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Alumni Profiles

Clare Spooner (Col ’14)

Clare Spooner is a visual artist living and working in New York City. Her abstract Rotunda painting was featured as one of our 2024 12 Gifts of Hooville partners. Clare shared some stories about her UVA days and her path to become a fulltime artist. Tell us a little bit about how Lucy Clare Spooner Studios started. Despite […]

Grace Collins (Darden ’24) and Ellie Jamison (Batten ’18, Darden ’24)

Grace Collins and Ellie Jamison are the founders of Play Henry, a custom high-end pickleball paddle company, and one of our 2024 12 Gifts of Hooville partners. We asked them about their UVA story and the journey to create Play Henry. Tell us a little bit about how Play Henry started. Play Henry began, of […]

Reggie Aggarwal (Com ’91)

Reggie Aggarwal was the keynote speaker at the UVA Alumni Entrepreneurship Mini-Summit that took place in Arlington, Virginia, in 2024. We chatted with him the UVA experiences that prepared him to later build events software company Cvent, some lessons learned along his entrepreneurial journey, and more.

Laura Allen (Col ’06)

We were thrilled to partner with Laura Allen for the Alumni Association’s 12 Gifts of Hooville Holiday Gift Guide. We caught up with her to ask her about the story behind Allens Shortbread and all things UVA. Tell us a little bit about how Allens Scottish Shortbread started. My Scottish grandma launched a company called […]