Alumni Corner

Iris—2016

Iris is a sophomore at Carmel Catholic High School where she is on the honor roll. She is involved in band and string ensemble, and is on the lights crew for the spring musical.

Grace—2016

Grace attends Illinois State University where she is a Presidential Scholar. Her major is communication sciences and disorders. She hopes to go to graduate school and become a speech-language pathologist. She currently lives on-campus and works in her apartment’s leasing office.

Sadie—2016

Sadie attends Carmel Catholic High School where she is on the honor roll. This year she discovered her inner geek and fell in love with physics! Apart from school work she enjoys track, running cross country, and spending time with friends.

Garrett—2015

Garrett attends Wauconda High School. He is on the honor roll, is a member of FBLA (Future Business Leaders of America), and enjoys art and cooking.

Charlie—2015

Charlie attends Lake Zurich High School. He belongs to the Interact Club, where students volunteer their time to support their local community. He plays soccer for both the high school and the Ela travel soccer team.

Elise—2015

Elise is a junior at Richmond-Burton High School in Spring Grove. She is an honor student and enjoys playing flute in the band and singing in chamber choir.

Jeffrey—2015

Jeffrey is a sophomore at Tamarack Waldorf High School in Milwaukee. His favorite subjects are art and guitar. He enjoyed architecture camp this past summer.

Katie—2015

Katie is a junior at Cary Grove High School where she is on the honor roll. She helped with costuming for their performance of Evita and has been a member of the choir for two years. She is active in voice and dance.

Molly Kate—2015

Molly Kate is a junior at Wauconda High School where she enjoys musical theater and dance, Bulldogs dance & poms team and show choir. She is beginning to think about college choices and is considering becoming a choreographer for her career.

Nila—2014

Nila graduated from Elmhurst University with a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology. While at Elmhurst, Nila was an active member of her school’s Honor program, studied abroad, and did independent research. She is currently in graduate school at the Chicago School of Professional Psychology where she will be getting her Ed.S in School Psychology.  Nila was a 2017 Da Vinci Waldorf School Take Flight Grant winner!

Greg—2014

Greg is finishing his last year at Northeastern University in Boston, where he will graduate with honors in May 2023. He is a Marketing major in the honors Business College. He enjoys a cappella singing with Distilled Harmony (https://web.northeastern.edu/distilledharmony/) and is the past President of the group. Greg is a member of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity. He has taken three semester-long co-ops, for Boston Consulting (2020), Foxy A.I. (2021), where he ran the entire marketing program for this online real estate product startup, and most recently with Athena Health (2022-2023), where he works on marketing, customer surveys, data analysis, and “voice of the customer.” Greg plans to stay on the east coast working in data analysis and marketing after his upcoming graduation. 

Grace—2014

Grace is a senior at Lake Zurich High School, and has been invited to join the Honor Society. She is considering colleges that will enable her to become a successful illustrator. She served as an artist-in-training at Zagone Studios in Melrose Park this past summer. She recently won a National Scholastic Medal for comic art and was recognized at Carnegie Hall in June.

Alma—2014

Alma is finishing the undergraduate program in social work at Aurora University. She works as a nanny and is beginning an internship the fall of 2021 with the nonprofit organization One Collective. Alma will get her Master of Social Work at Aurora and hopes to work in a private counseling practice. Alma is committed to relaxing when she can, making music, being a voice of reason, and raising her adopted dog, Luna Loo. She is an enneagram 9 ~ The Peacemaker and lives up to her name… Alma (Soul).

Tim—2013

Tim just graduated from Carmel Catholic High School. Attending business and film/photography classes at Carmel inspired him to pursue them through college. He is off to study entrepreneurship and film at Bishop’s University in Sherbrooke, Québec.

Dilip—2013

Dilip graduated from Barrington High School and is currently deciding where to go to college. He does theater production and plays the violin in the school orchestra. He plans to continue playing and performing as much as he can, whether that be in an orchestra or on his own.

Johnny—2013

Johnny graduated from Wauconda High School. His favorite class was creative writing. He is off to Columbia College in Chicago to study film.

Olivia—2012

Olivia at Beloit College where she is majoring in theater and recently played Lady MacBeth. She is a singer-songwriter and violinist, performing throughout Chicagoland. She served as a delegate for Bernie Sanders in the 2016 presidential election and plans to combine her passion for performance, social justice and Spanish language as she studies abroad in Ecuador this fall.

Nate—2011

Nate graduated from University of Illinois Urbana/ Champaign with highest honors and a degree in computer science.  He now works at Google in California. Nate enjoys weightlifting, practicing martial arts, woodworking, hiking, computer gaming and 3D printing, and spending time with his two cats.

Willow—2011

Willow graduated from Beloit College in Wisconsin with a political science major and served as Student Congress president. She was active in dance productions and joined the Theta Pi Gamma Sorority. Her goal is to teach English as a second language for a year in Germany through the Fulbright program and then pursue her JD degree and fight for human rights and environmental issues.

Shane—2011

Shane is a student at College of Lake County, where he is studying to become a certified yoga instructor. He is planning on playing basketball for the school in the 2017-18 season. During his free time he likes hanging out with his friends or going to visit them at their schools.

Monica—2011

Monica is currently a junior at Lake Forest College, majoring in Business and minoring in Entrepreneurship and Mandarin Chinese. She has studied Mandarin for six years and intends to study abroad in China next year. She is considering a career in international business and wealth management, and is excited to see what the future brings.

Tyler—2010

Tyler is in his 3rd year at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is hoping to shake up the art world when he graduates in 2018.

Nick—2010

Nick is an Account Manager for Echo Logistics. He enjoys spending time with his family. His baby sister is in the Grades at DVWS!

Mariah—2010

Mariah graduated this May with honors (after only 3 years) with a B.A. in Counseling from Grace College in Indiana. She will be working full time at Pierceton Woods Academy for boys in Indiana, while pursuing a graduate degree from Grace College.

Nikala—2009

Nikala went to College of Lake County, where she completed an Associate Degree in Arts and Science. She was an honor roll student and president of Environmental Club. She is excited to further her education this coming year studying linguistics. She intends to become fluent in a few languages and travel the world volunteering.

Caleb—2009

Caleb is attending Cornell College. He received a violin scholarship and merit scholarship. He plays on the Cornell College Lacrosse team.

Ashley—2008

Ashley was the first graduate from Da Vinci Waldorf School (formerly Waters Edge). She has two children. She works in the IT department for a mortgage loan company. In her free time, she enjoys being outside with her children and cooking.