PODCAST · education
Northwestern Intersections
by Northwestern Alumni Association
Listen in as alumni share stories about how their careers have evolved and how key intersections of experience, opportunity, and alumni connections have propelled them to where they are today. Find out what these alumni have done right and wrong and what they've learned at each intersection along the way.
Episodes
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Live From Feinberg Alumni Weekend 2026
This special episode of Northwestern Intersections features highlights from a discussion with Andrew Alexander '96 MD; Lawrence Lenke '86 MD ('14 P); Sandra Schorr '76 MD; and Nicholas J. Volpe '21 MD, '21 MBA, captured during their recent class reunions at the Feinberg School of Medicine Alumni...
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Northwestern Intersections: Live From LA
Check out a live recording of the Northwestern Intersections podcast exploring career pathways in entertainment and media with three Los Angeles–based alumni: pioneering sportswriter Helene Elliott '77, popular sports content creator Andrew Fenichel '21, and executive producer and "godmother of...
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Tracing The Beatles and Pop Culture with Harry Castleman '74 and Walter Podrazik '74
After DJ-hosting a 17-hour Beatles radio marathon as seniors at Northwestern, Castleman and Podrazik published All Together Now, the first complete Beatles discography book. They continued their pop-culture collaboration through several editions of Watching TV, a season-by-season history of...
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Engineering a Multifaceted Career, with Aaron Miller '94
Since earning an engineering degree at Northwestern, Miller has built a diverse career spanning food engineering, consulting, and financial services, and served on several nonprofit and company boards. In this episode, Miller shares insights from his career journey and offers advice for jobseekers.
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Wickedly Talented, with Ana Gasteyer '89
Gasteyer arrived at Northwestern to become an opera singer, but her path took a delightfully different turn. In this episode, she reflects on her multifaceted career, from joining the cast of Saturday Night Live to starring in the Broadway staple Wicked, along with countless other standout roles…
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Northwestern Intersections Best of 2025
Throughout 2025, 20 alumni shared their stories in the Northwestern Intersections podcast. Enjoy some highlights from the year in this special episode.
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Advice from 2025 Alumni Medalist Michael D. Greenberg '89
This fall, four distinguished alumni received the Northwestern Alumni Association's highest honor, the Alumni Medal. Tune in for important life lessons and campus memories from T. Bondurant French '75, '76 MBA ('07, '21 P); Barbara Stewart '85, '95 MBA; Michael D. Greenberg '89 ('23, '25 P); and...
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Advice from 2025 Alumni Medalist Judith Toland '94
This fall, four distinguished alumni received the Northwestern Alumni Association's highest honor, the Alumni Medal. Tune in for important life lessons and campus memories from T. Bondurant French '75, '76 MBA ('07, '21 P); Barbara Stewart '85, '95 MBA; Michael D. Greenberg '89 ('23, '25 P); and...
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Advice from 2025 Alumni Medalist Barbara Stewart '85, '95 MBA
This fall, four distinguished alumni received the Northwestern Alumni Association's highest honor, the Alumni Medal. Tune in for important life lessons and campus memories from T. Bondurant French '75, '76 MBA ('07, '21 P); Barbara Stewart '85, '95 MBA; Michael D. Greenberg '89 ('23, '25 P); and...
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Advice from 2025 Alumni Medalist T. Bondurant French '75, '76 MBA
This fall, four distinguished alumni received the Northwestern Alumni Association's highest honor, the Alumni Medal. Tune in for important life lessons and campus memories from T. Bondurant French '75, '76 MBA ('07, '21 P); Barbara Stewart '85, '95 MBA; Michael D. Greenberg '89 ('23, '25 P); and...
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Unforgettable Presence, with Lorraine K. Lee '12
As a founding editor at tech companies like LinkedIn and Prezi turned bestselling author and speaker, Lee has made a career out of helping people elevate their careers. Tune in to learn how Lee became a LinkedIn Top Voice and get her guidance on personal leadership, executive presence, and small...
