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![Grad Interrupted]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1628187776/sidwell/odykruybv67atnioikfp/4L4A1329.jpg","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1628187776/sidwell/odykruybv67atnioikfp/4L4A1329.jpg","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_3/v1628187776/sidwell/odykruybv67atnioikfp/4L4A1329.jpg","width":800},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_4/v1628187776/sidwell/odykruybv67atnioikfp/4L4A1329.jpg","width":1200},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_5/v1628187776/sidwell/odykruybv67atnioikfp/4L4A1329.jpg","width":1600},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_6/v1628187776/sidwell/odykruybv67atnioikfp/4L4A1329.jpg","width":2200}])
The Class of 2020 returns to campus for an emotional tribute and joyous celebration.
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Former Sidwell Friends teacher Richard Brady and Kim Seashore ’87 discuss the value of mindfulness—in life and in classrooms.
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Dax-Devlon Ross ’93, Gareth Schweitzer ’95, and Sophia Houdaigui ’17 discuss Ross’s new book and its calls to action in a cross-generational Conversation with Friends.
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Mei Xu (P ’19, ’21) discusses memory, candles, innovation, and the bamboo ceiling at a recent Conversations with Friends.
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The Sidwell Friends Medical Advisory Team and Neeknaz Abari ’16 were honored for their extraordinary spirit of community service and dedication during the COVID pandemic.
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Reunion 2021 brought alumni together with faculty, friends, and one special musical guest.
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Sidwell Friends guest artist Suzanne Firstenberg delivers the Rubenstein lecture and tackles the pandemic, empathy, and thousands of unfinished stories.
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Meet Silvana Niazi, the inaugural Señora Guillermina Medrano de Supervía Endowed Faculty Chair for Spanish and Latin American Studies.
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Elsa Walsh (P ’94, ’15) and Bob Woodward (P’ 94, ’15) discuss his surprising and contentious relationship with Donald Trump and much more during a Conversation with Friends.
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In a Conversation with Friends, Adama Konteh Hamadi ’04 and Helen Li ‘04 discuss how to put away the cape, live intentionally, and find clarity and purpose in chaotic times.