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“Self-guided learning has been crucial to not only my web work, but also my piano playing.”

Dave Beauboeuf ’14 leads U.S. media and public relations for global sports media group Better Collective. In this role, he manages PR for the Better Collective brand and all of its businesses in the United States. He is also founder of Beau Boeuf Media, a new content company focused on expanding access to, and awareness of, sports careers off of the field.

Ben Ligas currently serves as associate director of major giving at Boston College. Ben has nearly a decade of fundraising experience and has successfully closed a number of six-figure philanthropic commitments. He graduated magna cum laude from Hamilton College in 2014 with honors in both of his majors, government and Russian studies. He received his M.B.A. from Boston College in 2020. He lives in Boston with his wife, Grace, and their two rabbits, Wyatt and Bea.

Ned Drinker is the founder of First Person Tours, a walking tour company based in Philadelphia. Prior to this new calling, he spent 30 years working in the tax industry as a manager and senior accountant. He graduated from Hamilton in 1976 with a degree in Economics.

Amy Feeney graduated from Hamilton in 2004 as a literature and art double major. At Hamilton, she played on the women’s basketball and field hockey teams. Amy decided to pursue her interest in athletics professionally, and went on to earn an M.Ed. in sports administration at Temple University. After working as the director of marketing for an athletic conference and later for lululemon athletica, Amy decided to open her own Barre Fitness Studio in Haverford, Pa., in 2011. Currently, as a result of the pandemic, Amy is running an online fitness platform, though she hopes to open a new studio in Philadelphia in late 2021.

“If you are a student really interested in going into collegiate coaching after Hamilton but are having reservations, I encourage you to take the leap. No matter how short or long your stint in coaching is, I promise you won’t regret it!”

Kyandreia Jones ’19 is an educator, freelance writer, and author of the Choose Your Own Adventure SPIES Series. She graduated from Hamilton College in 2019 with a concentration in creative writing and is currently an instructor at Miami Dade College in the Upward Bound program.

Keya Advani graduated from Hamilton College in 2008 with a B.A. in comparative literature. She is currently based in London and serves as a solicitor at Bates Wells, the top U.K. law firm for charities and non-profits. Advani previously worked for organizations such as financial institution Big Society Capital (London), multinational law firm Linklaters LLP (London), The Mary Ward Legal Centre (London), The Human Rights Law Network (Delhi), Women’s Media Watch (Kingston), and the Global Justice Center (New York City).

“After seven years in the news, I yearned to tell stories that were not a part of the news cycle. I wanted to tell stories in a more lyrical and non-formulaic manner. And I wanted to learn how to shoot and edit film. In short, it was at this point that I came to realize that I wanted to be a filmmaker. So I left CBS News, enrolled in the New School and 10 years after I graduated from Hamilton, I received my master’s in media studies.”

Eva Lynch-Comer '19 holds a B.A. in creative writing from Hamilton College, where she received the John V. A. Weaver Prize in poetry and the Sydna Stern Weiss Essay Prize in women’s studies. Her work has appeared in the Hamilton College publications Grasping Roots and The Spectator. She was a poetry editor of the campus literary journal Red Weather. She traveled abroad in 2018, visiting seven countries, and chronicled her experiences in a travel blog From London with Love. Eva now works in children’s editorial at HarperCollins Publishers.