Alumni & Friends

Temple Mount, or Haram esh-Sharif, in the Old City of Jerusalem.

Alumni & Friends

Our alumni are leaders in a variety of different fields and are shaping their communities and the world around them.

Alumni Career Updates

Read about where some of our recent graduates have landed:

Katie Hope (BA '20) is a Security Counselor/Forensic Support Specialist at St. Peter Regional Treatment Center.

Joe Meinholz (BA '19) works as a community organizer with MinnesotaInterfaith Power & Light, a multi-faith organization engaging a diverse array of Minnesota's spiritual and religious communities in the climate justice movement. As a community organizer, Joe convenes and organizes multi-faith activism spaces across lines of religion, race, and geography, where volunteer-led teams tackle issues like settler colonialism, fossil fuel infrastructure, and climate crisis communication within their religious communities.

Richard Pittman Jr. (BA '18) is now the youth president of the NAACP of the Roy Wilkins Branch of Saint Paul, MN. He is a member of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Inc. as well as an elder inside of the Church Of God In Christ, where he serves in multiple capacities.

Ryan Heckman (BA '14) is now a grassroots gift officer at Headwaters Foundation for Justice where he inspires giving to support nonprofit organizations working at the root causes of social injustices in Minnesota. He is also a fundraising coach with Outstanding Returns, a national philanthropic advising group.

Mayada Mahmoud (BA '12) is the administrative program manager for the Islamic Resource Group where she helps professional organizations facilitate IRG's mission to build bridges of understanding between Muslim Americans and the broader community through education.

Sara-Jo Swiatek (BA '09) is now a PhD candidate in religious ethics at the University of Chicago Divinity School. Her dissertation project, tentatively titled "Religion within the Boundaries of Technicity," explores the conditions for the possibility of moral agency in the so-called Digital Age.

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