Alumni Fields

  • Law

    • Rose Carmen Goldberg

      Deputy Attorney General
      Office of the California Attorney General
      Lecturer, Berkeley Law School

      Oakland, California

      “St. John’s nurtured my curiosity, and this inquisitiveness informs my work as a public interest lawyer every day.”

    • Joan Haratani

      Partner
      Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP

      San Francisco, California

      “St. John’s College gave me the quiet confidence of knowing that if I could navigate the Program successfully, nothing could intimidate me. It taught me to listen, to respect the views of others, to reject my preconceived ideas, to never stop learning and listening to the truth.”

    • Joanna Baron

      Executive Director
      Canadian Constitution Foundation

      Toronto, Ontario

      “The gravitas of seminar gave me a poise and confidence which served me everywhere from my first appearance in a criminal appeal to media interviews and everything in between.”

    • Derek Alexander

      Deputy General Counsel
      Stifel Financial Corp.

      Kew Gardens, New York

      “Researching the law and writing clean, direct, effective contracts and briefs is a craft; I enjoy making something that works, and the gradually built experience that goes into it.”

  • Education

    • Dr. Anika Prather

      Founder + Head of School
      The Living Water School

      Fort Washington, Maryland

      “I want to educate young people to [not only] know their history, but to also gain the tools to stand for equality.”

    • Mark D. Jordan

      Research professor
      Harvard Divinity School

      Cambridge, Massachusetts

      “One of the things St. John’s instilled in me was the courage to follow questions wherever they lead and not to worry about the property signs that people put up to fence off certain areas. So I started reading and just kept going.”

    • Dr. Jeffrey Seidman

      Associate Professor
      Philosophy
      Vassar College

      Poughkeepsie, New York

      As a professor at Vassar College, Jeffrey Seidman contemplates the intersection of moral philosophy, the philosophy of action, and the theory of practical rationality—as well as metaphysics, ancient philosophy, and more.

    • Dr. Daryl Haggard

      Associate Professor + Lab Director
      Physics
      McGill University

      Montreal, Quebec

      “St. John’s made me intellectually brave, and I use that [in my career] every single day.”

  • Arts & Media

    • Kate Bennett

      White House Correspondent
      CNN

      Glen Echo, Maryland

      “My career has included pop culture, glossy magazines, fashion, celebrity, politics, print, web, television, etc. And I honestly think I learned that curiosity and lack of conventional boundary at St. John’s.”

    • Zusha Elinson

      National Reporter
      Wall Street Journal

      Richmond, California

      “The practices that we learned in seminar [at St. John’s], such as listening openly and asking tough questions in a respectful manner, are some of the most valuable tools for a journalist to push beyond the simplistic divides in our country and find the most interesting stories.”

    • Lydia Polgreen

      Opinion Columnist
      New York Times

      New York, New York

      “I realized I wanted to look at and question the world just like I did at St. John’s. And to continue my inquiry because the world is open to interpretation. I had to go places and see things for myself.”

    • Salvatore Scibona

      National Book Award Finalist
      Guggenheim Fellow

      New York, New York

      “I am always asking myself if the work I'm doing matters, and if it’s true. Those are Johnnie questions, I find.”

  • Business

    • Joshua Rogers

      Founder + CEO
      Arete Wealth

      Chicago, Illinois

      “One secret about a St. John’s education is that all of the books you read are written by the wisest people to help understand people; and so if you read and listen carefully, St. John’s can be a laboratory that creates exceptional leaders.”

    • Miyoko Schinner

      Founder
      Miyoko’s Creamery

      Nicasio, California

      “At St. John’s, you learn how to learn, and you learn not to be intimidated.”

    • Jamaal Sebastian-Barnes

      Global Head
      Digital Talent Acquisition
      Novartis

      Cambridge, Massachusetts

      “I left the college with a type of reckless fearlessness about the nature of learning, and that has translated to an equally reckless fearlessness when it comes to diving into radically different industries.”

    • Jack Langworthy

      CEO
      NINAYO

      Tanzania

      “St. John’s requires students to read, write, speak, and think for themselves. That skill has been instrumental for getting NINAYO started and off the ground.”

  • Public Service

    • Roger Carstens

      U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs

      Washington, DC

      “St. John’s allowed me to tie together a lot of the things that I’ve been pondering for years and make sense of them.”

    • Lucy Tamlyn

      Chargé d’Affaires
      Republic of the Sudan

      Khartoum

      In February 2022 Lucy Tamlyn was sworn in as Chargé d’Affaires to the Republic of the Sudan—the latest step in her 40 year career in the Foreign Service

    • Melanie Santiago-Mosier

      Managing Director
      Access + Equity
      Vote Solar

      Baltimore, Maryland

      “My organization, the environmental movement, and the nation need to interrogate our approach to a clean energy transformation, in addition to many other systems. St. John's absolutely planted in me the seed for interrogating assumptions.”

    • John Sifton

      Asia Advocacy Director
      Human Rights Watch

      Washington, DC

      “So many St. John’s students say this, but it’s true: the school began to teach me how to think, how to analyze what I was thinking.”

  • Healthcare

    • Dr. Martin Gaudinski

      Medical Director
      Clinical Trials Program
      National Institutes of Health

      Bethesda, Maryland

      “The reason I go to work in the morning is to create vaccines to keep people doing what they do best—living, and living well.”

    • A.B. Singh

      Nurse Practitioner
      COVID-19 Response Team
      Boston Hope Medical Center

      Boston, Massachusetts

      “Half of the Boston Hope Medical Center is dedicated to providing care for people who are facing homelessness and are COVID positive. My job was to be their nurse, which means providing ongoing assessment and recommending treatment as appropriate.”

    • Dr. Omar S. Manejwala

      Chief Medical Officer
      DarioHealth

      Matthews, North Carolina

      “I’ve always viewed work as how we solve problems in the world, and from that lens, I can’t imagine better preparation than St. John’s.”

    • Justin Cetas

      Chair
      Department of Neurosurgery
      University of Arizona College of Medicine

      Tucson, Arizona

      “St. John’s plays a prominent role in my work life, as it taught me to think deeply across disciplines and across multiple levels of analysis.”

  • Stem

    • Dr. Michael Fausnaugh

      Research Scientist
      MIT

      Cambridge, Massachusetts

      “Results from the [Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite] mission have the potential to transform humanity's understanding of the Earth and our place in the universe … It is exciting and humbling to be part of this research.”

    • Dr. Leslie Kay

      Professor & Deputy Dean
      Psychology + Neuroscience
      University of Chicago

      Chicago, Illinois

      “Here [at St. John's] we read the seminal papers to understand the steps of reasoning that led scientists to their conclusions. We learn along the way and appreciate the outcomes of debates ... not being attracted to being right but being attracted to finding the truth, it makes the mind better at science.”

    • Kit Linton

      Vice President
      Cloud Networking
      IBM (Retired)

      Durham, North Carolina

      "I've found IT to be a rare example of a true meritocracy—an environment where talented, earnest individuals inevitably rise to the top."

    • Dr. Cynthia Keppel

      Associate Director
      Experimental Nuclear Physics
      Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility

      Newport News, Virginia

      “Scientists need to listen to their colleagues describe their theories, results, models—and try then to discern common patterns and larger truths from a multitude of puzzling data and voices. Sound like a seminar to you?”

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