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In Service of Chicago, with Deborah Witzburg '10 JD
When she entered Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, Witzburg knew she wanted to work in service of others. Since graduating, she has served almost a decade with the City of Chicago, culminating in her appointment as inspector general. As Chicago's top city watchdog, Witzberg helps...
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How to be Ubiquitous, with Keyaira Lock '24 MBA
Lock has had a one-of-a-kind career trajectory. After receiving Fulbright scholarship, she won a comedy fellowship, worked as a university recruiting coordinator and brand strategist at X (formerly Twitter), founded her own marketing consultancy, and earned her MBA from the Kellogg School of...
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Live from Feinberg Alumni Weekend
This special episode features recordings from a live taping with Amy Wang '91, '95 MD, Gary Rusk '65, '69 MD Sanjiv Shah '97, '00 MD, who are celebrating their class reunions at Feinberg Alumni Weekend. They join in conversation about their time at Northwestern, how they made their way in the...
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Commanding an NFL Franchise, with Jason Wright '04
Wright has held high-stakes roles in multiples industries--as an NFL player, a partner at consulting firm McKinsey & Company, the president of the Washington Commanders, and now the managing partner and head of investments for Ariel Project Level, a private investment vehicle for women's sports....
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Taking a Fearless Northwestern Direction, with Omar Jimenez '15
After graduating with a degree in journalism and excelling as a basketball student-athlete, Jimenez has built a distinguished career as an Emmy Award-winning correspondent for CNN. Learn how his Northwestern experience prepared him for critical on-air assignments.
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Love and Northwestern in 2025
Thinking of love this Valentine's Day? Discover stories from alumni who found their perfect matches through their connection to Northwestern. From dorm rooms to date nights, follow along as these Wildcats share tales of connection that will warm your heart.
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Designing a Virtual World with Isaiah Andrew '07
Andrew is the senior design director at Nike, where he leads the Nike Virtual Studios Team. Discover how he has helped create memorable sneaker releases, managed his own product design studio, and launched a successful side project during the pandemic.
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Northwestern Intersections Best of 2024
Throughout 2024, 38 alumni shared their stories in 25 episodes of the Northwestern Intersections podcast. Enjoy some highlights from the year in this special episode.
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Episode 170: Advice from the 2024 Northwestern Alumni Medalists
This fall, three distinguished alumni received the Northwestern Alumni Association's highest alumni honor: the Alumni Medal. Tune in for important life lessons and campus memories from Willard S. Evans Jr. '77, '81 MBA; Renetta McCann '78, '12 MS; and William Osborn '69, '73 MBA, '18 H.
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Building Excitement Around Science with Shonali Ditz '13
Ditz cofounded STEM education nonprofit SparkShop in 2017 to help bring entertaining and informative science education to underserved schools in Chicago. Since then, her programming has reached over 8,000 Chicago elementary schoolers. Discover how Ditz used her Northwestern University education…
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Honoring Native American and Indigenous Heritage Month with Forrest Bruce '17, '25 PhD
After earning his bachelor's degree at Northwestern, Bruce worked in Chicago Public Schools before returning to Evanston for his PhD. His research explores human relationships with water and how to ground teaching and learning within Indigenous knowledge and practice. Find out more about his...
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Commemorating Veteran's Day with Darse "Del" Crandall '84 ('14, '16, '21 P)
Vice Admiral Crandall has served in critically important roles in the US military during his 40-year career, most recently as the 45th Judge Advocate General of the Navy. Learn more about his time in the armed forces and what serving has meant to him.
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Welcome Back Wildcats with National Reunion Co-Chairs Greg Berlanti '94 and Julie Plec '94
Berlanti and Plec were classmates and friends at Northwestern and have remained close throughout their incredible careers in Hollywood. Between the pair, they have directed, produced, and overseen countless memorable projects ranging from Riverdale and The Vampire Diaries to Dawson's Creek and...
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How 'Cats Reconnect with Jake Abraham '96 and Drew Stein '96
Digital advertising pioneers Jake Abraham and Drew Stein recently hosted the musical artist St. Lucia for their company during the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, marking the first time they collaborated as concert producers since meeting as students nearly 30 years ago. Learn...
