BY JOURNAL STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS University of Memphis coach Penny Hardaway has added more NBA experience to his staff by hiring former Phoenix Suns assistant Cody Toppert. Toppert will be an assistant coach at Memphis. He replaces Sam Mitchell, a former NBA coach who left Memphis’ staff after the 2018-19 season to pursue a […]
“Good Talk” by Mira Jacob ’91 Asks, “Who Am I?”
BY DAVID STEINBERG / FOR THE JOURNAL The dominant theme of Mira Jacob’s new book “Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations” is race in America. Though the graphic memoir’s subject is weighty, the text and the graphics infuse the book with a relaxed, approachable tone and imagery from the get-go. Conversational, indeed. Jacobs is the […]
Online Teacher Shayla Bennett ’06 Heavner Connects with Students
BY JOURNAL STAFF REPORT Shayla Heavner’s students come to her via the world of the web, a path she, too, has navigated with deftness. An adversity of life drew the Albuquerque native and Albuquerque Academy graduate to online education. It was her success online as a student that led her to become an online teacher. […]
Denali Schmidt ’11 Tiller’s Documentary Follows Children with Incarcerated Parents
BY ADRIAN GOMEZ / JOURNAL ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR The statistic piqued the interest of Denali Tiller: An estimated one in 14 American children is growing up with a parent in prison. So the New Mexico filmmaker set out to tell the story of those kids and their parents. READ MORE.
Top China Scholar, Carl Minzner, Sees End to Country’s Reform
BY SCOTT TURNER / JOURNAL STAFF WRITER Albuquerque native Carl Minzner took an unusual path to becoming one of the top scholars in the U.S. about Chinese politics and government. READ MORE.
Kate Widland ’00 Gallego will be Sworn in as the Next Mayor of Phoenix
Associated Press Kate Gallego opened a large lead over Daniel Valenzuela early in the race for Phoenix mayor on Tuesday. Though the race is officially nonpartisan, Gallego and Valenzuela are both Democrats who largely agree on most issues but faced off bitterly on funding for sports arenas and public safety. READ MORE.
Running is a Lesson in Native American History: Dustin Martin ’07
By Story Hinckley, The Christian Science Monitor A plume of dust trails his worn sneakers as he strides over the red sand. Most runners would find this surface trying: a sinking, winding path, made narrow by low desert brush. But not Dustin Martin. He glides over the sand – seemingly without sinking at all – […]
