Spring 2021
Working forward
Stefan Bradley, Washington State University alumnus, studies diversity in the history of Black people. He works for that goal as a history professor and writer. » More ...
Tom Kertscher
Fall 2019
I can do it!
Washington State University alumnus Andaya Sugayan's passion for getting women into politics led to voter registration drives, and inspires her own future plans. » More ...
Summer 2019
Hearing the whispers
Washington State University alumna Annita Lucchesi produced a groundbreaking report that was published by the Urban Indian Health Institute that revealed the astonishing and horrifying numbers of missing and unsolved murders of indigenous women across North America. » More ...
Fall 2018
Ask Caroline Heldman ’93
A leading voice on sexual harassment, Caroline Heldman ’93 has had a busy year. She coauthored the 2018 book Sex and Gender in the 2016 Presidential Election, and the 2017 book Women, Power, and Politics: The Fight for Gender Equality in the United States. And the associate professor of politics—who specializes in the presidency, media, gender, and race at Occidental College in Los Angeles—frequently appears in documentaries and on news programs to speak about the #MeToo movement and harassment—partly because of her own experience.
Heldman, who had been a regular guest of host Bill O’Reilly on The O’Reilly Factor, alleged in 2017 that … » More …
Winter 2017
Knowing malice beyond the pale
Pete Simi’s mother wanted him to understand racism, so when he was 9, they watched a PBS documentary on the Ku Klux Klan. Here’s how he remembers one Klansman who was interviewed. “He spoke with such passion, anger, such strong emotion. And it just struck me, as a young child, trying to understand what was driving this person, how this person could get so enmeshed in hate.”
That question stuck with Simi ’96 throughout his undergraduate studies at Washington State University and later as a graduate student at University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
Simi, the author of American Swastika: Inside the White Power Movement’s Hidden … » More …