Home

Volume 75, Number 2; Fall / Winter 2020

Featured Posts

Photo collage of student wearing glasses and a face covering by Derek Palmer: Photo collage
Main Category

(Un)Fair Care

How alumni Philip Finch, MA ’97, Andrea Mooney ’08, and Shanaé Burch ’13, are working to make healthcare more equitable and accessible for all.

Articles

Illustration of a multi-colored tree standing tall in a forest by artist Monica ChuT
Main Category

The Staying Power of the Liberal Arts

Liberal arts and interdisciplinary studies have long played a role at Emerson. That role has been strengthened with the establishment of the Marlboro Institute for Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies at Emerson College.
Malia Lazu sitting at a tableH
Main Category

How Do You Eat an Elephant? One Bite at a Time

Malia Lazu ’99 is a lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management and co-creator of a series of community conversations called “The Inclusive Innovation Economy: Ideas + Actions.”
Randy Barbato wearing a black turtleneck against a dark backgroundW
Main Category

When Work Is (Not) a Drag

TV producer Randy Barbato ’82, who has won three Emmys for Outstanding Competition Program for RuPaul’s Drag Race, has made a career bringing LGBTQIA+ culture into the mainstream.

This Month’s Features

Graphic that reads: "With the 'downtime in the spring, I was able to found a nonprofit called Ally365, an organization designed to help White allies identify how and when they can help in the fight for racial equality and justice." -Deion Hawkins, Assistant Professor, Communication StudiesS
Main Category

Silver Linings

Expression checked in with Emersonians to see how they’re faring during COVID-19 and what the global pandemic has meant for them.
David Dower and David C. Howse sitting together in front of a gray backdropC
Main Category

Curtain Call

After five years as vice president of Emerson’s Office of the Arts, ArtsEmerson Artistic Director David Dower (left) will step down at the end of the year.
2
Main Category

20 Questions With Lee Pelton

For this issue's 20 Questions, we sat down with Lee Pelton, the 12th President of Emerson College.
A collection of purple Emerson College face coverings on a yellow backgroundO
Main Category

One Emerson

A collection of Emerson face coverings produced for the Fall 2020 semester.

A Letter From the President

The Little Building on the corner of Boylston and Tremont St. at golden hourO
Main Category

Out of Many, One

This time last year, no one could have predicted that a microscopic novel virus would so profoundly change the communities and the world in which we live. For all of us, this will be a marker in time, the memory of which will last for generations to come.

Picture This

Vintage photo showing Emerson College students protesting cutbacks to financial aid in 1982T
Main Category

The Voice of Students

In 1982, as then President Ronald Reagan proposed federal cutbacks to financial aid, Emerson students were among those who took to the streets to oppose the changes and make their voices heard.