Ohio Women fall 2019

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for ALUMNI and FRIENDS of OHIO UNIVERSITY

Purposeful persistence Seeing women lead the way in addressing some of the most important issues of our time is both empowering and a relief—empowering for all of the girls and young women who are able to see themselves in the faces and experiences of their idols, and relief that, despite the obstacles, women are continuing to fight for the greater good as well as for themselves.

For me, these somewhat contrary feelings are best epitomized by the U.S. Women’s National Team (USWNT). As a huge soccer fan, I, like many, was enthralled by the USWNT’s dominance at this summer’s 2019 Women’s World Cup. While ecstatic about all that their success and visibility has done to empower the girls and boys who admire them, I was also relieved that rather than being satisfied with their accomplishments, they’ve used their platform to advance the important cause of equal pay.

Similar stories abound beyond national headlines —and especially at OHIO. The alumnae, faculty, staff, and students featured in this issue of Ohio Women inspire and empower all Bobcats while also offering us some relief that they are fighting to make our state and world a better place.

ON THE COVER: Since 2013, Tiffany Chenault, AB ’96, has committed to running a half marathon in all 50 states. Find out why in “Hitting her stride” (page 20). Photo by Cydney Scott, BSVC ’98. ABOVE: Erin Essak Kopp, assistant vice president for alumni relations and the executive director of the Ohio University Alumni Association, cheers for the women’s field hockey team against the Miami Redhawks. Photo by Ellee Achten, BSJ ’14, MA ’17

ERIN ESSAK KOPP Assistant Vice President, Alumni Relations Executive Director, Ohio University Alumni Association

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Hope 101

Lifelong public servant leads OHIO’s efforts to transform a region decimated by opioids

A Bobcat teacher adds a new subject to her high school curriculum: hope

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50 races. 50 states. Alumna Tiffany Chenault shares lessons from her cross-country journey

Senior Sophia Medvid reflects on becoming the Marching 110’s first female field commander

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Share in these stories of alumnae, students, faculty, and staff who are striving for— and achieving—excellence in the realms they’ve committed to improve, demonstrating in part what it means to be OHIO women.

—Editor Peter Shooner

A self-described “mother-artist,” OHIO Gallery Coordinator Courtney Kessel, MFA ’12, infuses her work with personal observations and poignant statements from her experience as a mother to her daughter, who has been featured, quite literally at times, in Kessel’s pieces over the past 10 years. Visit ohiotoday.org/women to see more of Kessel’s artwork and hear her discuss how her art has changed over the years as her daughter and their relationship have matured.

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LEFT: Sharing Space, in which Kessel’s daughter Chloe steps into her mother’s clothes to symbolize the space that the two share. ABOVE: In Balance With, an annual performance art piece Kessel creates with Chloe’s assistance and a variety of their everyday, personal items. Video stills courtesy of Courtney Kessel, MFA ’12

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A culture of community Ohio University’s Innovation Center is racking up accolades lately—it was named the 2019 Randall M. Whaley Incubator of the Year and 2019 RuralBased Entrepreneurship Center of the Year by the International Business Innovation Association.

Impressive stuff for a business incubator with a budget under $1 million and a staff of just six.

and that’s just in Athens County, the state’s poorest by some measures.

Job creation is at the core of the Innovation Center’s work, which is to help tech-enabled or technology-based startups grow, thrive, and create local jobs. The Center’s “alumni” include Imgur, Third Sun Solar, and RXQ Compounding. Current clients include InfinixBio and Nature’s Magic.

What sets the Innovation Center apart? “I think the metrics, first and foremost,” says Director Stacy Strauss. And the 2018 numbers are noteworthy: an estimated 297 jobs generated, producing an estimated $12.9 million in wages—

The Innovation Center provides both tangible support, through office and lab space, plus less-tangible support in the form of advice,

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Ohio University Innovation Center’s all-female staff gather at the West State St. facility: [LEFT to RIGHT] Client Services Manager and Executive Coach Erin Rennich, MBA ’13; Accountant Jennifer Pauwels; Director Stacy Strauss; Associate Director Tanya Conrath, BSC ’93; Administrative Specialist Susan Bauman, BSED ’94; and Lab Director Misako Hata, BSISE ’98, MS ’01, MS ’10.

