From ARHU To The World Of Work: Graduate Student Job Placements

AMST celebrates graduate job placements in academic and non-academic orgs, all helping minority students along the education pipeline. Tamara Wilds Lawson, Director, Posse D.C. 

AMST celebrates graduate job placements in academic and non-academic orgs, all helping minority students along the education pipeline.
Tamara Wilds Lawson, Director, Posse D.C. 
The Posse Foundation, funded in part by President Barack Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize money, is a national college access and leadership program. The Posse Foundation identifies and trains extraordinary high school students who receive full-tuition scholarships with Posse’s partner institutions and have a 90 percent graduate rate. She will be responsible for managing a staff of ten people and a budget of over one million dollars in their Washington office.


Vincent Stephens, Director of Multicultural Student Services, Bucknell University
Vincent is finishing a three-year post-doc in the humanities at Syracuse and will become the director of the Multicultural Student Services at Bucknell University. His job provides academic support and cultural programming for Bucknell's students-of-color who comprise about 10 percent of the population. An essential part of his responsibilities include advancing the academic and co-curricular goals of the university as well as bringing intellectual depth to advocacy and programming efforts.

Kristen N. Hodge, Policy Analyst, ACLS
Kristen has accepted a two-year appointment as a policy analyst for the Association of American Universities under the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS). Her position is part of ACLS’ inaugural Public Fellows program, an initiative to place scholars with doctorates in the humanities as staff within various government and non-profit organizations. This program is funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and it aims to demonstrate that the capacities developed in the advanced study of the humanities have wide application, both within and beyond the academy.