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ALUMNI SHARE THEIR EXPERIENCES
Entering the Workforce: Panel and Reception
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SATURDAY April 23rd
3:00PM
Rocky 003
FREE HANOVER INN FOOD
Join us for a panel with distinguished alumni from media, education, finance, technology and law followed by a catered reception!
Featuring:
Stephanie Yu '97
Counsel to the Environmental Appeals Board, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Christine Kim '99
Business Development, YouTube/ 10 years in the film industry
Anshu Wahi '02
Program Associate, Tenenbaum Center for Inter-religious Understanding
Alan Cheng '03
Principal, City-As-School
Fang Li '05
Analyst, Cascabel Management
Amit Padukone '06
Operations Manager, Google Books
Presented by Dartmouth Asian Pacific American Alumni Association (DAPAAA) and Milan
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Co-sponsored by COSO
For more information on DAPAAA please visit: http://www.facebook.com/#!/group.php?gid=2360384544
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Panelist biographies
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Stephanie Yu serves as Counsel to the Environmental Appeals Board at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and assists the four-judge Board in preparing final Agency decisions in administrative enforcement actions and permit appeals. From August 2010 through January 2011, she was on detail to U.S. EPA's Office of Regional Counsel in Seattle, focusing on Clean Water Act permitting, enforcement and regulatory matters. Prior to joining U.S. EPA, Ms. Yu was an Attorney-Advisor at the Office of the Solicitor, U.S. Department of the Interior, a law clerk to the justices of the Massachusetts Superior Court, and the Anheuser-Busch/Frank Horton fellow at the Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies. Ms. Yu earned a J.D., with honors, from the George Washington University Law School and an A.B. in Geography, with honors, from Dartmouth College.
Christine H. Kim works at Google in Business Development for YouTube. Prior to joining Google, Ms. Kim had over ten years of experience in the film industry serving stints at Sony Pictures Classics, HBO, Focus Features, and Cinetic Media, a boutique consultancy advising independent filmmakers and financiers where she assembled financing for films such as "The Kids Are All Right" and "Inside Job". She graduated from Dartmouth College in 1999 with a B.A. in English.
Anshu Wahi is the Religion and Diversity Education Program Associate at the Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding in New York City. There, she conducts educator trainings and develops curricula. Prior to joining Tanenbaum, Anshu was a Qualitative Researcher with Facing History and Ourselves and the Facing History School in Manhattan. She has also worked as an Instructor and Manager at Powerful Voices in Seattle where she focused on media literacy and activism with adolescent girls, and as an Admissions Officer at an international university in London which allowed for extensive travel. She is also an actor and has worked in film and theater. Additionally, Anshu has contributed to two books of narratives about her experiences as an Asian American. She holds a B.A. in Psychology, Education and Theater from Dartmouth College and an Ed. M. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where she concentrated on social justice education, qualitative research, adolescence and reform.
Alan Y. Cheng is the Principal of City-As-School, one of the oldest alternative schools in New York City. CAS is a nontraditional academic high school that serves over 700 students, ages 17-22, through highly structured internships and interdisciplinary course offerings. The school targets students who do not thrive in a traditional, classroom learning environment or are at risk of dropping out of school. The school a founding member and model school for the International Network of Experiential Programs and Schools (INEPS). Before joining City-As-School, he was a Legislative Fellow for the U.S. Senate Education Committee, where he worked on the reauthorization of NCLB and Federal Pell Grants. He has also served as a Curriculum Fellow at the Graduate School of Management at Cambridge University, UK and a Research Fellow at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. He holds a MS in Technology and Public Policy from MIT and a MA in Mathematics Education and MEd in Education Leadership from Teachers College. He is also a graduate of the National IEL Education Policy Fellowship Program and the Columbia University School Law Institute. Alan received his BE in Environmental Engineering and AB in Engineering and Art History, with honors, from Dartmouth College.
Fang Li is an Analyst with Cascabel Management LP, a NYC-based investment firm founded in 2008 with a seed investment from 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.
Amit Padukone is an Operations Manager for Google, Inc., based in Boston and working on the Google Books project, which aims to digitize the world's books. From 2008 to 2010, he was on assignment in Hyderabad and Gurgaon, India managing various Sales, Support, and Marketing Operations teams for Google's Global Advertising Operations. Prior to that, he worked in sales at Google's headquarters in California. While at Dartmouth, Mr. Padukone led operations at GreenCorp$, part of the Dartmouth College Fund. He received his B.A. in History modified with Art History, magna cum laude, in 2006.