Sarah shakes the hand of Sen. Elizabeth Warren after her graduation as salutatorian of the Class of 2015 from Massachusetts Maritime Academy.

After graduating from IWU, Sarah Lewis ’07 “went to sea working as a deckhand after following the advice of IWU’s own Dr. Will Jaeckle,” she wrote.  She then received a commission with NOAA Corp as an ensign and sailed as a third mate on their research vessels for a couple of years, before returning to school to earn a marine engineering degree and resigning her commission.  Next month, she begins working on nuclear submarines in Portsmouth Naval Yard.