee ’96\nRob Klee is a leading energy and environmental practitioner\, with more than 20 years of experience in academia\, public policy\, law and consulting. At Yale\, he teaches energy\, climate\, and environmental law and policy\, and serves as the managing director of clean energy programs at the Center for Business and the Environment. He also leads Yale’s certificate program in financing and deploying clean energy for working professionals. Outside of Yale\, Klee is principal of Klee Sustainability Advisors\, a firm that advises clients on the strategic\, legal and regulatory issues surrounding clean energy deployment and sustainable materials management. He serves on the advisory boards of Audubon (Connecticut and New York) and the Trust for Public Land (Connecticut). From 2013 to 2018\, Klee served as commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. A geology major at Princeton\, he earned master’s\, doctorate and juris doctor degrees at Yale. \nMarilyn Waite ’06\nMarilyn Waite has worked across four continents in renewable and nuclear energy\, climate modeling and investment. She is the author of “Sustainability at Work: Careers That Make a Difference\,” and her writing has been featured in outlets such as the Financial Times\, Le Monde and the Boston Globe. Waite previously led the climate finance portfolio at the Hewlett Foundation\, the energy practice at Village Capital\, energy models as a senior research fellow at Project Drawdown\, and innovation projects at Orano and Framatome (formerly AREVA). She holds a master’s degree with distinction in engineering for sustainable development from the University of Cambridge and a bachelor’s degree in civil and environmental engineering\, magna cum laude\, from Princeton University. She serves on multiple boards and investment committees\, including Climate First Bank. \n 
URL:https://reunions.princeton.edu/event/climate-at-the-crossroads-energy-finance-and-global-stability/
LOCATION:McCosh 10\, NJ\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alumni-Faculty Forum
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SUMMARY:Alumni-Faculty Forum — Doing the Right Thing: Ethics\, Representation and the Pursuit of Justice
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by the Alumni Association of Princeton University \nModerator:\nElizabeth Harmon  \n  \nPanelists:      \nPeter Georgescu ’61\nChairman Emeritus\, Young & Rubicam \nTimothy P. Jackson ’76\nVisiting Professor of Religion\, Princeton University \nTracy Higgins ’86\nProfessor\, Fordham School of Law; Faculty Director\, Leitner Center for International Law and Justice \nNadia Ben-Youssef ’06\nAdvocacy Director\, Center for Constitutional Rights \n\nPANELISTS\nPeter Georgescu ’61\nPeter Georgescu was the first chairman of Young & Rubicam (Y&R) born outside of the United States and previously served as the advertising agency’s CEO from 1994 until 2000. His career spanned some 40 years in the United States and abroad. He was instrumental in developing and fostering the integrated communications strategy that shaped the course of Y&R’s progress and became the standard for industry thinking. After retiring from Y&R\, Georgescu served on the boards of seven public companies\, including Levi Strauss & Co. and International Flavors & Fragrances. Additionally\, he continues to serve as vice chair emeritus of New York-Presbyterian Hospital\, where he contributes to four key committees. Today\, Georgescu is a writer/activist focused on the socioeconomic crisis facing most Americans\, contributing to Forbes and authoring his own Substack newsletter\, Saving the American Dream.  \nTimothy P. Jackson ’76\nTimothy P. Jackson is the Bishop Mack B. and Rose Stokes Professor of Theological Ethics\, Emeritus\, at Emory University. Jackson has held teaching posts at Rhodes College\, Yale University\, Stanford University\, the University of Notre Dame and Princeton. He has been a visiting fellow at the Center of Theological Inquiry\, the Whitney Humanities Center at Yale\, the Center for the Study of Religion at Princeton and the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics at Harvard. A native of Louisville\, Kentucky\, Jackson received his B.A. in philosophy from Princeton and his Ph.D. in philosophy and religious studies from Yale. He is the author of “Love Disconsoled” (1999)\, “The Priority of Love” (2003) and “Mordecai Would Not Bow Down: Anti-Semitism\, the Holocaust\, and Christian Supersessionism” (2021). Jackson received Emory’s 2020 Crystal Apple Teaching Award for “Excellence in Professional School Education.” \nTracy Higgins ’86\nTracy Higgins is faculty member at the Fordham School of Law where she teaches constitutional law and international human rights. She is founder and faculty director of the Leitner Center for International Law and Justice\, which supports human rights scholarship\, advocacy and training. Her scholarship focuses on the intersection of law\, both domestic and international\, and problems of structural inequality along race and gender lines. Her human rights work has focused on gender equality within traditional legal systems\, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. Higgins studied economics at Princeton and then attended Harvard Law School. She is a member of the board of PEN America\, where she is executive vice president\, the Global Justice Center\, African People and Wildlife\, the Harwood Museum of Art\, Free + Fair Litigation Group and the advisory board of Princeton’s Mpala Research Centre. \nNadia Ben-Youssef ’06\nNadia Ben-Youssef is a human rights lawyer with extensive experience developing creative advocacy strategies at the state\, federal and international level to influence decision-makers and shift power to people impacted by systems of oppression. At the Center for Constitutional Rights\, she works with social movements and communities under threat in the U.S. and globally. Central to Ben-Youssef’s lifework is a commitment to the liberation of Palestine\, and she is a proud co-founder of the Adalah Justice Project. Ben-Youssef is a member of the New York State Bar and serves on the boards of Adalah Justice Project\, the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti\, and Multitude Films. Together with her family\, she is currently documenting the life and vision of her grandfather Salah Ben Youssef\, a revolutionary and freedom fighter in Tunisia’s independence movement who was assassinated in 1961.
