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When Tori Campbell Nelson 鈥86 talks, children listen. The co-founder and anchor of KidNuz, 鈥渁 fun, fresh, first-of-its-kind kids鈥 podcast,鈥 delivers age-appropriate news stories to her third- to sixth-grade audience five days a week.
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Preston Sutton 鈥97 follows where science, the wind, and his interests take him. As operations manager at Sail & Explore, this polymer physicist does field work and expedition planning for a Switzerland-based nonprofit that explores the possible effects of micro- and nanoplastics on human health.
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Kiki Yang 鈥00 has never stopped learning. It鈥檚 been the one constant in her career. As a senior partner at the consulting company Bain & Company in Shanghai, she said, 鈥淓very day is about thinking. Clients come to me with issues they can鈥檛 solve, and we have to understand their problems. It鈥檚 never easy.鈥
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Charlotte Ameringer 鈥88 works small. As chief conservator at the Portland Art Museum, she recently spent nine months ever so gently removing varnish from a painting in Monet鈥檚 famous 鈥淲aterlilies鈥 series.
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Anti-ageism activist Ashton Applewhite K鈥74 is 72 and she鈥檚 good with that. The Decade of Healthy Ageing, a U.N. collaboration with the World Health Organization, recently honored her as one of its Healthy Ageing 50.
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Philip O鈥橬eill 鈥73 gets around. His senior year winter study at Hamilton took the Soviet studies major to Uzbekistan, a Muslim republic then part of the U.S.S.R. There, looking at the distant mountains, he asked a local what was on the other side.
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Getting sent to the principal鈥檚 office in eighth grade might have been the best thing that ever happened to Dyan Finguerra-DuCharme 鈥92. Her offense? She stood up in class to defend a student who was being treated unfairly.
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Scott Havens 鈥95 calls centerfield home. As president of business operations for the New York Mets, his office sits above the Citi Field bleachers that host the team鈥檚 7 Line Army fan group.
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鈥淓verybody fires off like rockets, and you鈥檙e trying to hang on.鈥 That鈥檚 how Andr茅 Matias 鈥12 describes what it鈥檚 like to compete in single scull rowing competitions.
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Ciere Boatright 鈥05, Chicago鈥檚 new commissioner of the Department of Planning & Development, calls herself a 鈥渇irecracker.鈥 Born on the Fourth of July, she says, 鈥淚 have a fiery personality ... I have this desire to light up spaces in a positive way.鈥
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