Sidwell Friends

NASA’s Andrea Johnson Razzaghi ’78 on the vastness of deep space, practicing for failure, the scariest seven minutes in engineering, and why you should always stop and smell the science.

The actor talks training in post-Soviet Russia, creating his Louisiana passion project, and navigating the perils of acting.

Sonya Clark ’85 unravels the power of the mundane and the sacred.

Liz Kleinrock ’05 on creating an anti-racist classroom, tossing out standardized curricula, empowering kids, dismantling the model-minority myth, and purging capitalism-fueled grind culture.

Baratunde Thurston ’95 on comedy, pain, and how to make a better world through the stories we tell.