The OCH presents a lecture by Anne Krook entitled “What are you going to DO with that humanities major?”, which explores employment options in the non-academic world for students who have graduated in the humanities. Thursday, September 17, 7 p.m., Ellen G. Adelson Auditorium at Tyrrell Hall. Free and open to everyone.
This lecture will be followed on September 18 with a workshop entitled “The Non-Academic Job Search for Graduate Students and Postdocs,” which will also be held at the Ellen G. Adelson Auditorium at Tyrrell Hall from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Free and open to everyone.
Anne Krook began her professional career as an assistant professor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where she taught for seven years before moving to Seattle. After a stint in restaurant bartending, she joined Amazon.com. During thirteen years at the company, she held various roles in US and international website development, program management, internal audit, and infrastructure. After that, she worked as VP of Operations at a startup, Mindbloom, and then as VP of Operations at Synapse, a product design engineering company in Seattle. In addition to her consulting work at universities, she serves on the board of director of Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, whose mission is to achieve full recognition of the civil rights of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgender people and those with HIV.