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FIRST-YEAR:
Nikki Johnson Williams
Director of Admission
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(540) 362-6401
huadm@hollins.edu

TRANSFER:
Mary Ellen Apgar
Transfer Student Admission Coordinator
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INTERNATIONAL:
Stacey Hill
International Student Admission Coordinator
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HORIZON:
Celia McCormick
Director, Horizon Program
(540) 362-6609
cmccormick@hollins.edu

After graduation: Women who are going places start at Hollins

Graduate and professional school
	Helena Brown '12, pursuing a master's degree in vocal performance, Manhattan School of Music.
	Elysse Stolpe '10, University of Virginia School of Law; awarded the Dillard Fellowship; named to the 2012-13 editorial board, the Virginia Journal of Social Policy and the Law; appointed chair, Student Bar Association's Academic Concerns Committee; awarded a Public Interest Law Association Grant.
	Lianne Jackson McCray '11, has been admitted to Yale Divinity School.
	Kelly Roidt '11, Shepherd College; master's program in college student development and administration; works as a graduate assistant for the Upward Bound TRIO Student Support Services.
	Kelcy Mueller '10, University of Houston Law Center; accepted into the International Journal of Law.
	Bronwyn Anderson '09, University of Baltimore School of Law.
	Nandini Roy '06, M.B.A. candidate 2011 (full time honors), Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College - City University of New York; graduate assistant, economics and finance department at Baruch; worked for three years at the New York Stock Exchange Regulation (FINRA); currently a senior consultant at Ernst & Young.
	Hanna Bachrach '02, received a master's degree in library science from the Pratt Institute's School of Information and Library Science in August 2010. During summer 2010, she completed an internship at the Wexler Library at Hunter College in New York.
	Katherine (Kate) Cox Read '00, began study toward a Ph.D. in educational policy and leadership studies at Virginia Tech in August 2010. A political science major while at Hollins, she also holds a M.Ed. from The College of William and Mary in educational policy, planning, and leadership.
	Meredith Harper '05, graduated with an M.S. in dietetics and nutrition from Florida International University in May 2010. Upon graduation, she will begin her dietetic internship and take the exam to become a registered dietitian. She is also Student Council Liaison for the American Dietetic Association, president of the graduate student dietetics association, and writes a daily nutrition blog (PursuingBalance.com).
	Victoria Crump '06, associate instructor at Indiana University - Bloomington; pursuing her Ph.D. in gender studies with a concentration in sexualities, desires, and identities. She will be presenting artwork for the April Interdisciplinary Conference — "Bodies, Borders, and Resistance in the African Diaspora," at IU - Bloomington.
	Danielle Thompson '05, M.P.P. program (master of public policy in social policy), Heller School of Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University, 2012.
	Lauryn Smith '09, M.A. program, broadcast journalism and public affairs-international, American University.
	Samantha D. Toney ’07, Ph.D. program; master’s degree in marriage and family therapy, Nova Southeastern University.
	Mary Stewart Atwell '00, Ph.D. program, literature, Washington University; author of the novel, Wild Girls. Photo: Zettl Photograpy, Ltd.
	Courtney Chenette '09, Dean's Scholar and Presidential Scholar, Pace University School of Law, White Plains, NY; 2011 recipient of the Justice for Women Award at Pace; featured in The National Jurist. More »
	Zirwat Chowdhury '05, Ph.D. program in art history, Northwestern University.
	Georgi Fisher '04, social work, Richmond Police Department; pursuing a master's in addiction studies at Virginia Commonwealth, King's College London, and the University of Adelaide.
	Emily Frost '08, veterinary school, University of Pennsylvania.
	Laura Kviklys '07, master’s program, historic preservation, University of Georgia.
	Writtika Roy '08, graduated from the University of Mississippi Medical School, will begin her four-year residency in psychiatry at the University of Texas.
	Megan Stagg '06, MBA program, Mason School of Business, College of William and Mary.
