Past Events

- Zoom
Speakers: Elizabeth Crivaro JD, '14 (Political Science) JD Georgetown University is Law Fellow at the Catholic Legal Immigration Network. https://cliniclegal.org and Reena Naik '16 (Political Science) currently pursuing a JD degree at Temple, Legal Intern with Tahirih Justice Services, former Judicial Intern with US Department of Justice, and Coro Fellow. https://www.tahirih.org/ http://www.coropittsburgh.org/ will present their work and their respective law school choices. Visit: https://www.ucis.pitt.edu/global/career-week

- Zoom
Speaker: Join a conversation with Joshua Karnes, global health professional and a Foreign Service Officer with the US Agency for International Development. He served in Central Asia, where he led a team to improve early grade reading and fight HIV and multi-drug resistant TB. Before Central Asia, he served at USAID/Ethiopia where he was the Family Health and Infectious Disease Team Leader, overseeing the Maternal Child Health, Family Planning, Tuberculosis, Neglected Tropical Disease, and Global Health Security portfolios. Prior to arriving in Ethiopia, he served as Deputy Health Office Director in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where he supervised USAID’s efforts to reduce new HIV/AIDS infections and provide care and service for those living with HIV. Before that, he worked in Senegal to expand family planning in remote and rural areas. Prior to joining USAID, he was the International Affairs Coordinator within the US Food and Drug Administration's Office of Regulatory Affairs. He also served with the American Red Cross in the US, Germany, Kosovo, Iraq, and Indonesia. A fluent speaker of French and German, Mr. Karnes has a Master of Public Health in Global Health Policy from the University of Michigan. Registration link: https://pitt.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIof-6uqTwjG9fYQ-fDBrfRM9-EUjZMmYxK Visit: https://www.ucis.pitt.edu/global/career-week

- Zoom
Speakers: Pitt alumna Megan Tingley and colleagues at the National Democratic Institute (NDI). NDI is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization working to support and strengthen democratic institutions worldwide through citizen participation, openness and accountability, and government. Register in advance for this meeting: https://pitt.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIsc--hrjgvH92il82lqIk5bZfQknGK70Mz Visit: https://www.ucis.pitt.edu/global/career-week

- Zoom
Organization: Fenton Communications Speaker: Emma Cummings-Kruger, Account Executive at Fenton, supports media and messaging strategy, content development, for clients National Park Foundation, The Climate Mobilization, Color Of Change, and Wallace Global Fund. She’ll discuss skills sought for media, communications positions to support human rights programs. To Register https://pitt.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUldumtrT4oE9RprnY874SLW4sSLCJhCJKQ https://www.ucis.pitt.edu/global/career-week-0

- Zoom
Maddie Little '15 (Anthropology) MPH Emory University is Program Associate for the Cardiac Arrest Registry to Enhance Survival (CARES) and is interested in project management, health communications, and process improvement in public health. Lillie Armstrong '12 (Sociology), MPH University of North Carolina, is Senior Manager of Drug User Health at NASTAD, supporting the development and operation of harm reduction services through federal, tribal, state, local, and community-based agencies. Cassandra Ott '14 (Microbiology) MHS Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, works as an Epidemiologist with the County of San Diego Health and Human Services Agency. She assists with data analysis for the local COVID-19 response and is the surveillance lead for a CDC grant focused on opioid surveillance and prevention. To Register: https://pitt.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJclcOutqD4rHNSoM9yKXIR2ejP7Svbb3OUP Visit: https://www.ucis.pitt.edu/global/career-week

- Zoom
Register in advance for this meeting: https://pitt.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMtf-uuqjooHtzdQz7rl7Jx7s9M6YahWqDT Visit: https://www.ucis.pitt.edu/global/career-week

- Zoom
Speakers: Nina Murray (Deputy Division Chief, Cultural Programs), Holly Mayton, and Paul Fariss of the State Department. Nina Murray grew up in Lviv, Ukraine, and holds advanced degrees in linguistics and creative writing. Since becoming a Foreign Service Officer in 2011, she has served in Lithuania, Canada, Russia, and Washington, D.C. Register in advance for this meeting: https://pitt.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0vc-6srTouEtfT7-dV8ggqSp3g93UPnX4c Visit: https://www.ucis.pitt.edu/global/career-week

- Tracy McDonald and Marianna Szczygielska
- Zoom
A live interview with Tracy McDonald (McMaster University) and Marianna Szczygielska (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science). Register via Zoom here: https://pitt.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwvceCgqT0sGtVWgst7n6RrFJuAqyKj89Ag The existential threat of climate change has inspired renewed intellectual engagement with the Anthropocene. Eurasian Studies are no exception to this trend. In the last decade, studies that grapple with the past, present, and potential future of the human-nature dialectic are on the uptick. These studies have forced us to reconsider intellectual and ideological paradigms, sources, mission, and role of scholar in society. Nature’s Revenge: Ecology, Animals, and Waste in Eurasia seeks to bring some of this scholarship and activism to a wider public through a series of live-recorded interviews. The goal is to illuminate recent scholarship and complicate our understanding of the Eurasian Anthropocene and its place in our world. NOTE WELL: This event was originally scheduled for February 23 but has been shifted to Wednesday, February 24, 2021.

