Vassar Quarterly - Summer 2018 - 33

Alumnae/i News

Beth Dunlop '69
Earns Prestigious
Journalism Fellowship

Courtesy of Beth Dunlop / Kenrick Louie

Beth Dunlop '69, an architecture critic, editor,
and author based in Miami Beach, was granted a
six-month Alicia Patterson Foundation fellowship
grant for 2018. The Alicia Patterson Foundation
is one of America's oldest fellowship programs for
journalists. It was established to support independent, in-depth reporting on local, national, and
international affairs.
Dunlop will explore the consequences of overbuilding on both the natural environment and on
history and culture. She's been writing about the
topic for most of her career.
She tells VQ: "I have accumulated a library's
worth of literature that puts this era into historical
and sociological context, in places as different as
Gansevoort Street in New York City, where we are
losing some of the last tenements and remnants
of the meatpacking industry, to the Florida
Panhandle town of Apalichicola, where development continues to threaten the legacy of more
than two centuries of cotton and timber shipping,
and oystering and fishing."
Dunlop has served as both staff and contributing architecture critic for the Miami Herald, covering
architecture, urban planning, and design, and
has contributed to numerous national and international magazines. She was also Editor-in-Chief
of HOME Miami and Modern Magazine, published
in New York and distributed in 29 countries. She
is the author of 14 books and has two more in
the works.

Jason Wu '07: 40 under 40
Each year, the National LGBT Bar Association recognizes LGBT legal
professionals-including practicing lawyers, law professors, corporate
counsel, members of the judiciary, politicians-under the age of 40 who
have distinguished themselves in their field and have demonstrated a
profound commitment to LGBT equality. Jason Wu '07 will be honored at
the organization's 30th Annual Lavender Law Conference and Career Fair
this August in New York City.
Wu has long been an advocate for social justice. During his time at
Vassar, he was an active student leader and organizer for a range of socialjustice issues. He later received a JD from uCLA School of Law, with a
specialization in critical race studies, and continued this work as an attorney, promoting racial and economic justice and LGBTQ rights.
He's a staff attorney at The Legal Aid Society's Harlem Community
Law Office, where he represents low-income communities of color, helping
to preserve and expand affordable housing through litigation, policy, and
law reform. He is also a trustee of the Association of Legal Aid Attorneys
(uAW 2325). In his spare time, he serves on the Steering Committee for
Gay Asian Pacific Islander Men of New York.
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