At Clark, you can be all of the above.
Select the academic path that unites your passions with your ambitions.
While at Clark, Rebecca Liebman '15 co-founded LearnLux, providing online personal finance tools for Millennials. She recently won the PerfectPitch competition — and $400,000 in investments — at the South by Southwest Festival by making her pitch to actors Ashton Kutcher, Matthew McConaughey, and Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff. A CEO herself, Liebman has been named to Forbes' 30 Under 30 list. "I came to Clark because I saw the opportunity to take initiative and saw that students really make things happen. That held true," Rebecca says.
As a student, Christie Joyce ’16, M.S. ’17, founded the Scholarly Undergraduate Research Journal and worked in Biology Professor Néva Meyer’s lab – experiences that ultimately helped her land a job at Corbus Pharmaceuticals. One of the hottest biotech companies in Boston, Corbus was founded by alumnus Dr. Mark Tepper ’79. “Working for Professor Meyer taught me to hold myself to the highest standard,” Christie says.
As National Public Radio’s Moscow correspondent, Lucian Kim '92 has covered Russia, Ukraine, and Germany for media outlets including Bloomberg News, Reuters, Slate, Newsweek, and The Christian Science Monitor. "I think a lot of what you learn in college becomes subconscious," Lucian says. "You might not remember the details of the material, but you’re equipped with certain observational and analytical skills."
Brad McNamara, M.B.A./ES &P ’13, launched Freight Farms while still a graduate student at Clark. Today, the company supplies 40-foot shipping containers retrofitted to grow vegetables and herbs in any location and climate. The company has sold more than 160 rigs across the world. “There’s no denying the impact if we can stay in the community, keep food local, and create food independence,” Brad says. “We want the focus to be on the farmers and the people they’re feeding.”
