Please join Midd Vets Give Back (MVGB) at a virtual Veterans Day gathering recognizing and honoring military service
Please join Midd Vets Give Back (MVGB) on Thursday, November 11 at 3:00 PM for a Virtual Veterans Day Gathering, Recognizing and Honoring Military Service. This will be a moderated panel discussion followed by a period for audience questions and comments. All are welcome.
Mindful of Middlebury’s mission to prepare students ‘to address the world’s most challenging problems,’ Midd Vets Give Back will host a 90-minute zoom event on Veterans Day, November 11th, starting at 3:00 pm Eastern. Entitled “A Conversation About National Service,” the discussion will be moderated by Kate Bailey French ’93, and include six panelists serving – or having served – in military and civilian capacities over the past 15 years. The conversation will recognize Middlebury veterans while encouraging students and alumni to explore careers in national service, including military and national security. Whether climate change or other domestic and/or global issues, Middlebury alumni can and do make a difference – and this event will focus on cross-generational ideas and thinking that shape steps taken to serve our nation’s interests.
Introduction: Mike Heaney ’64
Welcome: Lt. Alec Wilson ’21
Moderator: Kate Bailey French ’93
Panelists:
- Lt. Stephen Bissainthe ’18
- Captain Callie Bullion ’14
- Chris Harnisch ’06
- Cadet Liam Hoagland ’22
- Conor Simons ’16
- Major Conor Stewart ’09
Alumni who majored in International and Global Studies (ISGS) join us for a panel and one-on-one chats for the ISGS Field Guide on Nov. 11-12.
Presented by the Center for Careers and Internships and co-sponsored by the International and Global Studies department, this Field Guide brings alumni back to campus in-person and virtually to share knowledge and experience related to their post-Middlebury careers and professional lives.
On November 11-12 Middlebury graduates who majored in ISGS will join us: Thursday evening, alumni will participate in a career panel. Friday morning, some of our alumni guests will hold one-on-one chats with students.
Field Guides help you think broadly about where your academic work may lead you in a professional context by giving you the information you need to think critically about what you’ll do with your liberal arts major or degree after Middlebury.
Join us for the panel discussion Thursday, November 11 at 5:00 p.m. to hear how our panel of alumni went from campus to career.
You can also sign up for one-on-one conversations with alums on Friday morning. Learn more about the alumni here.
Event Overview
Thursday, November 11, 2021
Career Panel, 5:00 p.m. in Hillcrest 103
Sign up in Handshake.
Friday, November 12, 2021
One-on-One Career Chats
9:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
via Zoom and in person – link to schedule with alumni is in their bios below.
Sarah Bou-Rhodes ‘10
Operations at Wave Mobile Money
Schedule a one-on-one meeting with Sarah in Handshake.
Sarah works with Wave Mobile Money, an American fintech company with operations in Africa. She joined the company in 2008 in Senegal, and worked in various roles including people operations, trial product management, and user growth. She is currently building their IT team across 11 countries and implements and manages company-wide tools, such as their HR Information System and Applicant Tracking System.
Prior to Wave, Sarah worked with Doctors Without Borders as an Human Resources Coordinator in South Sudan, Afghanistan, Iraq and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
She graduated from Middlebury in 2010 with a BA in International Affairs, and from the Graduate Institute of Geneva with an MA in International Relations.
James Davis ‘08
Foreign Service Officer at U.S. Department of State
Schedule a one-on-one meeting with James in Handshake.
James has been a Foreign Service Officer with the U.S. Department of State since 2012. A native of Washington, DC, James studied international studies with a focus on political science, French, and Africa. While at Middlebury, he studied in Dakar, Senegal and and in Paris during his junior year. James obtained a Master’s from the American University in 2012. He entered the Foreign Service as a Charles B. Rangel Fellow. His assignments have included consular work in Paris and Sierra Leone, human rights reporting in Mozambique and Iraq, and a desk job in the Bureau of African Affairs in Washington. James has also served as a representative for Glifaa, the State Department’s LGBT organization, overseas.
Conor Maxwell ‘17
Editor at Large at Georgetown Journal of International Affairs
Connect with Conor on Midd2Midd.
