Alternative Careers: Alumnus Voltaire Sterling ‘05
After graduating from Morehouse College in 2002, Voltaire Sterling headed to HLS, where he was the first black Head Class Marshal & Commencement Speaker in 2005. He is now a Los Angeles-based actor, who practiced law for a year and worked at Will Smith’s production company prior to making his theatrical film debut in Denzel Washington’s The Great Debaters. Admissions staffer Julia Foresman recently had the opportunity to catch up with Voltaire about the importance of alumni connections, his choice to pursue an alternative career, and the impact of Professor Charles Ogletree.
