Avi Kumar (A21) is one of the lucky ones. He always knew his life path, and that knowledge—illuminated by a St. John’s education—gave him the clarity, persistence, and skills to be accepted at Stanford Law School. Kumar says he owes his collegiate and professional success to the “intensive education” he received at St. John’s College. “You really can do anything with this degree,” he adds.
With a gift from his estate, Kip Smith (SF73) is helping future students to ask the big questions.
For a small liberal arts institution, St. John’s College has a significant number of employees who are Fulbright scholars. Now St. John’s is working to help more of our undergraduate and graduate students enjoy a Fulbright experience abroad.
When Simran Thapa (SF22) heard about the University of Texas at Austin's McCombs National Women's Case Competition, she knew wanted to find a way to participate.
Jason Gots (EC96) is a writer, musician, and podcast producer who lectures in Columbia University’s Graduate School of the Arts’ writing department. After studying acting at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, he earned an Eastern Classics degree from St. John’s and a master’s in developmental psychology from Columbia. Here he discusses his memoir, Humanity is Trying, which was released by HarperCollins/Hanover Square Press on March 1, 2022 and chronicles (among other things) the loss of his sister Meri Gots (SF97), who died in 2015.
