Connect with Midd Alums at the International Politics and Economics (IPEC) Field Guide On December 9-10, 2021
On December 9-10, alumni return for the INTERNATIONAL POLITICS AND ECONOMICS FIELD GUIDE.
Join us for the panel Thursday night at 5:00 p.m. in Hillcrest 103, The Orchard to hear how these alumni went from campus to career!
They can help you answer the question, “What can I do with my IPEC major?” At these events, you will have the chance to connect with alumni, faculty, and other students.
IPEC Event Overview
Thursday, December 9, 2021
Career Panel, 5:00 p.m. in Hillcrest 103, The Orchard, Franklin Environmental Center
Sign up in Handshake.
Friday, December 10, 2021
One-on-One Career Chats
9:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
via Zoom and in person (full bios links to schedule available below)
Sebastian R. Astrada ‘02
Director/AVP of Financial Institution Formations + Transactions at US Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Schedule a one-on-one meeting with Sebastian in Handshake
Sebastian leads the Financial Institution Formations + Transactions team at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. He manages a team of five supervisory analysts that process applications and notices from banks and fintechs in the 12th District. Prior to this role, he managed regulatory affairs for Capital One’s global finance, digital, and technology functions, and led regulatory policy on emerging technology topics that ran the gamut from blockchain and machine learning to cybersecurity and open banking. Before joining Capital One, he was a senior attorney at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System where he advised on mergers and acquisitions in addition to participating in Dodd-Frank rule makings.
Chinyere W. Amadi Dufour ‘10
Senior Evaluation Officer at National Research Council Canada
Chinyere is currently the Senior Evaluation Officer at the National Research Council on Canada. Her job entails leading program evaluations and providing technical advice and recommendations to departmental staff and senior management on organizational performance priorities, results measurement, program development, program implementation and adaptive management.
She holds a Master’s degree in Public Administration from Carleton University and a Bachelor’s degree (honors) in International Politics and Economics from Middlebury College in Vermont, USA. She is also a proud alumna of Lester B. Pearson United World College, where she had the privilege of living, studying and fostering relationships with over 200 change makers from over 90 countries.
Over the course of her career, she has collaborated with multiple stakeholders at all levels of organizational structures and across a wide variety of sectors in North America, The Caribbean, Sub-Saharan Africa, Middle East and Asia. She is bilingual with excellent written and oral communication skills in English and intermediate skills in French.
She considers herself to be a global citizen as she has roots in several countries. She currently resides in Ottawa, Canada with her husband and two young sons.
Douglas Gledhill ‘14
Senior Consultant at EY-Parthenon
Schedule a one-on-one meeting with Doug in Handshake
Doug was a 2014 IPEC major and currently works as a consultant at EY-Parthenon in Boston. He just graduated from Yale University in May 2021 with an MBA and an MA in Global Affairs. He has worked for Amazon.com in operations finance, the Eurasia Group as a political risk strategy consultant, and is hoping to specialize in tech policy work while at EY-Parthenon.
He speaks Mandarin, Spanish, and Portuguese, all of which he studied at Middlebury.
Connect with Doug on Midd2Midd.
Martina Szabo ‘12
Lead for Strategy and Transformation at World Economic Forum
Schedule a one-on-one meeting with Martina in Handshake
Martina has been with the World Economic Forum since 2016. She is currently Lead, Strategy and Transformation for the Global Programming Group and a Global Leadership Fellow. In 2020-21, Martina established and led business engagement and strategy for the COVID Action Platform. Prior to this, she built and led partnerships with companies from Europe and North America, particularly in the Healthcare and Consumer industries. Martina has previous experience as a strategy consultant focused on developing and sustaining public-private partnerships to advance global health. She has her Master of Public Health from Columbia University and BA in International Politics and Economics and Philosophy from Middlebury College.
Carolyn Weir ‘11
Executive Director at J. Warren and Lois McClure Foundation
Schedule a one-on-one meeting with Carolyn in Handshake
Carolyn is the executive director of the J. Warren & Lois McClure Foundation, a Vermont-based foundation that envisions a Vermont where college and career training creates greater equity and resilience. The McClure Foundation is an affiliate of the Vermont Community Foundation, where Carolyn contributes to grantmaking and community investment efforts as a senior philanthropic advisor. Prior to her work with both foundations, she was employed in anti-poverty and community economic development efforts at nonprofits in Vermont and New York. She and her husband and son live a few minutes from the Middlebury College campus.
Public Policy Fellowship Program with Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute
Empower the Future Policymaker Within You
Begin your path toward becoming one of our nation’s future Latino policymakers. Recent college graduates can take advantage of this paid fellowship, which opens doors for talented young Latinos who are pursuing a career in public policy. Our goal is to help you accelerate your career in public policy so that more Latinos attain higher levels of policy leadership, which will make a better America for us all. You will spend nine months working in Washington, D.C., with significant exposure to leaders in congressional offices, federal agencies, national nonprofit advocacy organizations, government-related institutes, and more—growing both personally and professionally during your fellowship experience.
As a CHCI Public Policy Fellow, you will immerse yourself in the legislative process, spending four days each week (Monday-Thursday) learning all facets of public policy. On Fridays, you will join other fellows for a full day of leadership development centered on CHCI’s four Pillars of Leadership—Civic Engagement, Social Responsibility, Self Empowerment, and Promoting Community and Hispanic Culture. Your weekly programming will also prepare you to fully understand policy issues facing the Latino community and how to propose effective solutions by critically examining all sides and implications of these issues.
