Alumni
Riviera offers many ways to connect to your alma mater, friends you made at MU, and faculty and staff who helped shape who you are today.
Our alumni make us proud every day, by both making their own ways in the world and making the world a better place for all who share it. In college, careers, and life itself, our graduates are equipped—intellectually and expressively, professionally and personally—to choose the path that’s right for them and follow it diligently and joyfully.
Riviera alumni often cite the foundation they received here as key to their success in high school, college, and beyond. From learning, developing, and refining habits that contribute to their academic success, to the supportive friendships that remain with them into adulthood, Riviera graduates go on to lead lives of purpose.
Michael Butera Mugasa
Class of 2016. From a Legal Researcher in Berlin to practicing Law back home at the Certa Law Firm in Kigali, Rwanda and consequently becoming the Associate Director at Center for Law and Innovation at Certa Foundation!
After completion of his Advanced Level at Riviera in 2016, he was among the top two Students who won scholarship to Strathmore Law School, Strathmore University.
In March 2023, he was offered admission to Harvard’s 2023-2024 LL.M. program!
Natasha Muhoza
Class of 2011- Lawyer, Artist of Written & Spoken Word Poetry. Currently working with the Commonwealth Secretariat based in London.
Julius Kaliisa
Before joining Harvard, Julius made waves as a Research Analyst at the UN International Atomic Energy Agency and Rwanda’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He graduated with a Presidential Scholarship and became a standout in several prestigious international fellowships, including the California-Hansen Leadership Institute, Erasmus Scholarship, Yenching Global Symposium at Peking University, and Wilson Center of Nuclear Research.
As an AfOx and Mastercard Scholar at Oxford, Julius focused on Africa’s nuclear power development and clean energy transition. At Harvard, he’s diving into a Ph.D. with a passion for continuing his research work and he recently founded NexGen4All a platform that shares global scholarships and opportunities to revolutionize the continent’s future through innovative research-driven policies and human capital development.
Uwizerwa Karita Sonia
Class Of 2018, Rising Senior at Stanford University, majoring in Mechanical Engineering with a Concentration in Product Realization & minoring in Global Studies (African Studies Department)
Audrey Gatera
Class of 2021. Currently at Yale, University. Remembered by her teachers as a quick thinker and effective communicator. Audrey was an enthusiastic member of the Debate Club.
Joselyne Kamo N.
Class of 2009, Founder of the Globe Education Consult, an education consultancy firm that links students from Rwanda and East Africa to top universities around the world.
Bhakita Ndengo,
Class of 2017, Assurance Associate at Price water house Coopers, Rwanda.
Mwesigye Ruzindana Eugene
Class of 2017, an RDF Officer and 5th year Medical Student in Rwanda Military Academy, Gako.
We shine a light on our distinguished alumni who have made significant contributions in their field & whose accomplishments have brought honor to Riviera.
