Students, Alumni, and Politics

 

  Harry Hopkins ’12, FDR adviser and New Deal architect, focus of Nick Taylor book.

Neo Morake ’09, Class President, Featured in Des Moines Register
(December 2008)

David White ’90, Named Interim National Director of the Screen Actors Guild
(January 27, 2009)

Eli Zigas ’06 Is Abe Lincoln at Democratic National Convention
(August, 2008)

Alec Schierenbeck ’09 Wins Mitchell, Truman Scholarships
(December, 2008)

   

Barack Obama Visits Grinnell
(August, 2007)

   
Greg Thielmann '72, former Director at the State Department's Intelligence Bureau, teaches Wilson “short course”:  Intelligence Assessment:  Iraq and Iran.  (See Frontline 2003 interview.)
(August, 2003)
   

Sheahan Virgin '08 visits with Candidate Barack Obama
(January 2005)

   
   
   

More...

  
Grinnell College Newspaper Breaks National “Plant-Gate” Scandal
 

Josh Dorner ’03, Deputy Press Secretary at the Sierra Club, on the Huffington Post
 

Ben Weyl '07 on 'Trying to Put ‘Popular’ Back in Populism

 
 

Previously Featured Students...
 
Eli Zigas, '06 graduate, pushes for democracy in D.C.
 
Rachel Moskowitz, '06 recipient of Young W. Kihl award, now Teach(ing) for America.
 
Sara Brady '07 named All American