Come to the CEFNS Career Development Career Mixer on 02/18, 5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m., at Hops on Birch (under 21 and outside food is allowed). In collaboration with CEFNS Career Development and the NAU NASA Space Grant Program, join host Chase Kurbat, and our panel of professionals discuss their paths to their careers.
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Are you uncertain which career to choose? Interested in how professionals built their confidence over time? Exploring different career possibilities or questioning what’s next? Curious what working professionals wish they had known as students?
Hear their stories on how they worked their way, sometimes stumbling, to their careers.
Sometimes what we think our careers will be, or first majors, end with something completely different.
Our host & Collaborator:
Chase Kurbat: “When I was young, I always wanted to be a female version of Steve Irwin, but I knew by 5th grade that I’d be a teacher.”
Current Title: CEFNS Career Development Coordinator
Nicholas Alfonso Diaz: “When I was in middle school, I wanted to be an FBI agent.”
Current Title: NAU NASA Space Grant Program Assistant Manager
Our Panelists:
Javier Ceja-Navarro: "When I was in middle school, I wanted to be a fine artist."
Current title: Microbiology Associate Professor
Dr. Angie Hodge-Zickerman: “Since I was two, I wanted to be a teacher.”
Current titles: Chair, Educational Specialties & Professor, Department of Mathematics & Statistics
Tabitha King: "When I was in 2nd grade, I wanted to be a mom and an interior designer."
Current title: Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University STEM Outreach Manager & Educator
Rob Speer: “When I finished high school, I was sure I would work in forestry or wildlife management" (and came to NAU and got a B.S. In Forestry)
Current title: IT Manager for GIS at the City of Flagstaff
Christopher Edwards: “When I was in elementary school I wanted to be a train engineer. Now I’m a professor of planetary science and build instruments that go into space.”
Current title: Professor of Planetary Science
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