Probably the best way to begin thinking about the range of career options you have when attending a top-notch school like Williams is to read through the stories of those who have gone before you. The links below connect you with a small sampling of alumni profiles, many more of which exist at the Career Center library (you should also check out the How’d You Get There? project).
Take a look, get inspired, and then visit the Career Center for more.
Also, be sure to learn how to use the new Alumni Career Network, which is available to you online.
Aaron (AJ) Jenkins ’03
Aaron (AJ) Jenkins is a Legislative Aide for US Senator John Kerry focusing on Medicare, Medicaid, HIV/AIDS, disabilities and health insurance issues. He conducts research on these healthcare topics, tracks legislation and disseminates the information to constituents during meetings and...
Allyson Hightower ’95
Allyson Hightower ’95 is Project Supervisor at Gardner Nelson & Partners. After earning her BA with a double major in art history and psychology from Williams College, Allyson decided to bring her new understanding of people and art to the...
Alvaro Jarrin ’03
Alvaro Jarrin was an international student while at Williams. He majored in anthropology and is currently a PhD student in cultural anthropology at Duke University. He conducted the research for his dissertation in southeastern Brazil, on the topic of plastic...
Anim Steel ’94
Anim Steel ’94 is The Food Project’s Director of National Programs. The Food Project, a nonprofit organization in Boston, MA began 15 years ago with a vision is to “create personal and social change through sustainable agriculture”; the founder saw...
Anna Gunning ’06
Anna Gunning is based in the UK working in international PR — an industry that combines international relations with business and creativity to help companies communicate effectively with the full range of key audiences from customers and shareholders to governments...
Betsy Wright Hawkings ’86
Betsy Wright Hawkings graduated from Williams in 1986 with a double major in American Studies and Art History. She financed her Williams education by working on Wall Street on and off throughout college and afterward. In 1987, she moved to...
Cari-Esta Albert ’80
Currently an independent film producer, Cari-Esta has worked in television and with major movie studios.
Charles Davies ’95
Charles Davies ’95 works with the United Nations Secretariat, and is currently posted as a Programme Management Officer with the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) in Bangkok, Thailand. ESCAP is the largest of the UN’s...
Cheryl Herman ’94
Cheryl Herman is the Director of Marketing for Books on Tape and Listening Library, imprints at Random House, Inc. Cheryl began her career in book publishing with the literacy agency, Curtis Brown, Ltd., shortly after graduating from Williams College with...
Chris Geissler ’06
Chris Geissler ’06 is a Senior Research Assistant at the Brookings Institution in Washington D.C. He works in the Economic Studies department and his research focuses on tax policy, retirement savings, and the federal budget. He works with the Tax...
Dan Keating ’84
Dan Keating is a database editor/staff writer at The Washington Post. He specializes in analyzing information for stories and projects. He was part of the Miami Herald team that won the Goldsmith and Pulitzer prizes for investigative reporting in 1999...
Dena Zaldúa-Hilkene ’98
Dena Zaldúa-Hilkene ’98 is Manager of Annual Giving at the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR; www.nclrights.org), where she has worked since 2002. After graduation in 1998 with a degree in Art History, she began her career in fundraising by...
Duarte Geraldino ’00
Duarte Geraldino joined NBC 4 in December 2003. His wide range of reports can be seen during NBC 4′s evening shows. In his time at NBC 4, Duarte has covered some of the most memorable stories in Central Ohio and...
Emine Fetvaci ’96
Emine Fetvacı was an international student from Turkey and graduated in 1996. She is an assistant professor at Boston University’s Department of Art History, where she teaches courses on Islamic art. Her own research focuses on illustrated books from the...
Enrique Perez ’01
Enrique Perez ’01 serves as Chief of Staff to the Secretary of Housing & Economic Development for the Patrick-Murray Administration in Massachusetts. In this role he serves as the Secretary’s de-facto COO, executing to keep operations running smoothly at the...
Eric Kaye – ’92
A 3rd generation professional musician, Eric, who received a degree in composition, is also a composer and producer.
Esa Seegulam ’06
Esa was an international student at Williams and majored in Biology. He is working on his PhD in Molecular Cell Biology at Washington University. I am currently working on my PhD in Molecular Cell Biology at Washington University in St....
Gillian Sowden ’06
Gillian Sowden was an international student from Scotland at Williams. She will start a residency in psychiatry in the summer of 2011. After graduating in ’06, Gillian began studying medicine at Harvard Medical School. After completing her first year, however,...
