Are you currently a graduate student exploring career options in and beyond academia or are you an early career researcher holding a postdoc position and wonder where to launch your career?
Event Goals:

Office of Graduate Student Affairs (Core Programs) and Office of Postdoctoral Affairs are co-hosting an event to help you learn more about careers you can pursue with your graduate degrees. At the end of the event, you will be able to:

• Learn career insights from professionals working in fields ranging from government, non-profit, industry, and academia.
• Hear strategies for making the transition from graduate school to academic or non-academic careers.
• Work on ways to identify and apply the skills you developed in academia to non-academic careers.
• Gain an understanding of workplace culture beyond academia
• Network with speakers and fellow graduate students and postdocs at the reception

• 3:30-3:40PM Opening and Introduction
• 3:40-4:30PM Panel Discussion I – Perspectives on careers inside and outside of academia
• 4:30-4:40PM Q&A
• 4:40-4:45PM Break
• 4:45-5:15PM Workshop: Identify your transferrable skills
• 5:15-5:20PM Break
• 5:20-6:10PM Panel Discussion II – Perspectives on careers beyond academia
• 6:10-6:20PM Q&A
• 6:20-7:00PM Networking

• Aaron Katz, principal lecturer, School of Public Health, UW
• Christina Bandaragoda, senior research scientist, Civil and Environmental engineering, UW
• Jean Campbell, affiliate assistant professor, Pathology | Scientist, Fred Hutchinson Center
• Matthew Adeiza, design researcher, Microsoft
• Elizabeth Gillispie, postdoctoral research associate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
• Nana Gyesie, senior manager, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation 

The event is open to graduate students and postdocs, and is co-sponsored by Core Programs in the Graduate School and Office of Postdoctoral Affairs. Send questions to Ziyan Bai at baiziyan@uw.edu.