Joe Altenau Sets the Stage at New Jersey’s Prudential Center

As a theatre major, Joe Altenau, CCAS BA ’08, worked behind the scenes on productions that thousands of people attended every year. Today, his behind-the-scenes role at New Jersey’s Prudential Center reaches millions. Prudential Center hosts about 175 events a year — including New Jersey Devils hockey games, Seton Hall Pirates basketball games, concerts with […]

Dana Clerkin and husband smiling with Sogoo children holding donated items

Trip to Africa Inspires Alumna to Help Build an Orphanage

Dana Pugh-Clerkin, CCAS BA ‘78, grew up knowing she would one day travel to Africa. “I would watch this show called Wild Kingdom that played on Saturday afternoons. Something stuck with me. I knew I would get there.”  Years later, after graduating from GW, raising two children, and working in the fundraising field, she finally […]

Courage in Journalism: Corcoran Alumna Honored for Her Visual Storytelling

Zoeann Murphy, CORC MA ’14, doesn’t shy away from intense situations. In fact, she heads right for them. Over the last 16 years as a photographer and video journalist, she’s traveled across the U.S. and to more than 20 countries capturing images and stories that focus on humanitarian and environmental crises, and, often times, breaking […]

Kevin Eckstrom at National Cathedral

GW Alumnus Gives Voice to a National Treasure

Lego sculptures. The sounds of a majestic pipe organ ringing out “Baby Shark,” the children’s song that serves as the unofficial anthem for Washington Nationals baseball team. An op-ed entitled “Have We No Decency? A Response to President Trump.” These things may not be what you typically associate with the Washington National Cathedral. But thanks […]

Natalie Fiszer helping children

Alumna Turns Her Passion for Service into Global Development Career

Natalie Fiszer, ESIA BA ’14, was recently selected for the USAID Donald M. Payne International Development Fellowship, which offers financial support for graduate school as well as an opportunity for employment with the USAID Foreign Service upon completion of her studies. GW: Tell us about what you are doing now and why it matters to […]

Naomi being lowered from a helicopter

Stories of Her Life: Alumna’s Global Journey in Journalism Returns Her to the Familiar Confines of GW

Naomi Spinrad, CCAS BA ’68, ESIA MA ’86, has had a career in journalism that has taken her around the world and provided adventures: dropping out of a helicopter onto an aircraft carrier in the Mediterranean, briefly steering an aircraft carrier and spending more time than she can count on military ships. It’s been a life […]

GW Alumna Brightens Lives—and Faces—of Cancer Patients

      Almost everyone has been—or will be—touched by cancer at some point in their lives. Kristin Ann Fahlbusch, CCAS BA ’05, lost both her grandmother and one of her dearest friends to the disease, inspiring her to join the staff at Lipstick Angels. Founded by celebrity make-up artist Renata Helfman, Lipstick Angels supports […]