Julio Reyes, Latinx Student Life Coordinator
Melissa Harris, News editor
May 5, 2017
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Julio Reyes is the Latinx Student Life Coordinator, assistant director of Student Outreach and Success and program director of the Undocumented Student Initiatives. Reyes graduated from Brown University in 2012 with degrees in Sociology and Portuguese & Brazilian Studies. Later employed at Brown, Reyes ...
Off the Cuff: Liz Burgess, Owner of Ginko Gallery
Louis Krauss, News Editor
April 28, 2017
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Liz Burgess, OC ’73, is the current owner of Ginko Gallery, an art and arts supply store downtown. Burgess opened the shop with two friends after graduating from the College in 1973. In addition to art supplies, the shop also features studio space for resident artists and an exhibition room to showcase...
Off the Cuff: Mindi Kuebler, Activist
Melissa Harris, News Editor
April 21, 2017
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Mindi Kuebler is the director of the Human Trafficking Collaborative of Lorain County. Kuebler founded HTCLC in 2009 after working as a forensic nurse, specializing as a sexual assault nurse examiner. She runs the HTCLC with her professional partners Shawn Cleveland and Kristi Miller. The...
Off the Cuff: Teresa Bejan, Professor of Political Theory
Melissa Harris, News Editor
April 14, 2017
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Teresa Bejan is an Associate Professor of Political Theory at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Oriel College. Before teaching at Oxford, Bejan worked at the University of Toronto and was a Mellon Research Fellow in the Society of Fellows at Columbia University. Bejan’s research brings perspecti...
Off the Cuff: Kevin Bruyneel, Babson College Professor of Politics
Melissa Harris, News editor
April 7, 2017
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Kevin Bruyneel is a politics professor at Babson College who currently studies the relationship between colonialism, race and collective memory. He recently published a book on these issues called The Third Space of Sovereignty. Bruyneel is currently researching the role of white settler memory in Ameri...
Off the Cuff: Juan Méndez, Professor and Human Rights Activist
Louis Krauss, News Editor
March 31, 2017
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Juan Mendez is a Professor of Human Rights Law at American University’s Washington College of Law who served on the United Nation’s Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment or Punishment from 2010–2016. Mendez is originally from Argentina, where he defended pol...
Off the Cuff: Jodi Dean, Professor of Political Science
Louis Krauss, News editor
March 10, 2017
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Jodi Dean is a Political Science professor at Hobart and William Smith Colleges and has written multiple books on political theory and communist revolution. Dean’s 2016 book, Crowds and Party, explains why movements such as Occupy Wall Street were unable to maintain momentum after they ended and ex...
Off the Cuff: Pawan Dhingra, Professor at Tufts University
Melissa Harris, News editor
March 3, 2017
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Professor Pawan Dhingra is a professor of Sociology and American Studies at Tufts University, specializing in Asian American studies, immigrant adaptation, race and ethnic relations and social and cultural inequalities. From 2011 to 2012, Dhingra served at the Smithsonian Institution as museum curator for...
Off the Cuff: Sophie Smith and Alicia Dinsmore, Activists
Melissa Harris, News Editor
February 24, 2017
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Sophie Smith and Alicia Dinsmore both work in Arizona with La Coalición de Derechos Humanos and No More Deaths, providing humanitarian aid for undocumented immigrants. Smith is a writer, community organizer and long-term desert and aid volunteer and search and rescue coordinator in Arivaca, AZ. She...
Off the Cuff: Zoé Samudzi, Medical Sociology Ph.D. Candidate
Louis Krauss, News Editor
February 17, 2017
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Zoé Samudzi is a Medical Sociology Ph.D. student at the University of California, San Francisco, where she specializes in issues related to transgender people’s impediments to receiving adequate health care. Aside from policies and oppression related to transgender people, Samudzi has also conducted res...
Off the Cuff: Michael M. Lederman, Professor of Medicine
Melissa Harris, News Editor
February 10, 2017
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Dr. Michael M. Lederman is the Scott R. Inkley Professor of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and University Hospitals/Case Medical Center where he is also a professor of biomedical ethics, pathology, microbiology and molecular biology. He is a member of the American Ass...
Off the Cuff: Janet Garrett, Two-Time Congressional Candidate
Louis Krauss, News Editor
February 3, 2017
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Janet Garrett is a life-long Oberlin resident and spent many years as a teacher at Eastwood Elementary School before retiring in 2015. Garrett ran for Congress in Ohio’s 4th Congressional District both in 2014 and 2016, losing twice to current Republican congressman Jim Jordan. Since President Don...