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Employment and Internships 2010

How useful is a Dickinson education? Just ask our students and alums.

Dickinsonians regularly earn prestigious grants and scholarships, conduct research, work around the world and enter esteemed graduate programs. And, at a time of economic uncertainty, our seniors and alums are securing desirable positions on Wall Street, Main Street and beyond. They’re entering the growing fields of environmental science, finance, education, the arts, international business, peace advocacy and more.

Here are just a few of the accomplished Dickinsonians who have secured exciting positions.

Jenna Banning '10

Janna Banning '10

Jenna Banning, an international studies major from Plymouth, Mass., has accepted a position with Public Allies in Delaware.

Katharine Burmeister '10

Katharine Burmeister, an international studies major from White Plains, N.Y., has accepted a position as a research analyst, performing international due diligence, at Thomson Reuters in Horsham, Pa.

Susan Blasi '10

Susan Blasi, a biology major from Pelham, N.Y., has accepted a position as a research technician at the Dana Farber/Harvard Cancer Center in Boston, where she will conduct research focusing on the response to, and repair of, programmed DNA breaks that occur during B cell development.

Christopher Breslin '10

Christopher Breslin, an economics major from Garden City, N.Y., has been hired as a trading analyst at Barclays Capital in New York. He learned about the position through DickinsonConnect.

Anne Caruthers '10

Anne Caruthers, an English major from North Huntingdon, Pa., has accepted a position as a marketing associate at Advisory Board Company in Washington, D.C.

Kristen Chan '10

Kristen Chan, an Italian studies major from San Gabriel, Ca., has accepted a position as an English assistant at Luca Pacioli in Bergamo, Italy.

Jacob Chase-Lubitz '10

Jacob Chase-Lubitz, an international business and management major from Providence, R.I., has accepted a position as a strategic affair intern with the Israel Palestine Center for Research Information.

Shenisa Clarke '10

Shenisa Clarke, an economics major from the Bronx in New York City, has accepted a position as an operations and business services analyst with JP Morgan Chase Inc. in New York. She also worked at JP Morgan last summer as an intern.

Amy Conner '10

Amy Conner, a biochemistry and molecular biology major from Santa Barbara, Calif., has accepted a position as a postbaccalaureate fellow at the National Institutes of Health's National Cancer Institute in Washington, D.C. Conneralso earned a health studies certificate at Dickinson.

Eli Corso-Phinney '10

Eli Corso-Phinney, a political science major from Mansfield, Ohio, has accepted a position as an English teaching assistant at Liceo Luca Pacioli in Crema, Italy. “My junior year abroad in Bologna sparked an insatiable passion for Italy, and through the guidance of the faculty in the Italian Department at Dickinson, I was able to take advantage of this wonderful post-graduate experience,” Corso-Phinney said.

Gina Del Tito '10

Gina Del Tito, a French and international studies major from Phoenixville , Pa., has accepted a position as a teaching assistant at the Embassy of France, where she will teach English.

Andrew Dexter '10

Andrew Dexter, an international business and management and German major from Ridgewood, N.J., has accepted a position as a merger and acquisition business development associate at CoBe Capital in Manhattan. Dexter gained experience as a Dickinson summer intern at CoBe before he was hired full time.

Christopher Dodson ’10

Christopher Dodson, a policy management major from Bethesda, Md., has accepted a position as a client sales analyst with Barclays Wealth in New York City.

Dodson, who was an All-America star on the Red Devils lacrosse team, will work on one of Barclay’s private wealth management teams.

Majoring in policy management “helped me to gain extremely valuable and important knowledge about how to work in teams and how to work with clients,” Dodson said. “Working on teams is crucial in the wealth-management industry. Every day you have to communicate and work with others. My major has driven home the importance of pleasing your clients. My courses at Dickinson really made me aware of how to communicate and connect with people.”

Men’s lacrosse team coach Dave Webster said there are strong connections between players and alumni in all fields, but that Dodson earned the job offer with his credentials and by excelling in the interview. Tom Kalaris ’76 is CEO of Barclays Wealth Management, and several Dickinson alumni, including former members of the lacrosse team, work at Barclays.

“We actively engage our current players with lacrosse alums,” Webster said. “The career center provided some invaluable resources as well. It was a team effort by alums, coaches and staff.”

James Doyle '10

James Doyle, a computer-science major from Reisterstown, Md., has accepted a position as a software developer at Epic Systems in Madison, Wis. He found the position through DickinsonConnect.

