The Joyful Journey: Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Scholar Professional Development Series (Spring 2025) - Careers Beyond Higher Education Panel 2: Private Industry, Consulting & Non-profits

Date & Time

Monday, 7 April 2025 - 9:30am to Monday, 7 April 2025 - 10:30am

Location

Online

Organizer

Center for the Integration of Teaching, Research, and Learning

 

Join panelists from various disciplines to discuss their career paths from graduate degrees to positions in private industry, consulting, and the non-profit sector. Panelists will address how they used their degrees and training to prepare them for their current positions and any advice they can give to current graduate students. Plenty of time will be given for questions. This is the final event in our eight-part series “The Joyful Journey: Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Scholar Professional Development Series.”

Speakers

Danielle Lemmon, Ph.D. (Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences), Energy Consultant at Ramboll

Ethan Peck, Ph.D. (Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences), Director, Data Engineering at Zoominfo

Arneshia Williams, MFA (Dance), Program Director, MNProv

Adam Williams, Ph.D. (Geography), Principal UX Researcher, Esri

Event Schedule

This online event meets on Monday, April 7 at 8:30-9:30pm Gulf Time / 1:30-2:30pm Atlantic / 12:30-1:30pm Eastern / 11:30am-12:30pm Central / 10:30-11:30am Mountain / 9:30-10:30am Pacific.

Audience

This event is designed for graduate students and postdoctoral researchers looking for an introduction to fundamental academic professional development topics.

Accessibility

If you have access needs, please let us know what they are. Contact Kate Diamond (kdiamond3@wisc.edu), who is supporting this workshop, to let us know how we can help you have a successful experience. In addition to meeting individualized needs, we will also take measures throughout the workshop to support accessibility for all our students:

  • Enabling live captioning in synchronous sessions
  • Incorporating multiple modes of interaction into synchronous sessions

Other Upcoming Events