Devin McGrath-Conwell

Bowdoin College student Ruby Ahaiwe planned “Gbasaa Ozi!” as a way to promote community health and connection in her hometown. Read this profile for more on her and her project!

Gettysburg College classmates Julia Clevinger and Katharine Watson partnered with Tanzanian company Consumer’s Choice Ltd. (CCL) to provide clean cookstoves to members of a local community. Read more about this project here!

Lake Forest College student Valdrin Halitjaha designed  “Language and Libraries: Expanding Educational Resources for Kosovar Youth through English Learning and Library Access” to aid young students in his home country. Read more about him and his work here!

Sustained Impact, Alumni, Partner Institutions, Middlebury, Africa, Documentation & Preservation, Education, Human Rights & Justice, Youth As part of Middlebury College’s recent “Summer Convening on Experiential Learning and Conflict Transformation,”…

As part of Middlebury College’s recent “Summer Convening on Experiential Learning and Conflict Transformation,” inaugural Projects for Peace Alumni Award winner visited campus. While a student at Skidmore College, Kaifala was a member of the original…

The whole doctor-patient confidentiality except in the case of crimes committed and threatened makes mobsters going to therapy a difficult needle to thread. If the point of therapy is to open up without reservations, having to sidestep the emotional…

Devin McGrath-Conwell It is only fitting that as technology and the consumption of media evolves that the found footage genre would progress in turn. If flashpoints such as The Blair Witch Project (1999) and Paranormal Activity (2007) codified the…

After getting its mojo back last week, Ted Lasso, if not the AFC Richmond squad within it, continues a winning streak with “The Strings That Bind Us.” Back from the Dutch excursion and triangular revelation, Ted (Jason Sudeikis), Beard (Brendan…

I must admit that after last week’s episode of Ted Lasso, I was nervous about where this third and final season might just end up. That episode was an uncharacteristically rushed and illogically characterized hour of television that indulged some of…

“Signs,” the fifth episode in Ted Lasso’s third and final season, holds within it the best and worst of Ted Lasso. I noted in my review of last week’s episode that this 12-episode run seems to be adhering closely to ideas of the three-act structure,…

Much of Ted Lasso season three has been about seeding and fertilizing the narrative ground with promises of major face-offs. The fourth episode, aptly titled “Big Week,” is the first instance of those roiling undercurrents surfacing with a vengeance.…

Skateboarding and filmmaking have always been linked for Williston-based Nick Stefani. Growing up in Richmond during the early 2000s, he got interested in climbing on the board after stumbling across tapes of skaters and snowboarders at video stores…

In the third episode of its final season, Ted Lasso tightens the screws on the extended AFC Richmond family. Foregoing the trend of song title riffs, this episode is titled “4-5-1,” lifting the formation the team adopts to accommodate their new star,…

Coming off a season premiere focused on the show’s more melancholy aspects, Ted Lasso delivers a lighter if no less insightful second episode of season three. Whereas our first step back pinged around to set the table for each key character, this…

After a second season that put Ted and company through a proper emotional wringer, Apple TV+’s hit Ted Lasso hit returns for a third outing. All signs point to season three being curtains for Ted Lasso, even if Jason Sudeikis keeps using interviews…

The end is nigh for awards season—the 95th Academy Awards this coming Sunday will cap off months of campaigning and prognosticating. Guilds, critic groups, and various entertainment organizations have bestowed their honors. Each occurrence ushered in…

Writer-director Davy Chou’s Return to Seoul (2023) follows Frédérique “Freddie” Benoît (Park Ji-Min) during visits to Seoul, South Korea. Adopted from Korea as a baby by French parents, Freddie arrives in her unknown homeland as a 25-year-old. While…

This article originally appeared in print in the Filmhounds Magazine #14 With Steven Spielberg’s semi-autobiographical The Fabelmans (2022) now out in the world, there has been plenty of chatter about how it reveals more about the man than any other…

The life of a Feb at Middlebury is bookended by winter and its unpredictability. More than a few classes have moved in or out of their dorms in the middle of a February snowstorm. For the Class of 2022.5, Vermont had one last frigid surprise in the…

When done well, found footage horror scythes through all our “it’s just a movie” defense mechanisms to terrify on a singular level. The phenomenon that was The Blair Witch Project (1999) embodies how unnerving the genre can be. Filmmakers break down…