There are plenty of book workshops out there for writers. But Amy Goldmacher recently held a “book work-ship.”
Alumni Profiles
![Irma McClaurin at a table with several women](https://magazine.grinnell.edu/sites/default/files/styles/300x200/public/magazine-feature-images/Profile_McClaurin_975.jpg?itok=0D35CUYl)
One of Irma McClaurin’s most treasured possessions is a set of slightly tattered volumes of poetry she wrote as a child.
![Dave Scott with his horn](https://magazine.grinnell.edu/sites/default/files/styles/300x200/public/magazine-feature-images/Profile_Scott_975x455.jpg?itok=H_bWtMmd)
On a hot summer day in August 1946, Davis “Dave” Scott walked across campus from his dorm room in Langan to audition for the Grinnell College band.
![Vanessa Harris](https://magazine.grinnell.edu/sites/default/files/styles/300x200/public/Profile_Harris_975x455.jpg?itok=guaApmN9)
Harris received the prestigious Leaders for a New Chicago Award last summer for the profound impact that Harris’ organization has made for Chicago’s vast disability community.
![left to right: Gary Doernhoefer, Jed Melnick, and Amy Gernon](https://magazine.grinnell.edu/sites/default/files/styles/300x200/public/Profile_Doernhoefer%20Melnick%20Gernon_975x455.jpg?itok=kQzvj5K3)
Three Grinnell alumni, experts in alternative dispute resolution, joined other specialists to offer hands-on training in mediation and conflict resolution skills to students.
![On left, Miranda Thomas with a white rat and Regan Reedy with snake on right](https://magazine.grinnell.edu/sites/default/files/styles/300x200/public/magazine-feature-images/Profile_Thomas_975x455.jpg?itok=Sj20BhIf)
Thomas’ externship helped confirm her interest in veterinary medicine. Now she’s returned to the externship program as a mentor.
![Eugenia Corrales](https://magazine.grinnell.edu/sites/default/files/styles/300x200/public/magazine-feature-images/Profile_Corralos_87_975x455.jpg?itok=T61L81Xl)
By nearly any measure, Eugenia Corrales ’87 isn’t your typical CEO. By Silicon Valley standards, she’s an absolute rarity.
![Doane Chilcoat](https://magazine.grinnell.edu/sites/default/files/styles/300x200/public/Profile_Chilcoat_93_975x455.jpg?itok=Ue59kxBs)
“What does ag science have to do with pandemic public health?” As it turns out, the link between the two lay in Chilcoat’s area of expertise — molecular genetics.
![Becca Rea-Tucker](https://magazine.grinnell.edu/sites/default/files/styles/300x200/public/magazine-feature-images/Profile_Rea-Tucker_15_975x455.jpg?itok=MPNlg6fQ)
For many people, the only message they’ve ever seen frosted on a cake is “Happy Birthday.” But for Becca Rea-Tucker ’15, cakes are a medium for sharing political messages.
![Peter Willmert](https://magazine.grinnell.edu/sites/default/files/styles/300x200/public/magazine-feature-images/Profile_Willmert_975x455.jpg?itok=xX-fnuRY)
After an early career in politics, Peter Willmert ’93 took a winding road to Napa Valley in California, but the results have proved worth the journey.