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“My job’s the worst, because usually you catch on fire.” Katey Walter Anthony ’98 (right), quoted in December National Geographic about natural gas. Anthony, an ecologist at the University of Alaska–Fairbanks, is trying to gauge how much methane is rising from lakes that now occupy nearly a third of the Arctic region.
“I’ve been asked by reporters, ‘Mrs. Ledbetter, don’t you understand defeat?’ I probably understand it better than anyone here tonight...don’t depend on somebody else to take care of your community.”
M ark T hiessen / N ational G eographic S tock
Lilly Ledbetter, women’s equality activist, who sued Goodyear about unfair compensation practices, giving a lecture on February 26 about her fight for equal pay.
“If you kill ten extremists, you get a hundred al-Qaeda members.” Medea Benjamin, Code Pink cofounder and peace activist, who spoke on “The Reality of Drone Warfare” on February 1
“I love that everyone who spoke exhibited a refusal to apologize for her confidence.” Jenna Lempesis ’12, on the Women in Public Service project kickoff
“Go through your entire list and get vicious with that red pen.” Ailsa Sachdev ’14, writing for the Huffington Post on how to narrow your book options when creating a holiday reading list.
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