"SDS keeps you informed, engaged, and excited — Who doesn't want to be a part of that?"

If you can't find entrepreneur and Krieger School alumna Leslie Farnsworth at one of the two Houston-based firms she founded, turn your eyes northeast. Far northeast. To Baltimore, where she leads the Second Decade Society, a leadership development board for alumni 10 to 20 years out.

"Leslie has come to campus and to so many events over the past year, it's been extraordinary," says Lindsay Esposito, assistant director for volunteer leadership in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences and manager of the Second Decade Society. "She places Hopkins at the forefront of what she does."

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