Member Type: Alumni
Annie Youchah, JD
Annie Youchah is a practicing attorney in Las Vegas, Nevada, working for legal aid. She received her JD from UC Davis School of Law in 2020. She remembers her summers at the Stanford Campus as highlights of her childhood and young adulthood. Annie shared, “Great Books prepared me mentally to understand and interpret texts from […]
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Charlotte Sawyer
A Senior Sales Leader at a fast growing tech company based in Boston, Charlotte Sawyer was a three-year Great Books Summer Program camper. . She studied English and Psychology at Connecticut College. Charlotte tells us that the greatest impact Great Books had on her was teaching her to embrace her love of learning. Breaking down […]
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Madeline Horan, MA
Madeline Horan came to Great Books Summer Program in our initial years at Amherst. She shared with us that is was here at Great Books that she found her tribe. Writing to us recently, she shared, “It was the first time my Arkansas self met fellow odd ducks – literary ducks, silly ducks, soulful ducks […]
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Sarah “Sally” Ward, MD
Sarah “Sally” Ward is now a practicing urogynaecologist in New York. A surgery fellow in female pelvic medicine and reconstructive surgery at Mount Auburn Hospital / Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center / Harvard Medical School and a graduate of Tufts University School of Medicine and Bowdoin College, she credits Great Books with helping her grow […]
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Cynthia J. Tong
Cynthia J. Tong is a Tony-nominated, Drama Desk Award-winning Broadway producer and is currently Producer at Tom Kirdahy Productions. Recently named one of Variety’s “41 Under 40: New Leaders Class of 2025” and selected for the prestigious The Shubert Organization Artistic Circle (2025), she is currently working on the new “smash hit” (Chicago Tribune) Broadway […]
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Jack Smalls
A graduate of the College of the Holy Cross and currently a Hearn Fellow, Jack Smalls was a four-year camper who explored the Oxford, Dublin, and Amherst campuses with Great Books. Jack’s father reached out to Great Books with a warm thank you and this photo of Jack enjoying an excursion into London while spending […]
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Christina Lamoureux, JD
Now a practicing attorney in Washington D.C., Christina Lamoureux received her JD from the George Washington University Law School. When she first came to Great Books as a middle schooler, she never imagined just how relevant her summer learning would be to her future career. Today as an attorney, Christina tells us that she uses […]
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James Doucette
Now a software engineer, Jamie credits Great Books with broadening his perspective and equipping him for deeper critical engagement with the defining ideas and systems of our world. “By directly pursuing the ideas I first encountered at camp, I found myself developing a lasting passion for understanding the foundations of Science, Technology, Engineering and Math, […]
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Nicole Malofsky, PhD
Recently completing her PhD in Biomedical Engineering at Vanderbilt University, Nicole continues to use the skills she learned at Great Books. “Great Books created a strong foundation for my love of literature and critical thinking – both of which have aided me as I pursue a career in STEM. The ability to dive deep into […]
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