Success Stories

Noemi Florea, BA Environmental Studies ‘23 and BFA Integrated Design ‘24, is the founder and CEO of Cycleau.

Myles Loftin, BFA Photography '20, is a fashion and lifestyle photographer who, while still at Parsons, was named to Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list for Art and Style.

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Anna Conklin is a Berlin-based American journalist who focuses on war and conflict, human rights violations, and the environment.

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Vibraphonist Joel Ross, BFA '22, is a leading young musician in contemporary jazz and faculty member of The School of Jazz and Contemporary Music.

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Mio Akasako, MS Data Visualization ’20, Parsons School of Design, co-founder and vice president of Design at Ash Wellness.

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Alex Vadukul, BA Literary Studies ’11, Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts, a writer for the Style section of the New York Times.

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Lessie Vonner, BFA Instrumental Concentration ’15, School of Jazz and Contemporary Music, professional trumpet player who has shared the stage with some of the world’s biggest performing artists.

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Matthew Steinfeld, BA Liberal Arts ‘03 (Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts), MA Psychology '09, and PhD Clinical Psychology '12 (The New School for Social Research), entered The New School as a trumpet player and emerged a clinical psychologist.

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Oscar Romero, MA International Affairs ’18, is the chief information officer at the New York City Civic Engagement Commission.

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Jesus Rodolfo, PDPL Instrumental Performance ’14, MM Instrumental Performance ‘12, Mannes School of Music, came to the College of Performing Arts at The New School from his native Spain looking to upend the world of classical music.

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Vlad Ginzburg, BS Liberal Arts ’12, Bachelor’s Program for Adults and Transfer Students, founder and CEO of Blockparty

Alumni Profiles

Graduates of The New School are ambitious critical thinkers who understand that achievement is not a destination but an ongoing path with peaks and valleys that inform holistic, sustainable, and rewarding careers.

Raviva Hanser

Senior Program Officer, Capacity Strengthening, Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice

Integrate Social Justice with the Natural Sciences

Nayaab, BA Interdisciplinary Science '12 (Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts), researches the critical intersections between cells and society.

Journalism

Anna Conkling: Telling Untold Stories

Anna is a Berlin-based American journalist who focuses on war and conflict, human rights violations, and the environment. Her work has taken her to Armenia, Lebanon, and, most recently, Ukraine.

Reimagining Photography as Anthropology

How does Western media overlook entire communities? Drawing on her BFA in Photography from Parsons, her BA in Global Studies from Lang, and her MA in Anthropology from NSSR, Abigail considers the views of members of the Mohawk Nation.

Economics

Zenat Begum ’15: Serving Community from a Coffee Shop Salon

Lang alum Zenat Begum uses her cafe as a place in which to bridge the gaps between the people living in her gentrifying Brooklyn neighborhood.

MA Fashion Studies (MA)

Angelene Wong '19

Bridging Fashion Theory and Practice

Alumni Work

Our alumni’s accomplishments include creating global enterprises, reinvigorating the art world, transforming the music industry, conceiving groundbreaking designs, and dressing the First Lady of the United States—to name a few.