Portrait of a Graduate
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Alumni Spotlight: Daria, Julia, and Miles
Read MoreNot one, but two Burke alums were SMYAL LGBT Youth Leadership Award recipients in 2024. Daria Strachan '24 received the Sophie's Live Out Loud scholarship, as "she exemplifies leadership primarily through her passion for filmmaking." Julia Vazquez-Brunetti '23 was honored for community leadership, including reinvigorating Burke's LGBTQ+ affinity group. -
Alumni Spotlights
Where the Bones Lie by Nick Kolakowski '99 comes out in March 2025 from Datura Books (a British crime imprint distributed by Penguin Random House in the US). Nick describes the novel as a "twisty California detective thriller about a burned-out Hollywood fixer." He adds, that "I owe my love of detective fiction to the Film Noir class that my dad [past faculty Paul Kolakowski] taught when I was at Burke."Read More -
Alum Spotlight: Sofia Shore '20
Sofia Shore '20 graduated from Skidmore College last spring with a degree in business and has returned to DC to work for a strategic communications firm.Read More -
Alum Spotlight: Dana Brozost-Kelleher '12
Congratulations and cheers to Dana Brozost-Kelleher '12, who has earned her second Pulitzer Prize!Read More -
Alum Spotlight: Becca McMurdie '03
Read MoreBuilding a Beak: How a Toucan’s Rescue Inspired the World (Page Street Kids, 2024) by Becca McMurdie '03 and illustrated by Diana Hernández will be released on June 11. Building a Break tells the true story of Grecia, a toucan who received a 3-D printed prosthetic beak. -
Alum Spotlight: Jay S. '22
Ursinus College's The Grizzly recently profiled sophomore Jay Sims '22, who has gone from track and field walk-on to the 2024 Centennial Conference Indoor Champion in the high jump, with a PR of 1.92 meters.Read More -
Alum Spotlight: Carl Sciacchitano '05
Read MoreCongratulations to Carl Sciacchitano '05 on his graphic memoir, The Heart That Fed: A Father, a Son, and the Long Shadow of War (Simon and Schuster, 2024). Told through the lens of the Vietnam War, the novel explores Carl's loving and tumultuous relationship with his Air Force veteran father in the following years. -
Alum Spotlight: Max S. '20
Max Streitwieser '20 recently visited Advanced Band to discuss his experiences in the NYU music business program, where he is now a senior. He also shared his own music, which he composes and performs under the artist name Nicknames. His music can be found on all streaming platforms.Read More -
Alum Spotlight: Adam Lerner '09
Congratulations to Adam Lerner, an Associate Professor at the University of Massachusetts - Lowell, on receiving the 2022 Furniss Book Award from the Mershon Center for International Security Studies at The Ohio State University.Read More
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