spent time working for Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick, and discovered a passion for public service while working on Edward Markey’s 2013 U.S. Senate campaign. At Andover, she worked on The Phillipian under the guidance of faculty advisor Nina
instructors Seth Bardo and Jean St. Pierre. After Andover, Koh earned a pair of Harvard degrees from the college and business school. At the HuffPo, he served as Arianna Huffington’s top aide and later as general manager of the company’s video network. In 2014,
helps minority- and womenowned businesses secure city contracts.
Blugh, who heads a threeperson office, divides his days among office duties, meetings, research, and offsite visits. His main task? “Getting people engaged in ways they have not before.”
In an e-mail, Walsh said he feels fortunate to have three Andover alums on staff who “continually demonstrate their skills and leadership in Recently dubbed “the most serving the people of Boston powerful 30-year-old in Boston” by boston.com, Koh and working to make our
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“Andover, and the value of non sibi, was the driving reason why I have pursued mission-based work.”
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Shaun Blugh ’03
Scott. “To this day, I still use lessons in journalism ethics that I learned back then,” Goldstein says.
Forbes magazine named him one of “30 under 30” rising talents in the media company landscape.
Koh comes from a family of high achievers. His father, Howard Koh, is a surgeon and former U.S. Department of Health official now teaching at Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Koh’s mother, Claudia Arrigg Koh ’67, is an ophthalmologist. One uncle, Harold Koh, is a legal scholar who served as an advisor to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Koh’s paternal grandfather was the South Korean ambassador to the United States.
Blugh was born in Trinidad and Tobago and was raised mostly in Brooklyn. His path to PA began with New York’s Prep for Prep program, which prepares promising young students of color for placement in independent schools throughout the Northeast.
As a day student at PA, Koh was a Blue Key head, played JV baseball, and counted among his mentors English
At Andover, Blugh played cluster sports and did community service in Lawrence. He went on to Georgetown, where he studied classics and economics, and then worked as a paralegal for the law firm Boies, Schiller & Flexner. Before moving to Boston, Blugh was director of due diligence for IMB Development Corp., which
Emma Goldstein ’09
city better. It is clear that Phillips Academy is creating a pipeline of leaders who are well equipped with the skills and experience needed not only to be successful in their careers, but also to make a positive impact in the world.” As a scheduler, Goldstein helps sift through requests for the mayor’s presence and makes recommendations to Walsh and his senior staff. “The job is an inherent challenge,” says Goldstein. “There are so many great things going on in the City of Boston and so many interesting and invested people. Unfortunately, there are just so many hours in the day … and we have to turn things down. Saying no to great people and great events is always tough.”
is the first to admit that not every decision or initiative he’s been involved with has been universally popular. So, has the ride been rougher than anticipated? “There are always people who will say I’m too young for the role, or that I’m only there for certain reasons,” replies Koh. “There’s not much I can do about that other than keep doing my job. I feel confident we’re doing good work.” And plenty of it. Joseph P. Kahn ’67 was a Boston Globe staff writer from 1988 to 2014. Now semiretired, he works as a senior advisor at The BASE, an inner-city baseball and academic prep program based in Roxbury, Mass.
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