Sometimes the right job doesn't doesn't fit and you create your own international path. Join these alum who have forged their own ways or have created international businesses while still working their day jobs.

Meeting with REEES alumna Frances Tish and colleagues. Frances works for World Learning on its Business Development Team. She has previously worked at the American Bar Association, IREX, and American Councils.

Meeting with translator, poet, and experienced Foreign Service Officer Nina Murray.

Adotei Akwei will discuss his long-standing career at Amnesty and his career trajectory leading him to his Deputy Director, Governmental Relations role. Adotei is a political analyst, an experienced advocate, and campaigner on civil, political, economic, and social rights. He has built expertise in US foreign and security policy, implementing a rights-based approach to ending poverty, and possesses extensive field experience in Africa and Asia. Adotei received his master's degree in International Relations from the College of William and Mary.

Interested in current events? Enjoy writing? Want to work abroad? Learn how two Pitt alums entered the field of journalism and are coving major news stories. Jessica Rohan '13, MA, is a multimedia reporter, writer, and researcher for the BBC, The Intercept, Insider Inc., the New Yorker, Wired UK, Outline, Vice, Deutsche Welle, and other outlets. Eric Reidy'12 is Eric Reidy is an award-winning journalist and the Migration Editor-at-large for The New Humanitarian.

Technology and Data
Whether it be the development of a new app, advocating for new health care policies, creating accessible transportation, or building defense systems, all major projects require a form of data collection and interpretation. The collection and analyzation of data plays an ever-increasing critical role in our society. Speakers, including several alums from the social sciences, will share their career path to the fields of technology and data.

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Meeting with Pitt REEES alumna Megan Tingley and her colleagues at Deloitte.

Political instability and competition over diminishing resources creates a dangerous environment for the health and welfare of vulnerable populations. Speakers in this area work within the non-profit arena in order to maintain peace, alleviate poverty, educate and advocate.

Political instability and competition over diminishing resources creates a dangerous environment for the health and welfare of vulnerable populations. Speakers in this area work within the non-profit arena in order to maintain peace, alleviate poverty, educate and advocate.

Noorullhaq Fazly is a employment counselor at JFCS. He has worked on international legal issues of human rights and justice, including human and drug trafficking, freedom of speech, women, and children’s rights and counter terrorisms in Afghanistan- State Department.

This area refers to how globalization affects people’s susceptibility to physical and mental illnesses, their access to appropriate kinds of care, and their general well being within the context of their community. Speakers include dedicated professionals within the fields of global health, public health, medicine, policy and advocacy.