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Nadine F. M. Pinede '86 and Mary M. Hastings '86 were chosen from among the 30-year-old contest's several hundred applicants for their "academic achievement and remarkable extracurricular activism," said Ruth Whitney, Glamour's editor-in-chief...
Pinede, a native of Norwalk, Conn., has demonstrated her interest in issues affecting Black Americans in a variety of fascinating ways, said Glamour spokesman Michelle Evans...
These travels led her to create a special concentration in the literature and social criticism of Black and women writers, her write-up in Glamour said...
According to Glamour, Pinede's Haitian immigrant parents influenced her decision to study Afro-American literature. "Unlike me, my parents did not have the freedom to study their own culture in school; the colonists' culture was the only legitimate one. Literature by outsiders of a particular society can show us injustice and prejudice, but it can also offer hope for pluralism and reform. By distilling human suffering and triumph, literature can teach compassion and respect for human potential," Pinede told Glamour...
Hastings, a native of Kennilworth, Ill., worked as a consultant with a Harvard international development team analyzing the impact of Indonesia's crumbling rice economy on rural incomes and employment in that country, Glamour said...