When KC Holiday received his Bachelor of Science degree in business leadership during December 2020 commencement, it was the culmination of an educational journey that spanned 14 years, thousands of miles and the co-founding of Qalo, the first company to manufacture silicone rings.

As a husband and father with a busy professional life, Holiday found Lipscomb Online to help him achieve his goal of finishing his undergraduate degree.

December 2020 graduate Eden Melles has been awarded many national opportunities to excel in academia and recently earned a national fellowship designed to bring more underrepresented groups into political science in academia.

As the son of 20-year missionaries in East Africa, Miller is acutely aware of the effects of poverty and unemployment on the population. As an award-winning competitive barista and the founder of coffee shop Crema in Rwanda, he also has a vast knowledge of coffee: the taste, the sources and serving methods.

As a freshman in the College of Business, Miller brought together his two passions into one unique Nashville business, Kwizera Coffee, where the purchase of bags of coffee and booking the mobile espresso bar directly contributes to hope creation programs in Rwanda East Africa. He launched and operated Kwizera throughout the 2019-2020 school year.

Chad Estep is a long way from the catcher’s box at Lipscomb’s Dugan Field where he spent countless hours as a member of the Bison baseball team more than two decades ago.

Today, Estep is senior vice president and enterprise chief compliance officer at E*TRADE Financial Corporation (E*TRADE). His office is located at E*TRADE’s headquarters in the heart of New York City near the fabled Times Square with a view of the Statue of Liberty and the Manhattan skyline. He spends his days leading a team of professionals responsible for overseeing E*TRADE’s compliance management program focused on mitigating compliance and regulatory risk for the firm.

Kirk, a business development engineer at Turner Construction, the number one health care construction manager in Nashville, is not only finding success in a male-dominated field, but she is also paving the way for future women to enter engineering and construction with Girls Build It, a two-day camp to introduce girls to the industry.

One of Lipscomb University’s Fulbright fellows, Courtney “Coco” Stewart (’17), has been selected by the National Institutes of Health to participate in the NIH Academy Enrichment Program, a program for recent college graduates to perform world-class research at the NIH in Bethesda, Maryland, and learn about health disparities.

Stewart, a Spanish and Bible graduate from Houston, spent her 2017-18 Fulbright placement teaching English and creating a healthy living curriculum for a school in the small town of Haro, in La Rioja, Spain. Her experiences there galvanized her decision to switch gears and pursue medical school.