As CEO of Oklahoma-based Sway Medical, Chase Curtiss ’06 is using new technology and his experience as an athlete to help others use their smartphones to assess neurological conditions and injuries.

If there’s anyone whose career demonstrates the value of the liberal arts, it’s Tony Gómez ’93. Today, he’s associate director of education at Tacoma Arts Live, but his career also has included being a K-12 teacher, arts administrator, percussionist, and PBS education producer.

A summer volunteer experience before her first year in college got Anna Dunlap ’16 hooked on Thailand. Now she works as director of recruitment and development for Teach Thailand Corps, placing U.S. college graduates in underdeveloped provinces to teach English and other subjects to schoolkids.

Andrew Lofton ’72 spent 47 years in public service, working for two Seattle mayors and learning the Seattle Housing Authority.

Kyra Riste-Pater Bussanich ’00 has won "Cupcake Wars" four times and opened two Portland, Ore., bakeries—all with gluten-free recipes.

As the new president and CEO of the Ravinia Festival, the country’s oldest music festival, Jeffrey Haydon ’97 is guided by a singular mission. “Music,” he says, “is a universal language that inspires each of us to come together, to listen more deeply, and to explore new ideas.” 

With four novels, a shelf full of anthology contributions, and a handful of original songs to her credit in the past few years, Karen Meyer Eisenbrey ’85 has enjoyed a personal and creative peak.

And she appreciates that success all the more for coming when it has. “If I had written a decent book in my 20s,” she says, “I’m not sure I would’ve had as much fun.” And she appreciates that success all the more for coming when it has. “If I had written a decent book in my 20s,” she says, “I’m not sure I would’ve had as much fun.”

Carey would soon find out that she and Ebert weren’t the only Loggers in this small seasonal community of workers and scientists; there was also the couple of Robyn Thomas ’18, a senior lab assistant at the Crary Science and Engineering Center, and Patrick Johnson ’18, a fuels operator. 

English and IPE double major Kevin Nguyen ’09 accidentally writes a novel