- Zoom
Speaker: Liza Mitgang '13 (Urban Studies, BPHIL/IAS/Global Studies), MS, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Liza serves as the Program Coordinator for the Service Delivery Innovation team in the Health, Nutrition, and Population global practice at the World Bank. She'll discuss her current position, opportunities with the World Bank, her experience at the London School of Hygiene. To Register: https://pitt.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0vceutrz8sEtVIn1V6Y-GqRpIqstU68xUL Visit: https://www.ucis.pitt.edu/global/career-week

- Zoom
Organization: Alliance for Peacebuilding https://www.allianceforpeacebuilding.org/
Description: Alliance for Peacebuilding is a nonpartisan network of 130+ organizations (development, academic, humanitarian, faith-based) working in 181 countries to end violent conflict and sustain peace.
AfP Speakers:
Stephanie Budaker, Manager for Memberships and Operations
Shaziya DeYoung, Sr Research Associate - Learning and Development
Megan Schleicher, Sr Associate - Policy and Advocacy
Zander Willoughby, Peace Program Manager
To Register:
https://pitt.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0sdumqqD0rHNCYLVHFLhp5zGsQBgG3ObRt
https://www.ucis.pitt.edu/global/career-week-0

- Zoom
Speakers: Pitt REEES alumni Dr. Elise Thorsen (Senior Open Source Analyst) and Dr. Beach Gray (Senior Open Source Analyst) of Novetta. who specialized in Slavic languages and literature at Pitt, use their regional expertise to help Novetta provide data-driven, area studies expert-honed insight into the global information environment. This vital industry is projected to grow enormously in the coming years and provides excellent opportunities to students of foreign languages and area studies. Register in advance for this meeting: https://pitt.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJArc-2vqzotE92Tax-fPhytqcWwMRR6XvAB Visit: https://www.ucis.pitt.edu/global/career-week

- Zoom
Organization: Amnesty International USA **THIS IS A 4pm EVENT*** Speaker: Adotei Akwei, Deputy Director for Governmental Relations will discuss his work at Amnesty, updates at Amnesty, and his career trajectory, Adotei is a political analyst, an experienced advocate, and campaigner on civil, political, economic, and social rights, US foreign and security policy as well as a rights-based approach to ending poverty with field experience in Africa and Asia. To Register: https://pitt.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIlc-CtqT0rHtPhaU5SUtAnFRIlQenGCHpD https://www.ucis.pitt.edu/global/career-week

- Tessa Provins, University of Pittsburgh
REGISTER HERE: https://pitt.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_sxGBigIMRTKyLy6-gJLmQg In this talk we will engage with the question: What does it mean to be a good representative? We will explore the different models of representation and apply these to real life situations. Next, we will explore ways to interact with your constituents and why that is so important in a representative democracy. Finally, we will conclude with a concrete discussion of ways that future leaders can use what we have learned to be better, more responsive representatives of the constituencies.

- Zoom
Join us to explore how communities are often minoritized along racial lines and the challenges scholars encounter when attempting to bring race and intersectional analysis to bear upon systemic inequality in our region.
2:00-3:30 pm (ET) | 1:00-2:30 pm (CT) | 12:00-1:30 (MT) | 11:00 am-12:30 pm (PT)
MODERATOR:
Roman Utkin, Wesleyan University
SPEAKERS:
Marius Turda, Oxford Brookes University
Lauren Woodard, Yale University
Sean Roberts, George Washington University
Monika Bobako, Adam Mickiewicz University
This event will be recorded and streamed live on the ASEEES Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/slavic.e.european.eurasian.studies/)
REGISTER IN ADVANCE: https://www.ucis.pitt.edu/creees/race-in-focus
This event is part of the series "Race in Focus: From Critical Pedagogies to Research Practice and Public Engagement in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies." This series is designed to elevate conversations about teaching on race and continued disparities in our field while also bringing scholars from underrepresented minorities and/or research on communities of color to the center stage.n.studies/)

- Anabelle Hoffman, Founder & Director, HealTogether CIC
- Zoom Discussion
HealTogether CIC is a community enterprise organization with a vision for improving access for mental health care services for the Somali community in England and Wales. Anabelle joins us from the UK to discuss starting her own organization to help fellow Somalis in her community after a lockdown and a furlough. She spent 15 years in HR and Talent Acquisition before actualizing her dream during Covid-19.
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