Past Events
- Shivaike Shah
- 4130 Posvar Hall
The Global Studies Center and Professor Jacques Bromberg, Department of Classics, invites you to join them from 12:00-2:00pm in 4130 Posvar Hall. The Uprooting Medea presentation will introduce the Medea project and discuss the development and adaptation of the work since its original conception in Oxford as it questions the pertinent topics of race, belonging and identity, both in antiquity and today.
Lunch will be provided.
British Indian film and theatre producer Shivaike Shah will introduce the Medea Project and lead students in a discussion about adapting ancient scripts and making diverse theatre, followed by an acting and dramaturgy workshop using the script from Medea.
Shivaike Shah has worked in fashion, theatre and film, and recently finished production on a major Netflix feature film. After graduating in English from University College, Oxford University, in 2019, he founded Khameleon Productions in March 2020. He has since been awarded support from across the UK and the US to build the project and company, and is the creator and host of the Khameleon Classics podcast.
Khameleon Productions, co-sponsored by the Brown Arts Institute, presents the Uprooting Medea tour. The company, founded in 2020, will share their all-global majority project at 30 institutions from February to May 2022. Commencing at Brown, they will visit classes, lead workshops and participate in roundtable conversations. The four-month tour, curated and produced by BAI Visiting Artist Shivaike Shah, will commence at Brown as part of their inaugural Interrogating the Classics Series and will continue across 12 states, visiting 30 of the nation’s leading colleges and universities. Khameleon will visit classes, work with students in script workshops and participate in roundtable conversations with students and staff around multiple topics related to the project. Khameleon Productions was founded in 2020, based on a production company built at Oxford University where Francesca Amewudah-Rivers originally adapted the play. Their Medea reimagines Euripides’s Greek tragedy with an all-global majority cast and crew, and features original compositions, movement and spoken word commissioned by the company.
- Zane Kaleem and Jordan Freeman
- Zoom
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.
Zane Kaleem'17 and Jordan Freeman'13 will discuss their work in advocacy and securing health care access to incarcerated men and women. Zane is a current medical student at Drexel University College of Medicine pursuing residency training in psychiatry. As Assistant Director of the Correctional Healthcare Task Force at PfCJR, Zane develops organizational strategy, cultivates collaborations with other advocacy groups, and educates the public about issues in correctional healthcare through means including writing commentary pieces for local and national news media. Jordan currently works as a Program Manager with The Fortune Society, a Non Profit Organization serving individuals who've had contact with the criminal legal system. In her role, she monitors progress toward contracted deliverables, creates performance and quality assurance monitoring tools, conducts analysis and evaluation, and helps to create program workflows for Fortune's health-focused services. She has a Master's in Public Health, and holds special interest in healthcare's role in community re-entry, desistance, and reduced recidivism.
- Youssef Abdelwahab, Onyinye (Gandhi) Chuks, Hannah Cohen
- Zoom
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.
Meet our Alum:
Onyinye (Gandhi) Chuks: I'm Onyinye Gandhi Chuks, Founder and Managing Consultant at Blu-Pearl International, a rapidly growing international finance, investment, and immigration firm. As an entrepreneur, my strategy was to identify problems unique to international business and provide solutions for them. From our humble beginning as a small U.S. startup with one employee and no clients in March 2017, we have expanded our operations into two West African countries and currently have 16 employees servicing over 50 clients!
Hannah Cohen:
Hannah Berkeley Cohen spent her 20’s living and working in Havana, as a journalist and tour operator during normalization of relations between Cuba and the US. As Cuba’s economy tanked and tourism plummeted worldwide because of COVID, Cohen returned to her hometown of Columbus, Ohio and began renovating old homes. She has a bachelor’s degree in Philosophy from Pitt, and is a strong believer in faking it ‘til you make you make it.
Youssef Abdelwahab:
Youssef Abdelwahab ’11, ’13 MT, started his own e-commerce business, designing niche headwear in which he fuses African, African diasporic and Arab cultures to create unique products (instagram: aragaparel website: aragapparel.com). He also became a landlord in the Germantown neighborhood of Philadelphia and will open a café in the next few months (iA). He is currently in his 10th year as a high school Spanish teacher.
- Zoom
- Neha Chanu
- Zoom
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.
Neha Chanu possesses experience as a data scientist in advanced analytics and holds a current position as a product manager for an augmented reality enterprise solution, Qhanu, Inc. She obtained a bachelor's degree in Natural Sciences and a master's degree in Information Science from the University of Pittsburgh. Neha speaks English, Hindi, and Marathi. She will discuss her background and daily work in analytics and the augmented reality industry.
- Frances Tish
- Zoom
- Megan Tingley
- Zoom
Careers in Diplomacy, Security, and Intelligence 1
Meeting with Pitt REEES alumna Megan Tingley and her colleagues at Deloitte.
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.
March 29th
2 to 3 PM on Zoom
- TBD
- Zoom
- Various
- Zoom
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.
Learn from Social Science majors turned tech and data analytics professionals. Jeff Nelson BS, BPHIL ’13 works for Google in Los Angeles as an Enterprise Customer Engineer and in Data Analytics. Jordan Iserson '20 is a product analyst at Citymapper based in London. Jordan manages the tech stack that builds detailed, reliable mobility data for Citymapper's business and consumer products. Eric ’12, ’17 MPH, works as a data analyst in the people analytics space at Atlassian, an enterprise software-as-a-service (SAAS) company.
- Adotei Akwei
- Zoom
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.
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.
- Nina Murray
- Zoom
- Orrin Tiberi, Sakun Gajurel, Chelsea Pallatino
- Zoom
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.
Engage with global health experts working throughout the world. Speaker include:
Orrin Tiberi, MPH, monitoring and evaluation advisor for the National HIV & STI Program at the Mozambican Ministry of Health, Sakun Gajurel MID, Program Specialist with UN Volunteers in Kenya, and Pitt alum Chelsea Pallatino PhD, MPH, BS, Senior Specialist Making Cents International.
- Various
- Zoom
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.
Sara Khalbuss ’15, MPA, is a program coordinator at HAIS working in their Refugee Career Pathways Program.
Karenna Oner ‘20 is a caseworker at the International Rescue Committee as served as co-director of PRYSE Academy in the summer of 2021.
- Jessica Rohan & Eric Reidy
- Zoom
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. He has reported extensively on migration in the Mediterranean as well as on humanitarian aid work and anti-migrant vigilante groups at the US-Mexico border and the effort to document crimes and atrocities in Syria’s civil war.
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.
- Multiple Presenters
Join us from March 28th to April 1st for the 2022 Global Career Week!
This series features over 25 sessions covering the breadth of careers and competencies currently sought in the international economy. Network with and learn from Pitt alumni and other experts on how to gear up and navigate the competitive job market. Themes for the week include technology and data , health and well-being, human rights, security and diplomacy, entrepreneurism, and international development.
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