Arts and Design
	Heather Bowden '11. While a student, Heather launched the Nsumensa Village Project to help revitalize a community in Ghana. Almost singlehandedly, she built a school for the village's children. More »
	Shaina Strom '10, Director of Mildred Westervelt Warner Transportation Museum with the City of Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
	Leah Twichell '09 (known as Leah Michellé), M.A. program in art history, Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK (summer 2010); has paintings on display at the Degree Art Gallery in London; art director and co-founder of the New Artist Fair, London.
	Kristin Cowdin '02, artist manager at Guy Barzilay Artists, a boutique management company that represents classical singers worldwide. Recently wrote an article for Opera, a UK-based magazine - a feature article/profile of the young composer, Nico Muhly, whose first opera recently premiered at the English National Opera.
	Cameron Niedermayer '10, Tiffany Robinette '10, and Julia Schneider '10, opened Unicorn Stables Project, studio space and gallery near downtown Roanoke.
	Hayley Chambers ’06, curator of Historic Adams House in Deadwood, South Dakota; M.A. in public history from the University of North Carolina - Greensboro, 2008.
	Meg Graninger Feldman '08, exhibited her work [mixed media] at Signature 9 Gallery in downtown Roanoke in March.
	English and photography major Olivia Body ’08 entered Hollins’ M.A.L.S. program for visual and performing arts. She also became the multimedia coordinator in Hollins’ marketing office. In addition, she owns her own photography business. Read more »
	Carly Blumberg '05, designer, J. Crew
	Gwen Fernandez '06, graduate intern, Student, Teacher, and Family Programs, a division of the Education Department at the National Gallery of Art.
	Sally Mann '74, named America's Best Photographer by Time magazine.
	Kathryn McKeller '05, opera singer.
	Xiomara Murray '98, curatorial research associate, Boston Museum of Fine Arts.
	Amy Torbert '05, curator, Yale University Art Gallery.
Awards/Honors
	Victoria Dalzell '08, was awarded a Fulbright IIE Fellowship to conduct her dissertation research in Nepal. Tori is pursuing her master's and Ph.D. in ethnomusicology at the University of California-Riverside.
	Nicole Harrell '96, recipient of the 2009 Walter E. Hoffman Community Service Award, Norfolk and Portsmouth Bar Association; pro bono coordinator for Kaufman & Canoles.
	Balli Jaswal '04, youngest recipient of the prestigious United Kingdom's David T.K. Wong Writers Fellowship.
	Stephanie Via '05, whose film True Story was selected for the short film program at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival.
	Emily Wexler '04, recipient of the 2008 American College Dance Festival Association/Dance Magazine Award for Outstanding Student Choreographer.
Business/Finance
	Alex Herring ’11, client service associate, Trinity Wealth Management group, Roanoke, Virginia.
	Jennifer Roberts '06, business development manager, Lifelong Health and Aging Related Services division of the Riverside Health System; M.B.A., Mason School of Business at the College of William & Mary, with concentrations in entrepreneurship and consulting.
	Lia Kelinsky '09, project manager with Continuing & Professional Education at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia; graduated from Leadership Roanoke Valley in 2011.
	Raisha Kasaju '11, sales analyst, Citibank, New York.
	Frances Kalema '11, Miss Georgia Peach USA and state finalist in the Miss Georgia USA pageant.
	Anne Justis Lesko '02, promoted to associate vice president, human resources, Davenport & Company, Richmond.
	A year after graduation, Ellene Magee ’92 got a job as a consultant and independent contractor for the College Board. In 2009, she and her husband started a business specializing in business development in the electrical utility construction industry. Read more »
	"Amazing" is the word Hanan Abu Shanab '11 uses more than any other to describe her Hollins experience. The economics major, who landed a much sought-after internship with the International Monetary Fund following graduation, reflects on how her professors, her internships, and the Batten Leadership Institute had a profound impact on her life.
	Kelley Douglas-Mallery '94, has been named Director of Competitive Programs and Education for the United States Hunter Jumper Association. Kelley was the 2010 National Champion in the IHSA Alumni Hunt Seat Over Fences Class.
	Taylor Cook-Seppi '04, M.A. in economics, M.P.A., University of Montana; senior policy analyst, Texas Health and Human Services Commission.
	Diana Bolt Perreiah '86, vice president for business operations, Kawneer North America.
	Shannan Staples '08, financial institution specialist, FDIC.