Photo by Ellee Achten, BSJ ’14, MA ’17

coaching, and more. “Companies can go get space anywhere, but they can’t get access to thirdparty service providers, help developing pitches to go in front of investors, help with their financial projections,” says Strauss.

Situated largely in the tech field, the Innovation Center stands out in another way. All six members of its professional staff—from the lab director to the executive coach—are women.

Four are Ohio University alumnae. Coincidence?

Actually, yes. “We hired the best people for every position,” says Strauss.

Jeff Spitzner is president and CEO of AEIOU Scientific, a medical device company and Innovation Center client. He never paid attention to the fact that the entire professional staff is made up of women, but he has noticed the culture of the place, which he describes as “very community based.”

“Communities don’t make themselves,” Spitzner says. “I think it’s people that are there for the mission rather than the job. … It’s our collective mission to make a difference in Athens, Ohio, in southeast Ohio.”

—Mary Reed, BSJ ’90

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Ali Johnstone, BSSPS ’02—one of the most decorated athletes in Ohio Field Hockey history—returned home to OHIO last year to begin a new chapter in the record books.

As head coach, the Ohio Athletics Hall of Famer leads a team of young women to success both on and off the field, landing a spot in the MAC quarterfinal in her first two seasons.

See Johnstone’s coaching in action through a feature video at ohiotoday. org/women. Photo above by Colin M ayr, BSVC ’22. Photo at right by M ax Catalano, BSVC ’20

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Mallory Golski, BSJ ’19, [RIGHT] embraces Gabby Howell, BSC ’19, on College Green at the 2018 “It’s On Us, Bobcats” rally to combat sexual assault. This student-led activism garnered national attention, helping secure OHIO as host for the inaugural It’s On Us National Student Leadership Summit this August. Visit ohiotoday. org/radio to hear “Driven,” the latest episode of Ohio Today Radio that follows one OHIO student’s activism from this summer’s Summit through the first months of the 2019 fall semester.

Photo by Emma Howells, BSVC ’18

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Stepping up Ohio University’s Dance Team, in their first year of competition, claimed the title of University World Cup Open Division Champions at the 2019 UCA and UDA College Cheerleading and Dance Team National Championships in Florida.

But, behind the team’s physical skill and precise choreography lies much more—a steadfast commitment to leadership, learning, and one another.

“I would say the people on the team are my closest friends. We spend almost every single day together, especially since we started competing,” senior captain Rachael Roenfeldt says.

Classified as a student organization, rather than as an athletic team, these female Bobcats are responsible for every aspect of team management and preparation, from choreography and scheduling to recruitment and fundraising.

“It’s helped me mature as a person,” junior captain Aimee Gjurkovitsch says. “I’ve learned how to put a team together and make everything work. It’s been a huge learning experience.”

Despite the challenge of meeting these demands, while maintaining a team-wide 3.5 GPA, Roenfeldt says the students welcome the opportunity to develop valuable lifelong skills.

The OHIO Dance Team performs multiple routines at the 2019 President’s Convocation for First Year Students. Photo by Ellee Achten, BSJ ’14, MA ’17

“There has been a lot of different leadership styles on the team. I kind of know how people react to each one, and how I want to be as a leader,” she says. “I think that’s helped me grow. … It puts life in perspective. You have to work for what you want.”

—Julie Ciotola, BSJ ’20

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To serve & protect Tracy Plouck has devoted her career as a public servant to helping women in recovery, and now she’s helping offset Appalachia’s opioid crisis in a new role at OHIO. During the 10 years that Tracy Plouck anonymously volunteered for her local crisis hotline, she encountered many people who shared their struggles with various government systems—from losing their Medicaid enrollment to losing faith in various job and family services.

But some of the callers were more hopeful.

