Taja Rickettes is a Dorchester native by way of the South and Jamaica! She’s just completed a “Coding Boot Camp” through ULEM called Msimbo, which means “code” in Swahili. This program has assured her the education to aspire a dream job of working remotely and as creatively as she desires!  Her classmates nominated this natural born leader as their Class Representative.  She describes the honor as “Gratifying” because of the achievements  many of her ...

Evann Welty

Class of 2021

Olive Umeh

Class of 2020

 Astry Peguero Santana is a educators dream student original from Dominican Republic. she was born there, and legally immigrated to the United States at the age of five years old. She’s a Boston University Freshman with a 3.95 GPA that sought out a degree in Computer Science following my participation in the Girls Who Code Summer Immersion Program in 2016 at MIT Beaverworks which sparked my interest in the field. This summer I also ...

Meet Northeastern student Yaa Kyeremateng, a behavioral neuroscience major whose diverse interests and activities span from the research lab to the runway. She speaks multiple languages, conducts undergraduate research, is fascinated with the brain, and has modeled for the past year. Here, she discusses these aspects of her Northeastern experience and why “adaptability” is perhaps her strongest trait.

A global citizen

Kyeremateng was born in Ghana and moved to the United States with her mother and two of her siblings at age ...

Suzette Schand is a Bentley University public relations/ Informational Design and corporate communications major born and raised in Boston Massachusetts. This 3.34 GPA Senior is inspired by her Mom that she admires very much, and to whom she says are very similar in the way of leading others by example and carrying themselves as ...

Is a Biology major at Roxbury Community College, and her goal for the future is to concentrate in pulmonary and immunology medicine.  She’s always fascinated with the body and how it works!  She says “I chose Biology as my major because I want to understand the human body and know how to treat it when ill”. ...

Suzette Schand is a Bentley University public relations/ Informational Design and corporate communications major born and raised in Boston Massachusetts. This 3.34 GPA Senior is inspired by her Mom that she admires very much, and to whom she says are very similar in the way of leading others by example and carrying themselves as women.  She says her mother ...