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“Enemy of the People”: The Life and Times of a Modern Journalist
19 Years in Prison
A Fool’s Journey – Revised: Leaving Your Comfort Zone
A Unicorn’s Perspective
Accidental(?) Activist
Balancing Faith and Academe
Becoming Atheist in a Foreign Country
Being Adopted
Bi Guy: Underemployed & Overweight
Challenging My Ethics in Asia
Delivering Diversity: Conservative Thought at Williams
Forever a Long Distance Human
Former Southern Baptist with a Gay Brother
From Wall Street to East Harlem
Girl Named Disaster
Gun Talk
Harm Reduction & Syringe Exchange
Home Educated
Homeschooling Mom
How Becoming Friends With A Person Who Was Incarcerated Made My World Bigger
Lesbian Mixed Ex-Christian US Veteran
Libertarian
Lightening Survivor: My Personal Journey
Local Journalist in the Era of Fake News
Musical Queer/Queer Musician
My 150-Pound Weight Loss Journey
Once a Marine, Always a Marine
Parenting Schizophrenia
Polyamorous
Queer Porn Star, Stripper, and Sex Workers’ Rights Activist
Raising an Interracial Family
Richest Poorest Person I Know
Shaman
The Beautiful Curse of a Name
The Daughter of Narcissus
Transgender
We Are All Implicated
White Parent, Black Child
Whom Should Williams Educate?
Zen Buddhist
Previous Books
Books 2012
Assistant General Counsel for the Massachusetts Sex Offender Registry Board
Buddhist
Child of Holocaust Survivors
Evangelical Christian
Fat Woman
Female Aerospace Engineer
Feminist / Womanist
Ghanaian-American ? African-American?
Hacker
Hurricane Survivor
Iraq War Veteran
LDS Missionaries (Mormons)
Libertarianism
Male Nurse
Male Victim of Sexual Assault
Model Minority
Motorcycle Enthusiast
Muslim Woman
Olympic Athlete
Palestinian
Professor
Psychiatrist
Queer
Raised in Orphanage
Recovering Alcoholic
The Gipsy Tale
Transgender
Vietnam Vet
Williams Student
Books 2013
9/11 on 15th Street
Archaeologist
Child Psychiatrist
Community Activist
Daughter of Divorce
Feminist / Womanist
First Generation Student
Fleeing Communism
Gay Varsity Athlete/EMT
Gun Shop Owner/ Firemams Safety Instructor
Iraq War Veteran
Legacy Student
Libertarian
Man who has never watched TV
Mission Custodian
Mixed Identity
Mythic Professor
New York Painter/Widowed Dad
Orthodox Jew
Philosopher
Prison Radical Islam
Quaker
Queer Rabbi
Recovering Alcoholic
Recovering Anorexic
Refugee
Roma (Gipsy)
Shaman
Southerner
Surviving Homelessness and Poverty in America
Teen Child of Manic Alcoholic
That Guy in the Library
The Answer Within
Third Culture Kid
Town Manager
Unitarian Universalist
Veiled Woman
Williams Admissions Dean
World War II Veteran
Yoga Master
Zen Buddhist
“Cutter,” “Crazy”
Books 2014
“Old” Williams
‘The Use of Time is Fate’: Practicing Life
1.5-Generation Jamaican Immigrant
11.5 Years of Home Schooling
16 Years in Prison
A Palestinian Abroad/A Palestinian in America
Active Williamstown Native
An Atheist from a Religious Family
Artist/Scientist
Cervical Cancer Survivor and HPV
Christian Latina College Student
Coming Home to Music
Competitive Highland Bagpiper
Complex Life of a First Gen Student
De-Radicalizing Muslims in Spain
Divestment Advocate
Doula/Homebirther
Draft Dodger/War Resister
Fat Woman
Firearms Safety Instructor and Gun Shop Owner
Firewalker
First Generation Jamaican American Williams College Student
Fleeing Communism
From First Gen Latino College Student to Professor of Philosophy
From Wall Street to Spring Street
Gay College Student
Growing Up in the Jim Crow South
Growing Up in the Middle East
I Pick the Movies You See
International Expedition Cyclist
Interracial Marriage
Iraq War Veteran
Irish Catholic + Black Muslim = Love
Journey of a Social Justice Educator
Libertarian
Man Who Has Never Watched TV
Married College Student
Mash It Up
MBA Student
Memoir Writer
Mobile Games and Social Change
Mutahajebah (Veiled Woman)
Off-cycle Tibetologist/Musician
Olympic Athlete
Pan Arabism?