URL:https://reunions.princeton.edu/event/doing-the-right-thing-ethics-representation-and-the-pursuit-of-justice/
LOCATION:Frist Campus Center\, Multi-Purpose Room (MPR)
CATEGORIES:Alumni-Faculty Forum
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SUMMARY:Alumni-Faculty Forum — The New Rules of Global Commerce: Tariffs\, Trade and the Future of Business
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by the Alumni Association of Princeton University \nModerator:\nLayna Mosley\nDirector\, Princeton Sovereign Finance Lab; Professor of Politics and International Affairs \n  \nPanelists:      \nMark Mazo ’71\nSenior Counsel Emeritus\, Hogan Lovells US LLC \nJoshua Bolten ’76\nCEO\, Business Roundtable \nPeter Orszag ’91\nCEO and Chairman\, Lazard \nThea Kendler ’96\nPartner and Co-Lead\, Sanctions and Export Controls\, Mayer Brown LLP \n\nMODERATOR\nLayna Mosley\nLayna Mosley is professor of politics and international affairs in the School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA) and the Department of Politics at Princeton University. She founded and directs the Princeton Sovereign Finance Lab\, which conducts policy-relevant research on the domestic and international politics related to government borrowing and debt. Mosley also directs the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance\, and she serves as associate chair of the Department of Politics. Mosley’s research focuses on the politics of the global economy\, including finance as well as trade. She is author of two books\, “Global Capital and National Governments” (Cambridge University Press) and “Labor Rights and Multinational Production” (Cambridge University Press)\, as well as dozens of peer-reviewed academic articles. Mosley is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations. \nPANELISTS\nMark Mazo ’71\nMark Mazo was a senior partner at the Hogan Lovells law firm\, specializing in cross-border business transactions involving Europe and the Middle East. Working from Washington\, D.C.\, and Paris\, Mazo was the senior legal adviser to a prominent Saudi royal family member and recognized\, high-profile international investor and philanthropist; Mazo advised on his numerous investments in Europe\, the U.S.\, the U.K. and Asia\, and on many of his significant Middle East ventures. Mazo also regularly advised leading European aerospace and technology companies on significant cross-border investments and ventures. He helped establish the Paris office of the legacy Hogan & Hartson law firm\, headed its international business transactions practice and served as managing partner of its Abu Dhabi office. A School of Public and International Affairs major at Princeton and Harvard Law School graduate\, Mazo is the father of four Princeton graduates and father-in-law of another.  \nJoshua Bolten ’76\nIn his role at Business Roundtable\, Joshua Bolten leads an association of more than 200 CEOs of America’s leading companies. Bolten’s 20 years of government service include eight years in the White House under President George W. Bush as chief of staff (2006-09)\, director of the Office of Management and Budget (2003-06) and deputy chief of staff for policy (2001-03). For the preceding two years\, he was policy director of the Bush 2000 presidential campaign. Bolten’s previous private sector experience includes work at Goldman Sachs in London and O’Melveny & Myers in Washington\, D.C. Bolten received his undergraduate degree from Princeton in 1976 and his law degree from Stanford in 1980. He is a member of the boards of Emerson Electric Co.\, the Aspen Institute\, the ONE Campaign and Princeton University. \nPeter Orszag ’91\nPeter Orszag has led Lazard\, a preeminent global financial advisory and asset management firm\, and been a board director since October 2023. With a commitment to strategic growth and innovation\, Orszag has raised the firm’s relevance and ambitions to provide the most sophisticated and differentiated advice and investment solutions for clients. Prior to his current role\, Orszag served as CEO of Lazard’s financial advisory business and global co-head of its healthcare practice. In the Obama administration\, he served as the director of the Office of Management and Budget\, and before that\, as the director of the Congressional Budget Office. Orszag has also made notable contributions to academic literature\, including hundreds of published articles and several books. He graduated summa cum laude in economics from Princeton and obtained a Ph.D. in economics from the London School of Economics\, which he attended as a Marshall Scholar. \nThea Kendler ’96\nThea Kendler is a partner with Mayer Brown\, where she leads the law firm’s global sanctions and export controls practice\, advising clients on international trade and national security regulatory compliance and federal investigations. Kendler joined Mayer Brown after