The Georgia Southern Alumni 40 under 40 program is in its fifth year. Each year they recognize and celebrate young alumni that are leading the way in business, leadership, community, educational and philanthropic endeavors.
The class was chosen by a committee made up of the alumni board, faculty and staff. The selection process began with nominations in March with more than 240 alumni nominated for this year’s class.
Honorees must have attended Georgia Southern University or Armstrong University and aspire to uphold our core values of collaboration, academic excellence, discovery and innovation, integrity, openness and inclusion, and sustainability.
40 under 40 Class of 2020
Annalee Ashley (’14, ’20)
Georgia Southern University
Whitney Barfield (’08)
Emory University
Somi Benson-Jaja (’10)
Shot By Somi Studios
Brad Boykin (’08, ’16, ’18)
Bulloch County Schools / Southeast Bulloch Middle School
Christina Calloway (’05, ’06)
United States Patent and Trademark Office
Oladipo Cole (’09)
Florida Atlantic University College of Medicine
Joshua Combs (’12)
Troutman Pepper
Shawnte Craig (’03)
United States Air Force
Stephen Crosby (’04)
Dollar Tree Inc.
Chris Eble (’05)
OTR Capital LLC
Claire Erlacher-Reid (’03)
SeaWorld
Wilkes Evans (’05, ’09)
Piedmont Construction Group
Azell Francis (’13, ’15)
University System of Georgia Board of Regents
Zac Frye (’09)
Durden Banking Company, Inc.
Mary Githens (’08)
Latin Chicks Restaurant & Mint To Be Mojito Bar
Stephen Gonzalez (’09)
Dartmouth College
Gloria Goosby (’04)
Furman University
Jeffery Grant (’03)
City of Savannah
Jeremy Hammond (’06)
Sea Pines Oral and Facial Surgery
Kathleen Henry (’12)
Wake County Economic Development
Bryant Hosch (’06, ’07)
Piedmont Healthcare, Inc
Crystal A. Lattimore (’12)
United States Army
Kimberly Lee-Okonya (’08)
Life Begins Here Therapeutic & Counseling Services
Amy Meehan (’07)
Revelle
Thomas Miller (’03)
Southern Family Medicine
Elizabeth Parizo (’14, ’17)
UW Health
Jennifer Pavlick (’06)
Department of Homeland Security – US Citizenship and Immigration Services
James Payne (’05)
Fulton County Schools
Kwame J. Phillips (’13)
Johns Hopkins University
Nicole Pope (’12)
Hunter, Maclean, Exley & Dunn, PC
Marion Christopher Pugh (’06, ’08, ’19)
Georgia Southern University
Justin Ragan (’07, ’12)
Wrightsville Family Dental
Zerik Samples (’11, ’13)
Coastal Georgia Area Community Action Authority
Henry “Trey” Scrudder (’09, ’11)
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Zach Sines (’08)
North Highland
Noelle Singleton (’10)
AfroSwimmers Aquatics, LLC
Demetrius Smith (’09, ’11)
University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Ursula Spence ( ’17)
Community Health Works
Matt Wise (’08)
Athletes In Action
James Woodall (’16)
Georgia NAACP
