Vera Drew (BA Digital Cinema ‘11) is a Los Angeles-based director, writer, and editor. In 2019, Drew received an Emmy nomination for her editing work on Sacha Baron Cohen’s Who is America, becoming one of the first openly transgender women to do so. Recently, Drew launched her new YouTube series Hot Topics with Vera Drew. “The main reason I wanted to go to DePaul was because the digital cinema program was just starting. To me it was the way the industry was clearly heading. And I just really, really loved Chicago.” Read more about Vera in our alumni publication In the Loop and in The Hollywood Reporter.

Kara Keene (BS Cybersecurity ‘20) is a Senior Consultant for TransUnion’s Security Orchestration and Automation Response Team. “All throughout my time in school I was connected to the professional role at the same time. I think I spent most of my junior and senior year in the network lab on routers and switches. I learned so much about the basics of networks and how they work and that translates every single day to my career.”

Caroline Menin Botelho Silva (BFA Graphic Design ‘20) received a 2020 Society of Typographic Arts STA100 award for her Capstone project “Questionable Experiments with Translation.” Caroline’s curiosity--as well as her reality of juggling between English and Portuguese--led her to make an experimental book about language, humor, and culture. The book highlights the language barrier that technology cannot surpass and reveals what happens when we try to humanize a machine in order to better communicate with other cultures.