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Creative Disruption

Connecticut College’s difference makers. Portraits by Miles Ladin ’90.

“Some believe there is nothing one man or one woman can do against the enormous array of the world’s ills ... Yet many of the world’s great movements, of thought and action, have flowed from the work of a single man,” Robert F. Kennedy said.

Or woman. Kennedy’s words are well understood by the six disruptors featured here, men and women pushing to reshape the existing landscape in order to ease the burden for the disillusioned and dispossessed.

Two of our provocateurs are 2018 Forbes 30 Under 30 recipients: Jazmine Hughes ’12 and Aditi Juneja ’12. (Emily Callahan ’11 was also named to this year’s list. She was featured in the Winter 2016 issue of CC Magazine.)

Hughes (@jazzedloon), who appears above, is an associate digital editor at The New York Times Magazine, where she’s responsible for editing the “Letter of Recommendation” column and the back page of the magazine. Not settling for a career at one of the nation’s top media outlets, Hughes is also an activist, and co-created Writers of Color, a database to help editors discover diverse writers.

After graduating from New York University School of Law, Juneja (who appears on our cover) became a New York State Excelsior Service Fellow, working to solve problems surrounding fair and equitable housing for the state of New York. Juneja (@aditijuneja3) also co-founded the Resistance Manual, an open-source platform where users can access and contribute to the portal, which provides “the resistance” with information on a range of issues, from immigration policy to voter rights.

“My vision for a brighter America involves an informed citizenry that respectfully and zealously debates to come up with the best solutions to serve everyone, including those who are marginalized,” Juneja says.

Fernando Espuelas ’88 is an entrepreneur, senior executive and political strategist in Washington, D.C. Espuelas advises corporate leaders and governments across the globe. He has bridged the worlds of communications, technology and politics and was one of the pioneers of the consumer internet, launching the first pan-Latin internet portal. He is a Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute. @EspuelasVox

Stefanie Zadravec ’90 is a resident playwright at New Dramatists in New York and a Core Writer at the Playwrights’ Center in Minneapolis. Zadravec’s plays are part politics, part poetry, peppered with dark humor and her own brand of theatrical storytelling. She received the 2009 Helen Hayes Award for her breakout play, Honey Brown Eyes, set during the onset of the Bosnian War. Her work has received support from The Ford Foundation, the NEA, The Mellon Foundation, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, The Kennedy Center, among others. @stefzadravec

Vanessa Correia, RN ’16 is currently studying to become a pediatric nurse practitioner at Yale School of Nursing. Correia’s CISLA internship with Save the Children Jordan inspired her present concentration in global health. Correia is certified in plant-based nutrition and leads the U.S. Health Justice Collaborative, an interprofessional student group at Yale University. Also soon to become a yoga instructor, Correia is entering health care with the goal of helping people heal themselves. @YaleUSHJ

Debo Adegbile ’91 is a lawyer who serves as a commissioner for the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. Adegbile was previously nominated to serve as the U.S. Assistant Attorney General for the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division. The Senate rejected his nomination because he had filed a brief arguing that there was racial discrimination in jury selection for the trial of Mumia Abu-Jamal, who was convicted of the murder of a law enforcement officer. Adegbile serves as vice chair of Conn’s Board of Trustees.