By Maddie Brewer ’23 and Brandi Wylie ’24
Kendall Hinson ’19
B.S. in psychology
Kendall Hinson is a doctoral candidate at Adler University in Chicago, Ill., studying clinical psychology with an emphasis in military psychology. She is currently completing a yearlong internship at the James A. Haley Veterans’ Hospital in Tampa, Fla. She wants to improve access to mental health services for veterans and credits Wofford’s ROTC program with expanding her interest in military psychology. “Dr. Cecile Nowatka and Dr. John Lefebvre were very influential,” she says. “I hope to spread the word to psychology students that a Psy.D. is a great option for postgraduate studies.”
Nathan Hoover ’20
B.A. in business economics
Nathan Hoover has signed to play basketball for Instituto Atlético Central Córdoba, a sports club based in Córdoba, Argentina, for the 2023-24 season. He finishes a 33-game career with Iraurgi Saski Baloia, a team based in Azpeitia, Spain. Hoover began his career overseas in the Belarusian Premier League, leaving after the beginning of the Russia-Ukraine war. “My (Wofford) coaches and I still communicate. They still reach out and ask me how I’m doing,” he says. “They told me while I was playing at Wofford that I could have a great career in basketball.”
Allyson Markiewicz Cochran ’17
B.A. in business economics
After two years of service on the board of the Spartanburg Art Museum, Allyson Markiewicz Cochran was named board president. She is a senior marketing consultant at Wells Fargo. Cochran cites multiple classes at Wofford as especially helpful to her career path, including public speaking, Excel classes and a variety of other humanities classes. “The curriculum is so well-rounded at Wofford,” she says. “You can go into so many different fields after college, which is really cool. Dr. Carol Wilson particularly helped me with anything I needed. She was like my right-hand woman and my rock.”
Jennifer Karl ’16
B.A. in finance, B.A. in government
Jennifer Karl is vice president of operations at Silversmith Capital Partners in Boston, Mass. She joined the team in September after six years heading the investment banking management team at Jefferies in New York City. She values the connections she made at Wofford, both with faculty and alumni, crediting them with helping her make her way into the industry. “Networking with these people, even just one, can make a difference in your career path,” she says. “The relationships I have built really helped propel me into the financial services industry.”
Judson Reaves ’23
B.S. in accounting, B.S. in finance
Judson Reaves is as an accountant at D.R. Horton in Greenville, S.C. “Wofford helped me make connections and taught me how to network, which is how I found the person who told me about this position and my internships leading up to it,” Reaves says. “My professors at Wofford helped me to network and learn new skills. Dr. Benjamin Cartwright encouraged me to go to accounting events, where I was able to get internships and gain experience. Dr. Patrick Stanton taught me many useful skills in Excel, which I currently use at work daily.”
Mareli Sanchez-Julia ’16
B.S. in biology, B.S. in environmental studies
Mareli Sanchez-Julia worked in field and forest ecology in Panama and in Puerto Rico before starting graduate school at Tulane University in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. She is currently pursuing her Ph.D., after which she plans to start a postdoc at Yale University. She hopes to one day be an environmental studies professor. “I feel like the environmental studies major made my biology interest more profound by giving so much richness to that major,” she says. “They complemented each other really well for what I’m doing now.”