Career Talks and Events
February 16, 2023
MLC Career Talk: How can Human Language Technology get you a Job?
- Jungyoon Koh (Current PhD Student + HLT student group co-founder)
- Ulie Xu (Current MS Student + HLT student group co-founder)
February 1, 2023
MLC Career Talk: Finding your Summer Internship Pt. 2
- Parker DiPaolo (Current MLC Student)
January 25, 2023
MLC Career Talk: Finding your Summer Internship Pt. 1
- Samantha Tritt (Current MLC Student)
- Nicole Rybak (Current MLC Student)
October 31, 2022
MLC Career Talk: “Leaving industry to go back to academia: Retraining to become a speech language pathologist“
- Kathryn Ticknor Robinson (formerly Director of Research, inVibe Labs)
October 12, 2022
MLC Career Talk: “Interactive workshop: How to design a chatbot”
- Greg Bennett (Director, Conversation Design, Salesforce)
October 5, 2022
MLC Career Talk: “Linguists in Hollywood: The business of inventing languages“
- David Petersen (constructed language creator & President, Language Creation Society, creator languages for Game of Thrones, Thor, Dune)
- Jessie Sams, Ph.D. (constructed language creator and Professor of Linguistics at Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, Texas)
October 3, 2022
MLC Career Talk: “Transitioning into spaces as the ‘only linguist’”
- Mackenzie Price, Ph.D. (Director, Anti-Bias Initiatives, Dot Dash)
September 29, 2022
MLC Career Talk: “Transitioning to industry from tenure-line academia“
- Mark Norris, Ph.D. (Analytical Linguist, Grammarly)
September 12, 2022
MLC Career Talk: “Holding space for change: An interactive conversation on how two linguists navigated transitioning in and out of jobs in government, business, consulting and academia”
- Alex Johnston, Ph.D. (Director, Masters Programs, Georgetown Linguistics)
- Marissa Fond, Ph.D. (Assistant Teaching Professor, Georgetown University)
April 11, 2022
Career Panel 3: Navigating Change
- Brent Laing (MS-SLI, AVD)
- Ezra Wyschogrod (MS, Language Engineer, Amazon)
- Laurel Sutton (Principal, Sutton Strategy; Founder of Catchword)
April 4, 2022
Career Panel 2: Storytelling & Strategic Communication
- Alex Botti (Senior Producer, Axios)
- Mark Clark (Advisor, Strategic Partnerships, fhi360)
March 28, 2022
MLC Career Talk: “Careers for Linguists in Educational Technology” by Joel Kupperstein (Senior VP, Curriculum, Age of Learning, Inc.)
- Joel Kupperstein (Senior Vice President, Age of Learning)
March 14, 2022
Annual MLC Career Panel 1: “Insights from Recent Alumni”
- Ulie Xu (Senior Language Engineer at Comcast)
- Emily Fisher (Linguistic Analyst at inVibe Labs)
- Margaret Borowczyk (Senior Design Researcher at Intuit)
February 28, 2022
MLC Career Talk: “Getting Started on Portfolio Design” by Dr. Nancy Frishberg (UX Professional, Principal, Fishbird.com)
February 7, 2022
MLC Career Talk: “Insights from the Author: Employing Linguistics” by Dr. Anna Marie Trester (Principal, CareerLinguist)
January 26, 2022
MLC Career Talk: “Career Management Workshop for Linguists” by Caitlin Moore (Career Coach, Georgetown Graduate Career Center)
November 9, 2021
MLC Career Talk: “From J1/F1 to H1: Navigating the US job search process as an international student” by Dr. Xiao Yang (Language Data Researcher, Amazon)
October 26, 2021
MLC Watch Party and Discussion: “Free, Easy Steps to Make your Department Open to Non-Academic Careers” by Dr. Anne Krook (Owner and Principal, Practical Workplace Advice)
September 28, 2021
MLC Career Talk: “How do Linguists Design Chatbots?” by Brielle Nickoloff (Cofounder & Head of Product, Botmock)
September 21, 2021
MLC Career Talk: “Networking 101” by Dr. Alexandra Johnston (MLC Director)
May 5, 2021
Annual MLC Career Mixer (Virtual)
May 3, 2021
Annual MLC Career Panel 4: “Careers in Strategic Communication”
- Marni Myers ( Lead Associate, Strategic Communications & Hiring Manager, Booz Allen Hamilton)
- Pete Tontillo (Senior Associate, Hattaway Communications)
- Alannah Connolly (Senior Language Strategist, maslansky + partners)