“Sometimes I would get a call that really spoke to the progress that [Ohio] as a state was trying to make,” says Plouck. “I received one call from a woman who said that it seemed like Governor [John] Kasich cared about people because he extended Medicaid and she was able to get into recovery for heroin addiction as a result. She had no idea she was speaking to the head of the state department that ran [Mental Health and Addiction Services].”

That type of “undercover” work is a fitting reflection of Plouck’s longtime work behind the scenes to help Ohioans get the help they need to live healthier and more fulfilling lives.

During her 24 years working for the State of Ohio, Plouck held roles ranging from state Medicaid director to deputy director of both the Ohio Department of Developmental Disabilities and the Ohio Office of Budget and Management. From 2011 to 2018, Plouck served on Kasich’s cabinet as director of the Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services.

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“I loved [working in] state government,” says Plouck. “From the time I was a young girl, that was what I wanted to do, which sounds bizarre.”

So, why make the leap from the statehouse to OHIO? As it turns out, Plouck discovered plenty of opportunity for continued public service when she joined the College of Health Sciences and Professions (CHSP) in mid-2018 as its population health executive-in-residence.

“It seemed like an intriguing opportunity,” explains Plouck, who now works from OHIO’s Dublin campus. “[I was drawn to] the basic mission of the role, [which] was to help add value to local communities in respect to mental health and addiction services.”

True to form, Plouck hit the ground running once on board—writing grants and furthering six projects including the Ohio University Opioid Task Force and the Southeast Ohio Child Behavioral Healthcare Collaborative. She became a key member of the Ohio Alliance for Innovation in Population Health, a joint venture between CHSP and University of Toledo’s College of Health and Human Services.

Plouck’s impact quickly became evident in a $1.1 million POWER grant secured for the Appalachian Recovery Project (ARP), which will train 45 new community health workers at OHIO and create a “recovery ecosystem” throughout southeast Ohio for approximately 300 justice-involved women dealing with substance abuse disorders.

One of the most visible aspects of the project is the transformation of the Hocking Correctional Facility, which has sat vacant near Nelsonville, Ohio, for over a year. The new iteration of the threestory building will house a jail on the top two floors, while the first floor will act as a residential-style treatment center. Primary care and addiction services will be provided by STAR Community Justice Center and Hopewell Health Centers, while OHIO’s College of Fine Arts will offer art and music therapy. Inmates will also receive vocational training at Hocking College, starting with welding and expanding to other fields.

According to Plouck, the solution the new facility will provide is twofold—helping offset the shortage of jail space for women in the region and paving the way for successful re-entry and recovery.

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“Oftentimes, if a person has an incarcerate stay, the time they are released is of great risk, relative to possible relapse,” shares Plouck. “We want to help enhance the person as they return to the community— wrapping services around them and providing resources that will enable them to have a better start than they otherwise would have.”

Lesli Johnson, an associate professor in the Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs, has worked with Plouck on a number of grants and admires her catalytic qualities. “[Tracy] is able to take things from an idea or policy perspective to the point where actual action and activity is going on,” says Johnson.

“She bridges the more academic nature of the University with the practical needs of our region and state.”

Though Plouck’s proverbial plate is certainly overflowing in her new role at OHIO, she says she can’t think of a more powerful way to make a meaningful mark on the world.

“My assignment is to help achieve positive things. Who could ask for anything better than that?”

—Jen Jones Donatelli, BSJ ’98

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Hope 101

Bobcat teacher adds a new subject to her curriculum What sets a teacher apart? For Felton Morrell, it’s “the love and support, the consistency.”

The final member of that original cohort graduated in May, marking four years since the EVAC students began using their personal experiences to start a dialogue about juvenile justice and advocate for their peers. It’s a journey that’s taken Donofrio and her students to the White House, Capitol Hill, and the TEDx stage. Along the way, her students learned selfempowerment, and she learned more about being a teacher than she ever expected.

Four years ago, the Jacksonville, Florida, student found those qualities in Amy Donofrio, whose leadership class would take him further than he could imagine.

