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SANDERSON
Olivia Anderson: After leaving Oundle and embarking on a year out with fellow trailblazer Georgia Ranson (Sn 09), I settled into a three-year undergraduate course at Leeds University, studying Human Geography. Following my graduation, I pursued my love of the written word and interned in various aspects of the publishing industry, before taking up a position at Penguin Random House in 2014. I continue to work at Penguin, surrounding myself with the good and great of non-fiction publishing. I now live in West London with my sister, Francesca (Sn 11), our housemate and her abundance of exotic but tasteful house plants.
Harriet Baker: Since graduating with a degree in English Literature from the University of Oxford, I have worked in journalism and as a digital producer for the Royal Academy of Arts. After two years of writing and editing, I returned to university, studying for an MA at King’s College London and a PhD at Queen Mary, University of London. I am working on my first book, a collective biography of inter-war writers including Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Rosamond Lehmann, for which I was awarded the Tony Lothian Prize in 2018. I also write for the Financial Times, the Times Literary Supplement and
Apollo, and am represented by Harriet Moore at David Higham Associates. I am continually grateful to Oundle for Mrs. Coles, who first pressed Mrs Dalloway into my hands, and for my brilliant friends. I live in South London with my boyfriend, Mike.
Sarah Bury: Following a gap year volunteering in a hospital in Malawi and touring through South America, I began studying Medicine at Bristol University. It was an incredibly fun five years, with regular visits to East Africa for medical projects and other excuses. After graduating in 2015, I completed two years’ foundation training and decided to pursue a career in anaesthetics and intensive care. However, the lure of combining medicine and adventure was too much. I took a year out to do a diploma in Tropical Medicine and Infectious Diseases in London, and worked as an expedition medic on several ultra-running expeditions across Africa. I was then based in Kenya, where I did a yoga teacher training course (a bit off track, but good for balance!) and worked for a medical NGO, providing outreach medical care. I now live in London with Georgia Ranson (Sn 09) and am doing combined training in Anaesthetic/Intensive Care/Emergency Medicine, with a dream of doing pre-hospital helicopter medicine. I love seeing my Oundle friends (when not in A&E!)
and Sanderson girls (when they’re not in NYC!). I’m working on a project to introduce yoga to NHS staff and manage to escape to Kenya twice a year on yoga teacher training.
Flora Cadzow: After leaving Oundle, I moved to London and studied Fashion Design at Central Saint Martins. It was intense, but a lot of fun. I then left London to live in Milan, where I worked for Stone Island, and then Bassano to work for Diesel. Despite loving life in Italy and surprisingly managing to learn the language and adapt to the culture, I left to become the senior menswear designer at Carhartt WIP. I now live in Berlin, a bit in Basel and on easyJet! I’m hoping the next decade involves more personal projects, less time taking Insta stories from planes, and even more time with friends and family. I’ve met a lot of amazing people since leaving – thanks for the social skills Oundle, seriously – but my OO friends are still very close, especially most of the Sanderson ’09 leavers, who I am super proud of watching grow into the wonderful, talented, strong women they are. Their achievements, mutual support for each other and attitude to life still impress me. The bets are still open for the first engagement, however! I cannot believe it has been a decade. Oundle and the people taught me a lot, and life is teaching me even more. To another happy, healthy and adventure-filled decade for all.
Katie Hughes: On graduating from
the University of Manchester in 2013,
I went on to do a combined master’s
at Columbia University and LSE.
Since arriving in New York, I have
dabbled in documentary film and
now work for a branding agency, who have moulded this lump of British
‘clay’ into a somewhat usable
strategist. Having decided The
Berrystead and Sanderson were not enough, I live with Livvie Kirkbride
(Sn 09) in Brooklyn. We are the
proud owners of multiple house
plants and a high rent bill. This is a lifestyle we fund by running the
apartment like an Airbnb for Old Oundelians. www
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