Communications/TV/Movies
	C. J. Hawn '00, associate creative director, Elevation, Richmond, Virginia.
	Kelsey Plagenhoef McCrae '04, specialist, U.S. Army, broadcast journalist with the Armed Forces Network in Korea; M.A. in eastern classical literature, St. John's College.
	Lisa Maniker Hewitt '02, (professional name Zoe Hewitt) television host and personality.
	Kate Fleming ’09, manager, Mar-Va Theater, Pocomoke City, MD.
	Cate McAnulty '06, production assistant, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Edinburgh.
	Mallory Potock ’09, senior account manager, Worldways Social Marketing.
	Ann Compton ‘69, national correspondent for ABC News Radio and president of the White House Correspondents’ Association, Washington, D.C.
	Veronica Votypka '99, senior associate producer, The Oprah Winfrey Show.
	Nicole Phillips '03, graduate of USC's prestigious film school, assistant to the director of 2009's Star Trek.
	Sadie Tillery '05, director of programming, Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, Durham, North Carolina; featured in the winter 2012 publication, Document, producted by the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. More »
Government
	Honey Hutson '07 was hired straight out of Hollins into a federal job. She also continued to write, and once she began marketing her work her first book was sold within a year. Read more »
	Sarah Poulton '06, master’s degree, public administration, University of North Carolina–Charlotte; now working for the City of Charlotte, N.C.
	Justine Treadwell '01, Peace Corps volunteer, Malawi, Africa; master's degree, Tufts University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy; now a diplomat in the U.S. State Department.
Law
	Lauren Smith '05, University of Michigan Law School; licensed to practice law in Colorado.
	Ashley Tomlinson '05, received law degree from Tulane University Law School; practices family law in Houston, TX.
	Beth Burgin '04, College of William and Mary School of Law; attorney with Woods Rogers, PLC in Roanoke.
Literature
	Melanie Moro-Huber '08 The debut poetry collection, Axe in Hand, by Moro-Huber was published in February 2012 through NYQ Books. She plans to enter an MFA program in creative writing and teach creative writing "somewhere, someday." She is currently the poetry book review editor for New York Quarterly. Recent work has been published in Fjords, Connotation Press, YB, Savvy Verse & Wit. She was a Tennessee Williams Scholar at the 2010 Sewanee Writers’ Conference. She has also been the supervisor of an after-school program for children at Mount Pleasant Elementary School for two years.
	Annie Dillard '67, Pulitzer Prize winner for Pilgrim at Tinker Creek.
	Liana Camper-Barry '09 (who writes under the name of Liana Quill), winner of the first Mississippi Review Poetry Series Contest (2009) for 50 Poems, which originated as her senior honors thesis.
	Lee Smith '67, prolific novelist: Oral History, Saving Grace, Fair and Tender Ladies, On Agate Hill, among others.
Medicine/Veterinary
	Lindsay Lucas '06, received her Doctor of Medicine from the Medical College of Virginia/VCU School of Medicine in Richmond, 2010; completing her final year of residency in internal medicine at the West Penn Allegheny Health System (Pittsburgh, Pa.) and has accepted a position as chief resident in internal medicine at the West Penn Allegheny Health System.
	Currier Randall von Trapp '02, received her DVM in 2006 and is a general practitioner with Comal Animal Clinic in Texas.
	Ashley Fitzgerald Vranich '06, associate veterinarian, Perry Veterinary Clinic, Perry, NY. She received her Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree from the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine.
	Teah Martin Bayless '97, received the Degree of Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine from the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine (WVSOM) in May 2010; currently in the Family Medicine program at Duke University Hospital in Durham, N.C.
	Sharon Tran '02, received her medical degree from St. George’s University School of Medicine and is in her intern year focusing on pediatrics at a New Jersey hospital.
	Marie Owsley Easterlin '01, OB/GYN, private practice in New York City; clinical assistant professor, NYU School of Medicine
	Alisha Tucker '04, received her medical degree from St. George’s University School of Medicine and is in her intern year in her home country, Jamaica.
