GODE ’14 PUBLISHED IN THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION BLOG
Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Canadian Arctic. She writes grants for the rainforest non-profit Health In Harmony and articles for the environmental news site Mongabay. Now living in London, she is a Marshall Scholar pursuing a master’s degree in One Health, a field that integrates public health with veterinary medicine. Jeremiah Hobbs ’14 currently teaches in the Middle School at SAAS in the new Financial Literacy and Computational Thinking courses. Since graduating from SAAS, Jeremiah has served in different leadership roles during his continuing education. While at Peninsula College, Jeremiah served as the Director of Event Planning, coordinating events for students and the community of Port Angeles. After finishing at Peninsula College, Jeremiah continued his basketball career as a captain on the University of Puget Sound basketball team while completing his Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science/Business. Jeremiah loves to connect with people in many ways and is super excited to be back building and establishing more relationships in Seattle.
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Joel Hobbs ’04 is a Tool Maker at Boeing Everett. He earned a Bachelor of Arts from Morehouse College in Business Administration in Finance and a Minor in Economics. He earned a Certificate in Aerospace Tooling and Manufacturing from Renton Technical College. Learning and business is a passion of his, he's been operating his own DJ business for ten
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Jackson Gode ’14, a Research Analyst in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution, has seen many of his articles published online. The Brookings Institution, based in Washington, DC, is a top-ranked public policy think tank in the world. Their mission is to conduct in-depth research that leads to new ideas for solving problems facing society at the local, national, and global level. Jackson's work at Brookings addresses a variety of domestic policy topics and issues including voting rights, congressional oversight of the presidential Administration, and tax politics. He is currently overseeing a multi-state research project testing the effectiveness of voter registration at Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) sites. While at Seattle Academy, Jackson was an active member in the Youth Legislature program and served as the 2014 Youth Secretary of State. On multiple occasions throughout high school, he traveled to the state capitol in Olympia which allowed him to meet with various politicians, including current Governor Jay Inslee. We are happy to see Jackson pursuing interests that were identified and nurtured at SAAS. Congratulations on his accomplishments and contributions in Washington, DC.
LORENZINI ’15 WINS AWARDS FOR THESIS ON BLONDE WOMEN AS VISUAL SYMBOLS IN MEDIA My name is Sierra Lorenzini, and I graduated from Seattle Academy in 2015, which feels like both a lifetime and a blink of an eye ago. After SAAS, I attended Duke University, from which I graduated this past May with a major in Visual and Media Studies, a minor in Computer Science, and a certificate in Information Science. During college, I was a User Experience (UX)/ Game Design intern for two summers at Microsoft Studios Global Publishing, where I fell in love with UX for gaming. I now work as a UX Designer at Turn 10
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