Campus to Career: Job Talk with Fashion Reporter Elizabeth Segran
Are you interested in writing, fashion, or sustainability? Join us for a job talk with Elizabeth Segran, a fashion reporter and author. Elizabeth will share insights from her career covering the intersection of fashion and sustainability, and she’ll tell us how her educational background in the humanities has shaped her trajectory and informed her work. If you’re curious about careers in the creative fields, this event is for you!
Attendees will be entered to win a raffle for two copies of Elizabeth’s book, The Rocket Years: How Your Twenties Launch the Rest of Your Life.
Learn more about Elizabeth:
Elizabeth Segran is senior staff writer at Fast Company, whose work has appeared in a range of publications including The Atlantic, Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs, The Nation, The New Republic, The Chronicle of Higher Education and Salon. Her book, The Rocket Years, was published in 2020 by Harper Books.
She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in the field of South and Southeast Asian Studies with a Designated Emphasis in Women, Gender and Sexuality. She is an expert on India, having devoted a decade to studying its history, literature, culture and gender dynamics.
She is a global nomad who grew up in Brussels, Paris, Singapore, Jakarta and London before moving to New York to attend Columbia University. She currently lives in Cambridge, MA with her books, her husband and her two daughters.
This event is co-sponsored by Career Success, the Humanities Division, and the Arts Division.
This program is open to all students consistent with state and federal law, the UC Nondiscrimination Statement and the Nondiscrimination Policy Statement for University of California Publications Regarding Student-Related Matters.
