alumni profile

At times in Sean Flinn's life the task at hand can seem overwhelming and stressful. For the past four years, he helped steer Netflix's foray into online gaming. It is a prospect that is both an exhilarating challenge and a terrifying professional ...

Marissa Pianko felt restless. She had a good life. She had a loving family and a financially lucrative career. She was happy. But approaching mid-life, she wanted to feel passionate about her contribution to the wider world. One day, she stumbled upon ...

Krissy Warlich and Cara Sandoval have been best friends since high school. They went to community college together. And they even earned certificates from UCLA Extension just one year apart from one another. This year, they decided to embark on the ...

When the Olympics came to Arthur Goualin's hometown of Paris in 2024, the stars aligned to make his dreams come true. He already had a master's in sports business, and had worked the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup in Australia. In June 2024, Goualin ...

From the first day Kristina Kepner set foot in a fire station, she felt at home. She joined the Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) Explorers, a program for youth interested in fire service, when she was 15. Although being the one girl in the room ...

Filmmaking has always been in Rosa Costanza's blood. Her grandfather Thomas Horton Sr. was vice president of Thalassa, the production company set up in Hollywood for Jacques Cousteau's T.V. series "The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau" and "The ...

Mayee Futterman has always loved art. As a child, she spent hours drawing and felt a deep connection with the Chinese art and antiques her mother collected and displayed throughout their home. But it wasn't until college when she saw her friend's ...