Since the pandemic, the 35-year-old mother of four has been working from the Panera parking lot, sitting in her Honda minivan with her laptop propped against the steering wheel, attempting to catch a Wi-Fi signal. Baer wore triple layers, parked in the sun and occasionally blasted the heat to keep her fingers from getting numb.
It was there that she wrote “What Kind of Woman,” a poetry collection that topped the New York Times best-seller list for paperback trade fiction when Harper Perennial released it late last year. It was her first piece of paid writing.
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Last year, more than 6,500 listeners in 102 countries and 1,239 cities across the globe enjoyed Season 1 of the “Peacebuilder” podcast, hosted by Patience Kamau MA ’17 and featuring faculty and staff from Eastern
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Kevin Docherty ‘05, a lawyer based in Baltimore, Maryland, was selected for his fifth consecutive recognition on the Super Lawyers’ Maryland Rising Stars list. He was also recently named partner
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Lawyer and human rights activist Najla El Mangoush has been named foreign minister of Libya. She is a 2015 graduate of Eastern Mennonite University’s Center for Justice and Peacebuilding (CJP).
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Doris Harper Allen, 88, greeted a group of Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) students in the parking lot of Rose’s in Harrisonburg, the former heart of Newtown. She quickly passed out
... read more about Northeast Neighborhood resident Doris Harper Allen guided EMU students into local history each summer
The “Peacebuilder” podcast, hosted by Patience Kamau MA ‘17, releases the second episode of its second season today. Kamau’s guest is Professor Catherine Barnes, who teaches strategic peacebuilding and public
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Laura Cattell Noll ’09 of the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay and pediatrician Dr. Kelly Smucker ’09 will give a Suter Science Seminar at Eastern Mennonite University Wednesday, March 24,
... read more about Two ’09 alumna scientists to share Suter Science Seminar stage
With EMU Athletics back in action this semester, so too is the Royals Athlete of the Week award. So far three of the five honorees are seniors, and their Q
... read more about Royals Athlete of the Week honorees talk senior seasons and future plans
A new concentration at Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) combines the disciplines of music and peacebuilding to equip students to creatively transform conflict and promote intercultural intelligence. This interdisciplinary program will
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Eastern Mennonite University’s next colloquium will be given by Saher Selod, PhD, on her book Forever Suspect: Racialized Surveillance of Muslim Americans in the War on Terror (Rutgers University Press,
... read more about Center for Interfaith Engagement brings expert on anti-Muslim racism for March colloquium