Fifty years of IPHS graduates have made their mark in nearly every field. The program has produced a member of Congress, the president of one of the country’s leading defense-technology companies, a Supreme Court correspondent for a national news outlet, a features editor at one of the country’s best-known magazines, and a theater director honored as a New York City Public Artist in Residence. Others have become a chief investment strategist on Wall Street, founders and leaders of AI companies, an Ivy League authority on climate policy, a pioneering suicide-prevention researcher, and one of Fortune’s “World’s Greatest Leaders.”
Several of our newest generation work at the intersection of AI and human judgment. In 2025, students trained in IPHS’s AI courses won the Most Original Project award at HackOH/IO, Ohio’s largest hackathon (800+ participants) and were subsequently invited to Y Combinator. Recent alumni are building knowledge graphs at the National Gallery of Art, studying AI and law at Harvard, leading AI initiatives at tech companies, founding startups in South Asia, and entering Ph.D. programs at UC Berkeley to research human-AI relationships. Others have moved into finance, consulting, and government.
IPHS does not funnel students into a single career track. The program’s combination of humanistic depth and portfolio-quality research opens paths that neither a traditional humanities major nor a conventional computer science degree can reach on its own: law and policy, cultural institutions, entrepreneurship and the public sector. Several of these alumni stories are told in the spring 2026 Kenyon Alumni Magazine feature “Written in Code.”
"The skills that IPHS classes taught me — the ability to work with new technologies, to understand what is actually happening, the ability to speak with authority in terms of a technology capability — are some of the most important skills there are right now."