more than 20 years in U.S. government service\, culminating in Senate confirmation as assistant secretary for Export Administration (2021-25) at the Commerce Department. As assistant secretary\, she led policymaking and implementation of export controls\, with a focus on emerging technologies\, artificial intelligence\, China and Russia. Earlier in her career\, Kendler served as a Justice Department national security prosecutor and as export controls regulatory and enforcement counsel at the Commerce Department. At Princeton\, Kendler majored in the School of Public and International Affairs with certificates in Japan and China studies and language study in the Princeton in Ishikawa and Princeton in Beijing programs. She received her law degree from the University of Pennsylvania.
URL:https://reunions.princeton.edu/event/the-new-rules-of-global-commerce-tariffs-trade-and-the-future-of-business/
LOCATION:McCosh 50\, Princeton University\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08540\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alumni-Faculty Forum
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SUMMARY:Alumni-Faculty Forum — AI and Human Value: Creativity\, Ownership and the Future of Work
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by the Alumni Association of Princeton University \nModerator:\nSteven A. Kelts\nLead\, Integrated Ethics in Computer Science; Lecturer\, Princeton’s School of Public and International Affairs and the Department of Computer Science; Professional Specialist\, Center for Information Technology\n \n  \nPanelists:      \nDina Nayeri ’01\nFaculty Member\, University of St. Andrews\, Scotland \nBlake Parsons ’11 \nLead Product Manager\, DoorDash AI Support \nEno Reyes ’21 \nChief Technology Officer\, Factory \nRobert Gordon III *89 \nSenior Strategic Leader\, AI and Digital Innovation\, DSS\, Inc. \n\nMODERATOR\nSteven A. Kelts\nSteven Kelts runs the Integrated Ethics in Computer Science initiative\, working with future programmers to embed responsible practices into their work habits. He has been an ethics adviser to the Responsible A.I. Institute and a director of the nonprofit All Tech Is Human. His recent research focuses on two things: the measurement of effective ethics teaching for computing students; and the potential for ethical action in today’s tech firms. Along with a team from Princeton’s Department of Psychology\, he won the National Ethics Education Research Award for a recent study of his tech-ethics students. He is the recipient of two grants from Princeton’s Center on Science and Technology for a program called “Agile Ethics\,” and of a University-wide award for his\nleadership of the GradFUTURES initiative on Ethics of AI. \nPANELISTS\nDina Nayeri ’01\nDina Nayeri’s acclaimed books\, essays and stories are published in more than 20 countries and taught in schools across Europe and the U.S. “Who Gets Believed?” was a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle award. “The Ungrateful Refugee” was a finalist for the Kirkus Prize in Nonfiction\, Los Angeles Times Book Prize\, and won Germany’s Geschwister-Scholl-Preis. The Observer called it “a work of astonishing\, insistent importance.” A former fellow at the Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination in Paris and winner of a National Endowment for the Arts literature grant and the Iowa City UNESCO City of Literature Paul Engle Prize\, Nayeri has written essays and stories that have been published in The New York Times\, The New Yorker\, The Guardian\, “Best American Short Stories” and many other publications. A graduate of Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, Harvard Business School and Princeton\, Nayeri is a reader at the University of St. Andrews.  \nBlake Parsons ’11\nBlake Parsons is a product leader building AI-powered customer support across chat and voice at DoorDash. His current focus is improving AI agent performance with the goal of replacing Tier 1 support while maintaining strong customer outcomes. Previously\, he was director of product management at BirchAI (acquired)\, leading generative AI products for enterprise healthcare\, and earlier helped build Uber Eats ads and led driver growth and operations products at Uber. He began his career in strategy and operations consulting at Bain & Company. Parsons earned a B.S.E. in mechanical and aerospace engineering from Princeton and a Master of Engineering from the University of Cambridge. He represented both universities as a varsity heavyweight rower. Outside of work\, he is an AI tinkerer\, aspiring mechanic and occasional chef\, and the father of a 2-year-old. \nEno Reyes ’21\nEno Reyes is co-founder and CTO of Factory\, a Sequoia Capital-backed startup building an enterprise platform to enable\, deploy and measure the impact of frontier software development agents called Droids. His interests span cognitive science\, computer science and artificial intelligence. Previously\, he was a research engineer at Hugging Face and a software engineer at Microsoft. Reyes was named to the 2025 Forbes 30 Under 30 North America list in artificial intelligence. \nRobert Gordon III *89\nRobert Gordon is the senior AI strategist of Document Storage Systems\, Inc.