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ALUMNI BIOS ALUMNI 15 REV. LESTER MCCORN A leader, scholar, author and activist, Rev. McCorn is the 13th President of Clinton College in South Carolina, where he has dramatically increased enrollment. His 31- year career with the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church has included being a pastor in Boston, Baltimore, Chicago and Atlanta. He's an inaugural fellow of Rockefeller Foundation's Next Generation Leadership Program, and the Historic Black College and University Campaign Fund named him as one of "The Ten Most Dominant HBCU Leaders of 2019." Instilling the mantra "excellence without excuse" around campus, Lester continues to propel Clinton College forward and set its students up for success. BOB DORFMAN As President of Dorfman Capital, an investment banking firm, Bob has completed close to $1 billion in financing for corporations and real estate developers through an expertise in brownfields development, affordable housing and historic reuse. The company is a top financier of Massachusetts Brownfields remediation projects and is committed to transforming communities to become economically and environmentally healthy. A Worcester native, Bob was previously managing director of investment banking at Advest, Inc. ELENI GAGE Eleni, who grew up in North Grafton, is a veteran magazine journalist and author of several books including the travel memoir North of Ithaka and the novel The Ladies of Managua. The former articles editor of O: The Oprah Magazine, she has also served on-staff at Allure, Elle, InStyle, People, and Martha Stewart Weddings. A graduate of Harvard University and the School of the Arts at Columbia University, Eleni contributes freelance articles to publications ranging from Travel+Leisure to The New York Times. Love is Fierce Mural by artist Jason Naylor for POW! WOW! Worcester 2019 WORCESTER HOMECOMING 2022 JIM FORBES A multiple Emmy and Alma award-winning correspondent, producer, director, writer, host and narrator with experience at numerous major networks. Jim is a fourth- generation journalist and the Owner/Publisher of the Sentinel Weekly News and Perris Progress, two Riverside County, California newspapers, and continues his documentary production and narration work for numerous network and independent projects. Jim is featured in the History Channel documentary, DB Cooper, Case Closed?, for which he was a co-executive producer and on-air investigative correspondent. He recently narrated the 2021 finale of The Voice, and revival of Behind the Music on Paramount+.