Global Career Opportunities Alumni Panel
Event Start Date: April 12, 2023 2:00 PM
Event End Date: April 12, 2023 4:00 PM
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Global Career Opportunities
Conversations with Alumni working with Latin America and Beyond
Global Career Panel
April 12 | 2:00 - 4:00 pm | Career Connections Center G501
Panel with UF-LAS alumni Dr. Judith Anderson, Ms. Meghan Reynolds, Mr. Jacob Schultz, moderated by UF graduate students
Learn how to leverage your skills in your career and discover possible fields and industries for your goals!
Alumni guests:
Judith Anderson is a cultural anthropologist, Afro-Latin Americanist, and Associate Professor in the Department of Ethnic and Race Studies at CUNY Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC). She graduated with a Ph.D. in Anthropology and Advanced Graduate Certificate in Latin American Studies from the University of Florida. She has created and led study abroad programs to both Argentina and Brazil. Since 2005 she has been researching Black political organizing in Argentina, Latin America’s famed “European” or White nation. Her publications include “Blackness, Race, and Politics in Argentina” (2021) with co-author Patricia Gomes for the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics and “The Impossible Black Argentine Political Subject” (2018) published by Routledge Press. Dr. Anderson is also the cofounder and lead consultant of the Organización Afrodescendiente para la Asistencia Jurídica y Formación (OAFRO), Argentina’s first Black legal aid organization.
Meghan Reynolds has over 15 years of strategic marketing experience within a range of companies, from start-ups (Oura, Leafly, RealSelf) to large brands (Adidas and Amazon). At Amazon, she held a variety of roles: leading brand social for the new product launch of Echo and Alexa, leading Prime Video’s paid media expansion into Mexico, Brazil, Canada and Australia and managing Amazon Music’s global integrated marketing plans. Currently, she is managing growth/acquisition for Oura, a fitness/sleep tracker and is instrumental in their international expansion.
Jacob Schultz is a career member of the United States Foreign Service. He currently serves as the Deputy Director of the Office of Transportation Policy at the Department of State. Previously, Jacob has been posted twice to Bangkok, Thailand as an economic officer. Other overseas assignments include Quito, Ecuador as an economic officer and the acting director of the international narcotics and law enforcement section and Hermosillo, Mexico as a consular officer. Previous Washington assignments include serving as an economic officer, deputy director, and strategic engagement coordinator in the Office of Mexican Affairs and as a staff assistant in the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs in Washington, DC. Jacob has a bachelor’s degree in International Relations and a master’s degree in Latin American Studies. He speaks Spanish, Portuguese, and Thai.