Georgetown Alumni

Save the date! The Georgetown University Alumni Association, in cooperation with the Georgetown Alumni Club of Greece, Georgetown University, and other key partners will be hosting an International Alumni Summit in Athens from October 2 to 4, 2026.

Join us for engaging conversations on topics of global importance featuring representatives from Georgetown, Greece, and the broader international community. We will also offer social and cultural programming with unique opportunities to experience Athens, whether this is your first visit or you are a local.

If you are interested in hearing more about this event, please fill out the interest form: https://g.town/4ufYBXl

Alina Watson (H’26) spent much of her childhood in waiting rooms at military and veterans hospitals with her dad.

For all of Watson’s life, her father lived with a severe neurological disability from his service as a U.S. Army tank commander. Watson helped care for her dad and went with him to his countless cardiology and neurology appointments.

In those waiting rooms, her dad repeatedly gave her a charge for her life. “Go be a doctor, and help people like me,” Watson remembers her dad telling her.

Watson’s dad passed away during her senior year of high school, months away before she started at Georgetown. But his words have fueled her through four years at Georgetown preparing to go to medical school.

“Being in that position in such a formative time, it showed me what’s truly valuable in life. For me, that was a person’s health,” she said. “It was the most powerful thing I could have done with my life to honor my dad’s legacy.”

“I knew that in being a doctor, it would be hard no matter what,” she said. “However, the privilege that I will get in being able to serve service members, veterans and their families is everything I had wanted. I knew that if I ever got the opportunity, I would want to treat, diagnose and serve people like my dad.”

Read more about Watson's commitment to service: https://g.town/4v57zYj

Over winter break, Yunji Yun (C’26) asked her mom to make a beloved childhood dish: sausage ketchup stir fry.

Her mom used to cook the stir fry in the months after they arrived in the U.S. from South Korea. Yun was 11 years old at the time, spoke no English and was hungry for a taste of home.

Ten years later, Yun’s mother made the dish exactly the way she remembered: Korean sausage and vegetables slathered in Korean ketchup and oyster sauce, served beside a lump of rice and egg curry.

“Despite our ups and downs, my mom’s hands remember me, what foods I like and how to make me feel 11 again, washing away homesickness and leaving me only with that feeling of comfort and home,” Yun wrote.

The recipe for sausage ketchup stir fry appears in Yun’s senior thesis, which isn’t a typical senior thesis but a 76-page food magazine that unpacks how Korean cookbooks illustrate the diversity of Korean American identity.

As part of her American Studies major, Yun spent nearly a year chronicling the rise of Korean food in the U.S. by poring through cookbooks, analyzing stories and recipes, and writing and designing the magazine. She even painted the cover, which, modeled after Bon Appétit magazine, features a bottle of American-made kimchi.

The process helped Yun understand her own Korean American identity — and gave her a deeper understanding of her grandmother and mother through their view of food.

Read more about Yun's stories of food and family: https://g.town/4dvYHUk