\, an information technology and software development company focused on veterans health. A graduate of Princeton’s School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA)\, Gordon serves as a board member\, secretary and governance chair of Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID). He is a former deputy under secretary of defense for military community and family policy in the Pentagon\, and former president of Be the Change Inc. His 26-year military career included overseeing the American Politics program as an academy professor at the United States Military Academy at West Point. He is the recipient of the Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service\, SPIA’s Edward P. Bullard Distinguished Alumnus Award and the National Conference on Citizenship’s Franklin Award. \n 
URL:https://reunions.princeton.edu/event/ai-and-human-value-creativity-ownership-and-the-future-of-work/
LOCATION:McCosh 10\, NJ\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alumni-Faculty Forum
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SUMMARY:Alumni-Faculty Forum — No Place Like Home: Confronting America’s Housing Crisis
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by the Alumni Association of Princeton University \nPanelists:      \nRalph Bennett ’61 *66\nProfessor Emeritus\, University of Maryland School of Architecture\, Planning and Preservation; Founding Partner\, Bennett Frank McCarthy Architects \nTom Wright ’91\nPresident and CEO\, Regional Plan Association \nDana McKinney White ’11\nAssistant Professor of Urban Design\, Harvard Graduate School of Design; Co-Founder\, enFOLD Collective; Founder\, Studio KINN\n \n\nPANELISTS\nRalph Bennett ’61 *66\nRalph Bennett graduated with an A.B. in architecture from Princeton in 1961. After two years in the Army\, he completed his M.F.A. in architecture at Princeton. He then worked in Boston for Kallmann and McKinnell and Jose Luis Sert before co-founding Massdesign Architects and Planners. He also taught at the Harvard Graduate School of Design for five years. A project in Baltimore brought him to Maryland in 1977; he established Bennett Frank McCarthy Architects with two former students for residential work at all scales. He started teaching studio design\, theory and drawing at the University of Maryland School of Architecture\, Planning and Preservation\, attaining the rank of professor\, and\, now\, professor emeritus. Bennett has taught two courses on sustainability since his retirement in 2008. He is a fellow of the American Institute of Architects and a charter signer of the Congress for the New Urbanism. \nTom Wright ’91\nAs president and CEO of Regional Plan Association (RPA)\, Tom Wrights leads a 100-year-old civic organization that develops and advocates long-range plans for the New York-New Jersey-Connecticut metropolitan region. RPA priorities include charging drivers to enter the Manhattan Central Business District; cutting carbon emissions and scaling up renewable energy sources; creating healthy\, affordable housing; modernizing the New York City subways; and other infrastructure investments\, including a new commuter rail tunnel under the Hudson River connected to a renovated and expanded Penn Station. A frequent public speaker and commentator on regional governance\, economic growth and development\, and transit investments\, Wright is the chair of the New Jersey State Planning Commission and has been a visiting lecturer at Columbia and Princeton. \nDana McKinney White ’11\nDana McKinney White is a licensed architect and urban designer and is an outspoken advocate for social justice and equity through design. She contextualizes people and their broader communities throughout her work. Her academic and professional work integrates wellness\, progressive public policy and inclusive economics into innovative design solutions. She is the co-founder of enFOLD Collective\, an interdisciplinary architecture\, planning and design practice that positions community voices at the center of its projects\, and is the founder of Studio KINN\, a consulting practice advising on design and planning projects through a heightened commitment to vulnerable communities. An architecture major at Princeton\, McKinney White completed her Master of Architecture and Master in Urban Planning at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD)\, where she now is assistant professor of urban design. As a student at the GSD\, she co-established the inaugural Black in Design Conference and the Design Nexus.
