Elizabeth Segran never expected to become a fashion journalist. After graduating from Columbia, she earned a PhD in classical Indian literature at UC Berkeley with the dream of becoming a professor. But after spending several years on the academic job market, she came to terms with the reality that her dream academic job wasn’t going to materialize.

In this talk, Elizabeth will share how she navigated the transition years after her PhD and built a career that has been even more interesting than the one she had planned. She’s spent the past decade writing about sustainability in the fashion industry for Fast Company Magazine, and is about to publish her first children’s book. She’ll discuss the career twists and turns in the years after receiving her doctorate, drawing both from her personal experiences as well as research from her book, The Rocket Years: How Your Twenties Launch The Rest of Your Life (Harper Collins, 2020). Learn more about Elizabeth on her website: http://www.elizabethsegran.com.

By the end of this talk, you will have a better sense of the wide array of possible paths you can pursue after your PhD and how to develop resilience and nimbleness as you chart your course during graduate school and beyond.

Reception to follow after the talk.

Open to PhD students, and Postdoctoral scholars, researchers, and scientists.