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Mary Weatherford was born in Ojai, California. After Princeton she went on to earn her M.F.A. from the Milton Avery School of Fine Arts at Bard College in 2006, and was a Helena Rubinstein

Margarita Rosa has more than three decades of professional experience in the nonprofit sector in executive leadership and management, program design, fundraising, governance and strategic planning. She served as executive director of the Grand

Jennifer Brea is an independent documentary filmmaker based in Los Angeles. Following Princeton, she was a Ph.D. student at Harvard until sudden illness left her bedridden. In the aftermath, she rediscovered her first love,

Dori Jones Yang spent most of her college years writing for The Daily Princetonian. After that, she plunged into twenty years of journalism, including eight years as Business Week’s Hong Kong bureau chief and

Ellie Kemper is an actress and writer originally from St. Louis, MO. At Princeton Kemper was a member of the field hockey team during her freshman year when the team placed second in the

Deborah A. Prentice is the Provost and Alexander Stewart 1886 Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs. She came to Princeton in 1988 and joined the faculty as an assistant professor in 1989. She has

Treby Williams is the executive vice president of Princeton University. Prior to her appointment in November 2013, Treby worked in the Office of the Executive Vice President as the director of planning and administration

Douglas McGrath is a filmmaker, playwright and essayist. He collaborated with Woody Allen on the screenplay for “Bullets Over Broadway” for which they were nominated for an Academy Award. He then wrote and directed

When Helen Zia first visited Princeton, the campus was shut down in protest of the war in Vietnam and for racial equality. She dove into Princeton life, joining a sit-in at Firestone that led

Melissa Wu leads Education Pioneers (EP) to identify, attract, develop and inspire diverse leaders who are working to accelerate systemic change across the education sector nationwide. Wu believes that transformational leaders are required at