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A high school teacher’s focus on the My Lai massacre inspired Carolyn York K’75 to eventually find her calling working for equal pay for women and people of color in the workplace. “He taught me to see the worth of every human being,” she says.

The annual Hamilton Pitch Competition, which is open to Hamilton students and graduates of the last decade, is an involved process from September through April. Eight start-ups participated this year, attending conferences on the ins and outs of entrepreneurship hosted by a variety of alumni.

Hamilton will celebrate its Class of 2020 graduates with an in-person Commencement ceremony on Saturday, June 4, at 10:30 a.m., in the Margaret Bundy Scott Field House. Marc Randolph ’81, co-founder of the online steaming service Netflix, will deliver the Commencement address and receive an honorary degree.

When Wyn Pennybacker '19 was evacuated from Ukraine to Poland by her Fulbright program because of the Russia-Ukraine war, she continued to engage the students she had been teaching and took every opportunity to volunteer locally to help Ukrainian refugees.

For Rashveena Rajaram ’16, the world is indeed her oyster. Born and raised in the island nation of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean, the Harvard Business School M.B.A. student and women’s financial podcast co-founder discovered her life’s work when she first ventured to Hamilton in 2012.

Ellie Demaree ’22 is set to begin working as a research assistant for Project Achilles at the Broad Institute after graduation. A biology major, Demaree has developed both a passion and appreciation for lab work during her time at Hamilton, an interest she believes was ignited by her biology classes.

In their devastating grief, Corey Feist ’95, his wife, Jennifer Feist, and her family were confronted almost immediately by a dilemma: heed their inclination to stay silent about the suicide of Jennifer’s sister, Dr. Lorna Breen, or speak out about the circumstances.

Gillian Zucker, president of business operations for the NBA’s LA Clippers and a 1990 graduate of Hamilton College, will deliver Hamilton’s 2022 Commencement address and receive an honorary degree.

As a journalist, Greg Thomas ’85 keeps busy. Last summer he published a thought-provoking piece in Areo magazine, “Why I Am a Radical Moderate,” and he’s also active in a range of arts and culture work.

The Axolotl salamander can regrow not only its tail but also its limbs and parts of its brain, heart, and spinal cord. Based on research of the axolotl’s genome, Andy Chen ’16, along with his former professor at Harvard University and a team that includes the former CEO of a biotech company, have launched Matice Biosciences.