Living on the Edge (Profiles of True Risk Takers)  

Jepson students, it seems, are hardwired for taking risks.

They have started their own businesses. They have taken risks in politics, started nonprofits and volunteered and worked in remote - and sometimes dangerous - corners of the world.

There are countless stories of Jepson students who have been willing to risk it all to help others, reach their dreams and go above and beyond the call of duty.

Chris Gordon, '06, Joshua Bush, '00, and Cristine Lipscomb Duckworth, '94, are typical Jepson students in that regard. Their lives, however, are anything but typical.

From making a documentary about life in Central America to completing astronaut training to take clients on space trips to starting a business and teaching in a foreign country, taking risks is all in a day's work for these three daring Jepsonites.
     
   
                                                                                
                  Chris Gordon, '06           Joshua Bush, '00        Cristine Duckworth, '94   

                     

                Majors: Leadership          Majors: Leadership           Major: Leadership Studies
                Studies, Spanish               Studies, Political Science    Minor: English
                Job: Major Gifts Officer,    Job: Vice President,           Job: President, Intrac
                Atlanta Union Mission         Park Avenue Travel           Design, Inc.     
                Risk: Traveling through     Risk: Taking his                Risk: Being in the first
                Central America to make   company to new                Jepson class, starting
                a documentary.                 heights.                            her own business.  

                No hotels. No car. No      After traveling the        From graduating in the
                directions. No problem.  world and exploring      first ever Jepson class
                Chris Gordon goes          the depths of the sea     to starting her own
                Down the Road in            there was one place      business, Duckworth veers   
                Central America.             left for Bush to go: up.   off the conventional path.
                                                                     
                          Story                                Story                                Story