AUP Magazine - Fall 2021

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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


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AUP IS...

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pages 58-69

LINH DO ’22

3min
pages 44-45

ELAN GARONZIK ’70

3min
pages 42-43

PROFESSOR TANYA ELDER

3min
pages 40-41

GINA TORRY ’98

3min
pages 38-39

PROFESSOR DAN GUNN

3min
pages 36-37

RANA VALENZUELA ’06

3min
pages 34-35

Ten Years Out

5min
pages 52-57

The Gil Kemp Presidential Scholars

6min
pages 72-76

The Global Impact of AUP Alumni

6min
pages 46-51

We Are AUP

19min
pages 32-45

Students Collaborate Toward Social Justice

3min
pages 12-13

What Demos for the 21st-Century?

3min
pages 6-9

A Master’s Degree for a Changing World

4min
pages 28-31

FirstBridge and the First-Year Experience

4min
pages 20-23

The Future of AUP Student Media

5min
pages 24-27

Navigating 21st-Century Pathways

3min
pages 14-15

GPS Students Reflect on Their Pathways

3min
pages 10-11

A New Logo for AUP

4min
pages 16-19
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