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After three years of people-centered professional and academic experience, Anna Goula ’22 is preparing to pursue a career characterized by mission and impact work. She’ll hone her communication and analytical skills after graduation at Columbia University’s School of Professional Studies, where she will work toward her master of science in nonprofit management.

As someone who assesses his work by the good it achieves, school social worker Chris Walsh ’80 had more successes than he will ever know; he’s also had plenty of affirmation.

Riley Nichols ’21 will be taking a position as a progressive education fellow at Buxton School this fall. Here, Nichols describes her passion for education and how it was shaped by her time at Hamilton.

Emily Goldberg is a 2016 graduate who majored in Chinese language and literature. During her time at Hamilton, she was a tour guide, director of the Sidekicks Mentoring Program, an executive board member of Hamilton Association for Volunteering, Outreach, and Charity (HAVOC, as well as an intern at Hope House Utica. She is currently a teacher at Achievement First located in the Brooklyn, New York area.

Bridget White graduated from Hamilton in 2007 with a major in world politics. Her campus activities included membership in the Hamilton College Choir and Orchestra, Tumbling After, Spanish Club, and the Peer Tutoring Program. She was also inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa and Pi Sigma Alpha honor societies. With previous experience working with Teach For America and Excel Academy Charter Schools, she is currently the director of talent at Vista College Prep.

Kyandreia Jones graduated from Hamilton in 2019 with a degree in creative writing. During her time at Hamilton, she was a Posse scholar, a Writing Center tutor, and had many of her works published in school publications such as The Spectator, Red Weather, and Grasping Roots. She also wrote her first book, Choose Your Own Adventure SPIES: James Armistead Lafayette during her final year.

Determined to change the education system for low-income students and students of color, Osvaldo Adames ’15 took a job teaching eighth-grade math at the Bronx School for Law, Government and Justice — his alma mater. There, he quietly nurtured a goal: to have his students take the state Algebra 1 exam in eighth-grade rather than ninth, which was typical at the school.

This summer, Kelli Mackey ’20 is participating in an educational internship with St. Paul’s School. She helps teach summer boarding school students and supervises them outside of classes, developing her leadership and instruction capabilities.

Meredyth Ohringer ’17, who is about halfway through a graduate program in early childhood education, remembers when her interest in teaching crystallized. It was during an internship while she was in Hamilton’s New York City Program.

Laura Becker ‘16 graduated with a major in Chinese. Laura shares how her teaching others taught her about herself.