URL:https://reunions.princeton.edu/event/no-place-like-home-confronting-americas-housing-crisis/
LOCATION:Robertson Hall\, Arthur Lewis Auditorium
CATEGORIES:Alumni-Faculty Forum
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SUMMARY:Alumni-Faculty Forum — Game Changers: Media\, Money and the New Business of Sports
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by the Alumni Association of Princeton University \nModerator:\nJohn Mack ’00\nFord Family Director of Athletics \n  \nPanelists:      \nSteve Dunham ’66\nVice President and General Counsel Emeritus\, The Pennsylvania State University \nSteve Mills ’81\nRetired Sports Executive \nMollie Marcoux Samaan ’91\nFounder/CEO\, 9works Sports Group\, and CEO\, US Squash \nAshley Brisco ’11\nCertified Player Agent\, National Basketball Players Association \nCampbell Weaver ’16\nDirector of Hockey Systems\, Boston Bruins \n\nMODERATOR\nJohn Mack ’00\nJohn Mack oversees Princeton’s 38 varsity teams and more than 1\,000 student-athletes. Additionally\, Mack is responsible for the Campus Recreation program\, which provides fitness and recreation opportunities for the entire campus community. Mack had been a student-athlete (track)\, coach and athletics administrator at Princeton before he joined the Big Ten Conference (2004-06) as associate director of championships and then Northwestern University (2006-11) as senior associate athletics director. Prior to returning to Princeton as director of athletics in 2021\, Mack worked as a litigation attorney for a decade after earning his law degree from Northwestern. He also served as the pastor of Greater New Hope Missionary Baptist Church in New Haven\, Michigan. A psychology major at Princeton\, he is married to Alleda (Flagg) Mack ’99. \n  \nPANELISTS\nSteve Dunham ’66 \nVice President and General Counsel Emeritus\, The Pennsylvania State University \n  \nSteve Dunham’s legal practice and academic expertise include litigation\, professional ethics and responsibility\, and higher education law. He retired in 2023 from his role as vice president and general counsel at The Pennsylvania State University. Previously\, he served as vice president and general counsel of the University of Minnesota and Johns Hopkins University\, as a litigation partner and chair of the law firm of Morrison and Foerster in the San Francisco and Denver offices\, and as a faculty member at various law schools. Dunham has served on various nonprofit boards and committees and currently is the chair of the board of trustees at Soka University of America. \n  \nSteve Mills ’81\nSteve Mills is a director of Ariel Investments’ Project Level and on the board of directors of Selective Insurance Group\, AMC Networks and Madison Square Garden (MSG) Sports. He is the former president of the New York Knicks basketball team and served on boards at Ariel Investments and MSG Networks. Previously\, he served as president and chief operating officer of MSG Sports where he oversaw the business operations of the Knicks\, Rangers hockey team\, Liberty women’s basketball team and all other sports-related activities of the Garden. Prior to that\, Mills played an integral role in the National Basketball Association for more than 16 years and was instrumental in the creation of the Women’s National Basketball Association. He is on the board of directors for the Ladies Professional Golf Association and the Princeton Varsity Club and the board of advisers for the Hospital for Special Surgery.  \nMollie Marcoux Samaan ’91\nMollie Marcoux Samaan is an experienced executive with more than 30 years leading complex sports organizations and is currently CEO of the national governing body for squash. From 1995 to 2014\, she developed\, built and led amateur/youth sports businesses at Chelsea Piers Management. She then transitioned to college athletics and served as the Princeton University Ford Family Director of Athletics for seven years. At Princeton\, Marcoux Samaan focused on providing student-athletes with the tools needed to achieve\, serve and lead\, earning NACDA Athletic Director of the Year honors in 2020. From 2021 to 2024\, she led the LPGA as its ninth commissioner\, increasing tournament purses and player income by more than 90% while also focusing on creating an environment for athletes to reach their peak performance. As a consultant and entrepreneur\, she has used her extensive experience in youth\, college and professional sports to drive dynamic growth and impact. \nAshley Brisco ’11\nAshley Brisco manages prospective and professional basketball players and college students in employment and Name\, Image and Likeness (NIL) contracts. She received her bachelor’s degree in classics from Princeton University and a master’s degree in sports industry management from Georgetown University. She is currently pursuing a master’s degree in data analytics and policy from Johns Hopkins University. A lifelong sports enthusiast\, Brisco participated in basketball\, softball\, soccer\, track and field\, cheerleading and tennis in high school. \nCampbell Weaver ’16\nCampbell Weaver is the director of hockey systems with the Boston Bruins. As one of the first technical employees in the hockey operations department\, he has overseen the design and implementation of internal analytical tooling that powers all of the Bruins’ data-driven decision-making. The impact of the analytics work ranges from amateur scouting and player development to National Hockey League on-ice strategy and roster and salary cap management. After earning a B.S.E. in electrical engineering at Princeton\, Weaver received a Master of Engineering in computer science from Cornell Tech\, where he cofounded Otari\, a smart yoga mat company that eventually was acquired by Peloton.
