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Fall 2014 Feature Startup Central Fall 2014 Feature Startup Central

Features Fall 2014

Startup Central

If you want to be an entrepreneur, understand that you’ll have to be part of a team if you’re going to be successful. This, according to Geoff Entress, ’98, a Seattle-based investor who has backed more than 
125 companies in the past 15 years.

More advice from Entress: Be comfortable with risk. Be visionary. Don’t be a jerk. And go to law school.

 Mary Frances Berry headshot  Mary Frances Berry headshot

Features Fall 2014

Mary Frances Berry, ’70: A Trailblazer in the Fight to End Discrimination

Mary Frances Berry, ’70, served from 1980 until 2004 on the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, including as chair. Later, she stood with Nelson Mandela to end apartheid in South Africa and was imprisoned for it. At the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act, she looks back on her career, her accomplishments, and the long list of items still outstanding in the fight to end discrimination.