Twese Hamwe: How 15 Students Became One

To say we all took something away from this trip doesn’t adequately express what our time in Rwanda meant to us.

Sradda Thapa ’08: Communications and Research

Sradda Thapa was a world traveler before she even got to Gordon; besides her home country, Nepal, she had lived in Hong Kong, India, and Australia. In 2012 she moved to Afghanistan, where she is with a communications firm in Kabul that works with government and international agencies.

Introducing our Student Writers

Students: The Bylines Behind The Bell

Freda Obeng-Ampofo ’08: Diplomatic press officer

Freda Obeng-Ampofo is equally fluent in English and in Twi—the principal native language of the Akan lands in Ghana. Both languages are absolutely necessary for her work as press and information officer for the Delegation of the European Union to Ghana.

Homer, Heroes and Harvard

Faculty: Dr. Bird & The Ancient Greek Hero (course enrolls 50,000 participants from 170 countries)