Connect Carolyn Brady ’19
have been working to empower more underserved communities throughout each of their personal and professional lives. From a Daily Coffee News by Roast Magazine article, March 23, 2021.
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Catching Up
OUR MISS MAINE As Miss Maine, Carolyn Brady ’19 focused on social impact initiatives in the state. In the fall, she’ll begin pursuing a master’s of science degree in foreign service at Georgetown University. MISS MAINE HAS GIVEN ME THE PLATFORM to meet and serve many
more people in many more ways than I could ever have anticipated. Over the course of my two years in the role, I have been able to travel to almost every county and interact with Mainers in important and meaningful ways—from local fairs to female empowerment conferences, from outdoor adventures to working on COVID relief efforts. Notable pre-pandemic events included hosting a Thanksgiving dinner to provide community for those new to Maine or who are food insecure. COVID events have included cofounding a national education video series with Miss Kansas and working to combat vaccine hesitancy within the Black community. WHILE I COULD NOT HAVE FORESEEN THE RACIAL JUSTICE MOVEMENTS OF SUMMER 2020 when I competed for Miss Maine in 2019, those events gave me the opportunity to expand my role. I was selected to represent everyone who calls Maine home, and being the first Black Miss Maine has given me the chance to change public perception around what it means to be Black in Maine, especially as a Bowdoin graduate.
For more of our interview with Carolyn, visit bowdoin.edu/magazine.
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Reunion
Maddy Livingston has been honored by the Alumni Council with the Young Alumni Service Award in recognition of distinguished and outstanding service to Bowdoin. The award honors a record of service rather than a single act or achievement and is given to a graduate of the past ten years. During her short tenure as an alumna of Bowdoin, she has distinguished herself as a steadfast and reliable volunteer with a seemingly endless enthusiasm for all things Bowdoin. She has connected to her class as an associate class agent and as a member of her Reunion committee. Additionally, she has served the College as a BCAN advisor, Sophomore Bootcamp volunteer, and a truly exceptional regional chair of BRAVO. Maddy has been described as a “legendary” volunteer for her professionalism and organization. She connects prospective students and alumni from across the globe and provides a warm and welcoming introduction to the Bowdoin community. It is for these reasons that the Alumni Council is pleased to recognize her dedicated work to the College with the Young Alumni Service Award.
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Adaiah Hudgins-Lopez has received a Gates Cambridge Scholarship for Graduate Studies, one of approximately eighty-five international students selected to
receive the funds from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. She will start at the University of Cambridge next fall, pursuing a master’s of philosophy in social anthropology. Hudgins-Lopez is the first Bowdoin student to win the award, which was established through a gift of $210 million from the Gateses in 2000 to support academically gifted scholars from outside the UK who are committed to improving the lives of others. From a bowdoin.edu/news story, March 15, 2021. Trevor Kenkel: Springworks aquaponics greenhouse plans to add more than 500,000 square feet of space to its operation, increasing its growing capacity more than twenty times over. The company’s third greenhouse will be completed in May 2021, adding an additional 40,000 square feet. The rest of the expansion is expected to be completed by 2026. In a news release, Kenkel, founder of Springworks, attributed the expansion to a growing need for locally sourced organic produce following disruption in supply chains during the pandemic. They are now the sole supplier of organic green leaf lettuce to Hannaford supermarkets, additionally providing produce to Whole Foods Market and wholesale food providers. Springworks is the largest aquaponics greenhouse in New England, and one of the largest in the country. The farm was started in 2014 by Kenkel while he was a freshman at Bowdoin. His first greenhouse on the 168-acre parcel in Lisbon, Maine, was just 6,000 square feet, a third of the space currently in use. From a Lewiston, Maine, Sun Journal article, April 9, 2021. Kenkel and Springworks were the subject of a Bowdoin Magazine cover story in fall 2018: bowdoin.edu/magazine.
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