Alumni Spotlights

Our Da Vinci graduates are members of a strong alumni community. We are so proud of our Da Vinci alumni who are excelling in college, career and life!

Ruqayya Toorawa (DV Science ‘13) graduated from Stanford University and is working as a Space Mission Program Manager and Lead Spacecraft Assembly, Test, and Launch Ops Engineer at Millennium Space Systems, a Boeing Company. Ruqayya received a full ride Gates Millennium Scholarship for undergraduate and graduate education from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Kevin Nolasco (DV Design ’13) received his bachelor’s degree in Mathematical Sciences from UC Santa Barbara and a master’s in Data Science from Cabrini University. He is starting a new job at Microsoft as a Data Scientist.

Jonathan Kidd (DV Design ‘16) graduated from UCLA with a bachelor’s degree in Political Science. Jonathan works as a Brand Strategist and BLK-LA Lead at Spotify.

Matthew Chan (DV Science ’19) graduated from UCLA in 2023 with a bachelor’s degree in Physiological Science and now serves as a US Marine Corps Officer. Matthew completed an internship at Boeing while at Da Vinci.

Okiki Ogunnaike (DV Communications ’24) is a freshman at UC Santa Cruz studying Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology. Okiki recently completed an 8-week internship with the Kaiser Summer Youth Employment Program. The internship experience was arranged through Da Vinci’s Real World Learning program.

Milissa Sutton (DV Connect High ‘24) is pursuing her bachelor’s degree at UC Berkeley in African American Studies on a full-ride scholarship. Milissa completed her A.A. degree for free at Da Vinci while simultaneously completing her high school diploma.

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