Conor has lived in Washington, DC since graduating from Middlebury College, working at think tanks and an international democracy and development nonprofit since 2017. In the past several years, Conor has worked on geopolitical research for the Center for Strategic and International Studies and implemented inclusive civil society and political party programs throughout South Asia. Conor is currently pursuing his Master of Science in Foreign Service at Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service, where he is also the Editor at Large for the Georgetown Journal of International Affairs.
Anna Mysliwiec ‘11
Policy Manager, Political Economy and Governance at Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL)
Schedule an IN PERSON one-on-one meeting with Anna in Handshake.
Connect with Anna on Midd2Midd.
Anna is a Policy Manager at J-PAL Global, where she manages the Political Economy and Governance sector. In this role, she cultivates new research partnerships and conducts outreach to ensure that international development policy reflects rigorous evidence.
Prior to joining J-PAL, she worked with Innovations for Poverty Action in Liberia, where she managed a research study on the long-term impact of cognitive behavioral therapy on crime and violence. After graduating from Middlebury, she worked at the National Democratic Institute, supporting democracy and governance programs in Tunisia, Syria, and Mauritania. She has also interned with Precision Agriculture for Development, helping start up the organization’s work in Bangladesh.
She graduated from Middlebury in 2011 with a BA in Middle East Studies and holds an MPP from the Harvard Kennedy School.
Hannah Stonebraker ‘13
Manager, Strategy, Research & Evaluation at The Impact Architects
Schedule a one-on-one meeting with Hannah in Handshake.
Hannah works at the Impact Architects, a small strategic research firm specializing in impact measurement for journalism organizations and funders of journalism organizations. She received her MBA from the Yale School of Management in 2019, where she focused on digital news media. She previously worked at the International Women’s Media Foundation in Washington, DC, where she provided programs and grants for women journalists covering underreported narratives worldwide. Hannah is passionate about equity, inclusion, and diversity in journalism. Originally from Chicago, IL, Hannah holds a Bachelors in International and Global Studies, with a focus in Political Science, African Studies, and French from Middlebury College.
Hannah has lived in the United States, Ghana, Madagascar, and Israel, and is currently based in San Francisco.
Sharing Steps Three and Four to Develop Your Career During COVID-19 (For National Career Development Month).
STEP THREE: Consider taking on a short-term resume building assignment.
The third tip for National Career Development Month is to consider taking on a short-term resume building assignment.
These assignments help you to stretch developmentally by placing you with a new challenge in order to learn and grow. You can find these sorts of assignments in Midd Gigs.
Midd Gigs projects enable Middlebury students and recent graduates to develop and demonstrate their skillsets, explore career paths, and build their networks. They also give alumni and parents access to the talented network of Middlebury undergrads and newly minted graduates.
STEP FOUR: Try online courses to build upon your current skills and learn new ones.
The fourth step is to try online courses to build upon your current skills and learn new ones. You can find online classes on websites such as Coursera, Udemy, Alison, or LinkedIn. Did you know that Middlebury offers free LinkedIn Learning accounts to students?
Hear a scientists view of bioenergy technologies in this week’s MIDDVantage: Exploring Careers in the Green Economy episode.
Check out the latest MIDDVantage video with Jay Fitzgerald ’06, Chief Scientist, Bioenergy Technologies Office at the U.S. Department of Energy. Interviewer: Nicholas Nonnenmacher ’21..
Keep an eye out every week for new episodes in this series.
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.
Hot Social Impact Jobs & Internships on Handshake
Super Senior Feb should pay close attention to Spring 2022 internships which tend to be longer in length and may be of interest to you:
- Winter Term 2022 Middlebury Social Impact Corps Intern: Impact Monterey County at Middlebury Social Impact Corps, Monterey, California
- Sustainability Education Internship Description, CELF Winter/Spring Intern at The Children’s Environmental Literacy Foundation (CELF) Valhalla, New York, United States
- Analyst, Education, Non-Profit & Government at Spencer Stuart, Boston, MA, Washington, DC, New York City, NY
- Environment and Health – Summer Intern at Ramboll US Corporation, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- Renewable Energy Analyst at Ascend Analytics, LLC, Boulder, CO (Midd. alum)
Changemakers Residency, The Nature Conservancy, Brunswick, Maine, United States There are two (2) positions for this 2-year paid Fellowship: Climate Adaptation Resident and Climate Action Resident |
Learn how the District is committed to carbon neutrality
Today we share the 14th episode in our MiddVantage Exploring Careers in the Green Economy series. Check out the latest video with Alexandra Fisher ’10, Energy Policy Analyst with the U.S. Department of Energy & Environment.
