Office Hours: Career Paths for PhDs

Office Hours: Career Pathways for PhDs is dedicated to helping people with doctorates explore careers from academia to industry!

Host/Show Creator: Dr. Jasmin M. Goodman
Co-Creator & Executive Producer: Dr. Maryann Kwakwa

Want to share your PhD story? Email [email protected]

About Our Guest:

Dr. Amber Hamilton earned her PhD in Sociology from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. During her doctoral studies, she held research internships at Microsoft and IBM before moving into UX Research after graduation. Dr. Hamilton now conducts qualitative UX research to support Pinterest's advertising capabilities.

Office Hours: Career Pathways for PhDs is dedicated to helping people with doctorates explore careers from academia to industry!

Host/Show Creator: Dr. Jasmin M. Goodman
Co-Creator & Executive Producer: Dr. Maryann Kwakwa

Want to share your PhD story? Email [email protected]

About Our Guest:

Dr. Amir M. Sadeh is a former Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame and current Presidential Management Fellow for the Class of 2022, via the U.S. Office of Personnel Management.

During his time at Notre Dame, his main field of study was in American Politics, with an emphasis in Latino Politics, Immigration/Migration, and Race and Ethnicity Politics. His additional research interests included State Politics, Civil Rights/Liberties, Constitutional Law, and Islamic Law. His dissertation, "Mobilization and Maria: Demographic Change in Florida and the Future of American Politics" focused on the growing Puerto Rican migrant population in Central Florida, pre- and post-Hurricane Maria, and the impact of this demographic shift on electoral politics in the state during the 2016 and 2018 elections. He is the recipient of Notre Dame’s Joseph L. Gaia Distinguished Fellowship in Latino Studies. Previously, Amir received his B.A. Honoris in Political Science (Honors Degree) and Psychology at Rollins College.

After his time at Notre Dame, he was an adjunct professor in the Department of Political Science & Government at Valencia College. Currently, as a PMF, he works at the Department of Housing and Urban Development as a Management Analyst for the Assistant Secretary for Housing-Federal Housing Commissioner. 

#NotreDame

Office Hours: Career Pathways for PhDs is dedicated to helping people with doctorates explore careers from academia to industry!

Host/Show Creator: Dr. Jasmin M. Goodman
Co-Creator & Executive Producer: Dr. Maryann Kwakwa

Want to share your PhD story? Email [email protected]

About Our Guest:

Dr. Trevon Swain recently joined the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)’s Center for Tobacco Products (CTP) in May 2021 as a scientific reviewer. In this position, Dr. Swain is responsible for performing scientific reviews, evaluating tobacco products, and marketing applications to protect public health.

Before joining CTP, he worked as a chemist at FDA’s Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM) for over a decade. His veterinary research activities focus on determining biomarkers of inflammation that can be used by pharmaceutical companies to develop therapeutics to control inflammation in food-producing animals. 

Dr. Swain holds a BSc. in Chemistry from Hampton University and Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of Maryland, College Park.
 

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Office Hours: Career Pathways for PhDs is dedicated to helping people with doctorates explore careers from academia to industry!

Host/Show Creator: Dr. Jasmin M. Goodman
Co-Creator & Executive Producer: Dr. Maryann Kwakwa

Want to share your PhD story? Email [email protected]

About Our Guest:

Micah Lomax is currently a Marketing Research Manager at Meta, focusing on new product launches on the Messenger app. His work and team focus on areas like privacy, safety, and security in the tech space, bringing communities closer together through communication, and innovation within the messaging landscape. He is passionate about bringing diverse voices together to not only strengthen research, but also to build products that look like the users who will adopt them across the globe.

Micah and his fiancé Kevin, live in San Diego California, and in their free time enjoy traveling, attending concerts, and preparing to welcome their first child, a baby girl, in January 2023. Micah is an avid member of his local chapter of the American Guild of Organists, and plays for local church services in and around San Diego. 

Micah holds a PhD in Music Theory and Composition from the Florida State University, where his dissertation used computational analysis to identify stylistic trends and patterns in the mass songs of Sergei Prokofiev. 

Office Hours: Career Pathways for PhDs is dedicated to helping people with doctorates explore careers from academia to industry!

Host/Show Creator: Dr. Jasmin M. Goodman
Co-Creator & Executive Producer: Dr. Maryann Kwakwa

Want to share your PhD story? Email [email protected]

About Our Guest:

Rebecca Costantini, PhD is a qualitative researcher and Organizational Communication PhD. Formerly an assistant professor of communication in Philadelphia, Rebecca transitioned into industry as a user experience (UX) researcher in 2021. Rebecca is currently a UX researcher at Wiley, a research services provider, and an adjunct professor at Villanova University in the Department of Communication. Learn more about Rebecca's work and experience here: https://www.rebeccacostantini.com.

Dr. Constantini also shared a list of UX resources here! https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QAhdx71R-5tHad5TGuUXL6j6MGMXfF1EH2G_CRN2jdI/edit?usp=sharing

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Office Hours: Career Pathways for PhDs is dedicated to helping people with doctorates explore careers from academia to industry!