Donofrio, BSED ’08, had recently started her teaching position in Robert E. Lee High School, where one in three students drops out every year, according to City Year Jacksonville, a nonprofit that works with students to overcome the external factors that can be barriers to academic achievement.

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When she walked into her leadership class in 2015, the challenge ahead of her became clear—most of the 15 students in the room were considered “at risk,” or more likely to fail out of school. Unfazed, she motivated her class to launch a movement reframing the narrative around “at-risk” students.

“I feel like they’re walking miracles and they’re living heroes,” Donofrio says of the students who started what is now called the EVAC Movement.

Born in Jacksonville, Donofrio and her family moved often before finally settling in Cincinnati when she was in middle school. Even then, she knew she wanted to be a teacher.

“I think maybe just from moving around and not necessarily having this base that I considered home geographically, I was always really drawn to the idea of how schools are a community and a place to feel home,” Donofrio says, “a place that you watched people grow and people can keep coming back to.”

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High school teacher Amy Donofrio, BSED ’08, sparked a movement reframing the narrative around “at-risk” students at her Jacksonville, Florida, school. Photo by Richard Wilson, BSVC ’90

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LEFT: Donofrio goes out of her way to form meaningful relationships with students in the EVAC Movement. OPPOSITE: President Obama meets with Donofrio and her students in November 2016. Photos courtesy of A my Donofrio

She later found that base in OHIO’s Patton College of Education among a group of friends she’s still in touch with.

became the cornerstone of the class, bonding the students together through their common experiences, which included incarceration, murdered loved ones, and police brutality.

Since graduation, Donofrio has worked in a variety of classroom settings, from advising ninth-graders at Meigs High School near Athens to teaching English as a Second Language classes in Peru. Now in her seventh year teaching English and speech at Robert E. Lee High School, she recognizes a change in her teaching style. Always one to push her kids to their full potential, “now I do that in partnership with knowing the whole kid and doing it at their pace and understanding that education is not one-size-fits-all.”

Sharing these experiences with each other spurred them to use their personal stories to create change. In-class roundtable dialogues with police officers and local officials rapidly snowballed into the class presenting at the White House, meeting then-President Obama, and starting a collaboration with Harvard University.

“With a lot of our kids, if you don’t know and love and have a relationship with them as a person, you’re never going to get them to the content,” she says.

Kids over content Donofrio’s experience on the subject didn’t come easily. She knew the statistics, but she also knew she saw leadership potential in her students. That, and a willingness to share their stories.

So that’s what they did. Storytelling eventually

“What they’ve each done individually is against all odds, against all statistics—having hope in themselves,” Donofrio says. “And the beautiful thing is that it’s not just about them. They’ve wanted to do something that shows the generation behind them that there’s hope.”

So instead of “at risk,” the EVAC members began calling themselves “at hope.” That idea is embedded in their very name: “EVAC” is “cave” spelled backwards, a reference to Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave,” in which prisoners who are born and raised in darkness cast off their shackles with the help of a liberator and go out into the world, expanding their horizons.

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It’s a story Donofrio tells all her classes, saying it contains a lesson that rings true for all students: They must be in charge of their own journeys.

“For things that we haven’t experienced, we need to make the people closest to the pain the experts on what they’re going through and not question people’s experiences,” she says.

Giving hope Morrell, one of the original EVAC members, graduated Lee High School in 2018. Today, the impact of the experience and Donofrio’s care has led him somewhere he didn’t expect.

He wants to be a teacher.

“Being able to see someone be able to make a difference in young people’s lives, I wanted that

opportunity to do that for the school I love,” he says.

That’s just what Donofrio and her fellow teachers hope to accomplish every day. To that end, she has some advice: Be humble, be compassionate, be a tireless advocate for courses and activities that promote students’ well-being.

“I know that money is tight, and our schools are dealing with more than it’s honestly fair to deal with,” she says, but there are creative ways to weave programs like EVAC into the curriculum.

