Alumni Spotlight Archives

September 14, 2020

Re-working the System

Brianna Gaddy ‘12 is a lawyer with a mission. Her goal? To fight systemic racism to create a more inclusive and equitable legal system for all—one judicial outcome, one policy at a time. Gaddy did not always know she wanted to be a lawyer. A love of language and international travel—first ignited during her time at CA, thanks […]

April 20, 2020

Selling a brighter future

A sustainable energy advocate, Jared Carson (’08) is in the future-selling business—one major corporation, one bank of electric vehicle charging stations at a time. Currently, Carson works for sustainable energy giant Enel, in their Enel X e-Mobility division. There, as an account executive, he helps corporations think broadly about their ecological footprint with an aim […]

August 16, 2019

Lex-Jordan Ibegbu (‘08) University Of North Carolina At Chapel Hill & University Of Miami Law School

Vision, ambition, and will Lex-Jordan Ibegbu transferred into CA from public school his freshman year.“College choice is all about what you are exposed to,” Ibegbu explains. “Prior to CA, I didn’t really know what college I wanted to go to. I had always assumed I’d go to Shaw University. My parents attended Shaw University. I […]

August 10, 2019

Andy Walsh (’09) North Carolina State University & University Of North Carolina Law School

Something to Prove

By his junior year at CA, Andy Walsh was grappling with his future. An accomplished hockey player, he toyed with the idea of taking a gap year to play competitively.

August 10, 2019

Ritu Prasad (’10) : University Of Chicago Northwestern University, Medill School Of Journalism

Following her heart

The importance of college was always at the forefront of Ritu Prasad’s CA experience.

August 10, 2019

Ben Hatfield (‘14): United States Air Force Academy

Lifelong dreamer

When Ben Hatfield was a toddler, his parents took him to an air show at Andrews Air Force base. He immediately loved seeing all the planes flying in the air and his love of all things aeronautic was locked in.

August 10, 2019

Ziyana Greene (’18): Agnes Scott College

A New Perspective

Ziyana Greene knew what she wanted for college: a small private school with resources on par with a larger university and a diverse student community. She’d always assumed that she’d find that experience at a historically black college or university (HBCU). It was a shock, then, when touring, she found that “despite being great schools, they just didn’t feel right. They didn’t click for me.”

August 10, 2019

Deming Haines (’17): Colorado College

An alternative approach

By all accounts, the last few years of Deming Haines’s CA experience were challenging ones. In 2014, he had transferred into CA as a junior—a tricky transition in and of itself—made all the more difficult by a serious medical condition. He was grappling with post-concussive syndrome which left him with debilitating daily headaches. The headaches would prove so disruptive as to necessitate repeating his junior year.