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Making Sense of Election Season

March 2, 2020
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Business & Economics

Working to Change the Way corporations Hire

February 19, 2020
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Fighting for Equal Rights

February 18, 2020
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Hidden in Plain Sight

January 17, 2020
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A career spent fighting for the rights of LGBTQ+ individuals

December 4, 2019
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Charting a career in diversity at Boston University

November 18, 2019
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Making the One L Path (a Little) Easier

October 21, 2019
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Helping Young Women from Public Schools Get Interested in the Law

September 30, 2019
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Building a Pipeline of Talent in Boston

August 12, 2019
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (CAS’11) Named One of Time’s 2019 100 Most Influential People

April 22, 2019
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (CAS’11) Talks Democratic Socialism with Stephen Colbert

January 22, 2019
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The Story Behind Ocasio-Cortez’s Dancing Video—from Those Who Made It

January 4, 2019
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BU Alumna Wins Upset Congressional Primary in New York City

June 27, 2018
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A Different Kind of Texas Candidate

June 18, 2018
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Hiroshige Seko (COM’92) and the PR of Politics

March 6, 2018
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July 6, 2016
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Matthew Trevithick: Life in Solitary Confinement

April 22, 2016
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Alumni

Rep. Lois Frankel: From “Majoring in Protest” to the US House

April 6, 2015

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