Spring 2016
On the cover: Gavin Walters with his mother, Lee-Anne, of Flint, Michigan. Photo by Logan Wallace.
Cover storyKim Bassler, Sandy Broughton, Carrie Cox '99, Juliet Crichton, Shirley Fleet, Richard Lovegrove, Delia Maresco, Brian Mathews, Alison Matthiessen, Theresa Mayer '88, Menah Pratt-Clarke, Albert Raboteau, Thanassis Rikakis, Erica Stacy, Sherrie Whaley, Matthew M. Winston Jr. '90
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