Emma Reid graduated with her BFA in Graphic Design in 2020. She is the Director of Education at One River School of Art + Design in Connecticut. Here, she combines her love of design and teaching and works to encourage the next generation of artists!

Alena Klimchenko is a first year transfer student at SUNY Purchase, currently enrolled in the Visual Arts program. Aside from the fine arts, she particularly enjoys video games and studying languages.

Amer Zafer is a Theatre and Performance major from Queens, New York. He enjoys writing and wants to explore the skill of acting and performance, as well as other artistic forms of expression. He is a first generation Indian American and would like to express that more in his everyday life. He loves to explore the city as well as expand his knowledge on culture and society.

Jean Ings '23 is a screenwriting/playwriting major. She was born and raised in the snowy Buffalo, New York area. She enjoys reading, writing, knitting, and climbing trees.

Jalyn Cox-Cooper '23 is a journalism major from Rochester, New York. She enjoys writing, watching movies, learning about social issues, and visiting new places.

A native of Austin, Texas, jazz drummer Keith Balla began playing at the age of 13, and moved to New York at 17 as student of the jazz studies program at Purchase College. In addition to his enriching studies at Purchase, he quickly found himself immersed in the fertile jazz community of New York City, performing at many of New York's finest jazz venues such as Smalls, Mezzrow, Smoke, The Metropolitan Room, The Jazz Gallery, and Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola. In addition to forging strong musical ties to the myriad of talented young jazz musicians on the New York scene, Balla has also had the good fortune to perform alongside some elder jazz giants such as pianist/composer of Blue Note Records fame, Freddie Redd, the late tenor saxophone master Charles Davis, vocal legend Annie Ross, and famed pianist and bebop pedagogue Dr. Barry Harris. Since 2008, often working under the auspices of the US Department of State with the Ari Roland Quartet, he has performed and conducted workshops in fifty-one countries throughout Africa, Europe, East and Central Asia, and the Middle East. Although professional commitments put his undergraduate studies on hiatus in 2006, Balla returned to Purchase in the fall of 2019 and is scheduled to graduate in the class of 2021.

Nina Schatell is a freshman in the Theatre Design/Production program with a concentration in stage management. She is from New York City, and enjoys seeing different types of theater around the city and learning new things.​