Alumni Stories

Share Your Story

Penn GSE welcomes news of how our alumni are educating, leading, and innovating to shape the future of education. We hope you will draw inspiration from the stories we’ve shared on Penn GSE social media and take a moment to share your work with us.


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September 13, 2022
After graduating from Penn GSE, a travel blogger entertains and educates her friends and followers

La India Santos runs a social media profile called Flying Phirst Klass, which encourages young people to travel to less popular destinations and connect with local cultures.

  • Alumni
September 8, 2022
Penn GSE alumni rally together at West Point for Army-inspired leadership retreat

Pushups. Pullups. Sprints. Rows. Thirty students and alumni went to America’s preeminent military academy to catch up with their classmates. Along the way, they tried to catch their breath.

  • Alumni
The cover of the Spring 2022 issue of The Penn GSE Magazine. A disc with four images of educators and students has the title “Fueling Educational Leadership Across The Lifespan” in the center. Other headlines read “Alumni Shaping the Workforce,” “Asking Questions and Building Bridges,” and “Professional Growth through Collaboration.”
July 7, 2022
Leadership across the lifespan: Read the Spring 2022 issue of The Penn GSE Magazine

The Spring 2022 issue of The Penn GSE Magazine spotlights leadership from preK–12 through the workforce, master’s students expanding opportunities for learners, Penn GSE’s building expansion, and more. 

  • Alumni
a woman waves in front of a GSE sign
June 22, 2022
Penn GSE’s Celebration of Educators honors 6 alumni, highlights need for expanded access
  • Higher Education
  • Alumni
Digitally illustrated human figures in different bright colors in stand on a newspaper page titled “JOBS” that contains various job listings.
May 13, 2022
Opening Doors and Reimagining Learning: Penn GSE Alumni Shape the Workforce

Four Penn GSE alumni representing varied sectors of education share innovative ways they are helping prepare the workers of the future.

  • Education Innovation & Entrepreneurship
  • Higher Education
  • Leadership
  • Alumni
A disc with four images of educators and students with the title “Fueling Educational Leadership Across The Lifespan” in the center.
May 13, 2022
Fueling Educational Leadership Across the Lifespan: Penn GSE Develops the Leaders of the Future for PreK–12, Higher Education, and the Workplace

At a time of incredible flux, Penn GSE’s innovative leadership programs are helping create better school environments, amplifying the impact of K-12 leaders, shaping the future of higher education, and producing scholar-practitioners for the workplace.

  • Higher Education
  • Leadership
  • Teaching & Learning
  • Alumni
Panelists engaged in a discussion on Zoom
March 15, 2022
Panel Addresses the Future of Higher Education

What can institutions do to help students make informed choices about higher education? How can we make sense of skepticism surrounding cost, value, and return on investment? Four members of the Penn GSE community at the forefront of these changes spoke at a recent Penn Alumni panel event.

  • Education Policy & Analysis
  • Higher Education
  • Teaching & Learning
  • Alumni
Students raising their hands in a classroom.
March 4, 2022
Multiple Pathways to Excellence: Penn GSE Prepares Teachers to Transform Lives

The Penn GSE Magazine takes a look at the three master's programs in teacher education at Penn GSE — and the stories of three of its students, each on their own journey.

  • Higher Education
  • Alumni
Abdulrahman Bindamnan smiling in a suit
March 1, 2022
The experience of the "zero-generation college student"

Halfway around the world from home, a Penn GSE alum discovered a passion for writing — and teaching other non-native English writers.

  • Global Initiatives
  • Teaching & Learning
  • Alumni
Four Penn GSE alumni working to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion
February 14, 2022
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Penn GSE Alumni Work to Support Students and Employees

Four Penn GSE alumni describe how they are striving to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion through their roles at a education nonprofit, a middle school, a state university, and a tech company

  • Race, Equity & Inclusion
  • Alumni

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