Alumni

Danyelle Thomas (BS, Biochemistry 2007) discusses her career in improving the health outcomes of underserved communities.

Dillon Gisch (B.A. 2013, summa cum laude, Classical Studies and Art History) won the Arthur Ross/Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize! 

Award-winning screenwriter, playwright and novelist La'Chris Jordan, (BA, Communications, 2001), tells a timely and personal story in her debut short film.

“Something I hear all the time is that those who are closest to the pain and to the solution are furthest from the power to make the change,” says De’Sean Quinn, a Tukwila City Councilmember.

Julia-Grace Sanders (BA, Communications, 2017) discusses her experience as a journalist in Cambodia and the United States.

Mona Lee Locke, UW President Ana Mari Cauce, Seattle Storm co-owner Dawn Trudeau and Seattle fashion designer Luly Yang (BFA, Graphic Design, 1990) comment on hop topics, including masks as a fashion accessory, favorite Halloween costumes, traveling for the holidays and more.

Named one of Puget Sound Business Journal's "40 under 40," as the chief strategy officer and chief of staff for Seattle Foundation, Michele Frix (BA, International Studies, 2007) lead the Seattle Foundations efforts after Covid-19 made its way to the region.

Named one of Puget Sound Business Journal's "40 under 40," as the chief strategy officer and chief of staff for Seattle Foundation, Michele Frix (BA, International Studies, 2007) lead the Seattle Foundations efforts after Covid-19 made its way to the region.

Louie Tan Vital (MPA, 2019 | BA, Political Science and Comparative History of Ideas, 2016) discusses her own experience with generational differences in Asian American voting trends. 

Strategists on opposites sides of the political aisle co-teach a course on political campaigns.Good thing they're close friends. 

Rainn Wilson, a UW School of Drama alumnus, discusses his life and career. 

Hana Ra, UW Biology ’20 alumna, discusses her involvement with the OceanEYEs Citizen Science Project.

As a kid growing up in Kennewick, Danielle Reed (BA, Psychology, 1984), was drawn to eating kale, dandelion and other sharp-flavored greens—but their bitter taste repelled most of her friends. That made her wonder why. When she was a student at the UW in the 1980s, she learned about the study of physiological psychology, or the biological explanations for how our minds work. Next came the opportunity to conduct research that examined animals’ food intake and what drove their approach to food.

Free-jazz pioneer Gary Peacock (BS, Biology, 1976), has passed away.

She's spent little time in Latin America and her Spanish, by her own account, is just “mas o menos.” She’d never coaxed a deal out of proud, broke governments. Yet in a single week, Jennifer O’Neil (BS, Mathematical Biology, '02), helped seal the debt restructuring of Argentina and Ecuador, propelling her into prominence at BlackRock Inc. and in the clubby, male-dominated world of sovereign bond negotiations.