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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.
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