ADVANCING THE MISSION
Alumni@Work
In The Company
of Alumni
As our alumni move through their careers,
many choose to establish businesses of
their own. These entrepreneurs seek em-
ployees who can help them to grow and
achieve success, and some have recognized
that the best resource is in their own back-
yard: Stevenson graduates.
Classmates and visual communication
design graduates Bryna Stello Colley ’06
and Rebecca Smith Biello ’06 founded
2fold Collective in 2012. Their company’s
mission is to help clients love their brand,
and their team treats each project as an op-
portunity to make that brand a little more
amazing. To help accomplish that goal,
Colley and Biello brought two SU alumni—
also visual communication design majors—
onto their team: Alyson Cockrell ’14 and
Alex Neric Pak ’15.
When asked why she looks toward Ste-
venson graduates, Colley explains, “We
have a great relationship with Stevenson
and meet many students at portfolio reviews
and networking events. We like to support
Stevenson—and the students—however we
can. In addition to being great designers,
Stevenson students have a well-rounded
liberal arts education. Being a designer isn’t
just about making something ‘look pretty,’
it’s about communicating effectively and
thinking about your work from a business
perspective, not just a creative perspec-
tive. An education at Stevenson prepares
students to approach design in this way.”
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