Toph Tucker ’08

Alumni Voices

Toph Tucker ’08

Beaver Reflections:
I was a lifer at Beaver. All the creative elements at Beaver—multimedia and group projects—were engaging and some of my favorite parts about the school. Beaver was great writing preparation and I loved being a part of the founding team of The Beaver Reader, the school’s newspaper. The Beaver Reader was a formative experience for me and I joined the student newspaper in college.

What is #happeningnow in your life:
After college, I moved to New York to work for Bloomberg BusinessWeek and shifted from making charts for the printed magazine to making interactive charts for the web. After a few years, I switched jobs to work for Kensho, a technology start-up in Cambridge that does financial analysis. At Kensho I was a software engineer surrounded by great programmers, which was a change from working with graphic designers.

“Even the very best articles and graphs are gone after a couple days. The news media moves so quickly that so much gets forgotten.”

– Toph Tucker ’08

Advice to Beaver students:
Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly. Even if you don’t succeed the first time, you can learn from your mistakes and meet new people.

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