Josh Troop ’09 returned to BDS as our 2019 Alumni in Action Speaker this spring. Josh is a graduate of Hamilton College with a bachelor’s degree in government and mathematics. He has spent the past few years working on a variety of political campaigns at the local and national levels. Most recently he was the regional field direct for the Committee to Elect Jay Gonzalez who ran for governor of Massachusetts in 2018. Josh’s talk focused on the many ways to get involved in public affairs and he highlighted the importance of having a set of core values or beliefs as a guide for engagement.
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February 2, 2026
In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, eighth grade social studies devoted a class period to unpacking Dr. King’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” drawing meaningful parallels to themes in our current unit on the rise of Nazi Germany. Students…
