2014 Alumni Medalist Fred Strype ’02SOA
Channel: Columbia Alumni
Date: 2014-12-12

Fred Strype ’02SOA is an award-winning screenwriter and  filmmaker whose work has been screened and honored internationally. He is a tenured professor at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, NY, where he heads their Filmmaking,
Screenwriting & Media Arts Program. Strype served on the faculty of the School of the Arts Graduate Film Division where he earned his MFA in 2002. He was
appointed Chairman of Columbia’s Alumni Trustee Nominating Committee where he was a member for eight years. He was also on the initial ad hoc committee to help draft the documents that would eventually launch the Columbia Alumni Association.