TEN YEARS OUT AUP produces graduates who are adaptable changemakers seeking meaningful careers. We caught up with three alumni who, a decade after graduation, are pivoting their careers in new directions.
The liberal arts skills that students acquire at AUP allow them to succeed as graduates in a wide range of international careers. After graduation, alumni continue to develop unique trajectories through their professional lives with confidence and dexterity. After a decade, alumni will have developed solid professional experience and may be thinking about shifting into new roles or industries. We spoke to three alumni currently using the skills they developed at
AUP to find new pathways and continue expanding their professional portfolios. Tendayi Olga Chirawu ’12 (pictured: left) graduated from AUP with an MA in Global Communications and Civil Society. “The program enabled me to use storytelling in engaging ways that impact people’s lives concretely,” she says. Tendayi took courses that focused on using storytelling as a medium, which culminated in a thesis for which she researched the use of radio storytelling to