Mentors, Cont’d Victoria Gray ‘03 Founder, Student Achievement & Advocacy Services
Financial literacy – Horses – WWF Victoria Gray is the founder of Student Achievement & Advocacy Services, an organization dedicated to helping exceptionally promising young people meet their full potential. She also created the Achievement Advocate Certificate for Financial Literacy “AACFL”, providing online personal financial and management skills for grades 5 and up.
Carol Greider ‘03 Nobel Prize in Medicine
Chromosomes – Photography – Adventure Carol Greider is a molecular biologist at Johns Hopkins University. She discovered the enzyme telomerase in 1984, when she was a graduate student of Elizabeth Blackburn at the University of California, Berkeley. Greider pioneered research on the structure of telomeres, the ends of the chromosomes. She was awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, along with Blackburn and Jack W. Szostak of Boston, Massachusetts, for their discovery that telomeres are protected from progressive shortening by the enzyme telomerase.
Brad Grossman ‘05 Creative Adviser and Producer
Curiosity – Creativity – Culture Brad Grossman is a cultural and creative advisor and producer who works with leaders in all fields. He’s the founder of Grossman & Partners and of the Zeitguide‚ a cultural report he customizes for clients.
Jack Horner ‘03
Paleontologist, MacArthur Fellow
Dinosaurs – Explore – Learn Dr. John “Jack” Horner is one of the world’s premier paleontologists. In 1975, he was hired as a research assistant in the Museum of Natural History at Princeton University, where he worked until 1982. From 1982 until the present he has worked at the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, Montana, where he is Curator of Paleontology. Dr. Horner was the technical advisor to Steven Spielberg for the movies Jurassic Park and its sequel, The Lost World.
Naveen Jain ‘09 Co-Founder, Intelius Inc.
Entrepreneur – Philanthropist – Exponential Technology Mr. Naveen Jain is a business executive and an entrepreneur, founder of InfoSpace and Intelius. As a child and young man, Mr. Jain witnessed firsthand the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy in Northern India, especially upon women and children. Mr. Jain vowed that one day he would put himself in a position to help his fellow Indians, as well as anyone who is held back by lack of education, sexism, and grinding poverty.
Joanna Klink ‘09 Poet & Professor, Harvard
Poems – Bicycles – Being-outside Professor Joanna Klink is the author of They Are Sleeping and Circadian. Her poems have appeared in Chicago Review, Boston Review, The Kenyon Review, and other journals. A recipient of a Rona Jaffe Writer’s Award, she has been a permanent member of the poetry faculty at the University of Montana since the fall of 2001. Ms. Klink’s poem Thoughts on Fog was a feature on Poetry Daily.
Missoula, Montana
June 23-26, 2011