Janie Porche

This includes working with the news and content team, curating the College homepage, making COVID TikToks, and overseeing writing and design for departments across campus, including admissions. 

Elsewhere on campus, Janie is a College House advisor for Baxter House, and served as a staff mentor, or Cub Connector, for the first floor of Coleman Hall. She recently served on the planning committee for the inauguration of Safa Zaki, and the working group for First-Year Registration and Advising. Her work has won Webby and CASE awards, but she cares only about the very highest campus honor: being asked to take a shift in the Block Party Dunk Tank.

Janie began her career in advertising, which was barely tolerable. She transitioned to 15 years on the “good side”: higher education design and strategy, branding, recruiting materials, websites, alumni communications, speechwriting, and fundraising. Then she met Bowdoin folks, and the rest is history.

Raised by a liberal arts college staff member, she's managed to find a way to eat in dining halls and hang out in college libraries since the age of 13. 

Janie, her wife, and their (perfect) dog, Bayou, moved from Chicago to Brunswick in 2018, and they love Maine's friendliness, scenery, flannel, and sun—yes, even in winter.

She is vying with Jen Swanda to be the easternmost superfan of the San Antonio Spurs.