Date & Time
Wednesday, October 13, 2021
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm ET
Location
Virtual Zoom Event
About this Career Panel
Interested in applying your degree toward careers in academic administration? Curious to learn about what different jobs in academic administration look like and how to go about pursuing these professions?
Attend our virtual career panel event to meet Graduate Center alumni who work in this field. Our panelists will discuss how they moved from graduate school into their careers, what their day-to-day jobs entail, practical tips on applying graduate skills towards a successful career, and the benefits of working in this sector. This panel will be Q&A format and open to student questions.
Panelists
Nicole Berkin (Theatre and Performance, PhD), Assistant Director of Academic Programs, Stanford University
As assistant director of academic programs for Stanford Summer Session, Nicole designs programs for Stanford’s fourth academic quarter, serving a wide range of students that includes Stanford undergraduates, visiting high school and undergraduate students, first-gen/low-income students, student Veterans, and Bay Area community college students. Also invested in supporting graduate students, Nicole has partnered with Stanford’s Center for Teaching and Learning on initiatives for summer graduate student instructors and has designed seasonal positions for Stanford PhDs. Her work intersects with department-wide strategic planning and touches multiple areas including course solicitation, admissions, and academic advising. Nicole engages in university-wide initiatives and committees, having served as a first-year pre-major advisor and Sophomore Wayfinder Guide, and on the admissions committee for the School of Engineering’s Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) program. Recently, she was selected to participate in Stanford’s d.school Teaching and Learning Studio, a four-month intensive focused on applying design thinking to learning experiences. Prior to working at Stanford, Nicole completed a BA in English at Columbia and a PhD in Theatre and Performance at the CUNY Graduate Center. She has taught writing, history, and literature at the high school and college level. Her scholarship on nineteenth-century US theatre and performance culture has been published in peer-reviewed journals and edited anthologies.
Luana Ferreira (Hispanic and Luso Brazilian Literatures and Languages, PhD), Director of Student Affairs, SUNY Bronx Educational Opportunity Center
Luana Y. Ferreira began her career as a New York City public school teacher, working with school districts as a teacher, staff developer, and data specialist. As a graduate student, Luana was a research assistant for the Research Institute for the Study of Languages in Urban Settings (RISLUS) in New York, where she helped develop and administer diagnostic tools to assess English proficiency levels of Spanish speaking immigrant Students with Interrupted Formal Education (SIFE). Luana has served as a lead for strategic planning and implementation of diversity and inclusion initiatives, presenting at the National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS) and the National Dominican Student Conference at Wharton. Luana received her B.A. from SUNY New Paltz and her M.S. Ed. from the City College of New York. She obtained her doctorate in Hispanic Linguistics from the CUNY Graduate Center. She has presented at Harvard, Columbia, Universidad de la Habana, and Universidad Nacional de Bogotá and Wharton. In 2015, Luana became an appointed New York State Empire Fellow serving as the Chief of Staff for the Deputy Secretary for Licensing and Corporations. She was responsible for enlisting stakeholders and leaders to plan, develop and execute outreach and community development, focusing on career and business education. She sat on the Joint Task Force for Exploited and Misclassified Workers, designing and delivering bilingual learning modules on business ownership and worker rights. She then became Director of Special Projects for the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute, where she managed a portfolio encompassing scholarly research, grants, and fellowships while being an adjunct assistant professor of bilingual education at Queens College. Subsequently, she became a Clinical Doctoral Lecturer of Bilingual Education at CUNY Hunter College where she taught a number of courses in bilingual education pedagogy and served as a liaison between the Hunter School of Education and New York City Public Schools. Her dissertation: “Lexical Density, a Comparative Study between Spanish Print Media in the United State and Latin America” is currently in press, earning her acknowledgments from the Spanish Royal Academy as important research that contributes to the importance of the Spanish language as a linguistically unifying force. Luana is currently the Director of Student Affairs at the SUNY Bronx Educational Opportunity, where she oversees academic to employment pipelines for students wishing to embark in vocational trades pertaining to health services. She is of Dominican descent and continues to live in Washington Heights where she was born.
Lisa Millsaps-Graham (Urban Education, PhD), Associate Director of Undergraduate Admissions and Recruitment, Brooklyn College
Lisa is an assistant director for the Office of Undergraduate Admissions and Recruitment at Brooklyn College-CUNY, where she is also an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Health and Nutrition Sciences. She is also an Urban Education alumna from The Graduate Center-CUNY. Her research and teaching interests include mindfulness, agency, emotions, health and wellness in urban environments, race, gender, education policy, learning sciences, and education.
Please RSVP
To attend this virtual panel, please register using our Zoom registration form.
