Isabel Chun, Class III, Illustrates a Recently Published Book
Isabel Chun ’14 has illustrated her first published children’s book. Her childhood love of painting ultimately led her to this project. Isabel’s vivid and colorful illustrations appear in The Kwik Adventures of Baxter Brave and Tommy the Salami, the story of a young boy who sets off with his dog from the high-rise buildings of Hong Kong for an around-the-world adventure. Traversing four chapters—The Desert, The Ocean, The Jungle and The Mountains—the duo encounter storms, beautiful landscapes, and a variety of animals that help them along the way. “My favorite chapter to work on...
Read MoreEliza Byard ’86
Dr. Eliza Byard ’86 is the executive director of the GLSEN, the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network, a national organization working to ensure safe schools for all students, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity/expression. She has over 20 years of experience in nonprofit development and spearheaded the first-ever Ad Council campaign on LGBT issues, ThinkB4YouSpeak. On campus she was hosted by the student group GASP! (Gay and Straight People). “The good news is that when you make the case well, carry the message in a way people can hear, and are willing to meet them...
Read MoreDeanne Borshay Liem
For more than 20 years, Deanne Borshay Liem has developed, produced and distributed independent films, including her Emmy Award–nominated personal documentary First Person Plural, which won the grand prize for the best Bay Area documentary at the San Francisco International Film Festival. For her latest project, Geographies of Kinship: The Korean Adoption Story, Ms. Liem received funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities. She visited campus as the 2011 speaker in the Hong Kong Distinguished Lecture Series. “We’re told, as adoptees, that we were saved from a dire fate. I...
Read MoreStephen Elliott ’99
Having studied engineering and computer science at Yale, Stephen Elliott ’99 became a commissioned Naval officer and served on the USS Henry M. Jackson, a ballistic missile submarine. He’s enrolled in a dual program at Harvard Business School and the Harvard Kennedy School. After earning his degrees, he plans to work in the clean-technology industry. Stephen was Milton’s 2011 Veterans’ Day Speaker. “Military experience is so different from generation to generation, service to service, individual to individual. However, there’s a common thread: being willing to face hardship and...
Read MoreHeather McGhee ’97
Heather McGhee ’97 is a director at Demos, a multi-issue national organization that combines research, policy and advocacy to influence public debate and catalyze change. She works every day to address economic inequality. As the 2012 Martin Luther King Jr. Speaker, she urged students to think about difficult economic issues. “The relative privilege that all of us in this room have, compared to the vast majority of Americans, is not a reason to avoid questions of economic inequality—because it makes us uncomfortable, or because of where we sit on the ladder. Our relative privilege is an...
Read MoreRay Suarez
Broadcast journalist Mr. Ray Suarez wove together evidence, from quotes and video clips, that demonstrates the complex relationship between religion and politics in this country. Mr. Suarez is senior correspondent on the “PBS NewsHour” and author of The Holy Vote. He visited with students and faculty in November as the Class of 1952 Endowment for Religious Understanding Speaker. “We have come to a crazy place in our national life. Politicians are using religion as a marker or a quick reference meant to signal to voters, ‘I am like you. Vote for me!’ It’s identity politics, pure...
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