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Meet a Retriever–Keisha Hale, M.A. ’20, Hurricane Katrina survivor, educator, researcher, and author
Meet Keisha Hale, M.A.’20, applied sociology. Keisha is an educator, researcher, and author. In 2025, she published We Weather the Storm: A Poetry Memoir of Survival and Healing, inspired by her...
Posted: July 15, 2026, 9:27 AM
Meet a Retriever—Lynn Dutrow ’89, counselor, coach, speaker, and author
Meet Lynn Dutrow. Lynn graduated from UMBC in 1989 with a B.A. in psychology and a certificate in early childhood education. Since then, she has worn many hats, including counselor, coach, and...
Posted: July 1, 2026, 9:50 AM
Who gets to tell the story? The tricky back story of how radio shows can promote empathy but also build up cultural divides
In his new book, Empathy Machines: This American Life, Podcasting, and the Public Radio Structure of Feeling, Jason Loviglio, professor of media and communications, critiques and analyzes the...
Posted: June 30, 2026, 9:33 AM
Meet a Retriever—Natalie Blank ’08, special educator and author
Meet Natalie Blank ’08, acting, who started writing novels as a child and continued pursuing her passion for writing while studying dance and theatre at UMBC. To date, the author has published...
Posted: June 18, 2026, 2:40 PM
Meet a Retriever—Carlos Carmona ’88, retired banker and author
Meet Carlos Carmona ’88, economics. After UMBC, Carlos built a long career in retail and commercial banking before retiring in 2020. Now, Carlos enjoys traveling the world with his wife, Maritza...
Posted: June 18, 2026, 7:40 AM
Meet a Retriever—Michael Cook ’20, senior business intelligence analyst and author
Meet Michael Cook ’20. While at UMBC, Michael majored in information systems with a minor in statistics. Outside of the classroom, he was a member of UMBC’s improv troupe, Dog-Collar Comedy,...
Posted: June 16, 2026, 12:09 PM
Humanities Books: A Room in Bombay
Manil Suri moved to the United States after spending the first 20 years of his life living in a 400-square-foot room in Bombay, India, with his father, Ram, and mother, Prem, to whom he dedicated...
Posted: June 4, 2026, 4:35 PM
Plot twist— Michelle Corpora ’03 took a nonlinear path to becoming NYT bestselling author
It was around five o’clock on a Wednesday in May, and Michelle Jabès Corpora ’03, English and theatre, was on her sofa watching her favorite British murder mystery on TV. It had been a long shot...
Posted: June 1, 2026, 8:39 AM
Author Kristina Gaddy ’09, collaborates with Rhiannon Giddens, Grammy Award-winning musician, on the history of Black American music
Kristina Gaddy ’09, saves and gathers manuscripts, sheet music, pictures, maps, drawings, and anecdotes, sharing them on her blog to make public what she finds hidden in archives, private...
Posted: March 12, 2026, 4:30 PM
Can anything be read as poetry? Keegan Cook Finberg, English, is opening students’ eyes to the poetic world
Keegan Cook Finberg, an assistant professor of English, started graduate school at UC Santa Cruz during the financial crisis of 2008, in a moment of extreme recession. “Privatization and austerity...
Posted: March 12, 2026, 4:26 PM
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