For any aspiring Hollywood writer, receiving expert advice from someone who’s actually succeeded in Tinsel Town is a dream come true. UMass students and faculty were treated to that dream when Mark Wilding, the two-time Emmy nominated executive producer and lead writer of Grey’s Anatomy returned to UMass after 30 years and revealed the ins and outs of making it in Hollywood.
The story of Somalia is complex, disheartening and violent. It’s hard to imagine the atrocities occurring there daily. The brutality can seem unreal. But to Yasmine Farh, a Somali refugee living and studying at UMass to be a journalist, the almost 20-year-long civil war is never far from her heart and her mind.