Check out all the details here and learn how to apply: https://chci.org/programs/public-policy-fellowship-program/
Learn about the digitally connected energy storage network with Will Hanley ’15, Manager, Project Finance, Stem in the final MIDDVantage episode.
Check out the latest MIDDVantage video with Will Hanley ’15, Manager, Project Finance, Stem. Interviewer: Courtney Gantt ’22.
MIDDVantage is a collaborative series developed by the Center for Careers and Internships and Middlebury in DC, in collaboration with the Midd Climate Action Capacity, and Midd Sustainability.
Learn About Environmental Health in a Wide Range of Careers 12/2 @ Hillcrest 103
Forest Foundation Paid Non-Profit Summer Internship Program
Are you an avid participant in community service work around your college or home community? Forest Foundation is now accepting applications to our paid summer internship program. We provide opportunities for undergraduate college students to gain experience in the non-profit world though paid internships and accompanying leadership development program in the Greater Boston area over 10 weeks during the summer. Interns engage in general operations of a host agency and learn critical skills for potential careers in the world of philanthropy.
Applications open: December 1
Application deadline: February 15.
To learn more, visit: www.ffinterns.org Questions? Email: info@forestfoundation.org
Live from DC: Truth, Disinformation, Censorship, and Governance of the Online World – Wednesday, December 1 at 6:00 PM
Social media platforms are conduits for user-generated content, offering essentially infinite bandwidth to target specific audiences with content that is much less moderated than traditional media organizations’ editorial boards. Instead, these platforms use complex algorithms, often exposing users to more radical posts than they may have sought out on their own. How can truth, disinformation and censorship be governed in the online world?
The Center for Careers and Internships and Middlebury in DC, in collaboration with the Middlebury Professional Network, bring you a discussion among professionals who have a variety of vantage points on governments’ and private enterprises’ roles in governing internet content.
This discussion will be conducted via Zoom webinar, connecting the professional guests with students from both the Middlebury and Monterey campuses, as well as, alumni and parents of the Middlebury community. The panelists include:
- Host: Ryan Kellett ’09, Vice President of Audience at Axios
- Eric Einhorn P’25, P’21, Chief of Staff, U.S. Senator Brian Schatz (D-HI)
- Eli Sugarman ’02, Director of Content, Oversight Board
Become a NextGen Leader: mentoring program for students with disabilities
Disability:IN’s NextGen Leaders Initiatives is a six-month mentorship program that pairs college students, graduate students, and recent graduates with disabilities with Disability:IN Corporate Partners. Students and recent graduates meet with their corporate mentor virtually twice a month, network with Fortune 1000 companies, attend professional development webinars, and receive job notifications throughout the year. Many NextGen Leaders have the opportunity to attend the Disability:IN Annual Conference on July 18-21, 2022 and network and interview with companies. The 2022 NextGen program will run from March 14-September 15, 2022.
All interested applicants are encouraged to apply, though many NextGen Leaders have STEM, finance, and business backgrounds, or experience in other business industry areas, such as HR, marketing, and more. People of color, women, veterans, and members of the LGBTQIA+ community with disabilities are especially encouraged to apply.
NextGen Leaders is a competitive application process. There is no cost to participate. Those accepted into the program will need to commit 4-6 hours per month to the program to engage in mentorship, webinar participation, and group discussions.
Students and recent graduates can apply at http://www.disabilityin.org/2022NextGenLeaderApplication.
The application is open from November 1, 2021 to January 7, 2022. The application is straightforward, but there are some short answer questions towards the bottom of the application that candidates may want to review and prepare in advance and save to a Word document before completing this online form.
Future Leaders in Public Service Paid Internship Program
The Partnership for Public Service recently launched the Future Leaders in Public Service Internship Program to recruit young talent to join the federal workforce in support of two agencies.
The program places students with critically needed skills into paid internships and aims to develop a diverse pool of young talent for these agencies. Selected participants receive a 10-12 week summer internship with a federal agency, $4,000 per student to cover stipend and other expenses, and professional development sessions throughout the summer.
Candidates must be US citizens at the time of application submission, currently enrolled at an accredited educational institution at least second-year students/sophomores and above, able to demonstrate “superior academic achievement,” and have a GPA above 3.0.
Deadline: January 14, 2022
https://ourpublicservice.org/programs/future-leaders-in-public-service-internship-program/
Careers in Politics Panel
Join this event on Monday, November 29 from 7-8 pm. Register for the Zoom link here
The panelists are:
- Antoinette Rangel, a former White House staffer during the Obama Administration
- Ashley Moore, the Director of Alliance for a Better Vermont
- Elaine Haney, the Executive Director of Emerge Vermont
- Senator Ruth Hardy.
This event is hosted by the College Democrats and the Addison County Democratic Committee.
Curious how machine learning and climate connect? Check out the latest MIDDVantage video with Ellery Berk ’14
Today we share the latest episode in our MIDDVantage: Exploring Careers in the GreenEconomy series. Check out the latest video with Ellery Berk ’14, Business Operations Manager at Myst AI.
Our thanks to Daniel Brey ’22 for being the interviewer for this episode.