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John's social work background set him apart from most of his fellow officers. As a former outreach worker, John was accustomed to preventing problems by paying home visits and helping people talk through their rough times. By contrast, law enforcement mostly focused on reacting to crimes that had already been committed.
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Brian helped to open the Northwest African American Museum in Seattle, and has held leadership roles ever since, first as the education director and now as deputy director. He manages the museum’s many offerings, including exhibitions, public events, and educational initiatives.
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Without a doubt, there’s an art and science to making websites, software and gadgets easier for people to use. John and his colleagues at Seattle-based Blink help companies in the Pacific Northwest and beyond create more successful user experiences.
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You’ve seen their names memorialized on campus buildings, but have you ever wondered how Suzzallo, Meany, Denny, Padelford and many others made their mark on the UW—or, for that matter, what they looked like?
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“In my youth, I did not know that by trying to change lives for the better, my own life would also be transformed. Yet, upon reflection, I see that this is the case, particularly in working with homeless young people. After all these years, I cannot think of a better way to spend my life.”
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As an executive at the Hartman Group, Michelle uses her anthropology training to lead projects aimed at better understanding how consumers relate to products and experiences, and what they value. The Bellevue, Wash.-based market research, consulting and design firm translates those findings into concepts that companies like Kraft Foods and Whole Foods Market can put into practice, such as new food experiences or product innovation.
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Since 2000, Chris has held what he calls "arguably the best job in global health." He leads PATH, the Seattle-based international nonprofit organization whose approximately 1,000 staff members work in more than 70 countries to improve people's health through sustainable, culturally relevant methods.
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Jan is the director and founder of RotaCare Free Clinic of Tacoma, a specialty clinic for those without insurance who suffer from chronic disease, such as diabetes or hypertension.
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"I am proud of the difference I've made in the community here. There are several habitat restoration projects and significant environmental clean-ups that I've played a project manager role on. That has been very rewarding."
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"I chose the UW because of the outstanding faculty and the opportunities afforded at an excellent research-based program."
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"I saw there was a connection between childhood experiences and adult health and I wanted to make those connections, which is what I'm doing right now," Delilah said.
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Steven opened Sound Spirits, Seattle's first craft distillery since Prohibition, in fall 2010 after several years of planning. Each month he produces about 500 bottles of vodka and gin under the label Ebb + Flow.
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As a space systems engineer for Lockheed Martin, LaTasha has worked on a variety of projects aimed at making technologies for space exploration more user friendly.
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The Safe Routes to Schools program at Feet First is a small advocacy organization in Seattle that promotes walking by encouraging developers, communities groups and government agencies to design and maintain walkable cities and neighborhoods.
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Ray splits his time between managing two distinct landscapes: the verdant grounds of Hill-Crest, the 1.5-acre UW president's residence and the eastern side of the UW's Seattle campus. Ray's role is part gardener, part curator, part educator and part researcher.
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Bernie has spent the bulk of his career working for SightLife, a Seattle-based organization with a mission of eliminating corneal blindness. Through a process called eye banking, SightLife recovers eye tissue and provides it to surgeons who perform corneal transplants in more than 30 countries.
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Dr. Hunt helps to spread best practices for providing care to returning soldiers in clinics across the country as national director of the VA's Post-Deployment Integrated Care Initiative since 2008.
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MicroGREEN Polymers, the Arlington, Wash.-based company that Krishna co-founded in 2002, uses patented technology developed by UW mechanical engineers to transform recycled plastic bottles into new, lighter-weight products that are friendlier to the environment.
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Lisa's fascination with special education carried through her graduate studies at the UW and then nine years teaching in Seattle Public Schools.
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After learning of another longstanding black-owned coffee shop in the Central istrict closed, Jason and Foxy decided to open a new coffee shop, drawing on their graduate degrees to boost relations among neighbors and educate area youth.
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As a kid in Eugene, Ore., Stan was captivated by the Apollo missions to the moon at the time and toted a lunchbox covered with rockets. It wasn't until he got to college that he realized a space-related career was within his reach.
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Inspired by an MFA class project, Brian chronicled his participation in an experiment known as the Turing test, a decades-old competition asks judges to engage in typed chats and decide whether their conversation partners are humans or machines.
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Yaw has become the public face for a free, open-source set of software tools—called Open Data Kit (ODK)—that he co-created with a team including other UW doctoral students and faculty and Google employees.
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Founder of SimonSays Entertainment - a film, stage and television production company dedicated to developing and presenting the stories, fables and narratives of under-represented communities.
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“I wanted to show my students that if I could be the first in my family to go to college and ultimately earn my doctorate, so could they.”
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“My art is based a lot on community and where I place myself within a community. Through world travels, my community just got larger.”
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“I fell into investigative reporting on a dusty, diesel-poisoned street in Havana, Cuba. It was the fall of 2001, and I was studying at the University of Havana…”
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“My work focuses primarily on understanding the role of genetics in health inequalities observed across global populations, including underrepresented minorities in the U.S.”
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Co-created OneBusAway.org, a set of online tools that tracks King County Metro buses in real time.
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Founder of her own Seattle-based contemporary dance company, Catherine Cabeen and Company.
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Being the first in my family to attend college is a humbling and pioneering experience.
Read More →From urban high school classrooms to research universities. From community-based health clinics to the National Institutes of Health. From small town public libraries to the Library of Congress.
People with graduate degrees from the University of Washington are making a difference in business, schools, health care, non-profits organizations, the arts and communities. They are creating jobs and making our communities even better places to live.
Each day, everyone’s life is impacted by graduate education. Maybe it’s your child’s teacher who has his master’s degree in education. Or the home health worker with a master’s in public health caring for your parents. The landscape architect who maintains your city’s parks. The civil engineer who determines how often your bus runs through your neighborhood. The librarian at the public library who helps you search for a job.
Discover how a few of our students and graduates are making a difference in their communities.
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