Peace Corps Volunteer: Botswana 2011-13
Public School Principal
Questionably Orthodox Jew
Rabbi/Williams Alum
Raised in the Projects and Foster Care
Recovering Alcoholic
Retired Navy SEAL Master Chief, 1990-2012
Shaman
Teen Child of a Manic Alcoholic
The Long Good-bye: 20 Years of Mom with Alzheimer’s
Theatre Critic
Third Generation Legacy Student at Williams College
Trans man/emt/nontrad student
Truck Driver
White Guy Who Studies China
Williams Admissions Dean
World War II Veteran
Books 2015
A World War II Christian Rescuer in Nazi-Occupied France
Adoptee
Adult Child of Manic Alcoholic
American Sovereign Authority in the Digital Age: A Post 9/11 Veteran’s Perspective
Archeologist
Beekeeper
Cancer at 21
Child of Deaf Adults
Clabbered Dirt, Sweet Grass: Life on the Family Farm
Couchsurfer
EMT Dealing With Death And Dying
Ex Horse-Wrangler
Faith, Discipleship, Activism
Farmer
Fat Woman
From First-Gen to college VP
From Recruited Athlete to College Academic
Geography of Global Blackness
Growing up in the Jim Crow South
Having Sick Siblings and Big Dreams
Improvised Rastafarian
Interracial Family
Libertarian
Life After a Near Death Experience
Married College Student
Memoir Writer
My Experience With Homelessness
National Snowmobile Champion
Nature and Hunting
Parenting a Child With Autism/Aspergers
Polyamorous Homoromantic Asexual Man
Pre-Med
Rodeo Cowboy / Ocean Yacht Racer
Shaman
Syrian Arab
Where is the Intersection of Religion and Culture?
Why are we so sick? A chiropractor’s perspective
Working at the White House on 9/11
Working on Broadway: The glitz, glamour and boredom
World War II Veteran
Books 2016
A Cop’s Perspective
A Fool’s Journey – Pushing Beyond Fear
Adult Survivor of Child Sexual Abuse
Adventures Being an Undercover Pimp and Selling Marijuana
An Orange for Mother Teresa
Arya the Fire Spinner
Child of Communism
Childhood of Neglect and Loss
Climate Change and People Change: A conversation with a retired psychotherapist
Competitive Fishing: For Fun AND Money?
Confused third culture kid
Disability Advocate
Do I own the Montague Bookmill or does it own me?
El Salvador: The Face of Revolution
Empathy-A Title With No Face!
Fraternity Days in the ’50s
From Music to Ministry: A Journey from the Organ to the Altar
Gemology: The Study of Gemstones
Ghetto, Immigrant, and Valedictorian: Redefining Labels
Growing Up in a Truly Wackadoodle Family
Growing Up in an Immigrant Family
Gun Talk
Hairstyles and Returning to Natural
Hanging in the Balance: An Independent Filmmaker’s Story
Having a Parent with a Degenerative, Debilitating Disease
In the Hearts of Many
Intensive Care Unit Nurse
Interracial Marriage Over the Last 35 years
IRL Holden Caulfield
Jehovah ‘s Witness
Libertarian
Mother with Mental Illness
Muslim Feminist
My Gay Uncle Stole My Birthday Cake (and it made me a better person)
Nature Observation and Tracking
Ocean Yacht Racer
Orphanage Life During the Great Depression
Parenting a Child with Aspergers/Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
Parenting a Child with Type 1 Diabetes
Parenting a Zebra
Pro-Life at Williams College
Quilter, Blogger, Artist, Writer
Rastafarian
Rodeo Cowboy
Shaman
Small Town Photojournalist
Solutions Rising: Eve Ensler, One Billion Rising & Me!
Synesthete
The Gift of Cancer
The Phenomenology of Hair
The Secret of Health
The Well-Adjusted ‘Crazy’ Girl
Theology and the Vietnam Experience
Therapy Dog Trainer/Handler
Therapy Dog Trainer/Handler
Truant to Teaching: Ten Tips of Highly Effective Thieves
What becomes of an aging queer activist?
Why I’m Called a Draft Dodger
Woman Marine Veteran
Books 2017
A Triple Minority in Trump’s America
A Zionist Israeli Loves You
An outsider from within
Animal Tracker
Asian American Immigrant
Boxer Love: Rhino the Therapy Dog
Brother of Someone with Autism
But You Don’t Look Irish
Expelled from Prep School for Attempting Suicide
Fat Woman
First-Gen Haitian-American
Forged by Adversity
From Farmer to Welder to Plumber to Scholar
Gun Talk
Home Schooled
Homeschooling Mom
How to be a Muslim Bisexual
Inherited Trauma of a Holocaust Descendent
It’s Your Life! Facing Your Own Mortality
Lapsed Procrastinator
Legal Aid Lawyer
Libertarian
Lioness: Adopted Indian-American Journalist Baker
Mother of an interracial family
Mother of an interracial family
My 150 pound weight loss journey
My years of serving in silence
My years of serving in silence
Parenting Schizophrenia
Parents with Mental Illness are Still Parents
Pro Life: The Safest Space
Queer; raised Buddhist; from a Muslim-Majority, pluralistic Country
Raising a Zebra
Rastafarian
Refugee Immigrant
Republican and NRA Member
Stay in Your Lane: Grassroots to Gold
Survivor: Queer, Black, and Christian
The Daughter of Narcissus
The Daughter of Narcissus
Trying to not be Misogynistic
White Parent, Black Child
Williams Admission: How Stereotyped Is it?
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