Early Risers: TC students and Recent Alumni Who Are Making Their Mark

Early Risers

Stories of TC students and recent alumni who are making their mark

Our students come to Teachers College because they want to change the world — and by the time they graduate, many are already well on the way to achieving that goal. In our Early Risers series, we spotlight current students and recent graduates who are applying what they've learned at TC to some of the most important challenges of our era.

Health Education Can Do Better. Ed Tech Entrepreneur Reva McPollom (M.A. ’12) Is Making It Happen

A Tech Star’s Unusual Ascent: For doctoral student Yvonne Thevenot (M.Ed. ’20), it all gets back to being a concerned school parent

Bringing Black History Alive: A TC alumnus’ podcast unites the descendants of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B DuBois

Reaching for the Sky: Adversity has spurred N’dea Johnson (M.A. ’20) to help others. Now she hopes to do so in Congress

Thinking Inside the Box: How NYCDOE official Violet Wanta ended up co-producing kids’ education programming for WNET TV

To Educate or Legislate?

For master’s degree student Katie TerBush, that is the question

A Changemaker’s Approach to Overcoming Education Disparities

Shavonna Hinton is focused on helping others to set their own agendas

Amplifying Silenced Voices

Psychology graduate Helen Feldman (M.A. ’20) helps others by understanding the world from their vantage point

TC’s Goldberg Postdoctoral Fellowships: A $2.5 million bequest is seeding a new approach to mental health and wellbeing

Leading by Example, in Lots of Good Directions

Doctoral student and U.S. Army Major Jamie Hickman

A Veteran’s Journey to Teaching

For Peter Kim (Ed.D., Applied Linguistics), leadership in both the military and the classroom are about ‘instructing, teaching, counseling and guiding’

Exploring Poverty’s Impact on Learning

Neuroscience & Education Student Gabriel Reyes won this year's Student Research Poster competition

Education for the Times: Alumnus Nick Stone Is Part of a Corps of Teachers Creating Nationwide Curricula

The Roads Not Taken? There aren’t many for aspiring researcher, administrator and teacher Catherine Cheng Stahl

Listening to All Voices: Amanda Earl is Studying an Indigenous Language in Mexico and Helping the TC Record Expand Its Focus