A newsletter for alumni & friends • March 2024

Dear Alumni and Families:

I write with exciting news from campus: the Board of Trustees approved our moving ahead with groundbreaking for a new junior-senior residential village. Work is now underway on the site!

Alumni and families’ $18 million in Upward Together campaign gifts are crucial to making the village possible. In this newsletter, read more about how this addition to our campus will strengthen community and connection for student thriving when it opens in August 2025.  

With these historic investments in student life, the Upward Together campaign has now reached $163 million in gifts for current and future Whitman students. We are deeply grateful for nearly 14,000 donors, like Ahn Lee Horn ‘91 featured below, who are co-investing to help prepare Whitties to be the leaders and thinkers the world needs.

As students depart campus for spring break, I want to thank you for all that you do to make their Whitman experiences transformative.  

Sarah Bolton
President

Thanks to gifts to Upward Together, construction is officially underway on a new residential village that will change the way students live and learn at Whitman College. Set to open in August 2025, the apartment-style living community will be home to more than 200 students—in three new residence halls designed specifically for juniors and seniors.

Whitman College is pleased to announce the selection of Cecilia Kang as speaker for its 138th Commencement Ceremony. Kang, a distinguished alum of the Whitman College Class of 1994, is known for her award-winning technology reporting for The New York Times.

Read how Professor of Psyschology Pavel Blagov uses his multiple roles as researcher, professor and psychotherapist to make meaningful connections with  both the Whitman and Walla Walla communities.

Learn about how Cat Posey ’05 uses her background as a Whitman College History major to tell the stories of women in technology. As the founder of Tech by Superwomen, Posey is a trailblazer who has made changes at CapitalOne as the Senior Director of Machine Learning and worked for the U.S. Digital Service, President Obama’s tech startup.

Published last month, the Whitman Magazine features the stories above along with fellow alums, current events on Boyer Ave. and more.

At Whitman, Juan Pablo Liendo ’21 was a student-leader curious about making impactful change. Now, at the Seattle Foundation he works daily to foster that change. See his path.

In honor of her father, Ahn Lee Horn ’91 established an endowed scholarship for current students. The David Lee Styris Scholarship will help make Whitman College more accessible for exceptional students.

The Division of Inclusive Excellence Presents The Inclusive Excellence Yearbook

The first Inclusive Excellence Yearbook summarizing noteworthy initiatives to diversity, equity, inclusion, antiracism and accessibility at Whitman, is available to read online.

Find events happening virtually or in your area: New York, Seattle & Portland.

So you signed up for Whitman's newly created virtual networking platform and don't know where to start? Look no further. This guide on using Whitman Connect as a tool to meet other graduates, find a mentor (or mentee) and utilize resources, is here to help. 

Alums come together to bring advice to students in an informative panel

The world needs Whitties! In the fall of 2023, during the Upward Together campaign launch weekend, Whitman College President Sarah R. Bolton moderated a panel of inspiring alumni who spoke about “Finding Success and Purpose in a Changing World” in front of a large crowd, including many students, at Chism Recital Hall in Whitman’s Hall of Music. 

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