Everyone is invited to the Graduate Institute’s free Summer Lecture program each Wednesday night, June 29-July 27. You can attend remotely or in-person to engage with our speakers on compelling topics ranging from constitutional law, to legal advocacy, to poetry inspired by work in medicine, and to classic literature.
Jason Gots (EC96) is a writer, musician, and podcast producer who lectures in Columbia University’s Graduate School of the Arts’ writing department. After studying acting at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, he earned an Eastern Classics degree from St. John’s and a master’s in developmental psychology from Columbia. Here he discusses his memoir, Humanity is Trying, which was released by HarperCollins/Hanover Square Press on March 1, 2022 and chronicles (among other things) the loss of his sister Meri Gots (SF97), who died in 2015.
I think that’s a St. John’s trait—that you never stop learning and that there are always things that you can learn from. I always tell folks that the greatest lesson that I got from my St. John’s experience is there’s nothing I can’t think about.
As the founder of Eastport-based nanobrewery Forward Brewing, Camden Bowdren (AGI13) works to navigate an unpredictable era and bring peerless local beer to Annapolis.
A onetime teacher, Tom Ludzia (EC06) is now the head brewer at Santa Fe’s award-winning Second Street Brewery.