Our thanks to Sachi Howson ’21 for being the interviewer for this episode.
Head to go/MIDDVantage to view the entire series.
Find and Fund Your Summer Internship
Have you been thinking about what to do this summer? It is not too early to start planning your summer internship! Learn strategies for finding or creating the best summer internship for you.
At this session, we will:
• Give you examples of past internships Midd students have done.
• Highlight top resources to use in the search process.
• Discuss strategies for creating your own experience.
• Provide an overview of CCI’s GRANT FUNDING available for unpaid internships.
• Help you with the process of narrowing down fields in which to pursue your internship.
We look forward to seeing you and answering all of your questions!
Sponsored by the Center for Careers and Internships.
RSVP on Handshake now!
All about China – a talk, a job and a J-term internship
The Stanford Center on China’s Economy and Institutions (SCCEI, pronounced “sky”) is Stanford’s home for empirical, multidisciplinary research on China’s economy. We aim to foster path-breaking research, create transformative student experiences, and advance public understanding of China’s economy and its impact on the world. Our research runs the gamut from developing interventions to improve early child health and education, to conducting large-scale surveys of Chinese factory workers and college students, to detailed analyses of China’s carbon emissions data.
First come check out this talk on Thursday, November 4 at 4:30 pm in the Robert A. Jones ’59 Conference Room
The guest will be Scott Rozelle, Helen F. Farnsworth Senior Fellow and co-director of Stanford Center on China’s Economy and Institutions (SCCEI) in the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research at Stanford University. He will be discussing “Invisible China: How the Urban-Rural Divide Threatens China’s Rise”
Hosted by the Economics Department and co-sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, International Politics and Economics Program, the Center for Careers and Internship, and the Departments of Chinese and International Global Studies (East Asian track.)
If this topic and sort of work interests you, then stick around afterward (tentative) for an information session about what SCCEI does, and also learn more about this J-term internship and job:
JOB as Academic Editor. Apply HERE. You will have a chance to co-author papers that are drafted/published under your direction. This is an excellent opportunity to learn quantitative research skills and methodologies, build up writing and publishing experience, and hone your research interests in preparation for a graduate degree program, or the next step in your China-focused career. Past academic editors have gone on to top medical school, law school, masters, and PhD programs in the US.
J-TERM INTERNSHIP: You will spend four weeks (January 3-28) working closely with SCCEI’s Co-Director Professor Hongbin Li, drafting a book on China’s economy, focused particularly on human capital, factories and firms, and other social institutions. This is a writing intensive position, and will involve reading policy documents and academic literature, having one-on-one meetings with Professor Li to discuss book content and chapter outlines, drafting original content based on discussions, and editing existing writing for logic, clarity, and grammatical structure. Apply HERE. Deadline is November 7
What is the role of advocacy, people-power, and social movements in accelerating the green economy? Find out in the latest MIDDVantage episode.
Thanks to Eva Morgan ’22 for interviewing Michael Silberman! Watch the latest MIDDVantage: Exploring Careers in the Green Economy episode: The Role of Advocacy, People-Power, and Social Movements in Accelerating the Green Economy
Keep an eye out every week for new episodes in this series. This is a collaborative series developed by the Center for Careers and Internships and Middlebury in DC, in collaboration with the Climate Action Capacity Project, and the Office of Sustainability Integration.
Design your Midd: A Bucket List for First-Years & Sophomores to Figure Out How to Pack It All In!
Bucket Lists are popular because they allow us to dream big and plan for things we want to do in our life before we eventually “kick the bucket.” So why not create a “Bucket List” for college? It’s a fun way to think through choices for your time at Middlebury and beyond. Let’s keep your dreams top of mind as you experience all that Middlebury has to offer. This program is designed for First Years and Sophomores, but all students are welcome.
Sponsored by the Center for Careers and Internships.