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Founder and CEO of Spartan, an endurance sports brand, Joe De Sena ’90 brings companies to his Vermont farm to work through their weak spots and bond in the forge of extreme physical challenges in his new reality TV show, “No Retreat: Business Bootcamp,” airing on CNBC.

“All companies have problems and most of us become complacent. We just trip over the same garbage in front of us every day,” De Sena said. “Unless you

After metastatic breast cancer took the life of a close family member, Megan Wherry Menner ’96, M.S. ’03, changed the direction of her career to focus on supporting the life-saving mission of the biotech and pharma industries. As senior vice president and head of Human Resources (HR) for CRISPR Therapeutics, she has been an instrumental leader in the company’s growth from around 60 employees when she started five and a half years ago, to

In 1997, Dr. Christy Teal ’88 got some bad news that would change the trajectory of her career. Her mother, who was 60, was diagnosed with breast cancer. A month later, her best friend, who was 34, received the same diagnosis. Teal, a general surgeon at the time, decided to dedicate her career to treating the disease, eventually becoming director of George Washington University’s Breast Care Center and co-authoring a book to help patients.  

Kyle Muña ’21, Human Development, credits his experience at the College of Human Ecology with helping him find his purpose in life — and right now that means helping high school students in Lancaster, PA, find their purpose.

Muña is a fellow and the senior program lead for ATTOLLO PREP, a nonprofit organization focused on supporting high-achieving, diverse high school students in Lancaster. He works as a mentor and develops and implements programs that help

When Osei Boateng ’18, MHA ’20 was 18, his beloved grandmother passed away in Ghana. What deepened his pain was his belief that her death was preventable. If she had learned sooner that she had high blood pressure, or gotten faster treatment when it spiked, she may not have suffered a stroke.

“It made a huge impact on my life,” Boateng said. “I decided to dedicate my life to making sure people don’t lose their

Andrea Vizcarrondo ’72 has spent the last 30 years nurturing an appreciation for art in visitors to The Metropolitan Museum of Art as a member of the MET’s rigorous docent program. Vizcarrondo’s path from the College of Human Ecology (CHE), where she studied in the Department of Design & Environmental Analysis (now Human Centered Design), to the halls of the MET took her on some unexpected ventures in the fashion world as she followed her