How a PHC alumnus landed a job in the Department of Homeland Security

Posted by Andrea LaBelle on 6/26/25 11:57 AM

Three months ago, Micah Bock (SI, '20) accepted the position of Deputy Assistant Secretary for Strategic Communications at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. In addition to this successful...

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Unity of nations: Ian Ishiyama’s experience as a Regional Securities Studies intern in Hawaii

Posted by Andrea LaBelle on 6/5/25 12:37 PM

Ian Ishiyama (IPP ‘24) opened his email to see that he had been accepted as a Regional Security Studies Intern at the Daniel K. Inouye Asia Pacific Center of Security Studies in Hawaii. The center...

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Walking through open doors: trained for journalism but now preparing for law

Posted by Clay Ramirez on 4/29/25 1:16 PM

Kyle Ziemnick is a 2020 PHC graduate with a degree in Journalism, but today, he's studying law at the University of Virginia Law School and recently argued a case before the Ninth Circuit Appellate...

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Capturing precious moments: Christine McDonald ('16) finds success in photography

Posted by Clay Ramirez on 3/31/25 2:56 PM

PHC alumna Christine McDonald (CLA, '16) owns and runs a successful photography business, Captured by CM. She attributes her business’s success first to the Lord and second to the instruction she...

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Growth in brokenness: ministry at Christian Encounter Ranch

Posted by Andrea LaBelle & Hannah Gaschler on 3/31/25 1:48 PM

It was an unsettling question: “What are you most afraid of this week?"

PHC Resident Director Rachel McCracken, senior Hannah Gaschler, sophomores Noah Jackson and Cade Crockett, and I, Andrea...

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Independent success: Evie Solheim ('19) on navigating professionalism, family life, and competition within journalism

Posted by Clay Ramirez on 2/28/25 10:56 AM

After more than five years in the industry, Evie Fordham Solheim (Journalism, '19), a winner of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute’s “Top 20 under 30” award in 2021, returned to Patrick Henry...

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How PHC prepared Jake Settle for the Hill

Posted by Hannah Gaschler on 1/9/25 8:17 AM

“My favorite part of working for Senator Ted Cruz is getting to see how he thinks about the emerging legal issues of our time," said PHC graduate Jake Settle (GOV-American Politics & Policy ‘19).

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Awakening wonder: Elizabeth Borders returns to teach at Rock Ledge Ranch

Posted by Hannah Gaschler on 11/5/24 9:23 AM

Elizabeth Borders (History, ‘22) and her students tiptoed into the parlor of the Rock Ledge House, imagining they were in Almanzo’s house as she read aloud from Farmer Boy. Almanzo had just thrown...

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The Lord provides one day at a time: about Meredith's time serving in Israel

Posted by Hannah Gaschler on 10/2/24 3:13 PM

While Meredith Monroe (Economics & Business Analytics, '19) was assembling medical kits on a supply base in Israel last November, a Jewish volunteer asked her, “Did you know that Jesus was Jewish?”...

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What PHC's new RD learned from working with hurting teens

Posted by Hannah Gaschler on 8/14/24 2:32 PM

“May I never forget on my best days that I still need God as desperately as on my worst days.” Rachel McCracken (CLA, ‘23) wrote this quote in her Bible and looked at it regularly over the 8 months...

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