Meet a Few of the College's Newest Alumni

Name: Jeymi Menendez Solorzano

Degree: B.A. in Psychology

Hometown: Santa Ana, El Salvador and Riverdale, Maryland

Plans For After Graduation:

Pursuing a master's degree in Counseling and Human Services at Lehigh University, while also working to make counseling services more available to minority populations and increase higher education in underrepresented communities

Name: Emilia Guevara

Degree: Ph.D. in Sociocultural Anthropology

Hometown: Arlington, Virginia and Mexico City, Mexico

Plans For After Graduation:

Applying her research skills and knowledge in health to continue to work on centering perspectives from historically marginalized populations, and dismantling systems of oppression

Name: Brynn Larimer

Degree: B.A. in Government and Politics

Hometown: Agoura Hills, California

Plans For After Graduation:

Job hunting to launch a career in nonprofits and advocacy, as well as apartment hunting, meeting new people, and traveling

Name: Alyssa Pasta

Degree: B.A. in Hearing & Speech Sciences & B.S. in Family Science

Hometown: Edgewater, Maryland 

Plans For After Graduation:

Beginning the Doctoral Program in Clinical Audiology (CAUD) in Fall 2023, sharing her passion for the field, and learning how to be a well-rounded clinician

Name: Allison Godsey

Degree: B.A. in Hearing and Speech Sciences

Hometown: Frederick, Maryland

Plans For After Graduation:

Attending UMD in the fall to pursue a master's degree in Speech-Language Pathology, to ultimately become a Speech-Language Pathologist

Name: Janna Chapman

Degree: B.S. in Geographical Sciences, Environmental Science and Technology

Hometown: Severn, Mayland

Plans For After Graduation:

Continuing her studies at UMD in the Department of Geographical Sciences' B.S./M.S. program

Name: Edward Olivares

Degree: Ph.D. in Economics

Hometown: Fredericksburg, Virginia

Plans For After Graduation:

Taking a short jaunt overseas with his wife before beginning work as an economist at the U.S. Department of the Treasury

Name: Kassidy Jacobs

Degree: B.A. in Government & Politics, Criminology & Criminal Justice

Hometown: Baltimore, Maryland

Plans For After Graduation:

Spending a gap year working in the social justice space, then applying to law school to specialize in public interest

Name: Aolin Jia

Degree: Ph.D. in Geographical Sciences

Hometown: Jining, Shandong Province, China

Plans For After Graduation:

Seeking postdoctoral positions to gain valuable work experience, and ultimately pursuing a tenure-track position

Name: Seula Kim

Degree: Ph.D. in Economics

Hometown: Seoul, South Korea

Plans For After Graduation:

Pursuing unexplored research agendas in the fields of firm dynamics, innovation, and macroeconomics; discovering long-lost hobbies; and acting as a postdoctoral researcher at Princeton University before joining Pennsylvania State University as an assistant professor of economics in the fall of 2024

Name: Thomas Le

Degree: Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology

Hometown: Clifton, Virginia

Plans For After Graduation:

Researching and teaching in tenure-track assistant professor position in Bryn Mawr College's Department of Psychology, as well as providing therapy at Bryn Mawr Psychological Associates to increase support for communities of color and LGBTQ+ individuals

Name: Nina St. Hillaire

Degree: B.S. in Anthropology, Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics

Hometown: Ellicott City, Maryland

Plans For After Graduation:

Pursuing a Ph.D. in Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University in the fall, with the aim of eventually becoming a professor

Name: SoRelle Gaynor

Degree: Ph.D. in Government and Politics

Hometown: Austin, Texas

Plans For After Graduation:

Wrapping up her first years on the tenure track as an assistant professor of political science at College of the Holy Cross in Massachusetts, and catching up on reading and writing

Name: Faustina Arrossi

Degree: B.A. in Sociology & Psychology

Hometown: Annapolis, Maryland

Plans For After Graduation:

Traveling to Israel and Greece, living in D.C. to work in Human Resources, and working toward her master's degree in Industrial/Organizational Psychology

Name: Racheli Cohen

Degree: B.A. in Government & Politics, Sociology

Hometown: Newton, Massachusetts

Plans For After Graduation:

Spending time with her family and her dog, reading, writing, hiking, traveling, and getting to try new things

Name: Katelin Tengeya

Degree: B.A. in African American Studies

Hometown: Capitol Heights, Maryland

Plans For After Graduation:

Acting as a Computational Arts & Humanities Associate with UMD's African American Experimental and Digital Humanities Initiative (AADHum), and planning to apply to Ph.D. programs in the fall

Name: Patrick Logue

Degree: B.S. in Geospatial Data Science, Computer Science

Hometown: Norcross, Georgia

Plans For After Graduation:

Exploring Europe in the summer, beginning his first job as a software engineer, and excitedly learning and growing when working on projects for his own self-fulfillment

Name: Caroline Tristani

Degree: B.A. in Criminology and Criminal Justice

Hometown: Waldorf, Maryland

Plans For After Graduation:

Traveling to Southeast Asia, expanding her knowledge on different cultures to better combat transnational crime, and potentially serving as a federal government program analyst assisting at-risk communities