When the Class of 2018 graduates on May 12, it will cap off four incredible years of learning, growth, and transformation.
These students came to Macalester for a host of reasons—to challenge themselves academically, to immerse themselves in a global community, to compete in a sport at the college level, or because they visited campus as a high school student and simply fell in love. Over four years here, they explored the Twin Cities, volunteered with nonprofits, conducted and published original research, changed their majors and added a minor (or two), discovered their passions and found their callings.
Now they’re heading off into the world, carrying with them the lessons learned in and out of the classroom as they pursue careers in tech, enroll in graduate school, manage nonprofit work, accept officer roles in the military, volunteer with the Peace Corps, conduct research with the NIH, and more.
A number of grads will be joining prominent organizations and companies like Google, the Mayo Clinic, and Americorps, while others will continue their educations at universities including New York University, the University of California–Berkeley, and the London School of Economics.
Here, by major, is a sampling of where the Class of 2018 will be putting to work their gifts, curiosity, and knowledge.
Biology
Jaime Hasama, Kipsu
Joseph Harman, Rebiotix
Jared Taitt, Okada Lab at University of California–San Francisco
Lea Davidson, State Department Critical Language Scholar
Kelsey Porter, Exploration Summer Programs
Matthew Glasenapp, University of California–Santa Cruz
Danny Baumann, Phoenix Company
Chemistry
Caroline Duncombe, National Institutes of Health, Tuberculosis Research Section
Chinese
Mary Fisher, UnitedHealth Group
Economics
Emma Toomer, Halfaker & Associates
Alex Baretta, Diversant LLC
Chen Jianhong, Ecolab
Clara Baumann, Piper Jaffray
Genevieve Benford Gregorich, Federal Reserve Bank
Gupta Anandi, Analysis Group
Jacob Burke, TD Securities
John (Gunnar) Doak, US Bank
John Buan, United Health Care
Joshua Doyle, Ernst & Young
Lily Stein, Evive
Tristan Springer, Ovativ Group
Van Anh Thi Le, Analysis Group
Cash Mcgregor, Clinical Scribes LLC
Aaron Imholte, UnitedHealth Group
Alex Baretta, Diversant LLC
English
Mary Kenney, EXPLO at Yale
Environmental Studies
Shelby Whiterby, Environmental Engineering at the University of California–Berkeley
Zach Moore, Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality
Carmen Garson-Shumway, Peace Corps
Elliot Tanin, 4UR Ranch
Geography
Lee Guekgazian, University of California–Los Angeles
Elizabeth Roten, Metropolitan Council
Linguistics
Carolyn Siegman, Critical Language Scholarship, South Korea
Hannah Gray, Epic
Alison Chi, Capital One
History
Mara Steinitz, Repair the World Fellowship as a Food Justice Fellow in Detroit
Sarah Kolenbrander, Harvard University, Graduate School of Education
International Studies
Jessica Yost, Princeton in Africa fellow in Lusaka, Zambia
Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science
David McNichols, Epic
Cody Molho, Amazon
Corey McGinnis, Analysis Group, Denver
Madeline Abbott, University of Michigan, Biostatistics
Tuyet-Ahn Tran, London School of Economics, PhD
Brett Graham, U.S. Navy
Grace Dickman, University of North Carolina
Nick McMullen, Alliance Residential
Neuroscience
Collin Brantner, Hospital for Special Surgery
Ionatan Kuperwajs, New York University
Matthew Bonazzoli, Concord
Sean Hayes, Clinical Scribe LLC
Liam Peebles, Steadman Philipon Orthopedic Surgery Clinic
Physics and Astronomy
Brian Eisner, University of Virginia
Alex Gordon, AmeriCorps
Catie Ball, Cornell University
Theo Jacobson, University of Minnesota
Psychology
Jacob Jones, Keyence
Eva Harmon, Deloitte Consulting LLP
Sarah Matzdorf, Regions Hospital
Russian Studies
Anna Ivanov, Harvard University, Graduate School in Slavic Languages and Literatures
Sociology
Logan Tootle, Safe Harbor Youth Advocate with the Minnesota Indian Women
Austin Dischinger, Tubman
April 30 2018
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