Alumna Gabrielle Aldridge earned both a BFA in Apparel and Textile Design and a BA in General Management from Michigan State University in 2016. She is now the Product Development Manager for Shinola, an American luxury goods brand based in Detroit. What are your responsibilities as the Product Development Manager at Shinola?My main responsibility is to take our designers’ concepts…
College of Arts & Letters faculty and students were recognized for their outstanding achievements in leadership, teaching, innovation, and community engagement at the College of Arts & Letters Alumni Board Awards ceremony on March 30 at the Kellogg Hotel and Conference Center. Hosted by the College of Arts & Letters Alumni Board, three different awards were presented at the event,…
Alumna Kellyn Uhl is a Registered Dance/Movement Therapist (R-DMT) who, after graduating from Michigan State University in 2010 with a BFA in Theatre, worked as an actor, dancer, and photographer in New York City and all around the world. She credits all these experiences, including her time spent at MSU, for leading her to where she is today. Dance/Movement Therapist…
College of Arts & Letters alumna Kyle Pilutti is working on nuclear nonproliferation issues at the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) as part of a year-long fellowship program. After graduating from MSU in 2013 with a B.A. in Humanities Prelaw and Arabic, Pilutti worked as a Research Assistant at Ploughshares Fund and won the United Nation’s Essay Competition on her…
Patrick Kelley received his Ph.D. in Linguistics from MSU in May 2018 and currently works at Amazon as a language engineer, where he works with technologies to improve Amazon’s Alexa, a form of artificial intelligence. Could you give a basic job description of your position at Amazon? I am a language engineer at Amazon, where my day-to-day changes almost every…
Nancy Bullock, who received her B.A. in English from MSU in 1981, has spent most of her career in Vice President of Marketing and Director of Marketing positions for companies like 1-800-FLOWERS, Pampered Chef, Home Depot, Spilsbury, and Random House. She is now President and Owner of Digital Market Solutions, Inc., and does consulting for startups in the Chicago area. Bullock also recently…
College of Arts & Letters alumna Dawn Reed is the 2018 recipient of the Ray H. Lawson Award presented by the Michigan Council of Teachers of English (MCTE). Each year, this award honors one outstanding MCTE educator who has demonstrated leadership to the profession and is held in high esteem by colleagues and students. Reed is a teacher at Okemos…
Lindsey Murante, Interdisciplinary Humanities, 2004, is a Manager for the Manifest Service, Union Pacific Railroad, working within the Marketing and Sales department.
College of Arts & Letters and Department of Art, Art History, and Design alumnus Dan Robar has worked with clay nearly his entire life, a skill that has taken him all around the world and led him to help create many of the vehicles on the road today.
Scroll through the IMDB of MSU Theatre alumnus Brian Stonestreet and you will be in awe. As one of the most sought-after production designers in Hollywood and around the world, Stonestreet has electrified live audiences and TV viewers for more than a decade.