Alumni Summit

On April 12, 2024, we held our second annual Alumni Summit. While the 2023 summit brought alumni in careers and with passions related to sustainability, the 2024 summit introduced students to alumni who are demonstrating curiosity in their careers and extracurricular interests. 

We will welcome 20+ alumni back to campus on April 11, 2025, to speak with students and faculty in this conference-style summit. Alumni presenters will speak on topics of their choice and reflect on RESPECT during three presentation sessions and will participate in a panel discussion, giving students plenty of time to ask good questions.

Perhaps you’ve heard Anna Rose’s soulful, powerful, captivating music. Her Nashville fans might describe her as an outlaw country singer/songwriter, while others might say her music leans towards alternative country industrial. Her roots are a bit of Led Zeppelin rock with influences by Muddy Waters, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, and other jazz greats and additional inspiration from the likes of Joni Mitchell, Paul Simon, Warren Zevon, Sheryl Crow, and Fleetwood Mac. She would prefer not to be lumped into any genre but rather be known as a storyteller who writes great songs.

For more than twenty years, Anna Rose has toured the United States, headlined powerfully intimate shows, and opened for an array of illustrious global acts. Time on the road and in the studio for her four impassioned full-length studio albums has honed her song-crafting skills and fueled the storytelling fire that burns within this Nashville-based, New York, and LA-raised independent artist. She also writes music for other artists and for film, TV, and commercial use. 

At Millbrook, Anna was already honing her creative skills, with more of a focus on dance at the time than music. “I was asked, ‘Why?’ a lot, which was a big part of why Millbrook was so special. I very much developed my individual point of view here.” Having studied ballet and modern dance from a young age, Anna continued dancing as a creative outlet, and so performance art was her chosen form of self-expression at Millbrook. “For me, it was equal parts athleticism and artistry, and I think that’s where I really found a lot of joy in it.” While Anna expressed herself more publicly then through dance, she was at the same time, more privately, writing music and playing her songs in the practice rooms in the Holbrook Arts Center or for her closest friends. 

Anna will help us kick off the 2024 Alumni Summit by performing a few of her favorite songs for us. We are in for a HUGE treat!