1983 Richard Backer Richard L. Backer ’83 was ordained as a rabbi at the Aleph Renewal Jewish Seminary in Broomfield, CO, in January. After 25 years of corporate real estate work for Fidelity Investments, Graham Gund Architects, and Gunwyn Development, he is now a hospital chaplain in the Boston area.
2007 Carl Takei Carl Takei ’07, staff attorney for the National Prison Project of the ACLU in Washington, DC, is the author of two recent ACLU reports on abuses in US immigration detention facilities: “Detention Is No Place for Infants, Children, and Families,” in reference to the Berks County (PA) family detention facility, and “A Most Unsurprising Riot,” which details life inside the Willacy County (TX) Correctional Center.