Honors College Alumni

By the time you’ve graduated from the Honors College, you’ll have significant experience under your belt. The type of experience you need to become an expert in your field. The type of experience that will make you a stand-out candidate for a post-grad job or graduate program.

Honors College Alumni Outcomes

Honors College graduates are innovators, creative thinkers, and changemakers. A College of Charleston education empowers alumni to chart their own course after graduation and make an impact on the world.
  • Leaders in their Field

    • Michael Shemtov ’00, restaurateur and James Beard Award national finalist
    • Stephanie Wheeler ’03, Distinguished Professor and Associate Director of the Lineberger Cancer Center at the University of North Carolina
    • Canyon Barry '16, Accomplished systems engineer and Team USA Olympian
    • Steve Swanson '89, Co-founder of Automated Trading Desk (ATD)
    • Caroline Kenny '15, White House Producer with NBC News
    • Leanna Conti McCall '19, President, Advisor Marketplace at Advisor.com
    • Evelyn Berry ’16, Published poet and National Endowment for the Arts creative writing fellow
    • Trey Eppes '05, Managing Director at JP Morgan
    • Mackenzie Schaich ’19, Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Apple
    • Levi Vonk '15, Medical anthropologist and creative nonfiction author
    • Jenessa Gjeltema 04, Head Veterinarian for the Sacramento Zoo
    • Caroline Horres '12, Policy Advisor with the U.S. Treasury Department
    • Abigail Reeves '20, Schmidt Science Fellow

  • Excelling in Graduate Programs

    • Ashley Grant '26, PhD in Geologic Sciences, Cornell University
    • Ella Jennings '26, PhD in Chemistry, Vanderbilt University 
    • Adeline Rios '25, Master of Latin American Studies, Oxford University
    • Bailey Brewer '25, Master of Public Health, Brown University
    • Della Evans '25, PhD in Cancer Biology, Emory University
    • Thomas Walter '24, Doctor of Medicine, Yale School of Medicine
    • James Dockery '24, PhD in Astrophysics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    • Megan Waller '24, Master of Pediatric Nursing, Yale School of Nursing
    • Lucas Moyon '23, Master of Public Policy/Master of Business Administration, Harvard University
    • Andrea Kimpson ‘23, Master of Public Policy, University of Chicago
    • Peyton Baxley '23, Master of Human Rights Studies, Columbia University
    • Zachary Kronsberg '22, Juris Doctor, Georgetown University
    • Morgan Walker '22, Master of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine
    • Allyson Pace ‘21, Veterinary Medicine, the Royal Veterinary College of London
    • Tanner Crunelle '20, PhD in English Language and Literature, Cornell University
    • Zainab Dossaji ‘20, Juris Doctor, University of Michigan Law School
    • Alexandra Helfgott ’19, Master of Public Policy in Global Affairs at Yale’s Jackson School of Global Affairs
    • Katherine Duchinski ‘19, PhD in Bioinformatics and Integrative Genomics, Harvard University

  • Making an Impact

    • Arlinda Locklear ’76, Renowned lawyer and the first Native American woman to argue before the U.S. Supreme Court
    • Aaron M. Blackshaw ‘12, Emergency Medicine Physician with Mid-Atlantic Emergency Medical Associates
    • Jasmin Graham '17, Marine biologist, co-founder and CEO of Minorities in Shark Science
    • Madeline Edwards '16, Freelance journalist based on Beirut
    • Julie Grier-Villatte ’04, CEO of the childcare nonprofit Whole Child International
    • Andrew Spector '15, Co-founder and former program director of Tulsa Changemakers
    • Colleen Condon '92, Award-winning family law attorney and marriage equality advocate
    • Lexi Drumm '25, Law school student at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law and advocate for fair student athlete compensation
    • Madeline Leibin '18, Civil rights attorney
    • Melissa Siegel '03, Professor of Migration Studies at Maastricht University & UNU-MERIT
    • Maggie Panetta '17, Program Officer with the International Rescue Committee

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Learn to Blaze a Trail

A shark expert with a published memoir and her own PBS miniseries, Jasmin Graham is making marine science more accessible and changing our relationship with sharks.

Meet Jasmin Graham '17
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Learn to Excel

A standout systems engineer who graduated from the College with a degree in physics and a 4.0 GPA, Canyon Barry went on to represent Team USA at the 2024 summer Olympics.

Meet Canyon Barry '16
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Learn to be Bold

Gnessa Gjeltema triple-majored in philosophy, business administration, and international business, all while maintaining her passion for animals. She’s now a world class veterinarian.

Meet Jenessa Gjeltema '04
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