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Fifty years ago, a team of Oberlin students and faculty helped rebuild a Mississippi church destroyed by fire following a voting rights rally. Their effort has been recognized with a historical marker on Mississippi's Freedom Trail.

Amy Dawson ’89 learned her son had autism when he was 3 years old. In response, she founded the Autism Advocacy & Law Center, and recently won a seat in the Fourth Judicial District of Hennepin County in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Once a politics and history major, John Kallas ’14 goes from studying contemporary American union strategy to practicing it on the streets of Cleveland.

Rachel Marino ’13 applies her research to education programs at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, making art-based education more accessible to students and teachers alike.

Majoring in mathematics at Oberlin opens doors in every direction, giving students an adaptable problem-solving tool.

Zohra Ansari-Thomas ’14 prevents discrimination one data set at a time while creating affirmative action plans at the law firm Littler Mendelson.

Jack Ratner ’14 goes from computer science student to junior engineer at a start-up technology company, Bandwagon, that has introduced a ride-sharing smartphone app to reduce pollution and traffic in New York City.

Cinema studies major Alexis Gee ’14 sets off on her path to becoming a film editor with a client services position at the post-production company Technicolor-Postworks New York.

Now celebrating its tenth year in operation, Lucid Design, a resource monitoring company, reflects back on its roots in student-professor collaboration at Oberlin.

3 Sections, by alumnus Vijay Seshadri, has been awarded the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.