Jimmy Rodewald, a Bard graduate, returned to Bard in the summer of 2015.

A writer, editor and author, Jimmy Rodewald’s journalism career has taken him all over the world—as a reporter at Sports Illustrated (1986-1996) and an editor at Gourmet magazine (1998-2009)—and in June 2015 it brought him back to Annandale, where he is an editor in the Bard College Publications Department.

A four-year starter in goal as a Bard undergraduate, Rodewald later played in an indoor league in Phoenix while in graduate school, and also played in Northern Mexico with a Santa Fe, New Mexico–based men’s team. He has coached youth-team and high school goalkeepers in the Southwest and at Notre Dame School of Manhattan.

He published his book, American Spirit: An Exploration of the Craft Distilling Revolution(Sterling), in 2014.