Jennifer Avellino ’89

Jennifer Avellino spent two decades at CNN in New York and Washington covering politics, presidential campaigns, and the media, while producing many of the network’s political talk shows including Reliable Sources, Crossfire, Evans & Novak, Late Edition, and Inside Politics Weekend with Wolf Blitzer. In recent years, she has served as President of the Dartmouth Alumni Council and chair of the Council’s Nominating and Alumni Trustee Search Committee. She also served on the board of the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, and as class secretary and two-time reunion chair for the Class of 1989. As an undergraduate, Avellino was the News Director at WDCR/FRD, Dartmouth Broadcasting, and she is currently the Coeducation Commemoration Chair and hosts the College’s 50 for 50 Storytelling Podcast.

Emily Bakemeier ’82

Emily Bakemeier serves as vice provost for arts and faculty affairs at Yale University. Bakemeier is a member of the Divinity School Dean’s Advisory Council, and she is member of the Board of Trustees of the Berkeley Divinity School at Yale. An active volunteer for Dartmouth since her graduation, Bakemeier has held several roles including the first secretary of her class following graduation, an alumni interviewer, president of the Alumni Council, and most recently as a member of the Board of Trustees, during which she was the trustee representative to the Hood Museum Advisory Board. 

Esi Eggleston Bracey '91

Esi Bracey is a transformational business executive with decades of experience in general management, brand-building, and marketing leadership. She currently leads the Beauty and Personal Care portfolio for Unilever North America, which includes responsibility for brands such as Dove, TRESemmé, Suave, Vaseline, Degree, Axe, and Shea Moisture. Previously, Bracey led CoverGirl’s work to diversify the face of beauty with talent like Queen Latifah, Pink, Ellen, and Janelle Monae. Recently, she cofounded CauseWeCare to help safeguard communities during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Annette Gordon-Reed '81 H'21

Annette Gordon-Reed is the Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard University. She has authored six books and received a Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family. She was the Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Visiting Professor of American History at the University of Oxford (Queen’s College) in 2014–15 and was appointed an honorary fellow at Queen’s in 2021. Gordon-Reed has served as president of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic and is currently president of the Ames Foundation. Her honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim and MacArthur Foundations and the National Humanities Medal. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the British Academy.

Allison K. Miller '10

Allie Miller is a globally recognized artificial intelligence leader, advisor, and investor. Miller has spoken about AI and field diversity around the world, drafted national AI strategies, and created more than 10 guidebooks on how to build successful AI and Web3 projects. She is a global mentor who regularly shares the latest in AI and tech with her more than one million social media followers. She has been named AI Summit’s “AI Innovator of the Year,” LinkedIn’s Top Voice for Technology, Chief in Tech’s Top 100 Women in Tech to Watch, Award Magazine’s Top 50 Women in Tech, ReadWrite’s Top 20 AI Speakers in the World, MKAI’s Top 20 AI Mavericks, and Neptune’s Top 20 AI Influencers. She is a cofounder of Girls of the Future and serves as a national ambassador for the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Laurel Richie '81

Laurel Richie currently serves as an independent director at Hasbro, Synchrony Financial, and Bright Horizons and as a leadership consultant to Fortune 100 c-suite executives at Merryck & Co. 

As President of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) from 2011 to 2015, Laurel led the league's business, operations, and marketing initiatives, and became the first person of color to lead a major national sports league. Prior to the WNBA, she served as senior vice president and chief marketing officer of Girl Scouts of the USA.

As a senior partner and executive group director at advertising agency Ogilvy and Mather, she worked on a host of blue-chip clients. Upon her departure from Ogilvy, she became a founding member of the agency's external Diversity Advisory Board. 

A frequent keynote speaker and panelist on Leadership, Diversity, and Inclusion, Richie is a recipient of the Black Girls Rock Shot Caller Award, Sports Business Journal's Game Changer Award, and the YMCA Black Achievers in Industry Award. She was awarded Ebony magazine's Outstanding Women in Marketing and Communications award and named to its Power 100 List. Black Enterprise named her one of the Most Influential African Americans in Sports. 

Richie lives in New York City.  She received a bachelor’s degree in policy studies from Dartmouth College in 1981, where she chairs the advisory board of the Hopkins Center for the Arts after serving her alma mater as a member of the board of trustees from 2012-2021 and chair of the board from 2017-2021. 

Alice Ruth '83

Alice Ruth oversees the Dartmouth College Investment Office and the management of the College's endowment and other investments. Prior to joining Dartmouth in 2017, she served as chief investment officer for Willett Advisors, the investment adviser for the family foundation of former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg. Prior to Willett, she was CIO for the $6 billion Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. She also spent 12 years at Montgomery Securities as a senior managing director and co-director of equity research. Ruth started her career at Morgan Stanley as an economic analyst focused on the Federal Reserve and monetary policy.