Member Type: Alumni
Gillian Fu
Gillian Fu is the Associate Producer at the Tony-winning production company Junkyard Dog Productions, and an independent producer. She previously served as a co-producer on Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club (Tony Award Nomination). She graduated cum laude from Yale University with a B.A. in English Literature and Columbia University School of the Arts with […]
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Ilan Berkman
Now completing his Master of Education degree at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Ilan is an Associate Producer at NBCUniversal’s Peacock. A former Great Books camper, he returned for several summers as both a lead program assistant and a program assistant. Ilan began his career as a classroom teacher in Spain and Massachusetts and […]
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Dan Siegelman
Now a business development specialist at an AmLaw 100 law firm, Dan Siegelman was a two-year Great Books camper, and four-year program assistant at the Amherst campus. In between summers working at Great Books, he attended Swarthmore College, where he studied History and Political Science. Dan shared, “Great Books deeply shaped how I view the […]
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Taylor Tetreau
Taylor Tetreau is a screenwriter in Los Angeles, California. She’s been filling notebooks with scribbles as far back as she can remember — including across multiple Creative Writing electives as a Great Books camper at Amherst and later teaching her own screenwriting elective as a Program Assistant at Stanford. Taylor graduated from Emerson College in […]
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Andrew Sanchez, PhD
A four-year Great Books camper, multi-year program assistant, and now faculty member, Dr. Andrew Sanchez is co-founder and CEO of AI music platform Udio. Andrew earned his DPhil at the University of Oxford where he studied the future of work and basic income as an Ertegun Scholar. He has lectured at the World Basic Income […]
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Eric Yufeng Wu
Now a mechanical engineer, Eric received his MS in Mechanical Engineering from UCLA and his BS in Mechanical Engineering from Tufts University. A former UCLA Robotics and Mechanisms Lab researcher, and Formlabs intern, Eric is winner of the Samsung 2023 Research American A1 Inventor Award and the 2021 President’s Award. With projects ranging from LEGO […]
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Trevor Atkins
Trevor Atkins is a graduate of liberal arts college Union College in Schenectady, New York. He was awarded the Erasmus Mundus Language and Communication Technologies scholarship from 2020-2022. He currently works at Rakuten in Tokyo, Japan as a Data Analyst. Trevor shared with us, “For an anxious, shy teenager Great Books was a safe haven […]
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Nicholas Morrison
Nick has spent 13 years at Nike, where he has worn many hats across the product creation and supply chain ecosystem. His experience includes material development, operations, materials integrity risk assessment, and product integrity issue management. He studied History and Business at the University of Oregon (Go Ducks!), grounding his work in a blend of […]
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Thea Goodrich
Always a bookworm, Thea Goodrich is editor at W. W. Norton & Company, managing the Norton Critical Editions and Norton Library and a graduate of Kenyon College. She shared that Great Books Summer Program helped not only preparing for college but that the skills she fostered at Great Books still help her today. Thea said, […]
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Alexandra Kanovsky
Now an editor for a prominent publishing house, Alexandra “Xan” Kanovsky is a graduate of Kenyon College. Xan first came to Great Books as a middle schooler, returning for several years and later coming back as a program assistant to mentor the next generation of Great Books students. Xan shared with us, “Great Books highlights […]
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