April 26, 2021
Annual MLC Career Panel 3: “Careers in Conversation Design”
- Greg Bennett (Conversation Design Principal at Salesforce)
- Brielle Nickoloff (Head of Product at Botmock)
- Carolyn Reed (Lead Voice Researcher at Comcast)
- Joseph Tyler (Director of Conversation Design at Sensely)
April 19, 2021
Annual MLC Career Panel 2: “Pandemic Job Search Experiences & Strategies”
- Minh Nguyen (Language Data Researcher at Amazon)
- Francesca Venezia (Researcher at Mathematica)
- Emily Crnkovich (Linguist at Mango Languages)
- Janine Karo (Program Assistant at Jefferson Consulting)
April 12, 2021
Annual MLC Career Panel 1: “Applied Research in Industry”
- Katy Hewett (Associate Director of Research at Ogilvy Health)
- Tabytha Gil (Linguistic Insights Analyst at Ogilvy Health)
- Cally Alessi (Senior Data Scientist at Nielsen)
- Katelyn Tagarelli (Head of Research at Mango Languages)
March 19, 2021
Department of Linguistics Friday Speaker Series: “Participating in Storytelling at Ages 3 and 8 during Family Mealtime Interactions” by Dr. Hansun Zhang Waring (Teachers College, Columbia University)
February 22, 2021
MLC Career Talk: “Careers for Linguists in Broadcast/ Podcast Journalism” with Alexandra Botti (Senior Producer at WNYC, MLC ’14)
February 19, 2021
Department of Linguistics Friday Speaker Series: “Kamala Harris and the Construction of Complex Ethnolinguistic Political Identity” by Dr. Nicole Holliday (University of Pennsylvania)
February 12, 2021
Department of Linguistics Friday Speaker Series: “Linguistics for Legal Purposes” by Dr. John Baugh (Washington University in St. Louis)
February 3, 2021
MLC Career Talk: “Career Management Methods for Linguists” with Annie Rao (Director of the Graduate Career Center at Georgetown University)
November 9, 2020
MLC Career Talk: “Linguistics in the Tech Industry: Defining a World through Taxonomy” with Dr. Anthony Koth (Taxonomist at Indeed.com)
October 23, 2020
Department of Linguistics Friday Speaker Series: “Rethinking the Relationship between Race and Place and its Role in Achieving Social Justice in Linguistics” by Dr. Sharese King (University of Chicago)
October 19, 2020
MLC Career Talk: “Investing in Your Job Search: Weekly Actions to Take Now that Will Pay Off Later” with Dr. Alexandra Johnston (MLC Director)
October 16, 2020
Department of Linguistics Friday Speaker Series: “A Model for Linguistic Reparations” by Dr. Anne Charity Hudley (UC Santa Barbara)
MLC Open House
October 5, 2020
MLC Career Talk: “Strategies for Applying to Federal Civil Service Jobs” with Pamela Ex (Senior Career Counselor at the US Department of State)
September 21, 2020
MLC Career Talk: “Being a Sociolinguist” with Dr. Marissa Fond (Assistant Teaching Professor at Georgetown University)
April 24, 2020
Annual MLC Career Panel 4: “Tech & User Experience (UX)”
- Greg Bennett (Lead User Researcher at Salesforce)
- Nancy Frishberg (Principal Consultant at Fishbird)
- Emily Pace (Principal Linguist at Expert System USA)
- Chris Stewart (Analytical Linguist at Google)
April 23, 2020
Annual MLC Career Panel 3: “Federal Agencies”
- Chris Almont (Senior Defense Expert at the Defense Intelligence Agency)
- Marcus Berger (Social Science Analyst at the US Census Bureau)
- Tanner Call (Contract Rater and Testing Specialist at the FBI)
April 17, 2020
Annual MLC Career Panel 2: “Applied Research & Framing”
- Marissa Fond (Assistant Teaching Professor at Georgetown University)
- Paige Arthur (Senior Director of Growth & Innovation at maslansky + partners)
- Tabytha Gil (Linguistic Insights Analyst at Ogilvy Health)
- Katy Hewett (Associate Director of Research Ogilvy Health)
- Joanne Quinn (Linguistic Analyst at Ogilvy Health)
April 16, 2020
Annual MLC Career Panel 1: “Strategic Communication & Digital Storytelling”
- Alexandra Botti (Senior Producer at WNYC)
- Katarina Starcevic (Director of Language Strategy at maslansky + partners)
- Hannah Sullivan (Language Strategist at maslansky + partners)
- Laurel Sutton (Founder of Catchword)