Richard “Dewey” Dubord ’10

Richard “Dewey” Dubord, a policy management major from Freeport, Maine, has accepted a position as a client sales analyst with Barclays Wealth in New York City.

A star on the Red Devils lacrosse team, Dubord credited his Dickinson education and alumni connections for helping him land a job at Barclays. Tom Kalaris ’76 is CEO of Barclays Wealth Management, and several Dickinson alumni, including former members of the lacrosse team, work there.

“Dickinson helped me prepare for life beyond the limestone in many different ways,” said Dubord, who works on one of Barclay’s private wealth management teams. “It provided me with a challenging education throughout all four years, so I am confident in my ability to succeed at Barclays. It allowed my diverse major of policy management to offer a broad range of business and policy classes which I tailored to focus in finance. Lastly, Dickinson maintains great alumni connections between current students and working men and women.”

Dave Webster, coach of the men’s lacrosse team, said, “We actively engage our current players with lacrosse alums. The career center provided some invaluable resources as well. It was a team effort by alums, coaches and staff. At the end of the day, however, it was Dewey who excelled in the interview process and earned this opportunity.” Dubord was named “Unsung Hero” for the lacrosse team last year.

Ashley Emershaw '10

Ashley Emershaw, an economics major from Shavertown, Pa., has accepted a position as a sales support specialist with Lincoln Financial Group in Columbia, Md.

Lucia Finucane '10

Lucia Finucane, an international studies major from Sout Pasadena, Calif., has accepted a position as an assistant in public sector services at Alvarez and Marsal LLC in Vienna, Va.

Brendan Gallagher '10

Brendan Gallagher, a biology major from East Hardwick, Vt., has accepted a fellowship position at Environment America, a federation of state-based, citizen-funded environmental-advocacy organizations.

Sarah Gold '10

Sarah Gold, a biology major from Baltimore, has accepted a position as a teacher with Teach for America.

Alex Golod '10

Alex Golod, a political science major from Huntington, N.Y., has accepted a position as a broker at CB Richard Ellis, a global real estate services firm, in New York City.

Benjamin Greenlee '10

Benjamin Greenlee, an international studies major from Chapel Hill, N.C., and a member of the Dickinson ROTC, will join the U.S. Army as a second lieutenant at Fort Drum in Watertown, N.Y.

Pavel Hejsek '10

Pavel Hejsek, an economics major from Prague, Czech Republic, has accepted a position as an analyst at Deutsche Bank in New York City. Hejsek, who plays tennis for Dickinson, interned as an analyst at Deutsche Bank last summer through the AlumniAthlete Wall Street Internship Program.

Janie Hennick '10

Jamie Hennick '10

Jamie Hennick, an English major from Santa Rosa, Calif., has accepted a position as a full-time mentor at Americorps in Santa Rosa.

Melissa Henry '10

Melissa Henry, a neuroscience major from Bethlehem, Pa., has accepted a position as a marketing associate at the Advisory Board Company in Washington, D.C.

Elizabeth Humes '10

Elizabeth Humes, a biochemistry and molecular biology major from Broomall, Pa., has accepted a position as a postbaccalaurete fellow at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md., where she will conduct biomedical research on retroviruses in a genetics lab.

Kaitlin Irvine '10

Kaitlin Irvine, an anthropology major from Vinton, Va., has accepted a position as a college adviser with Keystone College Advising Corps in its central Pennsylvania region.

Tiffany Kintigh '10

Tiffany Kintigh, a theatre major from Tempe, Ariz., has accepted an internship at the Ontological Hysteric Theatre in Manhattan, N.Y.

Samara Lampert '10

Samara Lampert, an American Studies major from Taunton, Mass., has accepted a position as a staffing consultant at Beacon Hill Staffing Group in Boston.

Abby Larson '10

Abby Larson, a biology major from Easton, Md., has accepted a position as a research technologist at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine's Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicinein Baltimore.

Elizabeth Lewis '10

Elizabeth Lewis, a biology and history major from Upper Arlington, Ohio, has accepted a position as an intern at Jeffrey M. Lewis LPA in Columbus, Ohio. She plans to apply to graduate school to pursue a doctorate in conservation marine science.

Catherine Ludwig '10

Catherine Ludwig, an international studies major from Roanoke, Va., has accepted a position as a campus organizer for U.S. PIRG, the federation of state public interest research groups.

Megan McGruder '10

Megan McGruder, a law and policy major from Cincinnati, Ohio, has accepted a position at Deloitte Consulting in Washington, D.C.