“Speaking your story or things you’ve been through to your peers, building community, debating things that matter,” she says, “there’s always room somewhere within the school day.”

—Cat Hofacker, BSJ ’18

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Hitting her stride In 2013, Tiffany Chenault set out on a mission: run a half marathon in all 50 states before reaching age 50.

Her motivation? The loss of her mother.

Although driven by this loss, Chenault has also gained much in the past six years—a passion for running, a sense of accomplishment, and a novel academic project. Photo by Cydney Scott, BSVC ’98

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Chenault, AB ’96, a professor of sociology at Salem State University, views her experiences through both a deeply personal and a curious, academic lens, examining how the running world intersects with gender and race by having conversations with black women she meets at races.

As for her original goal, Chenault is on pace to run race number 50 in 2020, four years ahead of schedule. Ohio Women caught up with her to hear her thoughts about the journey so far. Excerpts from her responses follow.

actually felt something, because I was so numb to the world after my mother had passed.

Tell us about your academic research. I was curious as I would run races and run in my neighborhood that I didn’t see any other black women who looked like me. Or if I would go to a race, I would be one of a few.

So, I was thinking, “Well, I know black women do run, just, where are they?” And so, my academic piece is to look at the racialization of this running space ... really to understand those intersections of race and gender and running.

What inspired you to set this 50-before-50 goal for yourself?

What motivated me really was grief. In 2010, my mother lost her battle with cancer. There is no timeline on how to grieve, right?

There’s no right way to grieve.

And she always taught me to keep your spirit alive and you’ll just be strong. Be this kind of strong black woman and just keep going. And so, for me, after her passing, I just kept going. I never allowed myself time to grieve or heal, which in hindsight now, it’s dysfunctional.

There is this perception of running being this white space. And, there is a general racialized stereotype that African Americans run. ...

So, even though people may say, “Well, it’s a compliment to think that all African Americans or black people are fast.” Really, it’s a negative stereotype that has all kinds of negative implications, because if the image is all black people are fast, then for the 42 million of us that really are not, we think that we don’t belong in these spaces and these places.

In 2013, a friend of mine asked me to be on her five-mile relay team.

The day of the race, I’m like, “What the hell did I get myself into?”

But in that moment of doing it, I

Have you experienced or discovered anything unexpected? One thing that I wasn’t expecting is how my body has been racialized. ... I’ve had people, 45 states in, make

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comments on my body while running. ... I’ve had people make comments, or asking me, “Oh, do you have Kenyan blood in you?” I’m like, “No, my blood’s from Ohio.”

What has been your favorite race so far? I don’t have children, so I always say it like, “They’re like kids, each one’s so unique and different.” I would say my most memorable, most challenging race was when I ran the Harpers Ferry Half Marathon in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, because of all those fricking hills. ... I will say this, the only time that there were two races or three races where I’m like, “I have to do this race, it’s a must.”

It’s when I ran in Athens, which was my Ohio (race). I had to run at my alma mater.

What’s next? I know I will keep running, but I’m kind of going through my own withdrawal realizing that I have to slow down. ... But what I learned on this journey is that I get pleasure in motivating other people. I always tell my running group that this is me and my crazy. But you know, whatever your goal is, I want to help support it. So, I really am starting to enjoy motivating and encouraging other people in their journeys.

—Jayne Yerrick, BSJ ’22

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In command The college experience is transformational. For Sophia Medvid, the contrasts between her first day on campus and the start of senior year are especially significant.

Excerpts from her responses follow. For more, including a video examining Medvid’s role with the 110, visit ohiotoday.org/women.

As the Marching 110’s first female field commander, the senior astrophysics major was tasked with training the band’s incoming cohort in August, leading young members through footprints she left just three short years earlier.

Ohio Women asked Medvid to share her thoughts, emotions, and reflections at key moments throughout the first critical weeks of the semester, starting with the 110’s rigorous training week.

August 17 – Training week, day one After a 12.5-hour day, I feel tired but proud of the achievements the freshmen learned today.

