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In the Media: Christina Lindal ’07 Named President of Major Construction Company, Forbes Reports
Lindal is the first woman to lead the company and one of a small number of women leaders in the construction and manufacturing industry.
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In the Media: Lynne Thompson ’72 Reads at First Poetry Under the Pier Event, Santa Monica Daily Press Reports
The event took place at Heal the Bay’s Santa Monica aquarium and featured poems about nature and the ocean.
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In the Media: Dwandalyn Reece ’85 Gives TED Talk on Origins of Blackface and Stereotypes
“These stereotypes were a powerful reinforcement of the ideas of white supremacy and Black inferiority,” Reece says.
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In the Media: Lynne Thompson ’72 Receives Fellowship from Academy of American Poets
Thompson is the current poet laureate of Los Angeles, a role to which she was appointed in 2021.
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In the Media: Gabby Giffords ’93 Reflects on What She’s Learned for Esquire
“I think of forgiveness聽as tied to鈥攂ut distinct from鈥攁cceptance,” she writes.
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In the Media: Gabby Giffords ’93 Discusses Gun Control Progress in TIME Magazine
Giffords discussed the progress that the gun safety movement has made over the past decade in an op-ed for TIME magazine.
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In the Media: Washington Post, CBS Profile Gabby Giffords ’93’s Political Career, Gun Control Activism
“Even though I wasn鈥檛 able to speak more than a few words at a time, still I knew I had to use my voice to fight for change,” she wrote.
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In the Media: Washington Post Reviews Documentary on Gabby Giffords ’93’s Career and Advocacy
The Post calls the documentary a “moving arc of courage and perseverance” that features the “bright light of her personality.”
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In the Media: Gabby Giffords ’93 Receives Medal of Freedom from President Biden, Per Los Angeles Times, CNN, and Washington Post
President Joe Biden introduced Giffords as “one of the most courageous people I have ever known,” the Times reported.
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In the Media: Gabby Giffords ’93 Urges Congress to Take Action on Gun Control, USA Today Reports
“Now is the time to come together [and] be responsible,” Giffords said. “. . . The nation’s counting on you.”
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