“I try to practice what I preach and be supportive of … different qualities or causes that I personally care about,” Carbone said. “And I think the best way we support those causes is by being a donor, and that can mean a dollar.” 

“We're bringing computer science education into the playground, and kids can still play outside, play with each other, and develop fully while learning concepts of computational thinking,” Bers, the Augustus Long Professor of Education at the LSEHD with a secondary appointment in the Department of Computer Science, said.

“All of our students come feeling very passionate about wanting to make a difference in the world, but that looks different depending on the sorts of passions of that person,” Snell said. “I am a big proponent of educating everyone about how many different things you can do with an MSW degree.”

With the creation of Ophelia, a dating platform that focuses on in-person experiences, Brainerd wants to revolutionize this messy online dating world, bringing the URL to IRL.

“The most special moments of connection can only happen off camera,” Rosen said. “So that was an interesting, just like personal lesson for me as a filmmaker going forward as well, that sometimes you gotta let go of trying to get everything and just as important as what you do capture is also like the actual, genuine connections you're making with the people who are in your film.”