NWS Stories

Jordan Spencer '12

"Hi, my name is Jordan Spencer and I graduated from Northwest in 2012. I took more of an alternative path and went to trade school instead of 4 year college, where I studied Fire Science and Prehospital Emergency Medicine."

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Julia Hess '18

“Hi, my name is Julia Hess and I graduated from Northwest in 2018. I majored in Sociology at Whitman College, and am currently a Program Coordinator at the Pahara Institute."

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Nathan May '13

“Hi, my name is Nathan and I graduated from NWS in 2013. I majored in English Literature at UPenn. I am currently finishing up my last year of law school at Stanford."

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Lila Forde '17

Hi, my name is Lila Forde and I graduated from NWS in 2017! I am a full-time musician based in Los Angeles, CA and was a contestant on Season 24 of @nbcthevoice!

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Ursula Collins-Laine '16

Meet Northwest Alum ‘16 Ursula: “Hi, my name is Ursula Collins-Laine and I graduated from Northwest in 2016. I double majored in Cinema and Media Studies & East Asian Area Studies at USC.

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Hantong Wu '19

Hi, my name is Hantong Wu and I graduated from Northwest in 2019. I recently graduated from Amherst College where I studied Asian Civilizations and Languages (Arabic) and Political Science. I’m now a Freelance Journalist based in Beirut, Lebanon. 🇱🇧

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Yibing (Rebecca) Chen ‘18

“Hi, my name is Yibing Chen (aka Rebecca) and I graduated from Northwest in 2018. I just graduated from Columbia University in 2022 where I majored in Computer Science, and started my career as a technology Product Manager at Microsoft."

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Alden Keefe Sampson '09

After working at several software technology companies including Crashlytics, Twitter, and Drift, Alden co-founded Upstream Tech to apply advanced data analysis to our planet’s most pressing environmental challenges.

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Shirin Etessam '84

Shirin helps companies define and tell their brand and product stories. Her clients have included Facebook, StubHub, Intel, ServiceNow, Virgin, RingCentral, ABC, CBS, BBC, and Discovery.

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Andrew Miksys '87

Though his photographs are realistic and often have a political or social subtext, Andrew Miksys ’87 does not identify as a photojournalist.

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