Alumni Highlights Series
Read stories about our amazing UPEI alumni around the world!
![UPEI radiography graduate Cassie](/sites/default/files/styles/fp_spotlight_round/public/2025-01/radiography_spotlight_rnd_cassie.jpeg.webp)
Cassie is a UPEI radiography graduate (Class of 2019) and is working as a clinical instructor with the program.
![UPEI instructor Ryan Drew](/sites/default/files/styles/fp_spotlight_round/public/2024-12/rdrew_spotlight_rnd.jpeg.webp)
Ryan Drew is an artist, researcher, UPEI alumnus, and sessional instructor in the Faculty of Arts.
![a dietitian in a commercial kitchen](/sites/default/files/styles/fp_spotlight_round/public/2024-09/spotlight_fmg_rnd.jpg.webp)
Meet Faye Murphy-Gallant, UPEI graduate and Foods and Nutrition laboratory instructor.
![Michael Adebayo Olubiyi](/sites/default/files/styles/fp_spotlight_round/public/2024-05/%20molubiyi.jpg.webp)
Michael is a proud UPEI alumnus, a Class of 2022 graduate of the Master of Arts in Island Studies program, and manager of development planning for the City of Port Moody in British Columbia.
![UPEI staff member Fairouz in her office in Dalton Hall](/sites/default/files/styles/fp_spotlight_round/public/2024-03/fairouz_spotlight_rnd.jpg.webp)
Fairouz enrolled at UPEI after her Grade 11 year, completed a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology degree, is a current Master's student, and works full-time with the UPEI Scholarships, Awards, and Financial Aid Office.
![a smiling man standing in a restaurant kitchen](/sites/default/files/styles/fp_spotlight_round/public/2023-12/fn_spotlight_hm_rnd.jpg.webp)
After graduating in May of 2023, Humphrey is currently working as a catering manager for a PEI food services company. He plans to become a food scientist in the near future.
![Ethan Taweel outside the PEI Government Offices](/sites/default/files/styles/fp_spotlight_round/public/2023-07/spotlight_etaweel_rnd.jpg.webp)
Ethan Taweel, a UPEI Bachelor of Environmental Studies graduate (Class of 2021), works as a Senior Environmental Technician and Project Coordinator with the PEI Department of Environment.
![Nutrition Services Manager and Dietitian Katie Nordby](/sites/default/files/styles/fp_spotlight_round/public/2023-06/knordby_spotlight_rnd.jpg.webp)
"Becoming a dietitian has been so rewarding... if a student is considering this career path, UPEI can help guide them there."
![Diedre Kelly](/sites/default/files/styles/fp_spotlight_round/public/2023-05/dkelly_sq_rnd.jpg.webp)
Deidre Kelly works as an interpreter on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, providing simultaneous interpretation from French into English at committee meetings, press conferences, caucus meetings and sittings of the Senate and the House of Commons.
![Trish Van Bolderen](/sites/default/files/styles/fp_spotlight_round/public/2023-04/tvanbolderen_round.jpg.webp)
Trish Van Bolderen lives in Dublin, Ireland and works full-time as a freelance translator (from French and Spanish into English) and English-language reviser. She also works as a Translation Studies scholar, having obtained a PhD in that area.