Owner Heather Brubaker Benin, a native of Rockingham County who got a master's degree in counseling from Eastern Mennonite University, started Sugar and Bean at the Bridgewater Farmers Market in 2015 after she became a stay-at-home mom. The business moved to the Harrisonburg market shortly after and the Bridgewter café opened in February 2020 after a yearlong restoration took place. ... read more about Sugar And Bean Café and Baking Co. is a woman-owned powerhouse from Daily News-Record
Ronald S. Kraybill PhD presents contemporary alternatives for leaders of today who need to (and generally want to) move away from the traditional top-down approach of conflict resolution. He is a facilitator, consultant and trainer in conflict resolution based in Silver Spring, Maryland. Among other positions, he was professor of conflict transformation at EMU from 1996-2007 ... read more about Ron Kraybill: Things fall apart. How to respond? from Mediate
Dozens of Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) volunteers in Harrisonburg, Virginia, gathered for a picnic in May to celebrate the creative ways they had responded to community needs during the pandemic, from sewing masks and helping create patterns for Tyvek PPE gowns to parking cars at vaccine clinics, passing out information on clinic dates, and helping distribute food to quarantining EMU students. ... read more about MDS in Shenandoah Valley celebrates creativity of volunteers during pandemic from Canadian Mennonite
The Eastern Mennonite standout and current Woodstock oufielder had a single and an RBI along with a home run-saving catch in center field for the North in a 5-0 win over the South at the Valley Baseball League All-Star Game at James Madison University’s Veteran’s Memorial Park on Sunday in Harrisonburg. ... read more about EMU’s Jaylon Lee MVP of Valley League All-Star game from Daily News-Record
Jaylon Lee has been named to the Valley League's All-Star team. The league is a NCAA-sanctioned summer league and includes mostly D-1 athletes. “For us as a baseball program, even to a wider scale as a university, he means as much as anybody’s meant since (MLB veteran) Erik Kratz,” said EMU baseball head coach Adam Posey. ... read more about EMU star Lee among Valley League’s best from WHSV TV-3
The Valley League Board of Directors has announced the fifth class of Hall of Fame inductees, to be installed at the 2021 Valley League All-Star game in Harrisonburg on Sunday, July 11. Kratz played for Waynesboro in 2000 and Harrisonburg in 2001. ... read more about Kratz to be inducted into Valley League Hall of Fame from Valley League
Alumna artist Madeline Kate Hostetler Martinez '18, based on Portland, Oregon, is the featured illustrator in a weekly column on the Italian website Collater.al. https://emu.edu/now/news/2019/emu-alumna-illustrator-nets-42000-and-counting-instagram-followers/ ... read more about ‘Calm and relaxation in the illustrations by Madeline Martinez’ from Collater.al, an online magazine of Style Music Photography Art Design
Read Harvard Magazine's coverage of restorative justice, with reference to Howard Zehr and an interview with sujatha baliga, one of the speakers at EMU's recent anniversary celebration of the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding. Former Zehr Institute for Restorative Justice director Carl Stauffer was a keynote speaker at Harvard's 2019 RJ symposium. ... read more about Restorative justice, Howard Zehr and sujatha baliga featured in Harvard Magazine from Harvard Magazine
Hannah Chappell-Dick was most recently a graduate assistant cross country and track & field coach at the University of Florida, where she earned her MBA. She was also a volunteer assistant coach at Georgia Tech from 2018-19, and an interim coach at EMU. She was a five-time NCAA DIII All-American and three-time Regional Athlete of the Year for Eastern Mennonite University. ... read more about Brown XC/TF adds alumna Hannah Chappell-Dick to staff as assistant coach from Brown University Athletics
Morgan Smith MA '21 (organizational leadership), former graduate assistant with the EMU Royals softball team, is the new softball coach at Richard Bland College of William & Mary. ... read more about MAOL grad named head softball coach at Richard Bland from Richard Bland College Athletics