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Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month with Isa Gutierrez '17
Gutierrez has won Emmy nominations and made the 2022 "Forbes 30 Under 30" list as the youngest-ever national correspondent for NBC News. She has also been featured in award-winning reports on MSNBC and on the news shows Dateline and TODAY. Join us as we discuss her skillful storytelling.
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From Paris with Love, An Olympics Special Episode with Raghav Khosla '26
Raghav Khosla, an undergrad in the Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications, came back from Paris with a lifetime of memories after working as an intern for NBC Universal at the Olympic Games. Learn about his summer dream job and Northwestern's many connections to…
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Broadway Lights, with Michael Herwitz '18 and Russell Kahn '16
Michael Herwitz is a director and producer and one of the youngest people ever to direct an original play on Broadway. His production, Job, is produced by fellow Northwestern alum Russell Kahn, who runs the Rachel Brosnahan-founded production company Scrap Paper Pictures. Learn more about the…
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Queer Art and Pride, with Jonathan David Katz '95 PhD
Katz is a founding figure in the field of queer art history. As a professor and scholar, he has undertaken formative projects in gay and lesbian studies. While at the City College of San Francisco, he served as the first tenured gay and lesbian studies faculty member in the US; in 1995, he…
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A Calling in Psychology, with Gabriel Cooper '10
Cooper is a clinical psychotherapist who works with members of the LGBTQ2+ community. He previously worked in marketing before earning his doctorate at Cambridge University, a path inspired by his research as a Northwestern student. Learn more about his research interests and what Pride Month…
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Building Healthier Communities, with Grace Hong Duffin '95
Hong Duffin is the president and CEO of Kenneth Young Center, a community health organization in the Chicago suburbs. With experience in public policy, law, and human services, she serves on the National Council for Mental Wellbeing. Learn about her work with mental and physical wellness and her...
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Making a Difference in Law, with Hannah Jurowicz '14 JD, LLM
Jurowicz is a lawyer and assistant attorney general for the special litigation bureau in the Illinois attorney general's office. Since graduating from Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, she has worked on numerous projects centering around human rights. Jurowicz serves on the board of...
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'Cats in Medicine, with Feinberg Alumni
Join us for a conversation with five alumni of Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. Learn about the medical school experience and Northwestern's Feinberg alumni community from Darren Wethers '88 MD; Boris Sheynin '99 MD; David Lee '89 MD; Jeff Schaider '83, '85 MD; and Nupur…
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Episode 156: Rock and Roll Royalty, with Paul Korzilius '76, Roland Mesa '82, and Walt Versen '77
This special episode centers around the cast and crew of the upcoming film Play the Game: A Jock 'N' Roll Story. Directed by Mesa and executive produced by Versen and Korzilius, the film covers the incredible true story of how a group of Northwestern football players, including the executive...
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Navigating the College Admissions World, with Julie Kelsheimer '11, '13 MMus
Kelsheimer is a college admissions adviser based in greater New York City. She previously served as a high school music instructor and a college professor before moving into her current role, where she helps students and families find their best fit for college. Join us as she gives advice to...
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Recovering the Philosophy of the Self, with Adina Bezerita '17
Adina Bezerita is a Romanian-American, award-winning Oxford-Cambridge philosopher and scholar, whose works pioneer interdisciplinary projects in ancient wisdom relevant to contemporary thought across the humanities and sciences. With her Numinous Threads foundation (2016), Adina provides...
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'Cats in Sports Media, with Lisa Byington '98, '99 MS and Cassidy Hubbarth '07
Byington is a play-by-play commentator who has covered major sports events, including the Women's World Cup and Olympic Games. She's the first woman to do play-by-play for the NCAA men's basketball tournament and for a men's professional basketball team, the Milwaukee Bucks. Hubbarth is an Emmy...
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Telling Unheard Stories of Women's Suffrage, with Ronny Frishman '72
Frishman is an author and former news reporter and editor. She has written human interest and medical health articles and recently began writing children's books. Her recent book, Nina Allender: Suffrage Cartoonist, illuminates the life and work of an underappreciated hero in the women's suffrage...
