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安娜于2010年加入南丁格尔大学七年级的校队室内bb0, 这只是她不可思议的运动生涯的开始. While at Nightingale, Anna broke records in the 300m, 600m, 800m, 2000m steeplechase, 4x100m relay, and 4x800m relay, 同时，她还是一名三季的运动员，并在大四期间担任体育委员会的联席主席. 后来，她进入普林斯顿大学(Princeton University)参加田径比赛，在11场比赛中获得第一名, placed in the top three in 36 races, 并在1000米和800米项目中创造了学校历史前5名的记录. The rigorous education she received at Nightingale helped her excel as a scholar-athlete with a concentration in Comparative Literature, and in 2017 and 2018, she earned USTFCCCA All-Academic honors. After graduating from Princeton in 2019, Anna moved back to New York City and is now working full time as a financial intelligence analyst at the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office. 当她步入成年生活的时候, 她仍然喜欢跑步，并优先安排时间与纽约的精英团队一起上路, the Central Park Track Club.

“From the time I was very young, 尤其是通过运动，我感到一种轻松的表达和存在感, running—that I found in few other places. Because of that, 因为我相信我有足够的才能达到大学水平, 我从没想过大学里没有田径."

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1975年从南丁格尔大学毕业后, Gretel went on to attend the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where she received a degree in mathematics. While looking for a position, 一位朋友告诉我，这家航空航天和国防科技公司有一个空缺职位, Raytheon. During her time there, Gretel worked as a software systems engineer and focused on programming systems such as teaching lasers how to see, creating a mass transit system, and more, all the way until she retired in 2014. 她目前居住在马萨诸塞州，照顾20多岁的孩子,000平方英尺的“食品储藏室花园”, in 2021, produced 3,为马萨诸塞州的万宝路和梅纳德食品储藏室捐赠了1000磅食品. Gretel also part of the board of directors for the Massachusetts Horticultural Society and gives around 50-80 lectures a year.

“南丁格尔让我忘记了障碍的存在, 所以穿过它们很自然."

莎拉的职业生涯始于戏剧，至今仍对艺术充满热情. 她出演了几十部戏剧和音乐剧，包括 Three Tall Women opposite Allison Janney, Godspell, The Sound of Music, Peter Pan, and Bye Bye Birdie. 她目前师从传奇声乐老师玛丽·乔·杜普雷. 莎拉的电影处女作是李安的获奖电影，The Ice Storm. 她还出现在圣丹斯电影节的两个官方参赛作品中:安托万·福库 Brooklyn's Finest opposite Richard Gere and Ross Katz's Taking Chance, opposite Kevin Bacon. 她也有机会在宝莱坞大片中与兰比尔·卡普尔演对手戏， Raajneeti这部电影仍然是宝莱坞有史以来票房收入最高的第10部电影. 莎拉在电视剧中也有很长一段时间的职业生涯 7th Heaven(CW), Angel (CW), and Manchester Prep (FOX). 她的常驻演员和客串演员包括 The Sopranos, Boston Public, House, Line of Fire, and Without A Trace.

"It was at Nightingale that I transitioned from being a very introverted person to someone who was not afraid to speak up and use my voice. 这份天赋极大地影响了我的生活，无论是个人生活还是职业生涯. Additionally, 南丁格尔教会我要超越界限(无论是真实的还是感知的)，要有勇气. 在南丁格尔，我不断地被推出我的舒适区，但以一种非常安全和培养的方式."

Visual artist Dove Bradshaw '67 pioneered the use of indeterminacy in 1969 by enlisting the unpredictable effects of time, weather, erosion, 且室内外大气条件自然, chemical, and manufactured materials. 她创作了随大气变化的化学画, indoor erosion sculptures of salt, and outdoor stone sculptures that weather. 她研究过接收当地无线电传输的晶体, short wave, and weather stations, 以及接收木星射电望远镜的信号. In 1975, she was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts grant; 1985 the Pollock-Krasner award; 2003 a Furthermore Grant; in 2006 The National Science Foundation for Artists Grant. 她的作品经常在美国展出.S.在第六届光州双年展上展出的作品，包括美国、欧洲、南美、日本和韩国. She is represented in the permanent collections of many major museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, New York, The National Gallery of Washington, The Art Institute of Chicago, The British Museum, Centre Pompidou, Paris, and the Marble Palace, Russian State Museum, St. Petersburg.

“友谊是南丁格尔的主要作品之一. 我最亲密的老朋友是67届南丁格尔-梅里尔(道特曼)惠勒大学的. 最近我在英国和她住在一起，我们甚至全年都经常聊天. 友谊是南丁格尔今天出现在我生活中的方式."

