Alumni News

Juliet Fiss, an RIT imaging science alumna, uses algorithms and formulas to create artwork, including a piece at RIT’s Carlson Center.

Experiences at RIT helped Ryan Lamon ’17 (criminal justice) discover his passion for practicing law.

Emeka Iheme, an RIT chemical engineering and public policy alumnus, is helping his home country of Nigeria as the founder and CEO of Gasavant Africa.

During their third year at RIT, the pair unexpectedly enrolled in the same partner-based sound recording classand worked together on a quarter-long project. The assignment provided a golden opportunity to learn more about each other while exploring the Rochester region.

Tech expert and media star Katie Linendoll, an RIT information technology alumna, started her own media production and consulting company.

George Dubinsky and David Short discovered a shared vision while at RIT, using it to guide them in developing their Philadelphia-based company into one that works with the world's top architects and interior designers.

A serial entrepreneur, Brandon Hudson was RIT’s first Gap Year fellow in 2018. Before that, Hudson had a knack for business, selling wristbands for the then-new Apple Watch.

Janessa Steenberg initially created the original recipe for herself to bridge a culinary gap between her vegan diet and the Italian-Maltese cuisine from her Toronto childhood and her grandmother’s kitchen.

Independent game developer Rami Ismail hired former Gap Year fellow Sam Magnolia and their cofounders at Aesthetician Labs — Noah Magnolia and Aidan Markham — to lead the development and production team for Australia Did It.

Hridiza Roy followed a summer internship at Disney Studios, with a fall position in the Gap Year Entrepreneurial Fellowship. The RIT program gave her a block of time and a stipend to advance her passion project—Painterly, an animation software tool.

When Don Pettit, NASA’s most senior astronaut, sought a way to accurately capture his view from the International Space Station, alumnus Peter Blacksberg connected him with Ted Kinsman, associate professor in the School of Photographic Arts and Sciences.

Nearly 60 RIT students and 20 alumni and faculty members helped document the 2026 Winter Games as part of an ongoing collaboration with Special Olympics New York.