Alumni Promise Awards
Two College Scholars received Alumni Promise Awards in 2013: Kevin Burdette (’97) and Michael Wahid Hanna (’95). This award recognizes alumni no older than 40 who have demonstrated distinctive achievement in a career, civic involvement, or both. Kevin Burdette, a graduate of the Julliard School and Columbia Law School, is a full-time oper a singer who has performed with major opera companies and symphony orcherastras and received enthusiastic reviews for his mellifluous voice and strong dramatic characterizations. Michael Wahid Hanna, a graduate of New York University School of Law, is a senior fellow of the Century Foundation where he works on issues of international security, international law, and US foreign policy in the broader Middle East and South Asia.