Thirteen bakers, two jugglers and a professional artist.
Dozens with prior medical experience, including eighteen medical scribes, nine medical assistants, three EMTs and two paramedics.
Fourteen runners, two former D1 athletes, a black belt in karate and players of soccer, volleyball, ice hockey, badminton, pickleball, tennis and competitive paintball.
Multilinguists fluent in American Sign Language, Bengali, Chinese, French, German, Hindi, Japanese, Russian, Spanish and Yoruba.
A cohort of musicians, including nine pianists, five guitarists, a violinist and two percussionists. At least one pianist can play the theme song to “The Office.”
Parents to at least nine dogs, three cats and a bunny.
The founder of Sustainable Fashion Week in Richmond.
A three-time Harry Potter trivia champion and an Avengers enthusiast who can quote every movie.
Dancers of bhangra, hula, hip-hop, garba and breakdancing.
On their way to medical school, they…
Tagged sharks in the Caribbean, road tripped from New York to Alaska and traveled to 18 countries in 40 days.
Lived in Thailand, Greece, Omar, Germany, Taiwan, Egypt and Cyprus.
Hiked Mount Rainier, the Camino de Santiago, the Kilauea Caldera, the Inca Trail, a glacier in Iceland, a volcano in Scotland, the Grand Canyon and 2,200 miles from Maine to Georgia on the Appalachian Trail.
Served in AmeriCorps and donated more than six gallons of blood.
Earned seven master's degrees and four scuba certifications.
Worked as servers, teachers, English tutors, NASA researchers, ice cream scoopers, camp counselors, coaches, farmers, a celebrity personal assistant and a certified wildfire firefighter.
Learned to pour latte, read ancient Greek and write calligraphy.
In four years, members of this class will...
Gain Italian citizenship.
Become a parent.
Graduate on the same campus where they were born
Become the first in their families to work in health care.
In the Class of 2027, you’ll find...
Thirteen bakers, two jugglers and a professional artist.
Dozens with prior medical experience, including eighteen medical scribes, nine medical assistants, three EMTs and two paramedics.
Fourteen runners, two former D1 athletes, a black belt in karate and players of soccer, volleyball, ice hockey, badminton, pickleball, tennis and competitive paintball.
Multilinguists fluent in American Sign Language, Bengali, Chinese, French, German, Hindi, Japanese, Russian, Spanish and Yoruba.
A cohort of musicians, including nine pianists, five guitarists, a violinist and two percussionists. At least one pianist can play the theme song to “The Office.”
Parents to at least nine dogs, three cats and a bunny.
The founder of Sustainable Fashion Week in Richmond.
A three-time Harry Potter trivia champion and an Avengers enthusiast who can quote every movie.
Dancers of bhangra, hula, hip-hop, garba and breakdancing.
On their way to medical school, they…
Tagged sharks in the Caribbean, road tripped from New York to Alaska and traveled to 18 countries in 40 days.
Lived in Thailand, Greece, Omar, Germany, Taiwan, Egypt and Cyprus.
Hiked Mount Rainier, the Camino de Santiago, the Kilauea Caldera, the Inca Trail, a glacier in Iceland, a volcano in Scotland, the Grand Canyon and 2,200 miles from Maine to Georgia on the Appalachian Trail.
Served in AmeriCorps and donated more than six gallons of blood.
Earned seven master's degrees and four scuba certifications.
Worked as servers, teachers, English tutors, NASA researchers, ice cream scoopers, camp counselors, coaches, farmers, a celebrity personal assistant and a certified wildfire firefighter.
Learned to pour latte, read ancient Greek and write calligraphy.
In four years, members of this class will...
Gain Italian citizenship.
Become a parent.
Graduate on the same campus where they were born
Become the first in their families to work in health care.