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A Northwestern Life, with MaryAnn Ihejirika Marsh '85
Marsh has served the University in countless meaningful ways, including as president of the Northwestern University Black Alumni Association (NUBAA), a member of the Northwestern University Leadership Circle (NULC) Chicago Regional Board, and a host of alumni events at her jazz club, M Lounge, in...
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Love and Northwestern
Join us for a special episode celebrating alumni who coupled up at Northwestern. Six guests share short stories about finding true love on campus. Take a break from the cold and warm your heart with tales of campus romance.
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Memoir, Family, and Truth, with Leta McCollough Seletzky '98
McCollough Seletzky was a litigator before becoming an award-winning writer and memoirist with work featured in the Atlantic, O Magazine, and the New York Times. Join us as we discuss her memoir, The Kneeling Man: My Father's Life as a Black Spy Who Witnessed the Assassination of Martin Luther...
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How to Reinvent Yourself in Media, with Joey Skladany '09
Skladany is an icon across industries, working as a television and radio personality, writer, editor, publicist, and lifestyle content expert. He has worked on countless projects with recognizable brands, from People magazine and Apartment Therapy to Food Network and CBS. Join us as we discuss…
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Lunch Tray Management, with Kathryn Hahn '95 and Ethan Sandler '95
Hahn and Sandler met on campus and have been a Northwestern power couple ever since! Their careers have included acting and producing credits on some of Hollywood's most memorable productions, from New Girl and Meet the Robinsons to WandaVision and Private Life. Join us as they discuss their time...
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Sports and Society, with Julie Kliegman '13
Kliegman is a sportswriter and copy chief at Sports Illustrated. Her journalism often focuses on underrepresented topics in sports and society, including gender, asexuality, and mental health. She shares valuable lessons on working as a sports journalist and finding stories that matter. Join us…
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Writing Your Reality (TV), with Toni Gallagher '87
Gallagher is a television producer and author based in Los Angeles. She worked on MTV's wildly successful The Real World and went on to become an executive producer for several major reality TV shows, including The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, Snoop Dogg's Father Hood, and Married at First...
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Chicago through Poetry, with Angela Jackson '77
Jackson is an author, playwright, and poet currently serving as the Illinois Poet Laureate. She is a Chicagoan through and through, having grown up on the South Side, and uses her experiences in the area as inspiration for her poems and novels. Her works have been awarded major literary honors,...
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Episode 143: Navigating the News, with Bill Lord '73
Lord is a Peabody and Emmy Award–winning journalist, an author, and a Vietnam War veteran. He went from a career in television news management to writing the book, 50 Years After Vietnam: Lessons and Letters from the War I Hated Fighting, in 2018. Lord has reported in several major American…
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Telling History's Most Neglected Stories, with Marie Arana '71
Arana is a prize-winning author, literary critic, and inaugural literary director of the Library of Congress. She has been an executive at publishing houses Simon & Schuster and Harcourt Brace, a judge for the National Book Awards and Pulitzer Prizes, a Latin America columnist for the New York...
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Making Marketing Authentic, with Kristian Alomá '02
Alomá is a CEO, lecturer, and author based in Chicago. He went from working in communications and consulting to lecturing at Northwestern to founding his own marketing company, Threadline. Alomá applies his knowledge of narrative psychology to the practice of marketing and branding, serving as a...
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A Fireside Chat with University Trustee Ginni Rometty '79, '15 H and Northwestern President Michael Schill
Ginni Rometty came to Northwestern after a challenging childhood and left with a computer science degree that would help her change the world of technology. In 1981, she joined IBM as a systems engineer and worked her way to becoming chairman, president and CEO of the company. Ms. Rometty helped...
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Listen in as alumni share stories about how their careers have evolved and how key intersections of experience, opportunity, and alumni connections have propelled them to where they are today. Find out what these alumni have done right and wrong and what they've learned at each intersection along the way.
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