Letters Home from Stanford

Alison Carpenter Davis graduated from Stanford in 1979. Her articles have appeared in the Chicago Tribune, The Independent, the International Herald Tribune, HuffPost, and Stanford Magazine. Co-founder of the Disability at Stanford Oral History Project, she recently received the Susan W. Schofield Award. Al has a thing about words-both spoken and written, and was formerly an editor at Outside magazine and an adjunct professor at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. She and her husband live in the Bay Area in a house where three children and their dog once grew.