Profession Supporters of the Year Honored at the Profession All Over Year-End Event– UConn Center for Profession Advancement

The profession preparedness journeys of UConn trainees take place in every aspect of their college experiences. Professors, consultants, trainee work managers, coaches, companies, and alumna are all having discussions about post-graduation success with trainees, and they might not even understand it. The Profession All Over Year-End Acknowledgment and Event held by the Center for Profession Advancement is a method for the UConn neighborhood to be acknowledged and applauded for assisting the next generation of Huskies.

The emphasize of the Event was a keynote from Sumia Shaikh, ’15 Allied Health Science. Sumia is a leader at Noticeable Hands, an equity capital company that provides accelerator programs to underrepresented, early-stage creators.

In her keynote, she shared her experiences as a first-generation trainee and how her time at UConn formed who she is today. In addition, she called out the chances that led her to her interest in operating at start-ups and members of the UConn neighborhood who directed her along the method. Sumia’s story is both motivating and a testimony to the work being done at UConn.

Nancy Bilmes, Director of the Center for Profession Advancement, provided a State of Profession address highlighting the work being done to fight profession injustices of marginalized trainee populations. Nancy sharted that alumni who concurred they got handy profession recommendations as a trainee were 20 times most likely to concur that their degree deserved their tuition and offered techniques to integrate profession proficiencies into different interactions with trainees.

And what would the Event lack the Profession Supporter of the Year awards? This year’s winners exhibit what it suggests to be a Profession Supporter.

• Company Profession Supporter of the Year– Ann Galonska, Museum Director, Mansfield, CT Historic Society
• Trainee Chosen Undergraduate Professors Profession Coach of the Year– Costs Ryan, Assistant Professor-in-Residence & & Director, Specialist Sales Management Program, UConn School of Organization
• Trainee Nominated Graduate Professors Profession Coach of the Year– Jamie Imitola, Partner Teacher of Neurology, Genes and Genome Sciences, and Neuroscience, UConn Health
• Coworker Nominated Personnel Profession Supporter of the Year– Nick Delaney, Assistant Director of Trainee and Professors Engagement, UConn School of Engineering
• Coworker Nominated Professors Profession Supporter of the Year– Kim Gans, Teacher, UConn Department of Person Advancement & & Household Sciences
• Trainee Chosen Personnel Profession Coach of the Year– Caroline Larson, Post Doctoral Fellow, UConn Department of Psychological Sciences

Congratulations to all the award winners and candidates, and watch for the Profession All Over Conference in November!