Gary Kraftsow '76 is the founder and director of the American Viniyoga Institute in Oakland, Calif., which has been at the forefront of yoga therapy for four decades.
For nearly a decade, Jackie “JP” (Downing) Mulrooney ’79 has been working to create a standard for Electronic Health Record systems, to ensure that health care professionals can collaborate safely and effectively.
Two alumni from the Class of 2013 are among the nation’s “brightest young stars and future leaders of everything” on Forbes’s 30 Under 30 lists: Maggie Dunne ’13 for education and Ryan Smith ’13 for enterprise tech.
Geoffrey Craig '65 retired from his "eminently satisfying" first career as a banker in 2002. Since then he has found a second career publishing everything from a novella, to a prose novel, to full-length plays. He has even taken the helm as a theatrical director.
At work, Jeffrey Schneider '92 helps students find the right college for their interests. At play, Schneider works with American Ninja Warriors to grow a chain of parkour gyms.
Jess Blank ’11 and her boyfriend, Adam Weisbarth ’10, volunteer as foster “parents” for Badass Brooklyn Animal Rescue, a four-year-old group that rescues dogs from high-kill shelters in the South.
Spring 2016: Jill Belsky ’78 and Steve Siebert ’78 turned mutual interests as students on the Colgate campus into a lifelong partnership, both romantic and academic.
In September, Kathleen Doherty ’85 moved to Nicosia, Cyprus, to serve as America’s first female ambassador to that country. “A little Mediterranean gem with 320 days of sunshine,” she enthused. But along with the temperate weather and beauty comes a complicated history.
Qamar-ul Huda ’90 was listed in The Muslim 500: The World’s 500 Most Influential Muslims for 2016, published by The Royal Islamic Strategic Centre in Jordan. Huda is a senior policy advisor to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s Office of Religion and Global Affairs.
