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 […]
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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 […]
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August 16, 2019
College Chronicles: 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 […]
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August 10, 2019
College Chronicles: 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.
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August 10, 2019
College Chronicles: 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.
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August 10, 2019
College Chronicles: 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.
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August 10, 2019
College Chronicles: 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.”
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August 10, 2019
College Chronicles: 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.
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August 10, 2019
College Chronicles: Kendall Bell (’15): Duke University
Community beyond classrooms
By his own admission, Kendall Bell wasn’t exactly sure what he was looking for at the outset of his college process.
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