The interests and achievements of the Class of 2027
Aadi Sharma has competed in Bhangra dance competitions around the country and performed as a backup dancer for a Punjabi singer.Abigail Andrade is a certified SCUBA diver.Abigail Braatz grew up on a farm with six siblings.Alexandra Erling got to eat free hot wings for a year as a brand ambassador for a local restaurant.Allison Tegner is a lifelong Golden State Warriors fan and got to meet Kevin Durant on the court after a game.Amanda Adolfo worked as a smoking studies research associate and loves being a “plant mom.”Amina Ahmed confronted her fear of heights to go paragliding.Andre Ardelan can juggle.Andrew Rehak, who finished first in his class at Hampden-Sydney College, shared the graduation stage with Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson as commencement speaker.Angelica Johnson lived in Thailand for three years and is working on earning an AFF skydiving license.Anna La Raffa enjoyed working as a scribe and dreams of owning a vineyard.Arleen Trieu spends her time exploring new coffee shops and observing flowers.Aubrey King played five seasons of D1 field hockey at JMU and William and Mary.Bahira Ahmed has been inside Egypt's Great Pyramids and climbed an ancient Scottish mountain.Beth Wasserman enjoys synchronized swimming and aerial silks.Brandon Rinkavage has driven his Honda Civic to 49 of the 50 states and 32 national parks.Brigitte Lieu has hiked three U.S. national parks, the Berchtesgaden Alps and rapelled down a glacier crevasse in Iceland.Cameron Hughes tutors Richmond Alternative School students in science.Casey Wood's favorite job was working as a medicinal chemist.Catherine Phan spent 40 days traveling to 18 different cities across Europe and Asia.Charles Payne fell in love with English Mastiffs the first time he saw the movie “Sandlot” as a kid, and now he and his wife have “two giant dogs,” Kingsley and Clyde.Charlotte Burch enjoys horseback riding, hot yoga and ran her first half marathon.Daniel Leventhal is passionate about music and can play the guitar.Danny Bass spent the first three years of life on the Navajo Nation in rural Arizona.David Hutton's favorite job was working at a small winery in Sonoma, California.David Zhu is a “certified adrenaline junkie” who loves snowboarding, skydiving, paragliding, rock climbing and marathon running.Deaquan Nichols, who enjoys playing basketball, weightlifting and watching sports, is anticipating the birth of his daughter on August 3.Devika Puri volunteered at an internal medicine clinic treating COVID-19 patients.Dominique Daly practices and teaches yoga.Dorcas Adebogun left her home country of Nigeria to study in Canada at 16 years old.Edward Choi loves experiences new cultures and traveled to the Philippines to earn his SCUBA license.Elijah Robinson shares a bedroom with a cage-free bunny and loved working as an emergency medicine scribe.Evan Arents hiked the Appalachian Trail from Maine to Georgia in five months.Evan Drake can read Ancient Greek and conducts research on Latin literature.Gevick Safarians was interviewed by ABC News in Los Angeles for eating ice cream in what they considered “cold” weather.Grace Rauch brought home a stray kitten found in a McDonald's parking lot.Hayden Davidson is a certified SCUBA diver and earned a boat captain's license at 18 years old.Hojung Park (right) enjoys practicing kintsugi, the Japanese art of mending pottery.Isabel Salken worked as Brooklyn Nets presenter Ally Love's personal assistant.Jaren Jackson went skydiving on his 23rd birthday without telling his parents and will be the first doctor in his family.Jennifer Wang taught pottery classes and started a small art business in college.Kai-Kan Yeung loves K-pop, K-dramas and ultimate frisbee.Kaila Ross loves roadtripping to national parks.Katie Stombres, who loves to SCUBA dive and waterski, is a Harry Potter trivia champ at three different venues.Kealani Unkel loves swimming, gymnastics and teaching her golden retriever, Ace, new tricks.Kellen Nani has an identical twin brother.Kerry Lee has lived in six different cities around the world from New York City to Taipei, Taiwan.Kavin Selvan has a black belt in karate.Konstantinos Oikonomou, who was born in Athens, Greece and moved to Miami when he