Alumni Profiles
Alumni Profiles | 04/11/2018
Women should consider a future in funeral service industry. Just ask alumna Sterling Oliver
Sterling Oliver is accustomed to the surprise she is frequently met with when she walks into a room where a family is grieving. The 26-year-old, named...
Alumni Profiles | 02/14/2018
From here, they didn’t just get degrees. They also got married
What started as a chance meeting at a bench on the Virginia Beach Campus blossomed into a May wedding for two Tidewater Community College graduates...
Alumni Profiles | 02/09/2018
TCC degree put her on the path to be a Designing Woman
Melody Morris was working in her home office, doing medical billing and coding when she had her aha moment. An HGTV and do-it-yourself enthusiast, Morris...
Alumni Profiles | 01/30/2018
When Trisha McPherson started Tidewater Community College, it was without an idea of how she would secure a future for herself and her twin daughters....
Alumni Profiles | 01/10/2018
Family is the recipe for success
Latonia Darien-Grundy walked her mom, Marie Grimes, to her first class on Tidewater Community College’s Chesapeake Campus in 2014. Last month,...
Alumni Profiles | 12/01/2017
Wishing upon a star didn’t get her to Disney World. TCC did
Rickkita Taylor never thought she’d be able to take her two boys to Disney World. But the family recently took that trip of a lifetime. Thanks to...
Alumni Profiles | 11/03/2017
Taking on the world after graduating from TCC
After graduating from Tidewater Community College in 2014, Tatiana Britt felt like she could take on the world. “If I could choose five things I’m...
Alumni Profiles | 10/23/2017
TCC and U.Va. grad overcame homelessness and is now giving back
Eli Stacy is paying it forward. His own educational journey from First Colonial High School to Tidewater Community College to the University of Virginia...
Alumni Profiles | 07/24/2017
Engineering a woman’s world, too, says VDOT project manager
Engineering wasn’t on Salvija Hofheimer’s radar when she started at Tidewater Community College. Why would it be? She dreaded math. “I think I...
Alumni Profiles | 07/14/2017
Lost Boy of Sudan finds future at TCC
Photo courtesy of TowneBank He was a lost boy of Sudan who found his place in the United States with the help of Tidewater Community College. Bul Thut...