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Success After Evergreen
Evergreen graduates find success in careers, service, and graduate schools across the globe.
Careers in Arts, Media, and Entertainment
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Matt Groening ’77
Lynda Barry ’79
Craig Bartlett ’81
Jaime Méndez ’95
Macklemore ’09
Careers in Law, Government, and Politics
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Gil Kelley ’79
Eric Engstrom ’91
“Greener Leads State Ecology Department”
Maia Bellon ’91
“A Conversation with Denny Heck”
U.S. Representative Denny Heck ’73
Careers in Environment and Sustainability
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“Discovering the Secrets of the Giants of the Sea”
John Calambokidis ’78
Kirk Haffner ’88
Dever Kuni ’12
Ben Alexander ’82
Careers in Science and Health
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“Targeting Genes in the Fight Against Cancer”
Patrick Paddison ’96
“A Head Start on Influencing the Future”
Christen Cannon ’14
Jana Fischback MES ’14
“Unlocking the Story of a River”
Brian Footen MES ’01
Careers in Business, Entrepreneurship, and Technology
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“Seeking Our Past, Preserving Our Future, Shaping Our Future”
Sarah Amell ’13
Brett Redfearn ’87
Careers in Education, Non-Profit, and Social Justice
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“Teaching to Change the World”
Wayne Au ’94, MiT ’96
"Rallying the Motherhood Movement”
Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner ’91
Ray Goforth ’95
What Evergreen teaches is ‘find what you’re interested in and impress us.’ The whole emphasis is on finding your calling, finding what moves you, finding your passion.
—Lynda Weinman, founder of Lynda.com
Lynda.com founder, Lynda Weinman.
In the News: Lynda Weinman, Techie Entrepreneur
Lynda Weinman ’76 is a respected Web graphics and design veteran who has been at the forefront of Web development since its infancy.
Weinman epitomizes the power of interdisciplinary education. After graduating from Evergreen, Weinman opened two retail shops in California and later became an animator for the movie business. This move led to an early fascination with personal computers, which she embraced for her animation work, and, from there, she began teaching computer graphics and writing how-to books. Finally she started the online learning business Lynda.com, which she recently sold to LinkedIn for $1.5 billion.
Professional Success
You can find Evergreen alumni everywhere. They work at Microsoft and Apple, as college professors and kindergarten teachers, as legislators and lawyers and political activists, as doctors and vets, in Hollywood, and in field biology research stations.
Graduate School Success
Greeners have gone to graduate programs at a variety of prestigious institutions including Harvard, Columbia, Stanford, and MIT.
They’ve gone to medical school at Johns Hopkins and Oregon Health and Science University; to law school at Georgetown and NYU; and to art school at RISD and San Francisco Art Institute.
Many Greeners also go on to get advanced degrees here at Evergreen in Environmental Studies, Public Administration, and Teaching.
More alumni stories can be found in The Evergreen Magazine. The Alumni Entrepreneurs Directory features more than 500 graduates running their own businesses.
