Fischer earned a Ph.D. in microbiology and immunology from Vanderbilt. She served as a senior research fellow at the University of Washington and an independent consultant to a Thai-U.S. collaboration fighting emerging infections. On the staff of the Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, she worked on issues related to medical emergency preparedness and the consequences of biological and chemical exposures during military service.…

Flynn served in a variety of roles with NBC News, including senior producer of foreign, environmental, and Olympic coverage (of seven games); manager of daily foreign news coverage for many of the biggest international stories in the 1980s and ’90s; and producer of notable interviews with such world leaders as Castro and Putin. In 2012 she was appointed senior producer for editorial planning for NBC News.…

(1957 – 2018) Fox summited peaks around the United States and the globe. She was the first American woman to climb three of the world’s 8,000-meter peaks, including Mount Everest. She was a member of Hollins’ Athletic Hall of Fame and received the Hollins Medal. The climbing wall in the Hollins gym is named in her honor.…

Frazier was a history major at Hollins and earned her master’s degree from Boston University. Frazier served on the Hollins Alumnae Board from 1999-2002, and her first term on the Board of Trustees began in 2003. Frazier serves as chair of the Committee on Enrollment Management. Frazier is the managing member of Tandem Public Relations, a boutique firm she founded in 2005.…