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Robert Yeilding ’05
Robert Yeilding ’05 is a licensed clinical psychologist and co-founder of YCBT Services, a Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical…
Emily Frake, Cert. ’17, Ph.D. ’24
Emily Frake, Ph.D. ’24, has been hired as an assistant professor of inclusive special education at the University of Notre…
JoAnna Reyes, Ph.D. ’21
JoAnna Reyes, Ph.D. ’21, has curated an historic exhibition of Native America art, currently at the Phoenix Art Museum. Reyes,…
Nicklas Akers ’95
Nicklas Akers ’95 leads the California Attorney General’s consumer protection practice and appeared in federal court in Oakland on Aug.…
Steve Chapman '02
Steve Chapman ’02 led Natera in ringing the NASDAQ opening bell to commemorate the biotechnology company’s 10-year anniversary as a…
Katelyn Statton '23
Katelyn Statton ’23, who earned her B.A. in European languages and transcultural studies with French and Francophone, just graduated from a…
Simone Drucker, Cert. '21
Simone Drucker, Cert. ’21, started her own independent landscape architecture practice in July. Her studio, Compound Eye Landscape Architecture, began…
Justin O. Cooper, Cert. '22
Justin O. Cooper, Cert. ’22, served as producer, line producer, editor and post-production supervisor on the film “Beverly, Evelyn, Gloria…
Carri Karuhn, M.F.A. '06
A new new women’s fiction novel by New York Times best-selling author has Carri Karuhn is set to be released…
Jen Yu, MBA '11
Skincare company Jaxon Lane, founded by Jen Yu, MBA ’11, has been named one of America’s fastest growing companies by…
Cassie Craun Ferguson '99
Cassie Craun Ferguson ’99, a pediatric emergency medicine physician and professor of pediatrics at the Medical College of Wisconsin, recently…
Lisa Hartouni '80
Following a devastating series of cyberattacks that took down her digital archives, Lisa Hartouni ’80 has launched a campaign to…