URL:https://reunions.princeton.edu/event/game-changers-media-money-and-the-new-business-of-sports/
LOCATION:Briger Hall\, C112\, Princeton\, 08544\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alumni-Faculty Forum
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SUMMARY:Alumni-Faculty Forum — Truth to Power: Journalism’s Role in Defending Democracy
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by the Alumni Association of Princeton University \n  \nPanelists:      \nThomas “T.R.” Reid ’66\nReporter\, Author \nAndie Tucher ’76\nH. Gordon Garbedian Professor of Journalism\, Columbia University \nMaria Ressa ’86\nCEO and Co-Founder\, Rappler; Professor of Practice\, Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) \nJosh Boak ’01\nWhite House Reporter\, Associated Press \n\nPANELISTS\nThomas “T. R.” Reid ’66\nT. R. Reid is a reporter\, author and documentary filmmaker. At The Washington Post\, he covered Congress and four presidential campaigns\, and then moved overseas as the paper’s bureau chief in Tokyo and London. He was a regular commentator for 15 years on NPR’s “Morning Edition.” He has written and hosted documentary films for PBS’s “Frontline” and National Geographic TV. Reid has published 10 books in English and three in Japanese. In his 80s\, he has become a columnist for AARP The Magazine. He was a member of Princeton’s Board of Trustees and a Ferris Professor of Journalism. \nAndie Tucher ’76\nAndie Tucher is a historian and journalist who writes on the evolution of conventions of truth-telling in journalism\, photography\, personal narrative and other nonfiction forms. Her most recent book\, “Not Exactly Lying: Fake News and Fake Journalism in American History” (2022)\, has won multiple awards. She is also the author of “Happily Sometimes After: Discovering Stories from Twelve Generations of an American Family” (2014); “Froth and Scum: Truth\, Beauty\, Goodness\, and the Ax Murder in America’s First Mass Medium” (1994); and many articles in the academic and popular press. Before her role at Columbia\, Tucher served as speechwriter for Clinton/Gore ’92. She was also editorial associate to Bill Moyers at Public Affairs Television\, editorial producer of the ABC News documentary series “The Twentieth Century” and associate editor of the Columbia Journalism Review. A classics major at Princeton\, Tucher holds a Ph.D. in American civilization from New York University. \nMaria Ressa ’86\nAs CEO of Rappler\, the top digital-only news site that is leading the fight for press freedom in the Philippines\, Maria Ressa endured constant political harassment and arrests by the Duterte government. Rappler’s battle for truth and democracy is the subject of the 2020 Sundance Film Festival documentary “A Thousand Cuts.” For her courage and journalistic integrity\, Ressa has received numerous accolades\, including the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize. In 2022\, she was appointed by the United Nations secretary-general to the leadership panel of the Internet Governance Forum and serves as its vice chair. At SIPA\, she co-leads the Technology & Democracy Initiative at the Institute of Global Politics. Ressa’s books include “Seeds of Terror: An Eyewitness Account of Al-Qaeda’s Newest Center of Operations in Southeast Asia\,” “From Bin Laden to Facebook: 10 Days of Abduction\, 10 Years or Terrorism” and “How to Stand Up to a Dictator.” \nJosh Boak ’01\nJosh Boak is a White House reporter for The Associated Press (AP). He also covered the U.S. economy and the electorate for AP. Boak initially came to Washington to work on Bob Woodward’s book “Obama’s Wars\,” having previously been on the staff of The Chicago Tribune and The Blade (Toledo\, Ohio). His reporting has been recognized with the Livingston Award and as a Pulitzer-Prize finalist. He graduated from Princeton with an A.B. in English and received a master’s degree from Columbia University.
URL:https://reunions.princeton.edu/event/truth-to-power-journalisms-role-in-defending-democracy/
LOCATION:McCosh 50\, Princeton University\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08540\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alumni-Faculty Forum
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