The Blur

Alumna Impact: Joanne Louis

1. Tell us a little bit about your career and educational journey?
I graduated from Babson College in Wellesley, MA with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, with concentrations in Finance and Entrepreneurship. After graduation, I went straight into Corporate America, specifically the Financial Services industry. In New York, I worked at Bloomberg L.P as a Sales and Analytics representative, and then worked as a Business Analyst for the Municipal Fixed Income trade desk at UBS Asset Management. […]

Alumna Impact: Jane Collins

1.Tell us a little bit about your career and educational journey?
My bachelor’s degree is in education, then I realized I didn’t like to teach while student teaching the last semester of my senior year. As sort of a “Hail Mary” move I applied for the United States Air Force (USAF) Officer Training School and was commissioned within a year after college graduation.
I’ve been doing public relations/communications work off and on since I first transferred into […]

Alumna Impact: Taylor Nelson

Tell us a little bit about your career and educational journey?
I began my education at Mount Holyoke, the first women’s college in the country. There I studied studio art (sculpture/welding) and English. I was surrounded by incredible female talent and gained a strong sense of self-respect and confidence. It was refreshing to be in a classroom where women dominate the discussion and feel empowered to voice their ideas and be heard. During my junior year […]

Alum Impact: Julian Gross

Julian Gross works as a Communications Freelancer in the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan area. Julian is an Inbound Marketer and most recently represented Georgetown University at Hubspot’s Inbound 2017 Conference in Boston, Massachusetts. Julian will graduate from Georgetown University with an MPS in Public Relations & Corporate Communication December 2017.
The Center: Tell us a little bit about your career path?
Currently, I freelance in communications. I enjoy the challenge and the creative control. Upon completion of the PRCC program this December, […]

Altruism, Empathy and Efficacy

Every day, social impact practitioners trying to do good in the world work to activate audiences based on assumptions they have about what drives people to support causes. Often these assumptions come from a little bit of experience and a lot of what social scientists call confirmation bias, our tendency to seek out data that confirms what we already believe to be true. But it turns out that many of the assumptions we make are only partially borne […]

Alumna Impact: Sara Dal Lago

Sara Dal Lago is a Digital Communications Executive at One Young World in London, UK. Sara is a Cause Consultant, served as CSIC student editorial board member and was awarded the 2016 Tropaia Award for Social Impact. She graduated from Georgetown University’s MPS in Public Relations & Corporate Communications in 2016.
Center for Social Impact Communication: Thanks for taking the time to chat with us, Sara! To start, tell us a little bit about your career path?

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