Outstanding Recent Alumna

Katrina Phiri, ’17 MBA 

Albers School of Business and Economics 

For her exemplary career at Amazon and leadership in the Albers community, Katrina Phiri is honored as Outstanding Recent Alumna.  

Phiri is a Senior Product Manager at Amazon Web Services (AWS), where she leads product and business development strategy for an enterprise application excellence team, delivering measurable ROI through automation, security and managed services. 

A graduate of SU’s Master of Business Administration program, she is a key connector between Amazon and the university, establishing the SU at Amazon Alumni Group and serving as its program lead. Under her leadership, the program has created numerous engagement and mentorship opportunities by bringing together SU alumni and students, for campus tours at Amazon, panel discussions featuring alumni and hosting underrepresented high school students as part of the Summer Business Institute.   

Phiri has consistently given back to the SU community through her service on the Albers Marketing Advisory Board, as President of the SU International Student Alumni Board and as an Albers mentor for the past five years.   

One of her nominators said, “Katrina Phiri deserves the Outstanding Recent Alumni award because she embodies the core values of Seattle University—integrity, leadership, excellence and service.”