Innovators and communicators, advocates and thinkers—GDS alumni are leaders in a wide variety of fields and sectors. Though their career paths are varied and their work diverse, one thing they all have in common is their grounding in GDS. Georgetown Day School graduates leave the School with a love of learning, an abhorrence of bigotry and intolerance, a broadly rounded fund of knowledge, the ability to enter the great conversations of life, and the willingness and capacity to bring needed change to a troubled world.
We’re proud of our GDS alumni. Below, get to know some of these remarkable individuals.
Assistant Editor, ESPN’s The Undefeated
- Writers
Founding Student Coordinator, Tufts University Peace and Justice Society
- Education
Award-winning author of Black Bottom Saints and The Wind Done Gone
- Alumni
- Writers
Pulitzer Prize-winning Journalist
- Alumni
- Writers
Pulitzer Prize-winning writer
- Writers
Co-Founder, Ragged Wing Ensemble and The Flight Deck
- Artists
Director, Choreographer, Actor, Dancer & Playwright
- Artists
Funder and Policymaker for the Arts
Principal, Environmental Charter School
- Education
Technology Reporter, CNN
- Media
Freelance Filmmaker, Photographer, and Director
- Writers
Deputy Director, Collective Action for Safe Spaces
- Advocates
Founding Partner, The CC Group at Morgan Stanley
- Business
Conservation Scientist, The Nature Conservancy – Wyoming
- STEM
Founder, Illumen Capital
- Business
- DEI
Professor of Genetics and Principal Investigator, Harvard Medical School’s Reich Lab
- STEM
Executive Director & Founder, Family Justice Law Center
- Advocates
- Alumni
- Engage Ethically
Actor and Producer
- Artists
Makeup Artist
- Alumni
Director of Behavioral Health at the Council of State Governments (CSG) Justice Center
- Alumni
- STEM
Otolaryngologist and Assistant Professor at University of Chicago Medicine
- STEM
Professor of Mathematics, University of California, San Diego
- STEM
Executive vice president and provost at The Ohio State University
Co-Founder, Latin American Society of Chagas
- STEM
Physician (Internal Medicine, Addiction Medicine, and Obesity Medicine) and Medical Director at mental health agencies
- Alumni
- STEM
Community Builder, ElectrifyPDX and Orange Splot
- Advocates
- Entrepreneurs
Novelist, journalist, and recipient of the Silver Star, the Bronze Star for Valor, and the Purple Heart
- Alumni
- Writers
Broadway Actor
- Artists
Fine Artist
- Artists
Playwright & Television Writer
- Writers
Executive Director, Belize Foundation for Research and Environmental Education
- Advocates
- STEM
Musician and Educator
- Alumni
- Innovate and Create
- Music
U.S. Congressman, Maryland's 8th District
- Advocates
Visual Artist and GDS 8th Grade History Teacher
- Artists
- Education
Vice President, Live Wire Media Relations, LLC
- Media
Founder and CEO, Hypesole
- Athletes
- Business
Educator
- Alumni
- Engage Ethically
Educator
- Alumni
- Artists
- Dance
Six-Time Grammy-Winning Nonprofit Record Label Founder
Musician and prominent independent literary publisher
- Writers
Founder, Storyfarm
- Entrepreneurs
Nationally syndicated advice writers and novelists
- Writers
Actor
- Artists
Global Head of Communications, Public Policy and Marketing, Bloomberg
- Alumni
- Engage Ethically
- High School
- Lead
- Take Risks
Founder and CEO of Illumix
- STEM
Founder and Executive Director, Jevaia Foundation
- Advocates
Senior Tech Investigations Editor, NBC News
- Media
Principal, Success Academy Charter Schools
- Education
Owner, Hills Kitchen
- Entrepreneurs
Artist, Designer, Entrepreneur
- Artists
- Entrepreneurs
Founder/CEO, The League of Kitchens
- Entrepreneurs
Former Black Panther and DC Homelessness Czar
- Advocates
Theater Director, University Professor
- Artists
Author of NPR’s Best Books of 2018 and Oprah Magazine’s Best LGBTQ Books of 2020
- Writers
Founder, huMAN Expressions & Co-founder, Breast Cancer Comfort Site
- Entrepreneurs
Editor, Washingtonian Magazine
- Writers
Staff Writer, The Marshall Project
- DEI
- Media
Professional Cyclist, Wildlife Generation Pro Cycling
- Athletes
Founder and Director, The Toa Nafasi Project
- Advocates
Founder, Vote Me Too
- Advocates
Actress, Producer, Vocalist
- Alumni
- Artists
Founder, Pink Mantaray
- Advocates
- Athletes
Director/Producer/
- Alumni
- Artists
Screenwriter, novelist, and psychotherapist
- Alumni
- Writers
Program Coordinator for Asia, Vital Voices
- Advocates
- Alumni
Co-President and Head of Television, Westbrook Studios
- Artists
Owners of Triyo Fitness
- Alumni
- Athletes
- Business
Musician
- Alumni
- Artists