Vanessa Freytag ’86 has been named CEO of 4C for Children, a Cincinnati-based nonprofit focused on early childhood education and care. Freytag previously served as the executive director of the Women’s Fund of the Greater Cincinnati Foundation.

Ambassador Andrew Winter ’68 has earned the American Foreign Service Association Achievement and Contributions to the Association Award. During his 30-year career in the Foreign Service Winter served as a deputy assistant secretary in three countries, traveled to more than 100 countries and served as ambassador to Gambia.

John Gilbertson ’79 has been named board chair of the Chicago-based Shedd Aquarium. A recently retired Goldman Sachs executive, Gilbertson has since 2000 been a board member of the aquarium, one of the largest indoor aquariums in the world with 5 million gallons and more than 32,500 animals.

Cleveland Plain Dealer health journalist Brie Zeltner ’01 earned the inaugural Urban Health Journalism Prize from the New York Academy of Medicine for her September 2014 article, “More than half of Cleveland kids live in poverty, and it’s making them sick.” The piece examined the numbers and some solutions experts propose to alleviate the stress of poverty among children.

Becca Heller ’05 has earned the 2015 Charles Bronfman Prize for her humanitarian work as director and cofounder of the International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP) at the New York City-based Urban Justice Center. Since its founding in 2008, IRAP has resettled more than 2,500 refugees and provided more than $10 million in legal aid to refugees worldwide.

Michael Blum ’15 of Great Neck, New York, has been named DownBeat Magazine’s Rising Star Guitarist in its annual critics poll. His first jazz album, Initiation, includes “Six Weeks,” which Blum wrote in a music class at Dartmouth. His second album, Commitment, features music professor Fred Haas on sax.

Kevin Swallow ’09 has been named head coach of the men’s hockey team of the University of New England in Biddeford, Maine. Most recently Swallow was the head coach at Nichols College, where he led the team to consecutive ECAC championships and earned ECAC Northeast Coach of the Year honors.