ChathamU MAFS alum Toni Simpson knows the power of food to unite and inspire, bringing the skills she learned in our Food Studies program to her role as School Director and Lead Chef Instructor at Community Kitchen Pittsburgh

Meet recent MSUS alumna and Mayor of Sharpsburg, Brittany Reno!

Chatham’s Doctor of Nursing Practice program gave Sandra Rader DNP ’09 the flexibility she needed to move her career forward as the chief nursing officer and vice-president of patient care services at UPMC Shadyside.

Join Kerrie O’Donnell, Doctor of Physical Therapy ’17, as she tours across the country as a traveling physical therapist for musical cast members.

Jessica Byrd ‘09 couldn’t find an organization that served Black women and Black moments during a transformational time around racial justice in the US— so she started one herself.

2019 alumna Delaney Gordon now spends her days coming up with social media strategy for National Geographic! We caught up with Delaney to learn more about how she landed such a cool first job and how her time at Chatham helped inform her career path.

Friday, May 6th marks Nurses Day! In celebration of all that our nursing students, faculty, and alumni bring to their healthcare sectors, we caught up with recent alumna, Joyce Kyung, DNP ‘21. Joyce is a cardiology certified nurse practitioner at St. Clair Health who specializes in inpatient and outpatient heart failure as well as stress testing.

Curious about what’s possible in Chatham’s interior architecture integrated degree program? Meet recent alumna, Megan Pierce, MSIA ‘21 who is now working with Carnegie Mellon University’s Campus Design and Facility team.

The Minor Bird, Chatham’s undergraduate literary and art magazine, is in its third year of recognizing new artists through the Simon Matela SOAR Awards for Emerging Writers. Created in memory of Simon Matela (class of 2020), a creative writing major and Minor Bird executive board member who passed away unexpectedly in January 2019, these awards seek to recognize young talent. We sat down with the 2022 recipients, Alison Righetti ’25, Maggie Vargo ’25 and McKenna DiRienzo ’22 to talk more about their work as emerging writers and artists.

Meet 2020 PsyD alumna, Dr. Alexis Hahn. She managed to transform her doctoral internship into a full-time job and her doctoral dissertation into a published research paper in American Psychologist. Read more about Alexis's daily work as Staff Psychologist at a federal men’s prison.

In honor of HERstory month, which celebrates women of color from February 15 through March 15, Chatham’s Career Development and Alumni Relations teams collaborated to highlight four Chatham alumni who are excelling in their careers: Chindinma Ojini, Cynthia H. Jones, Genesis Caplan, and Teresa Smith.

Recent Post-Professional Doctor of Occupational Therapy graduate, Jessica Listhaus is using her capstone work—and that of her peers—to influence her ongoing occupational therapy work at the New York City Department of Education and in her own private practice.