Careers & Majors Alumni Panel Series: Humanities

Date
Feb 17, 2021, 4:30 pm5:30 pm
Location
Virtual
Audience
Undergraduate Students

Details

Event Description

This three-parts series features alumni working in a variety of different fields who will discuss the connections between their concentrations and studies at Princeton and their career journeys. 

Part 1: Humanities (2/17)
Part 2: Social sciences (2/24)
Part 3: STEM (3/18)

You're welcome to attend the panel that relates to your concentration, or feel free to attend all the panels to get a sense of the myriad of career paths you can pursue after graduation. 

Participants will have the opportunity to reflect in a small, informal group after each panel, led by Peer Career Advisers (PCAs) and Peer Academic Advisers (PAAs). A small group conversation focusing on humanity majors will take place on February 22 from 4:30-5:30 p.m. ET.

This program will be moderated by Dr. Laura Kalin, assistant professor in the Program in Linguistics at Princeton University.

Moderator bio

Laura Kalin

Laura Kalin (Ph.D., UCLA, 2014) joined Princeton as an assistant professor of linguistics in 2016. Her research focuses on the syntax and morphology of understudied (and often endangered) languages, with a current focus on Neo-Aramaic languages. She has publications in several major journals, including NLLT and Glossa. For more information on Prof. Kalin’s work please see www.laurakalin.com.

 

 

 

Alumni bios

Heejin Cho '10

Heejin Cho '10 Senior Solutions Engineer, Slack

Heejin has more than 10 years of experience in enterprise software sales. After graduating with a A.B. in art history from Princeton in 2010, she did the "non-millennial" thing and worked for one company, SAP Americas, for 8 years. During those 8 years, she learned many valuable technical skills including implementation, product design, product management, and soft skills such as how to explain difficult technical concepts to a group of executives or how to close deals with 48 hours remaining in the quarter. 

After SAP, Heejin joined Slack, where for the last 2+ years, she has been working closely with executives at Fortune 500 companies to help strategize on better collaboration strategies, and help transform how companies communicate internally and externally. When she’s not on Slack, you can find her watching Korean shows, cooking way too much Korean food, walking the dog, or trying to avoid Zoom happy hours (there's just too many of them). 

 

Gillian Pressman ’08

Gillian Pressman ’08, Director of Development, YIMBY Action

Gillian is currently the director of development at YIMBY Action, a nonprofit that fights for more inclusive housing policies and a future of abundant housing. Prior to YIMBY, she was the senior director of development at Peer Health Exchange, a health equity nonprofit, and Massachusetts Executive Director at Generation Citizen, a civics education nonprofit. 

After graduating from Princeton in 2008, she launched a career in nonprofit as part of the Project 55 fellowship program through Princeton AlumniCorps, and has been in nonprofit ever since. She is from New York and currently lives in San Francisco, CA.

 

Vidushi (Mishti) Sharma '17

Vidushi (Mishti) Sharma ’17, Highlighter

Vidushi is helping build Highlighter, a platform where creators can hold livestreamed, participatory shows with audiences. She studied philosophy and cognitive science at Princeton, after which she contributed to the Indian national education policy, directed operations for a global nonprofit, and invested at PRINCO. You can read her creative nonfiction about the diaspora at maildropbymishti.substack.com.