他是土生土长的纽约人，出生于多米尼加共和国, Gaby Santana Goldstein ’06 came to Nightingale after completing the Prep for Prep program and went on to graduate from Vanderbilt University in 2010. 在科技行业工作了八年之后, large companies like Facebook, Wayfair, The Quin, and Criteo, 加比的导师鼓励她申请哈佛商学院. 在那里，Gaby从2019年到2020年担任学生会的联合主席. Gaby graduated from Harvard Business school in 2020 and is now the head of business development for Hey Jane, 通过虚拟诊所提供药物流产护理的妇女远程保健公司. Gaby also serves on the Board of Directors of the Planned Parenthood Advocacy Fund of Massachusetts and the Philanthropic Board of Advisors for Boston Children’s Hospital.

“南丁格尔是我第一次学会庆祝我是一个热爱学习的女孩的地方, who loves to compete (and win), 谁知道成为一个强大而包容的社区的一部分意味着什么, 谁能挑战现状，改变世界.”

Krys于2019年从哥伦比亚大学数学统计学学士学位毕业后加入辉瑞. Krys最近开始了一个新的角色.S. Portfolio Acceleration Team as a senior manager in advanced analytics where she identifies opportunities to provide innovative solutions for decision analytics and dynamically engages with stakeholders of data solution projects while also playing the role of a project manager, technical developer, and data scientist. Krys是COVID-19疫苗团队和COVID-19疫苗仪表板团队的重要成员. Her team was awarded the 2021 Craig A. 萨克斯顿临床发展奖并将于今年秋天举行颁奖典礼. Additionally, Krys is an active leader within the Latino Colleague Resource Group and is the founder and leader of the Young Latino Professionals Initiative at Pfizer.

"One of the key lessons I learned while at Nightingale was to surround myself with people who bring me joy and people who I admire. This taught me how powerful it was to surround yourself with people that lift each other up and are in consistent support of each other. 它会给你的生活带来实实在在的快乐. 当我把这个经验带到我的工作生活中, 我开始让身边的同事最终成为我的导师."

Chevelle Dixon ’03 is a dedicated Nightingale alumna and the founder and managing director of Pan-African Solutions Consulting LLC, a Black and woman-owned strategic development consulting services firm that helps non-profits and international organizations overcome their development challenges through sound fundraising and evaluation practices to empower Africa and its Black Diaspora. Established in 2013, the firm gained Minority and Women-Owned Business Enterprises (M/WBE) certification with New York City in 2020. Chevelle之前在私营和公共部门都有过工作经验. 她的一些客户包括联合国和H.E. 乔伊斯·班达，马拉维第一位女总统.

“Nightingale was awesome. I look back on Nightingale with fond memories—that's why I stay active as a mentor and with the Student of Color Mentorship Program. Coming from Brooklyn, 那是我第一次来到一个以白人为主的社区, but being able to still feel like I belonged—and not only that I belonged—but I was able to be a leader in that community, 要知道我的声音很重要，我对那个社区的贡献有影响. 这是我从我的成长经历和南丁格尔中学到的.”

露西亚是亚利桑那州立大学天体物理学博士学位的最后一年. 她的工作重点是成为银河系外天体物理学的一小部分专家, summarized most succinctly as: what does the clustering of galaxies in space tell us about the underlying physics and cosmology that formed the galaxies? Out of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, 她分析了智利望远镜的观测结果和巨大的宇宙模拟来探索这些问题. 创造这些知识是一个探索、失败和发现的缓慢循环.

“南丁格尔对我的成长至关重要，因为它让我在生活的各个方面都感到高兴. 不管我的表现如何，他们总是让我觉得我有归属感，我很重要. 现在，当我坐在电脑前试图解决一个对我来说太大的问题时, 我在南丁格尔的经历提醒我，我以前也做过同样困难的事情, 我的成就远远超过了我的总和.”

劳伦和她在科罗拉多农场长大的丈夫在索诺玛经营着一家酿酒厂和农场, Nate, that offers truly unique wine tasting experiences coupled with the kind of welcoming and engaging community she delights in building from the ground up. She’s a passionate brand expert, 谁在建立自由品牌和创新事业之前, 曾就职于多家广告公司和品牌策略店, helping clients like Domino’s, FedEx, 和香奈儿创造的产品和体验，将消费者从偶尔的用户转变为品牌的忠实拥护者. 根深蒂固地沉迷于理解人们的动机, 劳伦非常喜欢识别未满足的消费者需求和寻找创意的艺术, exciting solutions for them.

“People often ask me how I was brave or crazy enough to start a business with my husband that we both knew so little about, 我忍不住回想起南丁格尔. 这些年来，我一直坚信只要我下定决心，我就能做成任何事情, propelling me to follow my dreams, 即使我不确定他们会把我引向何方.”