Student and Alumni Success Stories

Student (now Alumni!) Spotlight: Agnes Dotse ’22

Agnes Dotse is a senior nursing student at Berea College whose path to nursing was not a straight line. During her first semester of classes at Berea College, she realized that she wanted to pursue nursing to help and take …

By Hannia Amaro-Zambrano
Hannia Amaro-Zambrano Peer Consultant
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Alumni Spotlight: Malachi Holden’ 19

“I love coding because it lets me transfer an idea to a working app” that is how Malachi Holden, a Berea 19 alumni described his passion for coding. Right now, Malachi is a Mobile Software Engineer at Sittercity, a job …

By Eduard Ciobanu
Eduard Ciobanu Employer Relations Specialist
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Alumni Spotlight: Hajar Mouchtahi ’19

Hajar Mouchtahi graduated in May of 2019 with a BA in Communications. Hajar was an international student from Morocco. Her passions and dreams led her to Berea College, where her American Dream began. When asked about her Berea experience, Hajar …

By Eduard Ciobanu
Eduard Ciobanu Employer Relations Specialist
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Alumni Spotlight: Rebekah Easton-Hogg ’00

If you find yourself walking through the doors of Nightingale Behavioral Health, at 210 N Broadway St., Berea, KY., you’ll instantly be greeted by an array of beautiful greenery to your left and a smiling face waiting to check you …

By Rowan Swift
Rowan Swift Peer Consultant
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Alumni Spotlight: Kat Moses ’12

If you walk into the newly redesigned and renamed bell hooks center* on any given day, it’s almost guaranteed that you’ll run into a bright and smiling face, even behind the mask, welcoming you to come on in. That …

By Rowan Swift
Rowan Swift Peer Consultant
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Alumni Spotlight: Caroline Arthur ’16

For the past two years, Caroline Arthur has been acting as the Director of Alumni Relations for the University of Kentucky’s College of Health Sciences. She first got a taste of what she refers to as the “triangle” of work …

By Rowan Swift
Rowan Swift Peer Consultant
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Alumni Spotlight: Kenny Holbrook ’20

Kenneth (Kenny) Holbrook never expected to find himself back on a farm after he left his family home in eastern KY for a degree in Nursing. Don’t get him wrong, there are numerous fond memories Kenny has of growing up …

By Rowan Swift
Rowan Swift Peer Consultant
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All Four Berean Finalists Accepted by JET Program

Originally written and posted by Jeff Richey on April 2, 2020: https://www.berea.edu/ast/2020/04/02/all-four-berean-finalists-accepted-by-jet-program/

Every year, a handful of Berea seniors and graduates apply for the highly competitive Japan Exchange …

By Jeff Richey
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Student Spotlight: Diana Hernandez ’22

Diana Hernandez is a senior at Berea College pursing a major in biology. Influenced by a high school teacher’s enthusiasm for science, that passion became Diana’s own. Berea’s Free Tuition Promise called to Diana, as she remembers her parents saying, …

By Hannia Amaro-Zambrano
Hannia Amaro-Zambrano Peer Consultant
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Alumni Spotlight: Daniela Pirela ’20

Daniela Pirela graduated in May of 2020 with a BA in Communications and a minor in French. When asked why she chose to major in Communications, Pirela replied, “I think that words have power.” She continued, “I’ve been writing since …

By Rowan Swift
Rowan Swift Peer Consultant
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