While at Rice in 2012, Kay Rodriguez ’15 started her first travel blog thekaydays.com. According to her blog, she started it “to help college students travel with small budgets.” She utilized her breaks from college to travel to 12 countries.
 
After graduation, Rodriguez joined a management consulting firm. She later decided to shift careers to work at National Geographic Digital. This job gave Rodriguez the push she needed to pursue her passion of travel. She decided to leave National Geographic and become her own boss as the “explorer-in-chief” of Jetfarer.com.
 

When Rachael Morris ’12 was accepted into the Teach for America program during her senior year at Rice, it was a turning point in her life. “Originally, I wanted to go to medical school,” she recalls, “but something within me told me my calling was elsewhere.”
 
Two years into teaching, Morris realized it was the career she wanted to do  “for the rest of my life.” She has now been a teacher for seven years, exclusively at charter schools, including two years at KIPP and five years at Yes Prep.
 

Rhae Adams’12 is working to make the solar system a little smaller, both through exploration of our neighboring worlds and by bringing the tools and technology of deep space exploration to industries here on Earth. He is the co-founder and standing VP of Strategy for Synchronous, a company focused on space commercialization with missions headed to the Moon, Mars, Europa, Titan and the Asteroid Belt, while solving problems in underground mining, autonomous vehicles and renewable energy.