Host/Show Creator: Dr. Jasmin M. Goodman
Co-Creator & Executive Producer: Dr. Maryann Kwakwa

Want to share your PhD story? Email [email protected]

About Our Guest:

Ethan Decker, PhD, is president of Applied Brand Science and a world-renowned expert on brand growth. He helps brands learn and apply the science of consumers, brands, and advertising to make their marketing more effective and their brands more valuable. A scientist by training and a marketer by trade, he received a PhD in ecology before switching to market research, and then eventually advertising. He's worked at the world’s leading ad agencies with Procter & Gamble, Kellogg, Nike, Discovery, Domino’s, PepsiCo, Whirlpool, and others. He’s a frequent presenter and lecturer on the topic of brand science.

Connect with Dr. Decker!
https://appliedbrandscience.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ehdecker/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/appliedbrandscience
https://twitter.com/ehdecker

Office Hours: Career Pathways for PhDs is dedicated to helping people with doctorates explore careers from academia to industry!

Host/Show Creator: Dr. Jasmin M. Goodman
Co-Creator & Executive Producer: Dr. Maryann Kwakwa

Want to share your PhD story? Email [email protected]

📚📚📚 RESOURCES📚📚📚
Here's a list of resources Dr. Broome shared during her interview:

📢 QRCA Young Professionals Grant📢
 https://www.qrca.org/page/young_prof_grant

👩🏻‍💻Courses She Teaches👩🏻‍💻

Introduction to Questionnaire Design at the University of Michigan: https://si.isr.umich.edu/faculty/jessica-broome/ (online synchronous and open to anyone, not just Michigan students!)

Questionnaire Design Boot Camp on Udemy: https://www.udemy.com/course/questionnaire-design-boot-camp/ (affordable online, self-paced asynchronous course)

📚Book She Recommends📚
Writing Your Dissertation in 15 Minutes a Day.

About Our Guest:
Jessica Broome is a seasoned and dynamic researcher with diverse 
experience in both quantitative and qualitative methodologies.  She  focuses on rigorous questionnaire design to collect high-quality data, as well as using data to tell a story that leads clients to action.

Jessica began her career in the non-profit sector, interviewing incarcerated people in state prisons and city jails across New York. She then worked for several years in the research and insights departments of major public relations agencies, including Ogilvy and Edelman, where she managed the much-publicized Edelman Trust Barometer. She founded Southpaw Insights in 2008 to conduct meaningful research that helps organizations understand what people think, feel, and do. 

Jessica and her team at Southpaw conduct results-oriented research for both agencies and end clients across a broad swath of sectors, including pharmaceutical, food, technology, financial services, consumer packaged goods, education, and non-profits. 

Jessica holds a PhD in Survey Methodology from the University of Michigan and an M.S. degree in Applied Social Research from Hunter College. She graduated from Connecticut College, where she earned a B.A. degree in Sociology and minored in German and Hispanic Studies.

Office Hours: Career Pathways for PhDs is dedicated to helping people with doctorates explore careers from academia to industry!

Host/Show Creator: Dr. Jasmin M. Goodman
Co-Creator & Executive Producer: Dr. Maryann Kwakwa

Want to share your PhD story? Email [email protected]

Download ➡️ https://bit.ly/DrSavannahYoungResource 

About Our Guest:
Recognized as an Industry Strategist to Follow by Cipher®, and with 10 years of rigorous research experience, Dr. Savannah Young is a passionate leader and question-asker who thrives in ambiguity, novel concepts, and an iterative, fast-paced, and challenging environment. She drives innovation with strategic design research methods to answer business questions, and she conducts work to inspire others to do their best work for the customer.

Dr. Young dreams of a world in which employees feel excited to ask difficult questions at work.

Office Hours: Career Pathways for PhDs is dedicated to helping people with doctorates explore careers from academia to industry!

Host/Show Creator: Dr. Jasmin M. Goodman
Co-Creator & Executive Producer: Dr. Maryann Kwakwa

Want to share your PhD story? Email [email protected]

About Our Guest:
Dr. Brandale Mills Cox is a professor, researcher, communications professional and training facilitator. She is currently a tenure track professor at Howard University (Washington, DC) in the Strategic, Legal and Management Communication Department where she teaches Advanced Public Relations writing and Public Affairs & Management. She was formerly a communications faculty member at Central New Mexico Community College (CNM) in Albuquerque, New Mexico and Assistant Professor and Graduate Program Coordinator at Norfolk State University (Norfolk, VA) in the Mass Communications and Journalism department. In this role, she taught communications courses, supervised the graduate program and its students, in addition to coordinating the program’s logistics.

Her passion for diverse representation is seen in her book, “Black Women Filmmakers and Black Love on Screen” which offers a thorough examination of depictions of Black Love in films directed by Black women and the importance of diversity in Hollywood to create a more comprehensive representation of communities of color.

As a public relations practitioner, she has worked as the Director of Communications at the Bernalillo County District Attorney’s Office where she handled media outreach and planning on behalf of the office’s initiatives. She also worked as a Media Specialist for the United States Census Bureau, publicizing 2020 Census efforts throughout the state of New Mexico.

Dr. Mills Cox earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Print Journalism from the University of New Mexico (Albuquerque, New Mexico), her Master of Arts and Doctorate degree from Howard University (Washington, DC) in Mass Communications and Media Studies and Communication, Culture and Media Studies. In 2021, she was named one of Albuquerque Business First’s “40 under 40” leaders in the state and she is an active member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.

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