Alumni in the News: May 12, 2025

Winners of the 2025 Pulitzer Prizes were announced on May 5; Kavitha Surana ’11 was an awardee in the Public Service category, for a series of 10 articles on abortion reported with ProPublica colleagues Lizzie Presser, Cassandra Jaramillo and Stacy Kranitz.

The 78th annual Tony Awards nominations were announced on May 1; Lamar Richardson ’15 is a co-producer of Gypsy, which is a nominee for Best Musical Revival. This is Richardson’s fourth Tony nomination; he won two Tonys in 2024, Best Revival of a Play for Appropriate and Best Revival of a Musical for Merrily We Roll Along.

Damon Winter ’97, a staff photographer for The New York Times Opinion, collaborated with writer David French for the April 30 photo essay featuring members of the Trump administration, “No Ordinary Cabinet. No Ordinary Time.”

On April 23, the Undergraduate Research and Fellowships Office announced that Ardaschir Arguelles ’24 was named a John & Daria Barry Scholar, and will receive funding for graduate study for at least two years at the University of Oxford. Arguelles graduated summa cum laude with a double major in classics and East Asian studies.

Jenny Slate ’04 was the subject of the April 9 Vulture Q&A “I’m Not an Ingénue Anymore, and I Don’t Really Know That I Ever Was.” Slate co-stars alongside Michelle Williams in the Hulu drama series Dying for Sex.

On March 31, filmmaker and artist Jim Jarmusch ’75 was featured in the Times article “Jim Jarmusch, New York Fixture, Showed His Art in Los Angeles. His Fans Showed Up.” Jarmusch was on the West Coast for the opening of his solo exhibition “Some More Collages.”

Journalist Robert Kolker ’91 appears in the Netflix documentary series Gone Girls: The Long Island Serial Killer, which premiered on March 31. Kolker is also a consulting producer; the series is based on his book about the Gilgo Beach murders, Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery.

On March 21, author and food writer Hannah Selinger ’02 was featured in the Grub Street article “Hannah Selinger Has a Fruit Problem.” Selinger’s debut book Cellar Rat: My Life in the Restaurant Underbelly, was also named a Best Book of March 2025 by People.

On March 19, The Phi Beta Kappa Society named Ayanna Thompson ’94 the recipient of its Sidney Hook Memorial Award at its Triennial Council, in Baltimore. Thompson is a Regents Professor of English at Arizona State University and executive director of the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. In 2021, she was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Doug Feinberg ’95, an Associated Press basketball writer who has covered the women’s game for nearly 20 years, was chosen for the U.S. Basketball Writers Association Hall of Fame Class of 2025, it was announced on March 12. Feinberg joined the AP in 1995 and has covered women’s hoops since 2006, including oversight of the AP Top 25 women’s basketball poll.

On March 4, Target announced a collaboration with James Beard Award-winning chef and restaurateur Ann Kim ’95. “Good & Gather Collabs + Ann Kim” features seven items inspired by Kim’s Korean heritage and her claim to fame: innovative pizza.