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Boston, Massachusetts
Ceceilia Allwein is a 2006 Point Scholar, who received her B.Mus. in Vocal Performance and Music Theory from New England Conservatory. She began her career as a classical vocalist, performing and producing events ...
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New York, NY
Point Alumnus Diego Arango studied architecture as an undergraduate student at Columbia University. He graduated in 2012, and currently works in design at Joeb Moore & Partners, a Greenwich, CT firm specializing in modern, high end residential architecture.
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Los Angeles, CaliforniaDavid oversees the account services department at Kern. He is responsible for direct marketing strategic planning and implementation for B2B...
Boston, MassachusettsCydney is a technology executive with over 25 years of experience delivering enterprise services and leading professional services organizations...
San Francisco, CaliforniaAngela Clements, a 2007 Point Scholar, grew up in a small farming community in rural Nebraska. While in college at the University of Nebraska...
Cambridge, MassachusettsSara DeBrule works for HireMinds in Cambridge, MA as a contract recruiter specializing in marketing, advertising and creative roles across all industries. She began her...
Los Angeles, CaliforniaBrian Dent is a Vice President – Investments, with UBS Financial Services in Beverly Hills, CA. He has been working in the area of financial planning and...
San Francisco, CaliforniaJohn Downey is currently a resident radiologist at Stanford University Medical Center. With a background in public health, John’s current research interests are in minimizing disparities in...
Washington, DCCelina Gerbic has served on the Point Foundation’s DC Host Committee for the past 3 years, leading straight ally outreach in 2011 and corporate sponsorships in 2010. She is also the current Co-Chair...
Seattle, WashingtonJesse Gilliam co-founded the Day of Silence in 1996 when an undergraduate at the University of Virginia. For eight years he worked on gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender youth issues...
Washington, DCScott Guzielek is the Artistic Administrator of Washington National Opera after serving as Artistic Administration Manager since 2006. He joined the company full-time in 2002...
Washington, DCJack Jacobson is a legislative analyst with the government relations group at Hogan Lovells, a prominent global law firm. Jack’s lobbying practice focuses on emerging technologies...
New York, New YorkPeter Lease is Ernst & Young’s People Leader for the Northeast Sub-area. In that role, he leads human resource functions by overseeing all aspects of talent management...
Los Angeles, CaliforniaDean Marks is Senior Vice President, Intellectual Property for Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. He is responsible for establishing and guiding many of Warner Bros.’ business practices with...
Austin, TexasRyan A. Miller, Ed.M., serves as Associate Director for Campus Diversity and Strategic Initiatives at The University of Texas at Austin in the Division of Diversity and Community...
Chicago, IllinoisTimothy E. O'Connell, Ph.D., is Professor of Ethics at Loyola University Chicago, with teaching responsibilities in the School of Business Administration and the Institute of Pastoral...
New York, New YorkPatrick is a Principal in the New York office of Deloitte & Touche (Deloitte) and provides advisory and attest services to large, multi-national clients in the manufacturing industry...
Los Angeles, CaliforniaJim brought to his business, his natural ability to cultivate business relationships into long term contracts that would continue to grow his enterprise into a stable and established business...
Boston, MassachusettsRodney currently works as a VP Associate Creative Director at Mullen Advertising in Boston. Graduating with a degree in English and Theater, Rodney originally worked throughout New England as...
Chicago, IllinoisCasey Ryan is a Director and foreign exchange team leader for Wells Fargo’s Corporate foreign exchange and risk management bank group. Casey leads a team of foreign exchange...
Washington, DCAimee B. Schimmel is the associate director of Information Technology (IT) at Paralyzed Veterans of America (Paralyzed Veterans), the only congressionally chartered veterans...
New York, New YorkA native of Las Vegas, Nevada, Jonah Trout now resides in New York City. Jonah is an Associate in the Bank Applications Function of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York ...
San Francisco, CaliforniaSusan von Herrmann is a partner and a member of Fitzgerald Abbott & Beardsley LLP Estates & Trusts Prac tice Group. She focuses on estate planning and trust administration...
Boston, MassachusettsScott White works for HireMinds in Cambridge, MA as an executive search consultant specializing in communications, marketing, advertising, and media across all industries. He has...
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