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Alumni Spotlight

What you learn at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Honors College can take you anywhere.

Honors College Alumni Are...


Innovators. Creative thinkers. Changemakers. A ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø education empowers alumni to chart their own course after graduation and make an impact on the world.
  • 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

  • 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

  • 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