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Omar Reid ’80 gets around. As a school psychologist and president of the Black Mental Health Alliance of Massachusetts, he has visited schools across the state and worked with children for 40 years.

Consider the endangered dusky gopher frog. When threatened, the best this three-inch amphibian can do is cover its eyes with its hands. By 2002, its habitat had shrunk to only one or two ponds in Mississippi. It likely would have become extinct had Joe Pechmann ’76, a population ecologist at Western Carolina University, not come to the rescue.

When Tori Campbell Nelson ’86 talks, children listen. The co-founder and anchor of KidNuz, “a fun, fresh, first-of-its-kind kids’ podcast,” delivers age-appropriate news stories to her third- to sixth-grade audience five days a week.

Preston Sutton ’97 follows where science, the wind, and his interests take him. As operations manager at Sail & Explore, this polymer physicist does field work and expedition planning for a Switzerland-based nonprofit that explores the possible effects of micro- and nanoplastics on human health.

Kiki Yang ’00 has never stopped learning. It’s been the one constant in her career. As a senior partner at the consulting company Bain & Company in Shanghai, she said, “Every day is about thinking. Clients come to me with issues they can’t solve, and we have to understand their problems. It’s never easy.”

Charlotte Ameringer ’88 works small. As chief conservator at the Portland Art Museum, she recently spent nine months ever so gently removing varnish from a painting in Monet’s famous “Waterlilies” series.

Anti-ageism activist Ashton Applewhite K’74 is 72 and she’s good with that. The Decade of Healthy Ageing, a U.N. collaboration with the World Health Organization, recently honored her as one of its Healthy Ageing 50.

Philip O’Neill ’73 gets around. His senior year winter study at Hamilton took the Soviet studies major to Uzbekistan, a Muslim republic then part of the U.S.S.R. There, looking at the distant mountains, he asked a local what was on the other side.

Getting sent to the principal’s office in eighth grade might have been the best thing that ever happened to Dyan Finguerra-DuCharme ’92. Her offense? She stood up in class to defend a student who was being treated unfairly.

Scott Havens ’95 calls centerfield home. As president of business operations for the New York Mets, his office sits above the Citi Field bleachers that host the team’s 7 Line Army fan group.