Haverford Headlines

Scott Peltzer poses for a portrait in the shop at Brooklyn Woods. He is surrounded by numerous woodworking tools.

Building Futures

Through Brooklyn Woods, Scott Peltzer ’82 teaches job hunters a lost art and self-sustaining skills for life.

Education as Liberation

Philadelphia’s Freedom Side School imagines future intersections between education and anti-carceral movements with a Haverford first-year writing seminar.

Students

Changing Stigmatized Views of Menstruation in Nepal

For the past four years, Kripa Khatiwada '26 has been working with an eco-friendly feminine hygiene products company and supporting the women of her home country.

Historian Lucy Barber '86 in the Washington Post

The author of <em>Marching on Washington: The Forging of an American Political Tradition</em> talks about how the March on Washington, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this week, shaped the Mall.
Stephen Spaulding '05 on Politico

Staff counsel for Common Cause, Spaulding writes an opinion piece about the filibuster rule "degrades [the Senate's] fine history of debate, consensus and action."
Asa Hopkins '01 in The Bridge

Vermont's director of energy policy and planning assesses the state's near- and long-term energy challenges for Montpelier's free, independent, local newspaper.
Hear Tracey Hucks on OPB

The professor of religion talks to the Oregon public broadcaster about Yoruba as an "ancient spiritual heritage" for African Americans.
Roads Taken and Not Taken: Katie Quirk '98

A disappointing study abroad experience leads to a life-changing sojourn in Africa that turns a Tanzanian girl into family.
Writing Program Fellow Paul Farber talks to CNN about the 1963 March on Washington

Paul Farber, a Writing Program Fellow and American Studies scholar, is a contributing author of a new book that documents the historic 1963 March on Washington through the images of photographer Leonard Freed.
Aaron Bernstein '95 in The New York Times

The Facebook employee is part of a team trying to deliver free or cheap ways to use the Internet to people who lack access.
The Unconventional Cop

Andy Solberg '78 is a D.C. police commander with a master's in philosophy who would rather be out on the street than behind a desk, thinks police work can be informed by Aristotle's ethics, and believes:“We arrest way too many people, and we shouldn't.”
Summer Internships 2013: Cataloguing Jewish History

With support from Haverford's Hurford Center, Rilka Spieler '14 worked as an intern in the registration department of the National Museum of American History.
Christopher Yung '86 on CCTV

The senior research fellow at the Institute of National Strategic Studies discusses Chinese-U.S. military relations.
Paul Bisceglio '09 Writes for the Atlantic

The D.C.-based freelancer wrote a piece about how social media changes the way we approach death.
Andrew Lanham '10 in The Los Angeles Review of Books

The current Rhodes Scholar wrote an essay, "Walter White's Heart of Darkness," to coincide with the return of AMC's <em>Breaking Bad</em>.
A Foodie in Chicago

Food journalist Heather Sperling '05 helps launch Fete Chicago, a series of events celebrating the city's food and design artisans.
Summer 2013 Internships: Mending Divisions in Belfast, Northern Ireland

Abigail Brown '14 works with a restorative justice organization as a CPGC summer intern.
Kevin O'Halloran '11 Rocks Little Big League

The band he co-founded with Bryn Mawr grad Michelle Zauner '11 has a full-length debut release and a busy touring schedule this summer.