NWS Stories

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."

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!

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.

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. 🇱🇧

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."

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.

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.

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.

Dara Pressley ’89

Dara Pressley is a designer and architect. Not of brick-and-mortar buildings but of digital spaces. She designs user-friendly, human-centered websites

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