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Alumni Achievements

Here's what some Whitworth graduates are doing with their modern languages degrees:

• Amanda Martinez, '07 (Spanish and communication studies double major), is pursing a master's degree in intercultural communications at the University of Bedfordshire, near London, where she received an academic/international scholarship.
  
  
• Kelly Roberts, '03 (French and English double major), taught English in a French elementary school in St. Cloud, France, as part of a study-abroad master's-degree program in Paris offered through Middlebury College, in Vermont.
  
  
• Lindsey Kiehn, '07 (who majored in French, international studies and cross-cultural studies), is teaching English in South Korea after being selected to the Fulbright English Teaching Assistant Program.
  
  
• Sarah (Sage) Miller, '07, is working with Campus Crusade for Christ (AGAPE) in Mérida, Venezuela.
  
  
• Stephanie Kreuter, '07 (Spanish and international business double major), is interning for the accounting department of Agros International, in Seattle.
  
  
• Jordan Sand, '06 (Spanish and biochemistry double major), received a $300,000 Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Graduate Scholarship to earn an M.D. at the University of Washington School of Medicine; he will also earn a master's degree in public health.
  
  
• Heather Stout, '05, was accepted to the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Bologna, Italy, and to American University.
  
  
• Alissa Johnson, '01, is a project manager based at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, in Seattle. Johnson, who was awarded a Fulbright scholarship while at Whitworth, is working with global research organizations to develop and test safe and effective drugs, prevention strategies and vaccines against HIV/AIDS.
  
  
• Won Hye Lee, '04, an exchange student from Korea who participated in Whitworth's 2004 France Study Program, is now enrolled in the MBA program at the Yale School of Management.
  
  
• Valin Simonsen, '05, is a teaching assistant in French classes at a school in England.
  
  
• Katherine Pettit, '02, completed law school at Tulane University and is a clerk with the San Francisco immigration court.
  
  
• Kirsten Berg, '04, teaches high-school French at Bear Creek School in Redmond, Wash.
  
  
• Alissa Diehl, '97, is a bilingual health care specialist with Americorp.
  
  
• Chrysia Watson, '99, is a graduate student at the State University of New York.
  
  
• Karen Gray, '66, is a program coordinator for the Smithsonian Institute.
  
  
• Elizabeth Tyle, '90, is a middle school teacher for the Yakima School District.
  
  
• Jennifer Jacks, '97, is an expeditor for Contra Costa Newspaper.
  
  
• The Rev. Carol Rose, '81, is the co-director of the Christian Peacemaker Teams organization. Rose worked for more than a decade in church projects in Latin America, Asia and North America. An ordained Mennonite minister, she was pastor of Mennonite Church of the Servant, Wichita, Kansas, from 1998-2004.