was 6, loves to hike, cook and play basketball and tennis.Laura Clark spent her childhood riding on the backs of cows around her family farm.Lauren Blanchetti loves all things outdoors and competes in open water swimming.Liana Resnikoff solo traveled to China, Nepal and Cambodia at 18.Luke Johnson climbed 2,000-foot cliffs in Switzerland.Marisa Mihori has danced hula in a Hawaiian culture school for 15 years.Mary Kate Lantzy studied abroad in Australia and has hiked the Grand Canyon rim-to-rim.Matthew Harris loves swimming and traveling, and previously worked as a surf camp instructor.Megan McCaughey spent two weeks doing wildlife conservation in the Carribbean.Meredith Christian is gaining Italian citizenship and spent a week volunteering in Joshua Tree National Park.Michael Keller has donated over six gallons of blood, competed in multiple half-Ironmans and a full marathonMinna Kim enjoys baking macarons and crocheting.Nancy Beinlich grew up on a farm in rural Pennsylvania and knows the best spots for berry and pumpkin picking.Natasha Deo recently hiked trails at Mount Rainier, an active volcano.Nathan Paull spent a year tracking coyote movements with the Atlanta Coyote Project.Neha Shah can speak four languages and cliff dived in Puerto Rico.Nicole Lulkin, whose first language was Russian, conquered a fear of heights by ziplining over the Monteverdes Cloud Forest in Costa Rica.Noelle Hagy wrote a cookbook of family favorite Greek recipes.Noelle Johnson's first time living outside California will be to attend medical school.Nuhame Mulugeta worked as an infection prevention consultant with the Virginia Department of Social Services.Pamela Dang's favorite job was serving in the AmeriCorps as a middle school mentor and teacher's assistant.Patrick Trainor enjoys mountain biking, pickling vegetables and playing the flute.Paula Petersen enjoys knitting, jogging and bird watching.Peter Burback's competitive collegiate paintball team were finalists at the 2023 national paintball tournament.Rachel Fry volcano boarded down an active volcano in Nicaragua.Raveena Joshi loves to run, including the Richmond Half Marathon.Rebecca Alemu traveled to five different countries this year.Ria Bhutra coordinated deliveries from her college's dining halls to local shelters.Rufina Kore performed as an alto in her college choir.Ryan Nguyen practices “martial arts tricking,” a combination of martial arts and acrobatic elements from gymnastics and breakdancing.Samuel Wolfe played D1 basketball for four years at VMI.Sarah Abouassali visited 10 national parks this summer and is teaching herself how to read Arabic.Sarah Durisek (right) can speak American Sign Language and went on a “silent retreat” where ASL was the only language permitted.Sarah Lewicki has played ice hockey for 13 years.Shivani Mullapudi was the director of a national collegiate South Asian dance competition in Charlottesville, Virginia.Shivani Patel was captain of VCU Ricochet Raas dance team.Sonya Feeser was featured in Richmond Magazine after being selected to deliver Feed More's Meals on Wheels 10 millionth meal.Suhas Velichala was a physiology researcher at NASA.Sushma Gandham runs a food Instagram account and enjoys racquet sports.Sydney Ahlquist has donated stem cells to someone in need.Sydney Williams worked as a health equity specialist.Talitha Abraham is a professional artist and has won six international art exhibition awards.Tayyab Ahmad founded a cost-free clinic for underserved populations.Tyler Costa, the proud parent of a golden retriever named Duchess, has worked as an EMT.Victoria Calvert faced her fear of needles to earn her phlebotomy certification.William Perrine worked as a scribe at a family medicine clinic and hopes to pursue the specialty.William Schroeder was born during his father's first year of medical school at VCU School of Medicine and attended his father's classes as a baby.William Shuford worked an array of jobs before medical school, from applying glitter to the Star of Bethlehem in a factory that assembles nativity scenes to a community health fellowship with AmeriCorps in the Appalachian Mountains.William Treene was an 8th grade science teacher.Yashnoor Sandhu was captain of a Bhangra dance team in college.Yumna Rahman studied abroad in Cyprus.
