Alumni Stories

If you’ve ever had a past connection to a great teacher, coach, manager, or alma mater, keep reading. The following is a reflection and testimony on how linking to your past can create clarity and purpose for your future. …

As a graduate of the Class of 2021, the professional world that awaited Kevin Fontenot was a far cry from what had been expecting when he started at UT Austin. …

If people are important enough to ask for money, are they important enough to your organization to know how they feel? — With graduation coming, it’s time to start thinking about the thousands of donors — that is, alumni — entering the workforce and about to be added to mailing lists. Don’t forget that these recent students may be loaded with college debt and looking for their first full-time job. …

An Interview with Chance Healy, Partner at 1776 by David Burke Back in March of 2022, our students were fortunate to have been given a tour of 1776 by David Burke, a new and unique restaurant/gold experience located in Morristown, NJ, by Alum Chance Healy. After about four years of…

Going from Teacher to Technology Researcher Lorie Whitaker, HCDE Masters, 2008, Staff UX Researcher, Okta Research is my second career. I am a teacher at heart, but appreciate how teaching brought me to the role I have today. ALB: Tell me about your background? Lorie: I started out as a…

Harvard, MIT, and Wellesley Student Body Presidents Urge Us to Recognize the Black Alumni who Paved the Way for their Historic Elections As Black students elected to be Presidents of Harvard, MIT, and Wellesley, we’ve often been looked to as voices of both our student bodies and the Black community…

On November 4, 2021, World Learning celebrated the 75th anniversary of the Fulbright Program through the Fulbright Specialist Program (FSP) Alumni Forum, a virtual event that brought together four Fulbright Specialist alumni to present their work in a diverse range of fields and highlight how Fulbrighters are leading the way…

You are a Doctor of Pharmacy. After your doctorate, you enrolled in a Master in Strategic Management at HEC. What was your motivation? When I studied pharmacy at Paris 5 Université Descartes Sorbonne, I got to learn that developing drugs is a complex process that does not only require finding the…