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Alumni Spotlight - Kalina Quinn '14
- by Sheila Wirick
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Kalina has always impressed us at Grauer. I remember when she arrived on the Grauer Campus, having spent her first two years of high school at another local independent school in Carlsbad. She was a serious student but she was also very engaged in extracurricular activities, a lot of times leading those activities.
According to Kalina, “My first school was a LOT of work. I learned how to study, to stay on top of things and to organize my busy life. But at Grauer, I wasn’t as stressed. Grauer allowed me to figure out who I was and what my interests were.” Kalina was an honors student, Senior Class President, engaged in Government class projects with teacher Jessi Brown, and also was able to find the time to leave campus on Fridays to intern at The Salk Institute. “Grauer gives you time to do all this stuff. The school does a good job of keeping up the academics, but they give you the time to explore other things as well.”
Kalina now lives in the Chelsea District of New York City, working as a Systems Engineer for Cisco Systems. She works as a liaison for Cisco with Goldman Sachs and the Bank of New York Mellon, two of Cisco’s biggest customers, to determine and meet their technical requirements. The job involves coding but mainly consists of collaborating with the Cisco business units that create the products that her customers need. Originally intending to be an investment banker, Kalina instead chose a position that didn’t require her to be behind a computer all day. She has desks at all three locations and gets to spend Fridays in her 450-square-foot studio apartment.
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