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Featured Alumni

These alumni have been featured in our alumni magazine, Inquiry:

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Katherine Magnuson, Elizabeth Votruba-Drzal: Collaborators on Child Poverty Research
For two SESP alumnae Katherine Magnuson (PhD02), assistant professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Elizabeth Votruba-Drzal (PhD04), assistant professor at University of Pittsburgh, discuss their collaboration for a new book by the country’s leading poverty researchers.

Mary Jo Potter: An Educator and Organizational Change Agent
Since graduating in 1973, Mary Jo Potter has worked for several consulting firms and cofounded three of her own. For the last 30 years, she has become nationally and internationally known for her work helping individuals and organizations improve performance, plan for the future and undergo change, most recently with Highperlink, a company she founded in 2004.

El Da' Sheon Nix Guides Adolescents 'at a Fork in the Road'
A record-breaking high school athlete whose promising football career was cut short at Northwestern, Ohio native El Da' Sheon Nix (BS04) now works closely with adolescents, using lessons he learned both on the playing field and at SESP.

Shadd Maruna Breaks New Ground Studying Prisoner Reform
To hear Shadd Maruna (PhD93) talk about his groundbreaking research and first book, Making Good: How Ex-Convicts Reform and Rebuild Their Lives, one would never know that it was touted as "the most outstanding contribution to criminology in 2001."

Susan Fuhrman, Education Policy Expert and President of Teachers College
Pragmatism propelled Susan Fuhrman (MA66, BA65) into a career in education 40 years ago, and today she is nationally known for that same trait.

Ravit Golan Duncan Sets Her Sights on Science Education
Ravit Golan Duncan (PhD05) started her education career training Israeli soldiers, but now she’s arming college students with the tools they need to teach science.

Aki Murata Finds Vocation in Teaching Mathematics Teaching
When Aki Murata (PhD02) was named assistant professor of education at Stanford University in August, she reached one more milestone in a life marked by unexpected twists and turns, a love of education and an openness to fresh starts.

Steve Boland, One of 75 Most Powerful African Americans in Corporate America
When D. Steve Boland (BS90) talks about what made him the successful businessman he is today, in addition to God he credits his family, his mother and his college education.

Out of the Ivory Tower and into the Trenches of Education Reform
No one could ever accuse Penny Bender Sebring of conducting esoteric research holed up in an ivory tower. On the contrary, Sebring (PhD85) and her colleagues at the Consortium on Chicago School Research work hard to ensure that their research is relevant and useful.

Mary Ludgin: From the Classroom ToThe Boardroom, A Lesson In Problem Solving
As a managing director of Heitman, a leading real estate investment firm, Mary Ludgin spends her working life in the Chicago Loop, a world of tall buildings and high finance. When Ludgin arrived at Northwestern in the summer of 1978, however, she envisioned her future in a far different setting - the classroom

Alumni Profile: The Power of Ideas: Alumna Is Passionate About Reform
Deputy director and co-founder of the Brookings Institution Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy, Amy Liu (BS93) talks about "spatial divides, regional equity and isolated pockets of despair."

Welcome to Joy Junction!
Revette Thomas was accepted into the Northwestern/Golden Apple Foundation NU-TEACH program in 1998 as part of the first cohort of students. She is now a certified teacher at Wadsworh Elementary School, where she and her students look forward to traveling to “Joy Junction” every day.

		Alumni Profile
		Katherine Magnuson, Elizabeth Votruba-Drzal: Collaborators on Child Poverty Research For two SESP alumnae Katherine Magnuson (PhD02), assistant professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Elizabeth Votruba-Drzal (PhD04), assistant professor at University of Pittsburgh, discuss their collaboration for a new book by the country’s leading poverty researchers.
		Mary Jo Potter: An Educator and Organizational Change Agent Since graduating in 1973, Mary Jo Potter has worked for several consulting firms and cofounded three of her own. For the last 30 years, she has become nationally and internationally known for her work helping individuals and organizations improve performance, plan for the future and undergo change, most recently with Highperlink, a company she founded in 2004.
		El Da' Sheon Nix Guides Adolescents 'at a Fork in the Road' A record-breaking high school athlete whose promising football career was cut short at Northwestern, Ohio native El Da' Sheon Nix (BS04) now works closely with adolescents, using lessons he learned both on the playing field and at SESP.
		Shadd Maruna Breaks New Ground Studying Prisoner Reform To hear Shadd Maruna (PhD93) talk about his groundbreaking research and first book, Making Good: How Ex-Convicts Reform and Rebuild Their Lives, one would never know that it was touted as "the most outstanding contribution to criminology in 2001."
		Susan Fuhrman, Education Policy Expert and President of Teachers College Pragmatism propelled Susan Fuhrman (MA66, BA65) into a career in education 40 years ago, and today she is nationally known for that same trait.
		Ravit Golan Duncan Sets Her Sights on Science Education Ravit Golan Duncan (PhD05) started her education career training Israeli soldiers, but now she’s arming college students with the tools they need to teach science.
		Aki Murata Finds Vocation in Teaching Mathematics Teaching When Aki Murata (PhD02) was named assistant professor of education at Stanford University in August, she reached one more milestone in a life marked by unexpected twists and turns, a love of education and an openness to fresh starts.
		Steve Boland, One of 75 Most Powerful African Americans in Corporate America When D. Steve Boland (BS90) talks about what made him the successful businessman he is today, in addition to God he credits his family, his mother and his college education.
		Out of the Ivory Tower and into the Trenches of Education Reform No one could ever accuse Penny Bender Sebring of conducting esoteric research holed up in an ivory tower. On the contrary, Sebring (PhD85) and her colleagues at the Consortium on Chicago School Research work hard to ensure that their research is relevant and useful.
		Mary Ludgin: From the Classroom ToThe Boardroom, A Lesson In Problem Solving As a managing director of Heitman, a leading real estate investment firm, Mary Ludgin spends her working life in the Chicago Loop, a world of tall buildings and high finance. When Ludgin arrived at Northwestern in the summer of 1978, however, she envisioned her future in a far different setting - the classroom
		Alumni Profile: The Power of Ideas: Alumna Is Passionate About Reform Deputy director and co-founder of the Brookings Institution Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy, Amy Liu (BS93) talks about "spatial divides, regional equity and isolated pockets of despair."
		Welcome to Joy Junction! Revette Thomas was accepted into the Northwestern/Golden Apple Foundation NU-TEACH program in 1998 as part of the first cohort of students. She is now a certified teacher at Wadsworh Elementary School, where she and her students look forward to traveling to “Joy Junction” every day.