Barbara Yelin is a German author and graphic artist whose stories traverse the past, the present, and the fictional. In 2016, she was awarded the Max and Moritz Prize for the Best German-Language Comic Artist. On Oct. 29, 2025, she spoke at
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
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
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
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