Hannah L.
Hannah earned her BA from Yale University, where her undergrad poetry thesis won her Yale’s Frederick Mortimer Clapp Fellowship. Hannah got her MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in 2015 and is currently an English PhD candidate at the University of Virginia.
Andrew S.
Andrew holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a BA in English from Calvin University. He has taught English and Creative Writing classes at the University of Iowa and Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand, as well as tutored at Iowa’s Tippie College of Business.
Sam C.
Sam graduated with a degree in Physics from Princeton University. After graduation, she taught physics at a high school in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. She's currently pursuing her MFA in fiction at the Iowa Writers' Workshop.
Beth C.
Beth graduated from Columbia Business School in 2019 as a Forte Fellow and Columbia Fellow, and holds her BA in English Literature and Italian from Middlebury College in Vermont. She is currently a Senior Product Marketing Manager at Adobe.
Arjun K.
Arjun graduated from Claremont McKenna College in LA with degree in Economics and International Relations. He holds an MBA from Columbia University.
James K.
James graduated from Fordham University's Business School summa cum laude. After five years in the financial services industry, he began his MBA at Columbia Business School. He received the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation in 2018.
Jeffrey L.
Jeffrey earned a BBA in Finance from the University of Texas at Austin. After UT, he completed a Master's in Finance at Claremont McKenna. He's currently pursuing his MBA at Columbia Business School, with plans on returning to work in investment banking.
Cecilia L.
Cecilia has lived in 8 different countries and speaks 4 languages fluently. She attended SciencesPo in Paris, where she received an undergraduate degree in Political Science and a dual graduate degree in Finance and Strategy. She's now pursuing an MBA in Tech & Strategy at Columbia Business School.
Ian S.
Ian studied Economics and Finance at the University of Melbourne, specializing in quantitative analysis in economics and numerical techniques. He recently obtained his MBA from Columbia Business School.
John
John holds a BS in Business Management and MS in Accounting (Stony Brook University), where he was honored as the College of Business Commencement Speaker. Presently, he is an MBA candidate at Columbia.
Adrienne
Adrienne received her English PhD from Harvard University, her MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and her BA from Princeton University. She is a nonfiction writer and poet, and teaches in the Writing Program at Princeton University.
Ellen
Ellen majored in English at Williams College and received her PhD in English from Duke University. She teaches American Literature in the History & Literature department at Harvard University.
Ian
Ian earned his BA in Economics from Bucknell. He then worked as a teacher and administrator in charter schools in New Orleans. He is currently pursuing his MBA at Columbia University as a Columbia Fellows Scholar.
Sara Deniz
Sara is a poet, educator, and scholar. She holds a BA in English (Wesleyan) and an MFA in Poetry (Iowa Writers' Workshop). She is currently working on her PhD in English at the CUNY Graduate Center.
Kannan
Kannan holds a BA in the History of Science (University of Chicago, Phi Beta Kappa) and an MFA in Fiction (Iowa Writers' Workshop). His stories have been published in the LA Times, the LA Review of Books, and Racquet.
Emma
Emma earned her BA in English from Sarah Lawrence and her MFA in Fiction from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She has worked as a writing teacher, editor, and agent, and is now a freelance editor based in California.
Enrique
Enrique graduated with a BS in Finance and Statistics from NYU's Stern School of Business and earned his MBA from Columbia Business School. He now runs a data analytics consulting startup out of the Columbia Startup Lab Incubator.
Evan
Evan is a novelist, essayist, and educator. He holds an MFA in Fiction (Iowa Writers' Workshop) and BA in Interdisciplinary Studies (Evergreen State College). Currently, he teaches at Pierrepont School in Westport, Connecticut.
Sean
Sean graduated from Cornell with a degree in Chemistry. He taught high school math for three years before going on to earn his MBA at Columbia Business School. He will soon begin is postgrad career in management consulting.
Chris
Chris received his PhD in English from Harvard. He holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and an AB from Princeton. He currently teaches at a K-12 school in Connecticut.
Samara
Samara received a BBA in Finance and Communication (George Washington) and worked as a management consultant at Deloitte. She recently completed her MBA at Columbia, and will return to Deloitte to focus on strategy consulting.
Karan
Karan is an MBA student at the Columbia Business School. Prior to Business School, Karan spent four years at a FinTech startup in NYC. He graduated from Emory University with a BA in Economics and Political Science.
Erin
Erin holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She also holds an MA in Modern & Contemporary Literature (University of Virginia) and BA in English (Rutgers University, summa cum laude with high honors).
Eli
Eli graduated from the IDC with a degree in Business Administration, majoring in Finance. He also holds an MBA from Columbia Business School.