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Shavonda Lewis, WC ’04

Shavonda Lewis, WC ’04, is volunteering for the next year as a program manager fellow for the International Justice Mission in Kenya. IJM is a global organization that protects the poor from violence in the developing world. Their goal is to rescue thousands, protect millions and prove that justice for the poor is possible.

Change through Strength, Leadership and Prestige

Probably the only encounter most of you have had with that Victorian and early Edwardian era torture device, the cinched corset, has been in watching the opening scenes of Gone with the Wind or season one of Downton Abbey. Certainly pre-World War I Brenau women knew what they were. I suspect that Brenau women, too, [...]

Alumnae Reunion Weekend & May Day 2017

Even on a Chilly Early April Morning, Brenau Alumnae Warm at Traditional ‘May Day’ Reunion Photos by AJ Reynolds and John Roark More than 200 Brenau University Women’s College alumnae returned to their historic campus this weekend to keep alive the tradition that dates to the early days of the 139-year-old institution of celebrating May […]

Margie Gill: An Active Voice

Margie Gill keeps busy in Brenau’s Center for Counseling and Psychological Services. Her day job, however, provides only a glimpse into her big heart and extensive work educating children in Nicaragua and Rwanda and rescuing sex trafficking victims in Atlanta. By Kristen Oliver and Kenya Hunter If you talk to Margie Gill, BU ’10, you […]

Art.​ ​Art​ ​everywhere.​ Drink​ ​it​ ​in.

One of the Southeast’s best-kept secrets, Brenau University’s Permanent Collection includes more than 6,500 artworks from artists including Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg, James Rosenquist and Jasper Johns, to name a few. The three galleries on the Gainesville historic campus – Sellars Gallery, Castelli Gallery and Presidents Gallery – host exhibitions that change each […]

Winter 2017: Relationship Building

Humble Nomad Fresh out of school, Class of '09, alum Will Bradley scored what most veteran actors would consider plum roles in theater and film. But this "overnight success" thing takes work. Academic Assist Since 1983, Brenau students who might otherwise struggle in college have had a secret partner in their corner to help them [...]

Brenau Scholar: Lauren Hill

Her first semester at Brenau was like a fairytale for musical theater major Lauren Hill of Flowery Branch, Georgia. She played the lead role of Belle in Gainesville Theatre Alliance’s production of Beauty and the Beast in November, in which only six freshmen out of 29 student actors were cast. But this wasn’t her first […]

Brenau Scholar: Daniela Santiago

Daniela Santiago from Suwanee, Georgia, considered studying French and international business before following her true calling, musical theater. “Musical theater has always been my passion, for a long time,” she says. “I remember telling my parents that I wanted to go into music when I was younger. They thought it wasn’t practical.” Coming from a […]

Sophomore Abigail Sandifer on Panel at National Health Conference

Abigail Sandifer, a sophomore health sciences major from Stapleton, Georgia, and a 2015-16 Brenau Scholar, spoke on a panel at the ImproveCareNow National Conference on Sept. 15-17 in Chicago, Illinois, as a member of the International Council of Nurses’ Patient Advisory Council. “It was my first time in Chicago – in the Midwest at all. […]

An Academic Assist

Since 1983, Brenau University’s Learning Center has helped students with learning disabilities and other disorders achieve success in and out of the classroom. Under the direction, most of that time, of Brenau’s longest-serving faculty member Dr. Vincent Yamilkoski, the center typifies the open and accessible, one-on-one, superior education for which Brenau is known. By Kristen […]