Elon Alumni

In the interview, the Elon alumna discusses starting a business, leadership, burnout and more.

The program enlists Elon alumni who mentor and advise students as they prepare for internships, careers and post-graduation life. 

The French and international and global studies double major works with the International Organization for Migration in Burundi, a U.N. agency that supports migrants of all kinds. In the face of COVID-19, her duties have shifted to crisis communication and response in the East African nation.

The first grade teacher discusses the shift to remote learning and its impact on herself, her students and her community.

Susanna Hearn '07 discusses the toll the ongoing pandemic takes on her interactions with patients at a Florida hospital and the important role medical professionals play, sometimes under the radar, in the fight against COVID-19.

When recent graduate Brianna Elder signed on to work in education through the City Year AmeriCorps program, she never imagined she would find herself coping with the realities of the COVID-19 pandemic in one of the nation’s hardest hit cities.

In an effort to put small businesses in the spotlight during the COVID-19 outbreak, the team's pilot episode of Sip’d will air on April 9 and focus on local craft beverage artisans in Durham, North Carolina.

Weird Enough Productions, an education technology company founded by the strategic communications and theatre arts alumnus, is making its lesson plans and activities free for teachers, students and parents as schools close in response to COVID-19.

Renna, the first national news director of GLAAD, visited with students virtually on March 31, discussing diversity in the media industry and having a voice in the workplace. 

Through the power of Zoom video chats, School of Communications alumni – nearly two dozen of them – continue to maintain the connections they first made while producing Elon University’s student-run newscast, “Elon Local News.”