Emory Magazine

Natasha Trethewey is Charles Howard Candler Professor of English and Creative Writing at Emory. She is the Poet Laureate of the United States. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2007 for her volume Native Guard. This poem first appeared in the journal Fugue with the title "Afterimage."

Leah Ward Sears 80L is a partner at the law firm Schiff Hardin and former chief justice of the Georgia Supreme Court. This is a story of the enduring friendship between Leah Ward Sears 80L and Rebecca Zimmerman 80L which began when they met at Emory.

Emory and Motorcades, or their forebears, have something of a curious history. Gary S. Hauk 91PhD is Emory vice president and deputy to the president. His is the author of A Legacy of Heart and Mind: Emory Since 1836 and coeditor of a 2010 collection of essays about the university.

Ben Johnson is the chair of Emory University's Board of Trustees.