Date: Friday, February 21, 2020
Time: 12:30-2:00 pm
Location: K&L Gates LLP , 1601 K Street, NW, 1st floor, lobby, Washington, DC 20006 (Room 1A) 1A is located behind the K&L Gates reception desk.
Citizenship Required: Open to all students
Fletcher Facilitators: Halsey Diakow and Abigail Kukura
Additional meeting instructions: This session is informal and off the record. Each student should bring their own lunch to the session. It’s fine to participate in this session while eating your lunch.
Panel speakers:
- Rabia Altaf, (F’16), |Chief of Staff, Raytheon Company| (and FWN DC Board member)
- Marlene Houngbeji, (F’14) |Supervisory Refugee Office| US Department of Homeland Security
- Kristina Jeffers, (F’06) | Program Director |National Democratic Institute
- Alejandra Mazariegos, (F’17) | Consultant, Climate Change Consultant,|World Bank (and FWN DC Board member)
- Laura Mulvey, (F’18) | International Program Specialist | NASA
- Grace Tamble, (F’19) |Climate Change and Sustainability Specialist, ICF
Moderator
- Carlisle Levine, (F’99) | President and CEO, BLE Solutions, LLC (and FWN DC Board member)
The overarching topic for our discussion will be “Advocating for yourself in the workplace.” Under that, we have three sub-topics:
- Finding initial jobs out of graduate school and the 1st 1-5 years out
- Salary negotiations
- Harassment/ discrimination in the workplace
- Work-life balance issues
