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After Oberlin

What lies ahead for Oberlin graduates? They’ve risen to the challenge of rigorous academics, they’ve pursued their passions and taken advantage of real-world experience, and now they’re ready to forge their own paths.

Follow recent grads as they land in highly coveted positions and career-making internships and graduate programs.

  • Aiming for the Orchestra

    Hunter Gordon ’14 studies bassoon full-time at Rice University's Shepherd School of Music, hoping to begin his career as a professional musician.

  • From Physics to Flora

    Kirsten Liebl ’13 is following her heart toward a career in horticulture, working at a series of public gardens and farms.

  • Coding and Composing

    Eli Stine ’14 unites his two passions, music and computer science, as a Jefferson Fellow in the Composition and Computer Technologies Ph.D. program at the University of Virginia.

  • Travel, Art, and Education

    Dyeemah Simmons ’14 takes her experience studying art and her love for education to Anatolia College in Greece to pass on her knowledge to the next generation of international scholars and artists.

  • Labor of Love

    Once a politics and history major, John Kallas ’14 goes from studying contemporary American union strategy to practicing it on the streets of Cleveland.

  • Seeing Results

    Rachel Marino ’13 applies her research to education programs at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, making art-based education more accessible to students and teachers alike.

  • A Formula for the Future

    Majoring in mathematics at Oberlin opens doors in every direction, giving students an adaptable problem-solving tool.

  • Analysis for Equality

    Zohra Ansari-Thomas ’14 prevents discrimination one data set at a time while creating affirmative action plans at the law firm Littler Mendelson.

  • Life in Technicolor

    Cinema studies major Alexis Gee ’14 sets off on her path to becoming a film editor with a client services position at the post-production company Technicolor-Postworks New York.

  • Get On Board

    Jack Ratner ’14 goes from computer science student to junior engineer at a start-up technology company, Bandwagon, that has introduced a ride-sharing smartphone app to reduce pollution and traffic in New York City.