A North Central College faculty member and three students were instrumental in a year-long effort to develop a potentially life-saving training program for the City of Naperville. The program is designed to teach local youth how they can intervene when someone they know is showing signs of suicide.

Justin Simbol ’20 / M ’24 studied business at North Central, both as an undergraduate and as a graduate student. While earning his MBA, his experience in the College’s Coffee Lab ignited a passion and paved a path toward starting his career with Dutch Bros. Coffee.

Fredlyn Pierre Louis ‘23 made his debut on national television, presenting a two-part story for NBC Early Today on June 14 about the struggles of American families who have adopted children from Haiti to get the children to their new homes in the United States.

In a guest essay for The New York Times, award-winning author, columnist, journalist, professor and advocate Rachel Louise Snyder ‘92 recounted that her long journey to success started with getting a chance at North Central College.

Amanda Zahorak is the senior advocacy and communications manager for Habitat for Humanity - DuPage and South Suburbs. It’s a role she could not have imagined when she began as a music education major at North Central College — before making a key discovery about herself.

An interview with North Central College alumnus and actor Peter Sipla, who in 2023 made his wide-release film debut in “A Man Called Otto,” opposite Tom Hanks.

Evan Lahti ’07 of Ypsilanti, Mich., is the global editor-in-chief of PC Gamer. A journalism major, Lahti shared how North Central College helped start his career and how he handles a big job that involves far more than playing video games all day.

North Central College alumni Jim Owczarski answers questions about covering the Milwaukee Bucks' 2021 NBA championship season as a beat writer for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

Two 2019 graduates of North Central College’s German program have been honored with prestigious Fulbright awards.