"The Brown Alumni Magazine aims to connect alumni to the university, big ideas, and one another—while maintaining the editorial and design quality of a high-end national newsstand magazine.
These two issues show our range and quality, starting with the covers. One is a striking black-and-white portrait of Congressman David Cicilline ’83. The other is a vibrant, stylized illustration of early Brown members of the storied Delta Sigma Theta sorority. The Cicilline story is a profile that illuminates not just the man, but the major national issue of Big Tech monopolies. The Deltas story is university history—and, more universally, African American history—come alive through interviews with alumnae who lived it. Other features look at the descendant of a KKK member reckoning with his family history and the larger history of race and America, Brown alums and athletes taking a dim view of the university's recent overhaul of its team sports, the historical relationship between drugs and war, and how a Brown professor and his students uncovered the secret history of the CIA's LSD experiments. Add arts, food, planetary science, college humor, and an ode to a giant blue bear—there's always something to illuminate or amuse the reader.
Results? One of our favorite compliments is when the spouses of our readers tell us they look forward to the magazine even though they didn't go to Brown. And our letters section is a reader favorite because so many alums write in to engage with the content—and with one another."
From the Judges
The cover art is fantastic. Great use of photography, illustration and typography throughout. Clear and honest celebration of diversity in the sisters story.
