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News and Announcements

Category: Alumni Stories

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Jenny Mundell ’11 MA Thinks English Majors will Save the World – and So Can You.

From English graduate student to Bloomfield Township’s first female mayor, Jenny Mundell ’11 MA proves that the power to create meaningful change starts with the opportunities you embrace and the relationships you build along the way.

graphic element event flyer for March 18 It Gets Better Panel Discussion showing photos of all panelist in circles on the flyer.

It Really Does Get Better

Panel Event on Tuesday, March 18

Students Plant Seeds to Revive a Native American Language

photo of alumna and author Priyanka Taslim on left holding a tea cup. a graphic of the cover of her debut novel, The Love Game is on the right

Alumna’s Debut Novel Published by Simon & Schuster

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Italian Comes Full Circle

High schools, the Montclair State Italian Program and Made in Italy in NJ

Aumni Medinah Muhammad

Medinah E. Muhammad ’16

Chief of Staff to New Jersey Assemblywoman Britnee N. Timberlake

Lester Taylor

Lester E. Taylor III ’97

Mayor of East Orange, New Jersey

Ellyn McColgan

Ellyn McColgan ’75

Philanthropist, Wall Street executive, Harvard Business School graduate

Mark Van Buren

Mark Van Buren ’10

Author and owner of Live Free Yoga Studio in River Edge, New Jersey

Leonardo Palumbo

Leonardo Palumbo ’08

Works for Doctors without Borders – Netherlands in Uzbekistan and Tajikistan

Jamie Ancheta

Jamie Ancheta ’13

Field and lab technician for a historial consulting company

Christine McNamara

Christine McNamara ’92

Vice president and director of content partnerships at Penguin publishing