Kayli Carter

B.F.A., performing arts, 2015

Hailing from Oviedo, Florida, Kayli Carter began to distinguish herself before graduation and immediately went to work. She first appeared on stage in New York in Nice Fish, an Olivier Award-nominated play from Academy Award-winner Mark Rylance. She also starred in the off-Broadway hit Mary Page Marlowe from playwright Tracy Letts.

Carter is best known for playing Sadie Rose on the Emmy Award-winning Netflix miniseries Godless, and also starred opposite Paul Giamatti in the critically acclaimed Private Life in 2018. Next, Carter will play Manson acolyte Squeaky Fromme in the independent film Charlie Says.

Mir Zafar Ali

B.F.A., visual effects, 2015

A native of Karachi, Pakistan, Mir Zafar Ali has achieved remarkable success as a visual effects artist on some of the most popular and honored animated films of all time. Since 2013, he has contributed to animated feature film Oscar winners Frozen, Big Hero 6 and Zootopia, along with Oscar nominee Moana.

With one quarter left before graduating from SCAD, Ali sent his reel to visual effects powerhouse Digital Domain and was working in Los Angeles two weeks later. He began creating digital effects for The Day After Tomorrow. This led to superhero work on Spider-Man 3, The Incredible Hulk and X-Men: First Class. His talents became more widely known working on The Golden Compass and Life of Pi, both Academy Award winners for Best Visual Effects.

Ali returned to SCAD to complete his degree in 2015.

Le'Andra LeSeur

B.F.A., photography, 2014

Le'Andra LeSeur is an interdisciplinary artist working and living in Jersey City, New Jersey. Her work explores black identity informed by the effects regulated systems of oppression have on black women, specifically. Through visual media, installation and performance, her hope is to reclaim and dismantle stereotypes surrounding black female identity through the reworking of conventional art forms and mundane objects — ultimately reshaping the context of spaces where the lives of the oppressed are silenced and celebrated in the same breath.

LeSeur has participated in exhibitions throughout the Southeast including "On Being Black" at Arnika Dawkins Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia. LeSeur is the recipient of the 2017 Contemporary Black Art award at ArtPrize 9 in Grand Rapids, Michigan for her piece, "Searching," and the recipient of the 2018 Time-Based Category Award and Juried Grand Prize at ArtPrize 10 in Grand Rapids for her piece "brown, carmine, and blue."

Outside of creating her own work, LeSeur has made notable contributions to the arts through her active participation in curating exhibitions and workshops for women of color that speak to the power in existing through expression in a world that shuns black women for these exact actions.

Harrison Pink

B.F.A., interactive design and game development, 2008

Harrison Pink is a senior game designer at Blizzard Entertainment with more than a decade of game development experience. He has worked on critically acclaimed titles such as Telltale's "The Walking Dead" and "Tales from the Borderlands" series, and Hangar 13's "Mafia III." Pink also earned minor degrees in animation and film and television while at SCAD.

Erik Dunshee

B.F.A., product design, 2001

Erik Dunshee is senior designer at Honda R&D Americas, where he focuses on new market opportunities within transportation design. With more than 20 patents to his name, Dunshee has contributed to the design of many different vehicle models. He has also worked for Electrolux and Bombardier.

Michael Goesele

B.F.A., photography, 2002; B.F.A. graphic design, 2002

Michael Goesele currently serves as global creative director for Newsweek. He has more than 15 years of award-winning design and creative direction experience guiding the inspiration and practices that transform a brand's creative strategy into bold, engaging content, from development to execution. Goesele has led creative teams in the successful design and redesign of brands such as Newsweek, Ritz-Carlton, Washingtonian, CBS and the Consumer Technology Association. Prior to joining the Newsweek team, he was the group creative director at Manifest Agency, where he oversaw the creation of brand identities, publications, advertising, and visual communication initiatives in the print and digital realms. Goesele's culturally diverse upbringing in Europe, Asia, and the U.S. brings a distinctly international quality to his work, enabling him to connect with audiences worldwide.

Jonathan Lee

Anastasia Simone

After meeting during their first year at SCAD, Lee and Simone went on to found the SCAD Hong Kong Advertising Club. The young couple graduated at the top of their class in 2015 and launched their careers as a creative team in Hong Kong. Passionate about non-traditional advertising and new technologies, they specialized in activation at Geometry Global, where they brought their wildest ideas to life. From saving elephants by changing a word to preserving the recipes of local grandmothers using Uber Eats, Lee and Simone won more than 30 local and global industry awards for their innovative ideas.

This experience led to prominent positions at top global advertising agency Leo Burnett. There, they work almost exclusively on activation ideas under the CCO of Leo Burnett Greater China. Lee, a senior copywriter, and Simone, a senior art director, have worked with clients such as Cathay Pacific, Coca-Cola, Uber Eats, WWF, Huawei, The Glenlivet, AXA, Nestlé, and many more.