AlumniNews Stories

More than 30 employers returned to the RIT/NTID campus since the start of the pandemic to recruit a new cohort of talented deaf and hard-of-hearing students and alumni for open co-op or full-time positions.

Alexander Van Hook, a 2016 political science graduate, has set himself on the career path to success in the legal field. An individual with cross-disabilities, Hook is a future attorney and disability rights advocate working to bring awareness of fundamental legal rights of persons with disabilities, accessibility, and inclusion. 

Eleven Rochester Institute of Technology alumni have been awarded Distinguished Alumni Awards for the 2022-2023 year.

Christina Rizzetta-Satterly and Alec Satterly, a couple who met as students at Rochester Institute of Technology’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf launched Wake Coffee Roasters in 2017, a small-batch coffee roasting e-commerce company that sells and ships coffee to consumers online. 

Alana Smith, a Rochester Institute of Technology graduate, is among the first Peace Corps volunteers to serve overseas after an unprecedented two-year Peace Corps evacuation from more than 60 countries due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

On June 2, Sara Smania, assistant director of RIT/NTID Alumni Relations’ mentoring program, hosted an alumni gathering at Buffalo RiverWorks in Buffalo, New York, where fellow alumni met and socialized with new and old friends and learned more about programs and engagements.

On May 15, RIT/NTID Alumni Relations held a gathering at Streetcar 82 in Washington, D.C., where fellow alumni mixed and mingled and learned about the news from NTID and the alumni community.

RIT/NTID alumna Andrea Wood ’21 (accounting) is an enthusiastic accounting professional. 

Christine Sun Kim BS ’02 is an artist and is being honored by the National Technical Institute for the Deaf.

Three RIT/NTID alumni, Mia White, Ethan Ettienne, and Otto Kingstedt, and one current student-athlete, Krystyna Miller, will travel to Caxias do Sul, Brazil, to participate in the 24th Summer Deaflympics, May 1-15.

Marissa Woodruff, assistant director of RIT/NTID Alumni Relations, hosted a fun-filled alumni gathering in Indianapolis, Indiana. More than 100 people attended the event, which turned out to be a great success.