Grace Rubenstein ’01
Grace Rubenstein was born and raised in the small town of Mill Valley, California, and loved writing short stories (fiction) and poetry from as early as third grade. During high school she was involved with student government and wrote for...
Ivan Manolov ’05
Ivan graduated from Williams with a triple major in Economics, Mathematics, and German Studies. He spent the next two years in New York City as a crude oil options trader with Deutsche Bank. His responsibilities included pricing various option structures...
Jeremy Da ’03
Jeremy Da is a professional drummer and currently runs his own translation business specializing in legal translations for law firms in the financial field. Jeremy was born and raised in the suburbs of Paris, France and moved to the United...
Julie Nessen ’82
Julie is the Executive Director and co-founder of the Young Entrepreneurs Alliance (YEA). YEA’s mission is to empower low opportunity teens to turn their lives around through business ownership, job training, financial education, academic and social support. YEA accomplishes this...
Kelly Murphy ’04
Since graduating in 2004, Kelly Murphy has worked as an actuarial analyst at Guy Carpenter, a Marsh and McLennan Company that operates in the reinsurance broking industry. While at Williams, Kelly explored two very different summer internships; one at Milliman,...
Kevin Hinton ’89
Kevin Hinton is Manager, Business Projects at Discovery Education, Bethesda, MD. Discovery Education is the national leader in digital video and multimedia-based learning. As Manager, Business Projects, Kevin provides leadership and analysis on a wide range of new product planning...
Kurt Shaw ’93
Before founding Shine a Light, Kurt Shaw ’93 spent almost two years working with grassroots groups in El Salvador, Honduras, Costa Rica, Panama, and Colombia, using his Fulbright Fellowship to study the relationship between contemporary French philosophy and Liberation Theology....
Margaret Kim ’91
Margaret Kim ’91 has recently served as Director, Historical Programming for The History Channel and as Executive Producer for many of the network’s series and specials. Since joining the Programming Department in 2000, Ms. Kim has played a key role...
Michael Henry ’04
Mike Henry is a Legislative Specialist in the Office of Government Affairs at the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), based in Boulder, Colorado. Working closely with the world-class atmospheric scientists based in Boulder, Mike helps the scientific community better...
Mireya Hurtado ’00
Mireya Hurtado is the Director of the Office of Hispanic/Latino Affairs at the Illinois Department of Human Services (IDHS). In that role, she supports the Department in ensuring that Illinois’ Latino community has access to, and an understanding of, the...
Molly Bourne ’87
An art history major at Williams, Molly immediately went on to receive a Master’s in Italian Renaissance Art History from Syracuse University in Florence, an experience that provided a satisfying year-long sojourn in Italy and a chance to perfect her...
Noah Harlan ’97
Noah Harlan is the co-founder of 2.1 Films, a New York production and development company through which he has produced or co-produced five feature films and numerous documentaries, television and branded content projects. His features include: Apartment #5C (Cannes Film...
Nora Burns ’04
Nora joined Gardner Nelson from Robinson, Lerer & Montgomery, where she worked in corporate communications and crisis management. At Williams, Nora majored in psychology and worked in the college’s Office of Public Affairs for three years. She also interned for...
Qiang Sun ’00
Qiang Sun is the Founder and CEO of Woyama.com, an early stage Silicon Valley startup with the mission of personalizing online shopping through data analysis. Born and raised in China, Qiang landed on the soil of a foreign country for...
Reuben Albo ’05
Reuben Albo ‘05 works as a Special Education teacher of high school students with mild learning disabilities at the Emeryville Unified School District in California. He previously worked at Skyline High School in Oakland with students who had autism—a developmental...
Sarah Repucci ’98
Sarah Repucci is a Senior Research Coordinator at Transparency International, a non-governmental organization focused on corruption. TI’s secretariat is in Berlin, Germany, with chapters in more than 90 countries worldwide. Sarah coordinates TI’s National Integrity Systems program on governance, commissioning...
Wit McKay ’78
Wit McKay ’78 is a freelance photographer and artist in New York City. He graduated from Williams with a double major in History and Studio Art. Wit attended graduate school at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He...
Zuzana Tothova ’01
Zuzana Tothova ‘01 was born and raised in Slovakia and heard about Williams as an exchange student in high-school. Coming to Williams was one of the best decisions she made, both academically and personally, and she still considers it to...
