Past Events
- 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
- 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.
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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
- 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.
- Professor Seung-hwan Shin and Catherine Fratto
- Zoom
This reading group for educators explores literary texts from a global perspective. Content specialists present the work and its context, and participants brainstorm innovative pedagogical practices for incorporating the text and its themes into the curriculum. Sessions this year will take place virtually on Thursday evenings from 5-8 PM (EST). Books and 3 Act 48 credit hours are provided.
Registration is closed.
An informal conversation with GSC alumni. We’ll discuss issues they are concerned about, their work, graduate studies, how they balance work with advocacy, and more. Grab a snack and join the conversation.
Nick Collins ‘13 (Economics) works for a multi-year community development initiative in the Bay Area, trying to change the way we build the environment around us (Strong, Prosperous and Resilient Communities Challenge). Nick lived in Dushanbe, Tajikistan for two years following graduation, and has worked in both the international and national development spaces. He was the president of FeelGood during his years at Pitt
Chelsea Frimpong ’14 (Africana Studies, Political Science) MPH, Ichan School of Medicine, at Mount Sinai, is a producer at Zueus Jones and is founder of Believe in Your Cool, a collective for Black Womxn (21-35) to facilitate self-purpose, career empowerment, and community development. Chelsea was a Pathfinder, OCC Ambassador president of the African Student Association and RISE Girls Mentoring Program while at Pitt.
Jodi Lincoln’ 14 (Anthropology, Film Studies), works for the Oakland Planning and Development Corporation. In her spare time she is leading the effort to restore access to physical books to prisoners in the Allegheny County jail and leads Book’Em, the Pittsburgh Books to Prisoners program with the Thomas Merton Center.
Zoom link: https://pitt.zoom.us/j/99649268928
Join Horror Studies Collection Coordinator Ben Rubin and Visiting Researcher Adam Hart as they discuss their favorite and most significant discoveries from processing the George A. Romero Archival Collection. Rare and never before seen materials will shed new light on Romero’s classic films as well as reveal the films that could have been through unfinished and lost projects. Event hosted by the University Library System.
Registration link: https://calendar.pitt.edu/event/unearthed#.YB1Pki2caw6
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