	Courtney Stuart Legum-Wenk '03, OB/GYN resident, Savannah
	Erica Feiste '03, graduated from North Carolina State University's College of Veterinary Medicine; member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons; practices small animal emergency medicine in Virginia Beach, Virginia; in 2007 was named "Top Vet" by Hampton Roads Magazine.
	Sally Beazlie '04, family medicine resident, Poquoson, Virginia.
	Jessica Anne Nelson McCaskill '02, doctorate in veterinary medicine, Advance, North Carolina.
	Julie Tucker '03, doctorate in veterinary medicine, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia.
Science
	Meghna Das Thakur '04, Ph.D., Washington University, molecular genetics and genomics, May 2010; Presidential postdoctoral fellow at Novartis Institutes of BioMedical Research, Emeryville California, working on metastatic melanoma.
	Chemistry major Emily Klein '11 from Richmond, Virginia, entered one of the top Ph.D. programs in the field. She discussed how Hollins and the real-world experience she gained through internship opportunities helped her get into a highly selective grad school, and why studying abroad in Paris was the perfect complement to her education.
	Megan Ihlefeld '07, research technician, Novozymes, Inc.
	Meghan Morse '06, received her master's degree from Virginia Tech; environmental analyst/project manager at Mangi Environmental Group.
	Katie Layman '09, marine biology intern, the Nature Conservancy. She researches and populates a database with information on fisheries in the Mid-Atlantic Bight.
	Elizabeth Gleim '06, doctoral student, Warnell School of Forestry & Natural Resources, Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife Disease Study, University of Georgia.
	Christine Chuckaree Evangelista '99, associate scientist, Amgen.
	Mary Hatten '71, world-class neurobiologist, Rockefeller University.
Teaching/Humanitarian
	Hilary DuBose '05, completed her M.A. degree in human development and food security at Roma Tre University; in Haiti helping direct post-earthquake relief projects for Catholic Relief Services.
	Catherine Stillerman '12, AmeriCorps program - CEDC (Community Economic Development Center) in New Bedford, MA; tutor children of migrant workers for the Massachusetts Migrant Education Program.
	Keisha Graziadei-Shup '09, public relations and volunteer coordinator, Kissito Healthcare International, currently residing in Uganda.
	Carla Santos '07, chief operating officer, Bradley Free Clinic, Roanoke; received a master's in nonprofit management, University of Central Florida.
	Since graduating from Hollins, Ann Dujardin ’10 has been teaching at the Shenandoah Autism Center, a private day school for autistic students. She has also started the graduate program in special education at Radford University. Read more »
	Katy Allamong '11, a political science major from Newport, Virginia, talks about finding her calling as an educator and how her commitment to community service blossomed during her years at Hollins. Katy is teaching in the Teach for America program.
	Sociology major Erika Critzer ’09 has been employed as a behavior/autism program specialist by the Piedmont Regional Education Program since July 2010. She works in the public schools in the Piedmont region of Virginia, providing educational support for teachers who have students with autism or behavioral problems.
	Sierra Smith '09, lower school science lab teacher and upper school drama teacher, Fuqua School, Farmville, Virginia; received a master's in elementary education from Longwood University.
	Shani Collins Achille '01, M.F.A. '07, assistant professor of dance, Connecticut College
	Michelle Bradley '03, representative for the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees at the Commission for Human Rights in Geneva, Switzerland; contributed to the UN Study on Violence Against Children.
	Jamilyn Cole '00, director of education, the National Baseball Hall of Fame, Cooperstown, New York.
	Cynthia Hale '75, senior pastor and founder, Ray of Hope Christian Church, with a congregation of 6,000.
	Alyssa Lawless '08, AmeriCorps
	Ellen Malcolm '69, created EMILY’s List, devoted to helping women get elected to higher office.
	Bri Seone '01, established Aid El Salvador, a nonprofit that provides educational opportunities to youth in rural El Salvador and improves access to health care, clean water, food, and shelter.
	Emily Sullivan '06, founding learning specialist (special education teacher) at KIPP: Academy Boston.
Other
	Charlotte Fox '79, barrier-breaking mountain climber; one of the first women to conquer three 8,000-meter peaks, including Mt. Everest.
	Carol Semple Thompson '70, the world's most celebrated amateur women's golf champion.