Kristin Meseck '10

Kristin Meseck, an archaeology and environmental studies major from Jamison, Pa., has accepted a field study internship at Hawk Mountain Sanctuary in north-central Pennsylvania.

Susanne Miller '10

Susanne Miller, a psychology major from Macungie, Pa., has accepted a position as a research assistant at Educational Testing Service in Princeton, N.J.

Meredith Moersch '10

Meredith Moersch, a psychology major from Bradfordwoods, Pa., has accepted a position as a research associate at Carnegie Mellon University.

Luan Nguyen '10

Luan Nguyen, an international business & management major from Vietnam, has accepted a position as an analyst at Cornerstone Research, an economic consulting firm, in San Francisco.

Gabrielle Ostermayer '10

Gabrielle Ostermayer, an environmental studies major from Roaring Brook Twp., Pa., has accepted a position as an environmental intern with the Susquehanna River Basin Commission. She learned about the internship through DickinsonConnect.

Caroline Peri '10

Caroline Peri, an English major from Fairfield, Ct., has accepted a position as a summer research fellow at the Sustainable Research Institute in Cambridge, Mass., where she will work with seven other fellows to collect and analyze data about endowment and environmental sustainability at colleges and universities in the U.S. and Canada. Peri will contribute to writing a report on the findings, which will be used as part of the Sustainable Research Institute’s College Sustainability Report Card initiative.

Catherine Poos '10

Catherine Poos, an international business and management major from Lansdale, Pa., has accepted a position as a quality assurance specialist in personnel security with the Internal Revenue Service’s Human Capital Office in Washington, D.C.

Poos interned through Washington Center during the spring 2009 semester, and then was hired as a student intern through the IRS's internship program.

“The Washington Center definitely opened my eyes to the public sector, which I had never really considered before for a career,” she said. “I was exposed to many different departments and executives within the IRS and within the security community, and I think it has set me up with some great experiences and a solid beginning network to either stay within the IRS or expand to other agencies later in my career.”

Jennifer Saber '10

Jennifer Saber, a French and international business and management major from Potomac, Md., has accepted a position as a junior auditor at Mazar in New York City.

Nedra Sandiford '10

Nedra Sandiford '10, a policy management major from Queens Village, N.Y., has accepted a position as a teaching assistant at Junta de Analucia in Spain.

Joseph Sandoe '10

Joseph Sandoe, a chemistry major from Myerstown, Pa., has accepted a position as a chemistry teacher and assistant football coach at Eastern Lebanon County High School.

Edward Small '10

Edward Small ’10

Edward Small, a history major from Sandy Hook, Conn., has accepted a position through the AmeriCorps Match program as a tutor at a middle school in Boston, where he will work with students in math, reading, writing and extracurricular activities. “Dickinson has helped me realize the importance of service and education, which convinced me to apply for, and to accept, the job, ” Small said.

Blair Thompson '10

Blair Thompson, an art and art history major from Portsmouth, N.H., has accepted a position as general manager at the Port Canvas Company in Portsmouth.

Faye Welts '10

Faye Welts, a linguistics (self-developed) and German major from Becket, Mass., has accepted a summer internship at Educational Testing Service in Princeton, N.J. She will work on the "test of English as a foreign language speaking" section of the service.

Amanda West '10

Amanda West, a political science major from Harleysville, Pa., has accepted a youth mentoring position at Cispus AmeriCorps in Packwood, Wash.

Julia Yelick '10

Julia Yelick, a neuroscience major from Concord, Mass., has accepted a position as a research technician at Harvard University Medical School in Boston.

FIRST-YEARS, SOPHOMORES, JUNIORS

Allyson Glazier '11

Allyson Glazier, an English major from Thornton, Pa., has accepted a summer internship at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology archives in Philadelphia.

Abigail Tufts '12

Abigail Tufts '12, an American studies major from Forest Hills, N.Y., is working ths summer as an intern for the Boston Red Sox.

RECENT ALUMNI

Megan Haggarty '08

Megan Haggarty ’08 has accepted a position as a mobile therapist at the Devereux Foundation, a nonprofit organization that provides services around the nation for persons with emotional, developmental and educational disabilities. Haggarty also works as an assistant to the school psychologists at the Academy in Manayunk in Philadelphia and is on track to complete the school psychology certification program at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine (PCOM) in July 2012. Haggarty earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology at Dickinson and in 2009 earned a master’s degree from PCOM.

