| Description | You are invited into the inner circle of advanced professionals who have held their values while building successful careers across diverse fields. Our guests will share the joys and challenges of navigating their own career paths and share advice for recognizing your own unique attributes and leveraging them to achieve the career you want.
Our special guests include: - Wanda Gregory, Designer, Technologist, and Lecturer at UW Bothell
- Mike Haykin, Assistant Head of School at Seattle Academy
- Leslie Olson, Attorney and Managing Partner at Olson & Olson, PLLC
- Raj Shah, Co-founder of Shah Safari, Inc. and International News
Please see speaker bios below.REGISTER on Zoom now! Questions? Contact IAS community relations manager Lisa Olason at lolason@uw.edu. SPEAKER BIOS
Wanda Gregory has worked as a designer, producer, and marketer in the industry game for companies including Sierra Online, Wizards of the Coast, Hasbro, and Microsoft. She holds a doctorate in Human Sciences, with an emphasis on game studies and health, from the University College Dublin. Across her industrial and academic work, she is interested in finding new ways through games, avatars, and technology (AI, virtual reality, wearables) to advance and transform health and medicine. In addition, she teaches courses at the UW Bothell in game and interactive media design and media studies, where she focuses on empowering students to be the next generation of content creators and designers. She has served on the board of trustees for the Cornish School of the Arts, On the Boards, Powerful Voices and Reel Girls, and as an advisor for several technology and educational startups and labs.
Mike Haykin has worked in education and mental health in elementary, middle, high schools, and colleges. He has also served in hospital, clinic, and social service agency settings. Mike's career has focused on developing innovative support programs and resources that help individuals understand how to maximize strengths and address obstacles. Mike believes that it is the critical role of educators to help students define their goals and values and then figure out how to align their actions with their goals and values in a world of competing and conflicting demands and challenges. He is currently an assistant head of school at Seattle Academy where he recently launched the new Upper School Options Program and provides oversight for the Learning Support Department he formerly developed and directed. Mike received his master’s degree in Education from the UW in 1980.
Leslie Olson is an attorney and managing partner at Olson & Olson, PLLC where she has practiced for 16 years, forming financial plans after divorce, restructuring families, and guiding new life trajectories for her clients. A graduate with honors of UW law school, she served as judicial clerk to the Honorable William Baker of Division One of the Washington Court of Appeals. She is an active member of Seattle Art Museum Supporters and a long-standing advocate for students’ access to effective, meaningful education.
Over his 45-year career in Seattle, Raj Shah has successfully built numerous companies in industries as diverse as fashion apparel, real estate, and venture funding, and he is now counted among the leading lights of the Seattle business and philanthropic communities. Shah is often sought out by heads of state and business leaders from developing countries for his advice and business partnership in their efforts to develop their countries’ economies, health care and educational systems, and social well-being. His business ventures include flagship companies Shah Safari, Inc. and International News, Inc., and his company Ably Apparel was named a 2017 Gold Winner in Most Innovative Product of the Year (Consumer) category by Best in Biz International.
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