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Estabrook grew up in Champaign, Illinois. She attended University Laboratory High School after 6th grade. At the age of 16, she attended Harvard College where she studied sociology, graduating in 2003. As an undergraduate, Estabrook took film courses before entering the field of film production.
May 14, 2015 · Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies Robb Moss (from left) interviewed “Whiplash” writer and director Damien Chazelle ’07 and co-producers Helen Estabrook ’03 and Nicholas Britell ’03 about the success of their low-budget film that became an Oscar-winning hit.
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Helen Estabrook - Class of 1999. Helen Estabrook entered Uni High straight from 6th grade. Over the next five years, she was involved in many aspects of school, noting in an interview that she loved how everyone was encouraged to be curious and open to all things, intellectually and otherwise.
No one at her new school gets Callie, an awkward kid whose one friend, Mabel, is a potted plant -- except Ms. Garrett, the charismatic science teacher who introduces her to the controversial world of “plant intelligence.”.
- 2024 Rising Star: Balázs Bognár, Uni Class of 1996
- 2023 Rising Star: Vilas Dhar, Uni Class of 2000
- 2022 Rising Star: Daniel Grossman, Uni Class of 1999
- 2020 Rising Star: Melinda Taub, Uni Class of 2001
- 2019 Rising Star: Dr. Scott Solomon, Uni Class of 1996
- 2018 Rising Star: Helen Estabrook, Uni Class of 1999
- 2017 Rising Star: Jeremy Hobson, Uni Class of 1999
Uni is pleased to introduce Balázs Bognár, ’96, as the recipient of the 2024 Uni High Rising Star award. Bognár, an architect and Partner at Kengo Kuma & Associates in Tokyo, is responsible for innovative projects that span the globe. He traces the roots of his success back to Uni High. “Everything I was and am has to do with my time at Uni,” he sa...
Uni High is pleased to announce our2023 Rising Star Alumni Awardrecipient, Vilas Dhar (2000). Uni Alum Vilas Dhar began to see the intersection between technology’s capacity to change the world and how technology can address human issues for the better while he was still a student at Uni High. Today, the president of the Patrick McGovern Foundation...
Uni High is pleased to announce our 2022 Rising Star Alumni Award recipient, Dr. Daniel Grossman ('99). Grossman doesn’t remember everything about his Uni classes after more than 20 years, but he does remember people and, particularly, relationships he built with colleagues in the lounge and teachers with memorably unique styles and perspectives. “...
The 2020 Rising Star Award recipient is Melinda Taub (’01). The award recognizes outstanding young Uni High alumni who have demonstrated leadership in their fields and service to the school and to the community. Due to the worldwide pandemic, Taub accepted the award while speaking via video at Uni’s first-ever virtual graduation. Taub is a writer a...
Scott Solomon (’96) was the recipient of the 2019 University of Illinois Laboratory High School Rising Star Award. In addition to publishing his first book in 2016 (Future Humans: Inside the Science of Our Continuing Evolution), he teaches Ecology, Evolutionary Biology, and Scientific Communication at Rice University. Solomon also teaches field bio...
Helen Estabrook (’99) was the recipient of the 2018 University of Illinois Laboratory High School Rising Star Award. Estabrook is an Academy Award-nominated film and television producer. Her career started with Up In The Air, starring George Clooney, Vera Farmiga, and Anna Kendrick. She then went on to executive produce Jeff, Who Lives at Home, Dem...
Jeremy Hobson ('99) was the recipient of the 2017 University of Illinois Laboratory High School Rising Star Award. Hobson co-hosts NPR’s “Here and Now.” Before joining Here & Now, he hosted the Marketplace Morning Report. He also was a reporter for Marketplace based in Washington, D.C., and later New York City, where he covered Wall Street and its ...
Feb 12, 2015 · Here & Now' s Jeremy Hobson went to high school with Helen Estabrook, one of the film's producers. He catches up with Helen to find out more about the film's surprising success. Guest. Helen...
Helen Estabrook Stoddard was a prominent philanthropist and cultural leader in Worcester, Massachusetts, where she died on November 28, 1998, at the age of ninety-four.
