But before she was editing interviews for a national audience, she was sitting in HWS classrooms, learning what it meant to listen.
Sylvie Lubow '07 has built a career around helping others tell their stories — first as a producer for NPR's StoryCorps, one of the nation's most beloved oral history projects, and now as a freelance podcast producer and writer whose work continues to amplify voices often left out of the mainstream.
[My classes] pushed me to think about story from a different angle – whether it was learning to pare down my words until they carried real weight or seeing how narrative can shape the way we understand the world around us.Sylvie Lubow '07
Lubow graduated magna cum laude in English, was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and studied abroad in Bath, England — opportunities she says were possible because of support along the way.
"In hindsight, it's clear that receiving the Irene Russell Stahl Memorial Centennial Scholarship gave me the freedom to take the classes that inspired me, and the confidence to pursue a career built around storytelling."
