Outstanding Alumna Kat Gordon ’00 recaptures her vision in uncertain times
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By Courtney Shove ’96
at Gordon’s knees were still knocking as she and her husband got in their beach-bound car after Alumnae Weekend. She was in disbelief.
Photo by Cole Creasy
Her name was now listed on the very same plaque as retired U.S. Navy Vice Admiral Nora Wingfield Tyson ’75. Gordon received the 2020-21 Outstanding Alumna Award. “She might be the first person I think of when I think of an empowered woman,” Gordon said of Tyson, who emailed her a personal note of congratulations. “I completely freaked out, and I had to send her the picture of me with the plaque. So, there’s a picture of me, grinning like an idiot, holding the plaque and pointing at her name and my name.”
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