It was really fun to watch them grow throughout the day as performers. It was also fun to feel myself grow as a teacher. I have never talked in front of 100 people for four hours before (let alone teach), but I felt really in my element. I felt a passion for teaching. That, coupled with my passion for the Marching 110, made it a very rewarding process.

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August 18 – Training week, day two Today was merging of the blocks. On one side of the field stood the freshmen, on the opposite side stood the old men. I gave the command, “merge the blocks,” and the two blocks started marching toward each other. At the end of the command, it was the first time we were one band, no longer freshmen and old men. It was a unifying feeling to watch the two blocks merge and to see for the first time the 2019 Marching 110!

August 31 – OHIO vs. Rhode Island Today was the first game! It started out with a rehearsal in Peden at 9 a.m. That was the first time I gave commands in front of people outside of the 110.

In the stands were the high school bands for band day and lots of parents, including my own. The first thing I yelled was “It’s game day Bobcats, get jacked!!” I was so excited! I was a little anxious considering this was the first time the public would see the Marching 110 this year, but I knew we were ready. When I gave the commands, I felt so in my element and I could tell the rest of the band was, too! It was a thrilling experience—one of the best of my life!

September 7 – OHIO vs. Pittsburgh Today is my 21st birthday as well as gameday at Heinz Field, where the Bobcats played against the Pitt Panthers. My twin brother is in the band at Pitt and also plays mellophone! It was great to watch him perform as well as to watch the Marching 110. It was also amazing getting to celebrate our 21st birthday together doing what we love most: marching band! The stars aligned, and it was the best birthday yet!

At the end of the game, I got up on the ladder with the band huddled around and told them how thankful I was to share such a special day with them. I feel truly honored to lead such a great group of people!

OPPOSITE: As field commander, Sophia Medvid, who plays mellophone, holds the highest student leadership position in the band. Photo by Max Catalano, BSVC ’20. TOP: The Marching 110 performs at the home opening match up against Rhode Island on Aug. 31. BOTTOM: Band members enjoy playing at Heinz Field for the OHIO vs. Pittsburgh game on Sept. 7. Photos by Mijana Mazur, BSVC ’21

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Performers wow a crowd of more than 850 that packed TempletonBlackburn Alumni Memorial Auditorium for the ever-popular 2019 Black Alumni Reunion Variety Show this September.

Photo by Harley Wince, BSVC ’21

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Mission statement Ohio Today informs, celebrates, and engages alumni, faculty, staff, students, and friends of Ohio University. Ohio Women is its annual publication for female Bobcats.

Editor, Associate Director of Content, Advancement Communication and Marketing Peter Shooner Art Director Sarah McDowell, BFA ’02 Contributors Ellee Achten, BSJ ’14, MA ’17 Max Catalano, BSVC ’20 Julie Ciotola, BSJ ’20 Jen Jones Donatelli, BSJ ’98 Cat Hofacker, BSJ ’18 Emma Howells, BSVC ’18 Courtney Kessel, MFA ’12 Erin Essak Kopp Colin Mayr, BSVC ’22 Mijana Mazur, BSVC ’21 Nicolas Ogonosky Mary Reed, BSJ ’90 Hannah Ruhoff, BSVC ’20 Cydney Scott, BSVC ’98 Richard Wilson, BSVC ’90 Harley Wince, BSVC ’21 Jayne Yerrick, BSJ ’22 Proofreader Emily Caldwell, BSJ ’88, MS ’99 Printer The Watkins Printing Co. Ohio University President M. Duane Nellis Assistant Vice President for Alumni Relations, Executive Director of the Alumni Association Erin Essak Kopp

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Fifty-two photographs submitted by twenty survivors of sexual violence were displayed in Baker University Center’s Trisolini Gallery this fall as part of Through the Survivors’ Lens, an exhibit providing a compelling, visual means for provoking thought and reflection within the University community. Visit ohiotoday.org/ women to view the exhibit in an immersive, interactive 360-degree video experience. Photo by Hannah Ruhoff, BSVC ’20