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Dali Pomfret is pictured on a baseball field. He leans against a chainlink fence while an out of focus scoreboard sits in the background.

Major League Mindset

Dali Pomfret '25 started out wanting to play professional baseball. After an eye-opening internship, he’s now got his mind set on an even loftier goal.

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

Alumni Haverford magazine

Building Futures

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

Faculty Students

Education as Liberation

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

Brendan Wattenberg '06 In Conversation On Another Africa

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Alumni

The curator of the Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery's upcoming show, The Past is a Foreign Country, talks to the exhibit's photographer, François-Xavier Gbré, about his work.
Matt Joyce '03 Named One Of 15 Young Philadelphians Shaping Local Philanthropy

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Alumni

The executive director of GreenLight Fund is part of Billy Penn's list of influential local "givers."
Fay Strongin ’10 and Sarah Turkus ’10 in Rhode Island Monthly

The story profiles their Sidewalk Ends Farm in Providence, which is now in its fifth season.
Summer Centered: Courtney Lau '17 Heads For The Fringe

Courtney Lau '17 is interning with FringeArts, the organization behind the 18-day Philadelphia Fringe Festival.
Summer Centered: Katie Tsai '16 and Emily Winesett '16 Research Natural Antibiotic Creation

Thanks to funding from the Koshland Integrated Science Center, the rising seniors are getting a head start on their thesis research in the lab of Assistant Professor of Chemistry Lou Charkoudian '03 this summer.
Summer Centered: Tosin Alliyu '18 Investigates the Role of Ethics in Technology

Tosin Alliyu '18 is studying bias in computer-generated decisions in her research internship with Assistant Professor of Computer Science Sorelle Friedler.
Sorelle Friedler Studies Programming and Prejudice

The assistant professor of computer science was part of a team of researchers that discovered a way to see if algorithms can be biased like human beings, as well as a method for fixing them if they are.
Summer Centered: Dylan Kahn '16 Interns At The Philadelphia Museum of Art

This summer the history of art major is working in the museum's American Curatorial Department.
Michael Furey '17 Interns with Congressman Brendan F. Boyle

The political science major has been working for the Democratic congressman for Pennsylvania's 13th district all summer.
Summer Centered: Laura Eckstein '16 Plots Jewish Communities on the Mississippi

Laura Eckstein '16 is in Cincinnati, Ohio, at the Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives mapping Jewish networks along the Mississippi River Delta region prior to the Civil War.
Summer Centered: Fords in Nicaragua

Four Haverford students are working in Nicaragua this summer on a diverse range of community-driven projects via ProNica, a Quaker nonprofit that works with local grassroots organizations in the country.
Desika Narayanan on NewsWorks' "The Pulse"

The assistant professor of astronomy discusses how he develops large-scale computer simulations to understand how galaxies form for the show's regular series "So, What Do You Do."
Summer Centered: Alison Love '18 and Safiyah Riddle '18 Help Food Justice Flourish

With funding from the Center for Peace and Global Citizenship, they are working for Weavers Way Community Programs, gardening at an urban farm and teachinig agriculture education to young people.
Hilary Leichter '07 Wins NY Foundation for the Arts Fellowship

The Brooklyn-based writer, who was part of the only 2 percent of applicants chosen for the fellowship, will receive a $7000 unrestricted grant for her fiction.
Joel Censer '08 Profiled By Buzz Bissenger

The former Haverford lacrosse All-American defenseman is now the senior program director at Harlem Lacrosse And Leadership, which is profiled by the Friday Night Lights author.