Alumni Accolades June 2016

Sulekha Ramayya (2012) graduated as Valedictorian from the University of Southern California and had the opportunity to address a crowd of over 65,000. Read more about her story.

Jolene Loetscher (1997) and her husband Nate Burdine, owners of Mud Mile Communications in South Dakota, won a Telly award for the 2015 Scholars Weekend video they produced for the Coca-Cola Scholars Foundation! Jolene and Nate received a Telly award for the 2014 Scholars Weekend video last year as well. Telly awards honor the very best film & video productions, groundbreaking online video content, and outstanding local, regional, and cable TV commercials and programs.

Brendon Yu (2010) works for the Cleveland Cavaliers and got this photo with the trophy when the team beat the Warriors in the NBA finals last week!

Elizabeth Walker (1989) sent up a powerful flare coast-to-coast with her moving reflection on leadership, life and service in an eloquent appeal to her alma mater, Harvard University, to rebalance its honor roll. Harvard published her op-ed in the Commencement edition of the University paper, and it has since been shared across more than 15 universities, including NYU, Yale, Notre Dame, Stanford, UNC, Cornell, Columbia, Johns Hopkins, UVA, Duke, Georgetown, Vassar, Brown, and the London School of Economics.