DAO & DAPAAA present:
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BEYOND DARTMOUTH: AN ALUMNI CAREER PANEL
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November 20, 3pm, Rockefeller 002
Join us for discussion and Q&A with a panel of distinguished alumni in the arts,
finance, law, medicine, and non-profit.
Featuring:
- Evelyn Chen '01, Senior Donor Relations Manager, The Nature Conservancy
- Dr. Emil Chynn '87, Founder and Medical/Surgical Director, Park Avenue Laser
Vision
- Fang Li '05, Analyst, Cascabel Management
- Danica Lo '99, Editor, Racked.com
- Terry Shen '92, Partner, Kramer Levin
Moderated by Tomi Jun '08
Open to all, with food provided and a chance to mingle with panelists afterwards.
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Co-sponsored by COSO, DCTS, PAC, DCCS
For more information on DAPAAA (The Dartmouth Asian Pacific American Alumni Association),
please visit: http://dartmouth.org/affiliated/dapaaa/
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Panelist biographies
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Evelyn Chen is a Senior Donor Relations Manager based in the New York City
office of The Nature Conservancy, an international environmental nonprofit organization.
She oversees a team focused on prospecting and outreach activities in the
five boroughs to build a pipeline of future major donors to the Conservancy's
work. Evelyn joined The Nature Conservancy in 2005, and during that time
has established a successful Young Professionals Group, a number of annual donor
recognition events, and expanded the New York City office's capacity to conduct
outreach to mid-level and prospective major donors. Prior to joining the Conservancy,
she worked in sales and marketing at a regional office of Mandarin Oriental
Hotel Group, and before that as an editor for a small drama publishing company
in Hanover. She received her B.A. in English from Dartmouth College in 2001.
Emil W. Chynn, MD, FACS, MBA is the Founder and Surgical Director of Park
Avenue LASEK, the only non-cutting Laser Vision Correction Center in NYC. He
was formerly Co-Director of Refractive Surgery at St. Vincent's Hospital, as well
as Clinical Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at Long Island College Hospital
/ SUNY-Brooklyn, and an Attending Surgeon at the Manhattan Eye, Ear & Throat Hospital
and New York Eye & Ear Infirmary. Dr. Chynn is a consultant in equities
research for Coleman Research Group, Gerson Lehrman Group, and Eastbourne Capital.
Dr. Chynn graduated magna cum laude from Dartmouth College in 1987 with
a degree in Biology, received his MD from Columbia, his Residency in Ophthalmology
from Harvard, and his Fellowship in Refractive Surgery from Emory. He also
received an MBA from NYU with a major in Management and a Certificate in Entrepreneurship.
He won the Stern $100,000 Business Plan Competition while at NYU for one of his
eye patents, which he subsequently licensed to OcuSoft, Inc., and is now entering
FDA trials. Dr. Chynn is a member of MENSA, is the author of a dozen
peer-reviewed and 100 non-peer-reviewed publications, and has been featured
in the NY Times, Wall St. Journal, International Herald Tribune, Daily News, and on
Fox News, CBS News, and on the Glenn Beck show (supporting universal health care
and insurance).
Fang Li is an Analyst with Cascabel Management LP, a NYC-based investment firm
founded in 2008 with a seed investment from Julian Robertson of Tiger Management.
Prior to joining Cascabel, Mr. Li was an Associate for Quadrangle Group LLC,
where he focused on media and communications private equity in New York and Hong
Kong. Mr. Li helped establish Quadrangle's Hong Kong office in 2008. Prior
to joining Quadrangle, Mr. Li worked for J.P. Morgan, where he was part of the
firm's mergers and acquisitions group in New York. Mr. Li received an AB,
cum laude, in Economics from Dartmouth College in 2005.
Danica Lo is the Editor of Racked.com, Author of How Not to Look Fat (HarperCollins),
the Contributing Style Editor at VMan, a regular contributor to US Weekly's
Fashion Police pages and an Adjunct Professor of fashion writing and media communications
at LIM College. She was a fashion columnist at the New York Post for six
years. Her writing has also appeared in Vogue Paris online and Fashion Quarterly
magazine (Canada). She was previously signed to Wilhelmina Models' 10-20
division. Danica was born in Oxford, grew up in Flushing and spent one year
living in Cairo. She received an MA Fashion, with distinction, from Central
Saint Martins, a master's in Women's Studies from Oxford University and a
BA in Linguistics from Dartmouth. She has appeared on television shows such
as ABC Good Morning America with Diane Sawyer; NBC Weekend Today with Campbell
Brown; FOX5 Good Day NY; ABC7 Eyewitness Morning News; Entertainment Tonight's
The Insider; FOX News; Inside Edition; The FOX Morning Show with Mike and Juliet;
CNN Showbiz Tonight. She has also been interviewed and featured in publications
such as the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Allure, Fitness, Health,
Glamour, Self, In Style, All You, Woman's World, OK!, Real Simple, In Touch, and
Life & Style.
Terry Shen is a Partner at Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP. Mr. Shen's
practice focuses primarily on corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions.
In his experience as a corporate lawyer and previously as an investment banker,
Mr. Shen has represented prominent industrial and commercial clients, financial
institutions and governmental entities. His work has encompassed a wide range
of finance and securities activity, including debt and equity public offerings
and private placements, public and private acquisition transactions, leveraged
finance, restructurings and securities regulation. Mr. Shen has also advised public
companies on regulatory compliance, reporting and disclosure requirements and
corporate governance. Mr. Shen received his J.D. from Columbia Law School in 1995,
was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and John M. Olin Law and Economics Junior Fellow,
and received his A.B., magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, from Dartmouth College
in 1992.
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