The natural evolution of mentorship isn’t necessarily a lifetime of collaboration. Instead, mentorship is often considered most successful when mentees can take what they’ve learned and use it to branch out on their own. The chef Jeremiah Langhorne spent five years learning from his mentor Sean Brock, the executive chef at the locally sourced Southern […]
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How to Mentor From Miles Away
When people think of mentorship, they probably imagine talking about career advancement over coffee, or meeting over lunch to chat about how a new job is going. But how central should physical meetups be to professional guidance when so much communication is digital? In 2011, Keshia Ashe and Tiffany St. Bernard, who both work in […]
What It Takes to Mentor Poor Kids
In January 2015, Brandon Stanton, creator of the popular photo blog Humans of New York, interviewed a middle school student named Vidal Chastanet. He asked Chastanet, who goes to school in Brownsville, a neighborhood with one of the highest crime rates in New York City, who had influenced his life the most. Chastanet told Brandon […]
Empire Adds Forest Whitaker to Play Lucious' Musical Mentor in Season 4
An ailing Lucious will get a visit from a familiar face next season on Empire — in the form of an Oscar-winning actor. Forest Whitaker has signed on to join Season 4 of the Fox hit drama in a multi-episode arc, TVLine has learned. He’ll play “Uncle Eddie,” a musical icon who gave Lucious his first […]
The Summer I Became a Mentor
When I was growing up in West Virginia, I ran track and cross-country throughout middle and high school. I loved the sport, but I grew up in poverty so I couldn’t even afford running shoes. But I had a coach who believed in me and went out of his way to help. Every so often, […]
‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’ Featurette Focuses on Spidey’s Mentor, Iron Man
Tom Holland’s spunky, excitable Spider-Man swings back into theaters next month in a brand new cinematic adventure, but anyone who’s even remotely been paying attention knows that Robert Downey Jr.’s Iron Man is going to play a big part in Sony and Marvel’s Spider-Man: Homecoming. Today, Downey took to Twitter to share a new featurette for the film […]
Becoming the Mentor You Wish You’d Had
In 2016, Chris Mosier became the first openly transgender man to compete for the U.S. national team when he raced in the Duathlon World Championships. That same year, Mosier became the first transgender athlete to be featured in the ESPN Magazine Body Issue and the first transgender athlete to appear in a Nike advertisement. Being […]
Theatre reviews: The Mentor and Carousel
He hands him his new play, unhelpfully titled, Without a Title, and nervously awaits his response. Instead of constructive criticism, Benjamin first asks him for the name of the font in which it is printed and then alerts him to a minor typing mistake. Daniel Kehlmann’s The Mentor is a witty comedy of writerly egos. […]
