CMC Conversations

During CMC’s Alumni Weekend 2025, members of the Class of 1980 gathered for their 45th reunion. As the first four-year graduating class after the College adopted co-education in the fall of 1976, CMC Magazine asked six...

<p>Just days before they walk across the Commencement stage, our beloved senior podcast hosts, Parishi Kanuga ’26 and Natalie Chen ’26, settled into our studio —this time as interviewees. A full-circle moment...

<p>President Hiram Chodosh has spent 13 years leading ClaremontMcKenna College by asking one question above all others: What are we here to do?</p><p>In this special episode of CMC Conversations — recorded inpartnership...

<p>For 13 years, Priya Junnar has led the intellectual heart of Claremont McKenna College as the fifth director of the Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum — one of higher education's most distinctive speaker series, where...

<p>What does it look like to build a career by running toward something — not away from it?</p><p>Jennie Kung ’04 has spent her career crossing sectors that most people never imagine connecting: capital markets...

<p>What does it take to manage travel and logistics for one of the world's most famous baseball teams for over a quarter-century? </p><p>In this episode, Parishi Kanuga ’26 sits down with Scott Akasaki '98, Senior...

<p>In this episode hosted by Natalie Chen ’26, Professor Steven Zhou elucidates how his work offers us new ways to observe, quantify, and study leadership. By observing human behavior in various contexts, such as in...

<p>In this episode of CMC Conversations, host Parishi Kanuga ’26 sits down with Podlich Family Professor of Government and George R. Roberts Fellow Hilary Appel to discuss the ongoing geopolitical complexities of the...

<p>In this episode of CMC Conversations, Parishi Kanuga ’26 speaks with Professor Nishant Dass, Charles M. Stone Professor of Finance and Director of the Financial Economics Institute at CMC. They discuss how technology...

<p>Natalie Chen ’26 sits with Professor Amy Kind to discuss the importance of maintaining and developing our imagination in everyday life. Professor Kind addresses imagination as a human necessity, the ability of AI to...

<p>Join Professor Albert L. Park and Natalie Chen ’26 as they discuss Professor Park’s multidisciplinary expertise in the environment, Korean history, and Japanese history. In this episode, Professor Park discusses how...

<p>Parishi Kanuga ’26 sits down with Ella Brissett ’25, tennis athlete and president and founder of The Claremont Women Empowerment in Sports Club, and Erica Perkins Jasper, William B. Arce Director of Athletics...

<p>Parishi Kanuga ’26 sits down with Ursula Diamond, Director for Student Opportunities, to discuss what career preparation looks like for a CMC student, her personal career path, and the invaluable resource Career...

<p>Pieter van Wingerden ’24 sits down with host Parishi Kanuga ’26 to discuss his CMC experience, including his unique relationship with foreign policy. His academic success led him to be recently awarded the...

<p>Former classmates at CMC, Dianna "DT" Graves ’98 and Amy Verity ’98, sit down with Parishi Kanuga ’26 to reflect on their friendship and favorite life lessons some 25 years later. From sports to dorms to classes...