Brett Hollander '07

Like most sports fans, Brett Hollander ’07 has a lot of opinions. Unlike most fans, he gets paid for his.

According to his employee bio at WBAL Radio (1090-AM,www.wbal.com) in Baltimore, “Brett Hollander loves talking sports. Ravens, Orioles, Terps, and everything from lacrosse to horse racing. He has covered all of them in his 10-year radio career, even though Brett is only 25 years old.”

And while some people can spend decades or lifetimes seeking their labor of love, Hollander already found his—hosting “Sportsline”—from near his hometown each weekday from 6-9 p.m.

“It’s great fun—this is what I always wanted to do,” said Hollander, who signed a contract with WBAL on April 1. “I grew up here. Most time away from Baltimore was at Dickinson College.”

Hollander majored in political science at Dickinson, where he wrote for the Dickinsonian and broadcast games over the college’s radio station, WDCV-FM.

“Dickinson College taught me how to think, write and research,” skills that have come in especially handy in his career as a broadcaster, Hollander said. “The process of thinking is what you learn at a liberal-arts school, and going outside your element.”

Kayla Helfman '09

Kayla Helfman '09 has accepted a position as a fourth-grade religious school teacher at Temple Emanuel of Baltimore. Helfman is pursuing a master's degree in Jewish education at Baltimore Hebrew Institute at Towson University. She majored in Judiac studies and religion at Dickinson.

Allison Kazi '07

Allison Kazi '11

Allison Kazi ’07 has accepted a full-time position at the Brody and Associates LLC law firm in Westport, Ct., where she specializes in employment law and labor issues.

Kazi began working for the firm as a law clerk in May 2009 and continued while finishing her J.D. during the spring of 2010. She recently graduated cum laude from Pace Law School, where she was an articles editor on the Pace International Law Review. She earned a degree in political science at Dickinson.

Kazi is a contributing author to articles published in the Connecticut Law Tribune and the Fairfield County Business Journal.

Erica Lally '08

Erica Lally ’08 of Nicholson, Pa., has accepted a position as an associate in the Europe and Central Asia division of Human Rights Watch. Lally, who majored in international studies and minored in Russian language at Dickinson, was a temporary worker at Human Rights Watch before her promotion to a full-time position.

“I love my job at Human Rights Watch, in part, because it allows me to apply and expand on what I learned at Dickinson,” Lally said. “Every day I use my Russian to do research and to interact with contacts—something I couldn't have done if I hadn't studied abroad. The research and writing skills that I learned at Dickinson have also proved invaluable.”

In her new role, Lally supports the New York-based staff of Human Rights Watch and researchers throughout the region. When the ethnic violence broke out in Kyrgyzstan in June, 2010, she was assigned several tasks, including tracking down satellite phones and equipment for researchers going into the field.

“Even though I played an extraordinarily small part in the great scheme of things, it was good to know that I was actually contributing, in my own way, to addressing the violence that I saw happening overseas,” she said. “In countless ways Dickinson prepared me for this position—both through practical skills and through developing my understanding of the world as a whole.”

Nalylee Padilla '09

Nalylee Padilla ’09, who majored in international studies at Dickinson, is working at Washington, D.C.-based Oceana, the world’s largest international marine conservation organization, where she specializes in international campaigns related to trade and the environment.

“You can do just about anything with a liberal-arts degree,” said Padilla, who minored in economics and earned a Latin American studies certificate at Dickinson. “At Oceana I’ve had the chance to use my degree for issues where trade and the environment converge.”

Padilla has had the chance to participate in working with officials and ambassadors from the World Trade Organization (WTO) to talk about environmental negotiations spearheaded by Oceana. Last fall, she twice went to the WTO’s headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, for work related to the organization's negotiations on fishing subsidies. The second of those trips was for the WTO’s Ministerial Conference, in which the top trade ministers in every WTO country were present.

More recently, her work has centered around the United Nations Environment Program’s Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species. It is the same convention that banned the sale in elephant ivory tusks when officials observed that trade was causing a species to go extinct.

Padilla said the examples highlight the “interesting way I’ve been able to use an international studies and economics background at Dickinson in an area totally new for me—oceans and the environment.”

Padilla added, “It’s been a steep learning curve but, with all the exposure and experience I've gained with campaigning, trade negotiations and delegations from literally every corner of the world, it's been well worth it. I'm really grateful for a wonderful first year out of college and especially grateful for all Dickinson’s done to help prepare me for it.”