ALUMNI PROFILES
Alumni 2021 Profiles Alumni
Honorees
Calvin seeks to equip students to think deeply, act justly, and live wholeheartedly as Christ’s agents of renewal in the world. These stories demonstrate how our alumni are living out that mission.
Grand Rapids’ Aperitivo manager Evan Talen has taken his passion to a whole new level by winning the Cheesemonger Invitational, a national competition that pitted him against many of the top cheese connoisseurs from around the country.
Jaylyn Gough is the founder of Native THE CALVIN ALUMNI ASSOCIATION BOARDWilderness, RECEIVES which strives Women’s Tim and Andrew Harris are the MANY NOMINATIONS FOR THESE to ANNUAL AWARDS, create a platform for native women founders of ColorHub, an innovative AND THEY PRAYERFULLY CONSIDER EACH THESE to use theirONE. voices to speak out digital printing company specializing ALUMNI HAVE MADE CONSIDERABLE CONTRIBUTIONS against injustices, to bring awareness in high-end graphics packaging and to REFLECT indigenousTHE people and land rights, retail displays. TO THEIR FIELDS AND THEIR LIVES, RYAN STRUYK ’14 and to serve as adventure-seeking role MISSION OF THE UNIVERSITY. YOUNG ALUMNI AWARD models for native girls. As a senior producer for CNN, Ryan Janet Staal and Katelyn Egnatuk Struyk is always learning. He gets to write Watch profile videos for each honoree launched one of West Michigan’s first calvin.edu/go/alumni-awards questions for guests and spends a lot of nature-based preschools, a movement time researching and writing. His love for that is rapidly gaining momentum Read more profiles online journalism was sparked at Calvin, where across the country. calvin.edu/spark he served as the editor-in-chief of the Read more profiles online student newspaper. calvin.edu/spark Nominate alumni Email: alumni@calvin.edu
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