Joy Harjo, US Poet Laureate will read selections of her poetry and discuss how her identity as a Native American has shaped her craft.

Joy Harjo’s nine books of poetry include An American Sunrise, Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings, How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems, and She Had Some Horses. Ms. Harjo’s memoir Crazy Brave won several awards, including the PEN USA Literary Award for Creative Non-Fiction and the American Book Award. She is the recipient of the Ruth Lilly Prize from the Poetry Foundation for Lifetime Achievement, the 2015 Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets for proven mastery in the art of poetry, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America, and the United States Artist Fellowship. A renowned musician, Ms. Harjo performs with her saxophone nationally and internationally, solo and with her band, the Arrow Dynamics. She has five award-winning CDs of music including Red Dreams, A Trail Beyond Tears and Winding Through the Milky Way, which won a Native American Music Award for Best Female Artist of the Year in 2009. Ms. Harjo’s latest is a book of poetry from Norton, An American Sunrise. 

Joy Harjo joins us as a guest of The Hun School's Centennial Speaker Series.

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Upper School students will have a 1:00 p.m. dismissal on April 13th and 14th. Lunch will be provided and athletics will still take place. 

Hun Middle School students will hear from Storyteller and author Joseph Bruchac. For over forty years Mr. Bruchac has been creating literature and music that reflect his indigenous heritage and traditions. He is a proud Nulhegan Abenaki citizen and respected elder among his people. He is the author of more than 120 books for children and adults. His best selling Keepers of the Earth: Native American Stories and Environmental Activities for Children series, with its remarkable integration of science and folklore, continue to receive critical acclaim and to be used in classrooms throughout the country.

For more information, contact Laura Bishop.

Grab your favorite cup of tea and join Ms. Hansson for conversation and camaraderie! All Upper School students are invited to join in. Contact Ms. Hansson for information about how to join her Zoom room.

This Tribes of the Eastern Woodlands Performance and Presentation is open to all Upper School students during Community Life Period. Please contact Laura Bishop with any questions.

Upper School students will have a 1:00 p.m. dismissal on April 13th and 14th. Lunch will be provided and athletics will still take place. 

All Hun students are invited to attend this virtual Pan-Indigenous Tribes Performance and Presentation from the Redhawk Native Arts Council. For more information, contact Laura Bishop.

Grab your favorite cup of tea and join Ms. Hansson for conversation and camaraderie! All Upper School students are invited to join in. Contact Ms. Hansson for information about how to join her Zoom room.

Micah Cohen ’01 is the managing editor at FiveThirtyEight and a member of The Hun School’s Class of 2001. He started his career in journalism, after graduating from Tulane University in 2005, as a news clerk at The New York Times, and eventually worked his way up to staff editor there. He began working with FiveThirtyEight when it was licensed by The Times in 2010, and helped build FiveThirtyEight into a standalone newsroom when ESPN purchased it in 2013. He became managing editor after FiveThirtyEight moved to ABC News in 2017, earning acclaim for maintaining a newsroom with a center bias rating, during a time of unprecedented political turmoil.

Mr. Cohen joins us as a guest of The Hun School's Centennial Speaker Series.

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As part of our college series, The Hun School College Counseling Office invites all Hun students and parents to a panel discussion regarding Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). This virtual event will feature admissions representatives from HBCUs and Hun alums who will discuss the unique opportunities and advantages offered at historically Black institutions.

No registration is required for the event. Please use the following link to join:

Hun HBCU Panel Event

If you have questions, please contact Davirah Timm-Dinkins, Associate Director of College Counseling.

Grab your favorite cup of tea and join Ms. Hansson for conversation and camaraderie! All Upper School students are invited to join in. Contact Ms. Hansson for information about how to join her Zoom room.

GEM's Women in the World summit is inspired by the now discontinued Women in the World, held annually in cities across the nation, and the world, for a decade. The purpose of GEM's summit is to showcase a diverse array of women making strides in all walks of life and professions. It is meant to be a day celebrating women's achievements that will motivate attendees to pursue their passions and stand up for what they believe in and find healthy ways to support themselves now and in the future. 

Presenters include Hun alumnae and outside presenters working in politics, business entrepreneurship, activism, psychology, user experience/tech design, educational leadership, community engagement, media and marketing, the judicial system, and environmental justice. We are especially thrilled to be welcoming Renitta Shannon, the first openly bisexual woman of color in the Georgia State House of Representatives, and a special performance by powerhouse spoken word poet, Franny Choi (formerly of Project Voice) who has been featured on PBS Newshour, NPR's All Things Considered, and The New York Times Magazine.

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Raider Giving Day is a day to show love and appreciation for The Hun School! Learn more from The Advancement Office.

Grab your favorite cup of tea and join Ms. Hansson for conversation and camaraderie! All Upper School students are invited to join in. Contact Ms. Hansson for information about how to join her Zoom room.

When a twentysomething med student starts experiencing overwhelming fatigue and organ failure out of nowhere, it’s no ordinary case. What do you do when doctors tell you they have no approved treatment for your condition, and you’re read your last rites? That’s what former Georgetown quarterback David Fajgenbaum (Forbes’ 30 Under 30) was faced with—five times. Nicknamed “The Beast” for his strength and stamina, his body was ravaged by an illness that made him unrecognizable—so he dedicated his life and career to finding innovative treatments for mysterious conditions: all while fighting one firsthand. Dr. Fajgenbaum is the author of the National bestseller Chasing My Cure, co-founder and executive director of the Castleman Disease Collaborative Network. His remarkable story proves the power of hope, and shows what can happen when chance, love and resilience collide.

Dr. Fajgenbaum joins us as a guest of The Hun School's Centennial Speaker Series.

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