Jennifer Maher, CCAS BA ’04, is an Amtrak warrior, and her office is her backpack. But that’s how she prefers things. As CEO of 1776 — the Northeast Corridor’s largest network of entrepreneurial incubators — she travels to their nine campuses (soon to be 10), with the majority of her time split between Philadelphia and […]
When Jenny Abreu moved to Washington, D.C. in 2006, she wasn’t sure what to expect. At age 29, she’d decided to change careers and was accepted to the GW School of Business. She’d left her circle of family and friends behind in Boston. She was in a brand new city. But within a few weeks, […]
Studying engineering was not on Anirudh Kulkarni’s mind when he began his freshman year at GW in 1982. He wanted to become a doctor, like his father, and go the pre-med route as an undergraduate. The elder Kulkarni, recognizing the tremendous analytical skills of his son, suggested engineering might be better suited to his natural […]
Many people can pinpoint the ‘aha’ moment they decide upon a chosen career. For Cameron Waggener, CCAS BA ’17, his moment happened during a class he took as a sophomore at GW. “I began my career by opening the DC area’s first bicycle coffee shop after taking a geography course at GW titled People, Land, […]
Floyd Jones graduated from the George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs in 2015 in a position many seniors would envy. He had a full-time job secured at the nonprofit organization where he had already been working part-time—a job he’d found through GWork. So a year later, when he felt the need for new […]
Hardy Farrow BA ’13 values dreaming big. “You live a self-fulfilling life,” he says. “If you dream big, you will achieve big.” Farrow’s mantra guides his work as founder and executive director of LITE Memphis (Let’s Innovate Through Education). “LITE Memphis equips minority students to be future entrepreneurs by teaching them how to pitch […]
