
Graduates
Every June, we say goodbye to the current group of graduates at a ceremony in which we celebrate each student individually with remarks written about their own high school journey.
97% College Enrollment
On average, 97% of our graduates each year enroll in degree programs after graduating from Urban.
Life after Urban
What do our graduates do after graduation? The answer is that almost all of them go to college. Recent graduates are currently enrolled at or have recently graduated from the following colleges and universities:
- Adelphi University
- American University
- Bard College
- Bard College Berlin
- Bennington College
- Bryn Mawr College
- California Institute of the Arts
- Clark University
- College of the Atlantic
- Colorado College
- Cooper Union
- Cornell University
- CUNY Baruch College
- CUNY Brooklyn College
- CUNY City College
- CUNY Guttman
- CUNY Hunter College
- CUNY LaGuardia
- CUNY Lehman College
- CUNY Macaulay Honors College
- Delaware State University
- Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts
- Fashion Institute of Technology
- Franklin & Marshall College
- Goucher College
- Hampshire College
- Hofstra University
- Howard University
- Iowa State University
- Ithaca College
- Lawrence University
- Lewis & Clark College
- Manhattanville University
- McGill University
- Mercy University
- Muhlenberg College
- New York University
- Oberlin College
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- Rochester Institute of Technology
- Saint Lawrence University
- Sarah Lawrence College
- Scripps College
- Seton Hall University
- Skidmore College
- Smith College
- Spelman College
- SUNY Albany
- SUNY Binghamton
- SUNY Geneseo
- SUNY New Paltz
- SUNY Potsdam
- SUNY Purchase
- SUNY Stony Brook
- Syracuse University
- Temple University
- The American University of Paris
- The College of Wooster
- Tyler School of Art & Architecture
- University of Chicago
- University of Delaware
- University of Rochester
- University of Southern California
- Vassar College
- Wake Forest University
- Waseda University
- Wheaton College
Graduates
After college Urban alumni do everything! Their paths have been as diverse as our community of students always is. There are even six alumni on the faculty at Urban -- three teachers, a social worker, a guidance counselor and an administrator. Below is a sampling of gradautes you can read more about on their work or personal webpages.

Aisha Jabour
Casting Director

Alex Lithgow
Designer
Ana Champeny
Vice President, Citizens Budget Committee

Andrea von Budjoss
Graphic Designer, Muralist

Aubrey Martin
Real Estate CEO

Biet Simkin
Spiritual Teacher

Bryson Ellington
MTA Electrical Engineer

Clarissa Blau
Filmmaker

Cyndi Cartagena
Real Estate - Sales

Gabe Malone-O'Meally
Lawyer

Gus Garcia-Roberts
Journalist

Ixel Cervera
Doctor (Internist), NYU

Jai Perez
Dancer

Jenique Jones
Executive Director, WnyHunger

Joel Vargas
Filmmaker

Kate Hirschmann-Levy
Doctor (OBGYN), Private Practice

Kaung “Nicholas" Shein
Software Developer (of this site!)

Kevin Kirby
Director of Risk Management, Barclays

Kiri Davis
Filmmaker

Lauren Wilkinson
Novelist

Lucas Gonzalez
Audio Visual, MOMA

Micaela Beigel
UPenn Admissions Associate Director

Mike Tyner
Filmmaker

Nathan Tankus
Economist

Nell Hirschmann-Levy
Tenant Lawyer


Richard Morales
Director of Public Programs & Community Engagement, Socrates Park

Saul Vazquez-Pichardo
Human Resources -- Columbia University

Simon Bacchus
Real Estate, Director of Development

Siri Nelson
Director, National Whistleblower Center

Suhilah Booker
Associate Director of Access and Outreach, UMASS Amherst

Thomas Perry
Senior Data Scientist, Meta

Ziggy Porterfield
Software Engineer

Zora Sicher
Photographer (recent book site)
















































