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Patriot Profile: Andrew Joseph White

By Mason Spirit contributor on December 6, 2022

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George Mason University MFA candidate Andrew Joseph White, BFA ’19, released his first young adult book in June 2022, the New York Times best-selling Hell Followed with Us, an LGBTQ post-apocalyptic horror story,.

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Patriot Profile: Charlotte Woodward

By Anne Reynolds on June 21, 2022

Charlotte Woodward

Mason senior Charlotte Woodward has tire­lessly advocated for the rights of people with disabilities—and she is being recognized for her efforts.

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Voices of Mason

By Colleen Kearney Rich on December 16, 2021

George Mason University students come from all 50 states and 130 countries, and they are making a difference in ways big and small.

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Building Peace in America

By Colleen Kearney Rich on December 14, 2021

When George Mason University doctoral student Emily Sample and Douglas Irvin-Erickson, assistant professor and director of the Raphaël Lemkin Genocide Prevention Program at Mason’s Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution, were editing the volume Building Peace in America (Rowman and Littlefield, 2020), the United States was a hotbed of unrest, and it was as if their predictions had come true.

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Patriot Profile: Christine M. Condo

By Colleen Kearney Rich on December 7, 2021

In March 2020, just as the pandemic was beginning, Christine Condo published an essay in the Washington Post that changed her life.

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Patriot Profile: Sidney Boakye

By Mason Spirit contributor on August 17, 2021

Senior Sidney Boakye is the first George Mason University student to be awarded the Matthew Isakowitz Fellowship, a highly selective internship, mentorship, and networking program for students interested in spaceflight.

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Patriot Profile: Dominique Dowling

By Colleen Kearney Rich on March 30, 2021

Junior Dominique Dowling has been working to enact social change since high school. She now helps to lead Mason’s NAACP chapter and serves on the university’s Anti-Racism and Inclusive Excellence Task Force.

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Patriot Profile: Fe Miranda

By Mariam Aburdeineh, BA ’13 on December 10, 2020

Mason junior Fe Miranda, a music education major, found themselves through the arts and is now dedicated to helping others do the same both on stage and off.

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Patriot Profile: Denys Kuratchenko

By Mariam Aburdeineh, BA ’13 on August 18, 2020

In response to COVID-19, senior Denys Kuratchenko and others from the MIX’s maker community created 3D-printed personal protective equipment (PPE), with Kuratchenko setting up a “print farm” in his apartment.

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ADVANCE Student: Diego Ortega

By Priyanka Champaneri, BA '05, MFA '10 on April 18, 2020

After serving in the U.S. Marines, Diego Ortega began taking classes at NOVA to pursue a career in human resources. Then one day, a poster for ADVANCE caught his eye.

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