Ep 3: Messy Heroines, Beloved Colleagues & Lost in Oaxaca (with Alicia Hayes)

Doug Reads With Friends · Feb 6, 2026 · 39m

Episode 3: Lost in Oaxaca (with Alicia Hayes)

In Episode 3 of Doug Reads With Friends, Doug is joined by Alicia Hayes—one of the most admired (and most universally liked) people in the world of fellowships advising, and a longtime friend from their shared professional home: NAFA, the National Association of Fellowships Advisors.

Alicia chose Lost in Oaxaca by Jessica Winters Mireles, a romance novel set in a place that feels vivid enough to become a character of its own. Doug and Alicia talk about how they both “fell into” scholarship advising, what keeps Alicia motivated after more than two…