Angel Adams Parham, co-authorof The Black Intellectual Tradition: Reading Freedom in Classical Literature, led a workshop for teachers at the St. John鈥檚 Graduate Institute in July 2022.
Nicole Nelson-Jean's (AGI00) career at the U.S. Department of Energy has taken her all over the world: Japan, Austria, Russia, South America. 鈥淗ow much respect I received by being so well-read鈥擨 was kind of taken aback,鈥� she says.
Everyone is invited to the Graduate Institute鈥檚 free Summer Lecture program each Wednesday night, June 29-July 27. You can attend remotely or in-person to engage with our speakers on compelling topics ranging from constitutional law, to legal advocacy, to poetry inspired by work in medicine, and to classic literature.
Jason Gots (EC96) is a writer, musician, and podcast producer who lectures in Columbia University鈥檚 Graduate School of the Arts鈥� writing department. After studying acting at NYU鈥檚 Tisch School of the Arts, he earned an Eastern Classics degree from St. John鈥檚 and a master鈥檚 in developmental psychology from Columbia. Here he discusses his memoir, Humanity is Trying, which was released by HarperCollins/Hanover Square Press on March 1, 2022 and chronicles (among other things) the loss of his sister Meri Gots (SF97), who died in 2015.
I think that鈥檚 a St. John鈥檚 trait鈥攖hat you never stop learning and that there are always things that you can learn from. I always tell folks that the greatest lesson that I got from my St. John鈥檚 experience is there鈥檚 nothing I can鈥檛 think about.
