The Phoenix in Conversation with Pico Iyer
The Phoenix interviews author Pico Iyer
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The Phoenix in Conversation with Hawaii Governor Josh Green ’92
The Phoenix sits down with Josh Green '92 - the Swat alumnus turned governor of Hawaii.
The Phoenix in Conversation with Benedicta Delima
EVS technician Benedicta Delima shares her experience running a nonprofit dedicated to helping Ghanaian widows.
The Phoenix in Conversation with Chester Health Commissioner Dr. Kristin Ball-Motley
Chester Health Commissioner Dr. Kristin Ball-Motley speaks on the closure of Crozer-Chester Medical Center.
Red Flags and Tote Bags
Swarthmore's inaugural Performative Male Contest featured acoustic guitars, matcha lattes, ample feminist literature, and endless posturing.
Noel Quiñones ’15 on Being Nuyorican, Being a Swattie, and Being a Writer-Educator
Noel Quiñones ’15 is a Nuyorican poet, educator, and performer. Their work has been featured in POETRY, the Boston Review, Poem-a-Day, and Michigan Quarterly Review. Noel received an Emmy Award for their contribution to El legado de la Poesía Puertorriqueña (Legacy of
The Phoenix in Conversation with Senator Chris Van Hollen ’83, H’14
Chris Van Hollen was born in 1959 to parents serving in the U.S. Foreign Service in Pakistan. After a childhood moving throughout Pakistan, Turkey, India, and Sri Lanka, he went to high school in Massachusetts before attending Swarthmore and graduating with a
Pennsylvania ACLU Attorney Solomon F. Worlds on SJP and Freedom of Speech
Solomon Furious Worlds is an attorney with the Pennsylvania chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and an expert on freedom of speech and protest rights across the state of Pennsylvania. They work on issues involving civil rights in relation to
The Phoenix in Conversation with Keziah Ridgeway and Maura Finkelstein on Academic Freedom
On Feb. 5, Keziah Ridgeway and Maura Finkelstein visited Swarthmore for a conversation on “Academic Freedom and the Palestine Exception” as part of the 2024-25 Cooper Series. Both teachers have been the subject of intense pushback for pro-Palestine speech: Finkelstein was fired
The Phoenix in Conversation with Angela Davis
On Nov. 20, internationally renowned activist and scholar Angela Y. Davis sat down for a conversation with celebrated philosopher Lucius T. Outlaw Jr. for the final event of the Fall 2024 Global Justice theme within the 2024-2025 William J. Cooper Series at
The Phoenix in Conversation with Historian Davarian Baldwin on Higher Education, Urbanism, and Global Justice
Before Professors Davarian Baldwin and Maya Wind sat down for a conversation with University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) Postdoctoral Fellow Gavriel Cutipa-Zorn within the Global Justice focus of the 2024-25 William J Cooper Series, Professor Baldwin sat down with The Phoenix. Baldwin is