Chiharu Kondo is a returning Ph.D. Student at the Social and Comparative Analysis in Education (SCAE) program in the Administrative and Policy Studies (APS) Department at the School of Education.

After completing her M.Ed. degree at Pitt, Chiharu spent her next seven years working for United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) in Geneva, Nepal, Thailand, Maldives, Pakistan, Indonesia, Uganda and more countries. She will share her experiences in the organization, as well as how she prepared herself while at Pitt. The story is her unique case of how to pursue a professional career after graduate school.