Mar 24, 2020 | Alumni Stories
By Tom Moore After twenty years, Rainier Scholars is old enough to have multiple “generations” of students. Meet three of them here: Yael Tellez-Rodriguez, 24-years-old, Cohort 6, who is an Academic Counselor at Rainier Scholars. Her parents emigrated from Mexico....
Mar 4, 2020 | Alumni Stories
by Tom Moore Karen Lobos’ commitment to social and economic justice lies deep in her DNA. It goes back to her grandparents and great-grandparents, who as farmers living and working in northern Mexico in the early 1900s, fought for their land rights. For...
Feb 20, 2020 | Alumni Stories
by Tom Moore For people of a certain age, there was an act on the Ed Sullivan Show circa 1969 that was always a show- stopper, at least it was for me as a child of thirteen. It was Erich Brenn and his plate-spinning extravaganza. Cohort 6 Rainier Scholar Adam Iyob has...
Feb 11, 2020 | Alumni Stories
by Tom Moore Marisa Fang’s earliest memory of Rainier Scholars and, one she will never forget, was in her first summer in the Academic Enrichment Program (AEP). She was sprinting with sixty other 11-year-olds from class to class in the hallways of Aki Kurose...
Jan 22, 2020 | Alumni Stories
by Tom Moore In 2011, as a junior at Swarthmore College studying studio art, Alex Anderson took a semester abroad to study at the Jingdezhen Ceramic Institute. Jingdezhen, located in Jiangxi Province in southeastern China, is, as described by Ceramic Artist and...
Jan 21, 2020 | What We're Reading
by Colin Roberts, Database and Systems Administrator Though we don’t often think about it, algorithms (automatic processes computers perform, often without any human intervention), increasingly are becoming central to our lives. When one needs to buy a product, find a...
Jan 21, 2020 | Community Stories
by Alison Krupnick It’s 9:00 a.m. on a Tuesday morning and Dominique Daba is on the phone. She’s having the first of dozens of conversations she’ll have in the coming days with families anxious about applying to public school highly capable programs or to...
Nov 18, 2019 | What We're Reading
by Derek Rogers, Director of College Counseling Within the world of higher education, the prospects of major demographic shifts in the United States have been widely discussed. Recent projections by the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education (WICHE) have...
Nov 15, 2019 | Community Stories
by Alison Krupnick If Jami Bess came to visit after you’d just had a baby, you would feel enveloped in the warmth of her presence, which feels like a virtual hug. Bess is an Outreach Doula Program Manager with Open Arms Perinatal Services, a community-based...
