Week 6 Recap: Alumni News and a Career Panel

Week six has arrived and so have our first round of exams! Between studying and taking assessments, we have been interacting with undergraduates and sharing network updates!

  • We kicked of the week by congratulating Sarah Croucher, MPA 2020 on being named the new Director of Academic Policy here at UConn!
  • On Tuesday we held an information session specifically for UConn Hartford’s undergraduate student government.
  • Thursday morning was spent in Storrs where DPP alums spoke on a career panel. The panel consisted of UConn PhD student Tony Patelunas (MPP 2019), Town Administrator of Bolton, CT Josh Kelly (MPA 2019), Lobbyist Nicole Tomassetti (MPP 2018), and Hartford Healthcare Program Manager Ashley Bodamer (MPA 2018).
  • The week ended with a congratulations to Daniel Ray who was recently named an Associate at Huron in the Healthcare-Performance Improvement Implementations department.

Interested in attending our next career panel? On October 21st in McHugh 308 in Storrs, we will have DPP alums from industries from healthcare, financial investing, housing policy, food policy, and the U.S. Senate. Interested in attending? Please RSVP and see our events page.

This coming Monday is our second GAPPS-ICMA meeting of the semester. The meeting will be held in HTB 406 from 3:00pm – 4:00pm.