Alumni Stories

If 2020 taught us anything, it was to seize every opportunity to learn, love and lead. Read how these Spartans follow their passions and find their true purpose in life.

As a high school student, Alyssa Space told friends she would someday create her own cosmetics line. Today she is the CEO of a makeup line designed for women for women of color.

Though Julian Posada has led several companies and served on numerous nonprofit boards, he had yet achieved his most daring objective: to combine the two in a single effort.

Bryan O. Buckley envisioned working as a medical technician or in a microbiology lab—that is, until an MSU professor pulled him aside and suggested public health.

When Mark Rieth returned to Detroit in 1997 he did so with hopes of founding his own business. His most daring entrepreneurial leap came in 2005 when he purchased Atwater brewery.

Well into her third decade as a successful professional journalist, Robin D. Stone encountered what she calls a “life happens” moment.