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Henry Furguson standing next to rose bushes.

As the new board chair of the Bay Area’s 5 Buckets Foundation, Henry Ferguson ’18 helps empower lower-income communities through financial literacy programs.

Nicolás Lell Benavides ’10 working with students.

His return to campus for the Sinatra Series marks a full-circle moment of performing and teaching at the place where he began his classical music journey.

Progress Needs People - Jason Buenrostro

MacArthur Fellow and epigenetics researcher Jason Buenrostro ’09 is helping develop personalized medicine for communities in need.

Dee Dee Myers

In public service, doing the right thing takes courage, says the former Secretary of Defense during a recent visit to his alma mater.

Leon Panetta lecturing students in a classroom.

In public service, doing the right thing takes courage, says the former Secretary of Defense during a recent visit to his alma mater.

Mark Conlon / Rodolfo Soto / The Great World Race

Natalia Lazarus ’04 ran seven marathons on seven continents in seven days in the Great World Race. Here's her story, in her own words.

Johana Engstrom ‘22

A double major in Economics and Philosophy and a minor in Classics, Johana currently is the Program Manager of Fellowships and Internships for the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics within SCU!

Santa Clara University Mission Church shield logo

The department actually played a surprising role in how our lives turned out. Paul and I met because he was giving a speech on Plato’s Symposium, and somehow that turned into a nineteen-year conversation we never stopped having.

Madison Givens

Since graduating from Santa Clara, Madison completed two master’s degrees at Loyola University Chicago, and is currently a Ph.D. candidate in History at the University of Memphis.

Hallie Mullane Bodey

Having earned two masters degrees, Hallie currently works on extracurricular and co-curricular programming primarily in Global Education and International Student Services at 51³Ô¹Ï.

Luis López Alfaro and Joe Albers outside the front of Mission Santa Clara

Two decades after an immersion trip as a student, the former Cristo Rey San Jose principal starts a new chapter in his career.