Alumni Profiles
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...
Alumni Profiles | 06/14/2017
TowneBank CFO made investment in himself at TCC
Long before Clyde McFarland became the chief financial officer of an $8 billion-dollar bank, he knew a thing or two about economics. Today’s chief...
Alumni Profiles | 06/12/2017
From TCC to UVa to William & Mary Law
Eli Kaplan didn’t have a direction when he started at Tidewater Community College. Now he’s a graduate of the University of Virginia and a second-year...
Alumni Profiles | 06/09/2017
American Sign Language the catalyst for change for TCC alumna
Imagine trying to learn in a classroom when all you hear is silence. This was the reality for Kelly Hernandez who graduated from Kellam High with a...