Alumni Spotlight
What you learn at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Honors College can take you anywhere.
Honors College Alumni Are...
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Leaders in their Field
- Michael Shemtov ’00, restaurateur and James Beard Award national finalist
Stephanie Wheeler ’03, Distinguished Professor and Associate Director of the Lineberger Cancer Center at the University of North Carolina
Canyon Barry '16, Accomplished systems engineer and Team USA Olympian
Steve Swanson '89, Co-founder of Automated Trading Desk (ATD)
Caroline Kenny '15, White House Producer with NBC News
Leanna Conti McCall '19, President, Advisor Marketplace at Advisor.com
Evelyn Berry ’16, Published poet and National Endowment for the Arts creative writing fellow
Trey Eppes '05, Managing Director at JP Morgan
Mackenzie Schaich ’19, Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Apple
Levi Vonk '15, Medical anthropologist and creative nonfiction author
Jenessa Gjeltema 04, Head Veterinarian for the Sacramento Zoo
Caroline Horres '12, Policy Advisor with the U.S. Treasury Department
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Excelling in Graduate Programs
- Adeline Rios '25, Master of Latin American Studies, Oxford University
Bailey Brewer '25, Master of Public Health, Brown University
Della Evans '25, PhD in Cancer Biology, Emory University
Thomas Walter '24, Doctor of Medicine, Yale School of Medicine
James Dockery '24, PhD in Astrophysics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Megan Waller '24, Master of Pediatric Nursing, Yale School of Nursing
Andrea Kimpson ‘23, Master of Public Policy, University of Chicago
Peyton Baxley '23, Master of Human Rights Studies, Columbia University
Zachary Kronsberg '22, Juris Doctor, Georgetown University
Morgan Walker '22, Master of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine
Allyson Pace ‘21, Veterinary Medicine, the Royal Veterinary College of London
Tanner Crunelle '20, PhD in English Language and Literature, Cornell University
Zainab Dossaji ‘20, Juris Doctor, University of Michigan Law School
Alexandra Helfgott ’19, Master of Public Policy in Global Affairs at Yale’s Jackson School of Global Affairs
Katherine Duchinski ‘19, PhD in Bioinformatics and Integrative Genomics, Harvard University
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Making a Difference
Arlinda Locklear ’76, Renowned lawyer and the first Native American woman to argue before the U.S. Supreme Court
Aaron M. Blackshaw ‘12, Emergency Medicine Physician with Mid-Atlantic Emergency Medical Associates
Jasmin Graham '17, Marine biologist, co-founder and CEO of Minorities in Shark Science
Madeline Edwards '16, Freelance journalist based on Beirut
Julie Grier-Villatte ’04, CEO of the childcare nonprofit Whole Child International
Andrew Spector '15, Co-founder and former program director of Tulsa Changemakers
Colleen Condon '92, Award-winning family law attorney and marriage equality advocate
Lexi Drumm '25, Law school student at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law and advocate for fair student athlete compensation
Madeline Leibin '18, Civil rights attorney
Melissa Siegel '03, Professor of Migration Studies at Maastricht University & UNU-MERIT
Maggie Panetta '17, Program Officer with the International Rescue Committee

Learn to Blaze a Trail
A shark expert with a published memoir and her own PBS miniseries, Jasmin Graham is making marine science more accessible and changing our relationship with sharks.

Learn to Excel
A medical internship coordinated through the Honors College boosted Tom Walter’s skills and self-confidence. He’s now applying those skills at Yale School of Medicine.

Learn to Be Bold
Strong connections with her CofC professors emboldened Zainab Dossaji to pursue her passion for legal advocacy.