By Bart Gummere, Associate Head of School for College Counseling and Alumni Relations

People often ask what our alumni do once out of college. We thought it might be fun to check in on the Class of 2018 on the five-year anniversary of their Eastside Prep graduation. A sampling of that class demonstrates the diversity of outcomes both in academic and career interests and geographically in where they are choosing to live.

WILL BURNHAM

College and Degree — Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 2022 BS Mechanical Engineering
Living — Boston, MA area
Currently — Flexo Concepts design and build manufacturing equipment related to the battery industry, along with developing new products for leading battery manufacturers.

SEONA CHALANA

College and Degree — University of Washington—Seattle, BA Education
Living — Seattle, WA
Currently — Spent 2022-23 at Rainier Valley Leadership Academy teaching Middle School Social Sciences. Currently pursuing a Masters-in-Teaching at Seattle University.

JESSICA GLINER

College and Degree — Tulane University, BS Anthropology; University of Michigan, MA Education
Living — Sammamish, WA
Currently — Elementary school teacher

SAM HINSON

College and Degree — Cornell University, BA Computer Science
Living — Redmond, WA
Currently — Amazon, Software Engineer

CHE LIU

College and Degree — University of California—Berkeley, BS Physics and Computer Science
Living — Cambridge, MA
Currently — Pursuing a PhD in Physics at Harvard University.
“I do research on diamond-based quantum defects called nitrogen-vacancy centers. Particularly, I use them to find new quantum sensing protocols and perform quantum simulation on too-difficult-to-solve quantum mechanics problems.”

DREW MEDWAY

College and Degree — Yale University, BA Film and Political Science
Living — West Hollywood, CA
Currently — William Morris Endeavour, Assistant in the Independent Film Sales and Packaging department

JAMIE NEEDHAM

College and Degree — Bryn Mawr College, BA Political Science
Living — Arlington, VA
Currently — Law student at George Washington University

BRANDON RAY

College and Degree — University of Washington-Seattle, BS Electrical and Computer Engineering
Living — San Francisco, CA
Currently — Zipline, Robotics Software Engineer

ALEXANDRA RYAN

College and Degree — Brown University, BS Computer Science and Political Science
Living — Kirkland, WA
Currently — Microsoft, Software Engineer

AYUSH SHARMA

College and Degree — University of California-Berkeley, BS Computer Science
Living — Berkeley, CA
Currently — Everlaw, Software Engineer