GradFUTURES Forum 2025: March 24th-28th : Full List of Events For a Full List of Events, Including In-Person Events, Visit the Main 2025 Forum Page Full List of Events Online Events: Mar 24 From Dissertation to Dream Job: Leveraging AI & LinkedIn for Career Clarity Location Online Event Mar 25 Public Humanities: Connection, Community, Impact Location Online Event Mar 25 The Expertise Upheaval: How Generative AI’s Impact on Learning Curves Will Reshape Careers Location Online Event Mar 26 Community-Engaged Scholarship and the Futures of the Ph.D. Location Online Event Mar 27 How to Write Well and Why We Must: A Workshop on Academic Writing Location Online Event Mar 27 Applying an Entrepreneurial Mindset for Scholarly and Career Success Location Online Event Mar 27 Designing Your Future for PhDs: A Primer Location Online Event Mar 28 Research Funding support and administration: Princeton and Beyond Location Online Event Mar 28 Beyond Borders: Designing Your Future as an International PhD Scholar Location Online Event Take a Look Back at the 2024 GradFUTURES Forum: Building Clarity, Confidence, and Connections With more than a dozen engaging speakers, skill-building workshops, alumni panels, and networking sessions, the GradFUTURES Forum offers sessions with real-time relevance to success in graduate school and provides a glimpse into a world of possibilities beyond. Visit the GradFUTURES YouTube Channel to view recordings from this year's forum. Thank you to our 2025 Sponsors! 5Days of engaging workshops, panels, and networking events! 20+ Events with virtual and in-person attendance options! 30+ Speakers, presenters, and facilitators! 3600+ Registrants from all over the globe! Forum 2025 Speakers, Presenters, and Panelists Include: Elizabeth Adams Executive Director, Office of Research and Project Administration Future Faculty Workshop Speaker Jonathan Aguirre, GS, SPO Vice President, User Experience Research Lead, JPMorgan Chase & Co. Participant, American Higher Ed & Ethics of AI Learning Cohorts & Professional Development Working Group Member Clio Hall Award Recipient Yassine Ait Ali, GS, FIT Professional Development Associate 24-25 Kimberly Akano, GS, REL University Administrative Fellow Genevieve Allotey-Pappoe, *24, MUS Assistant Professor of Music at Brown University Anna Arabindan-Kesson Associate Professor and Director, Art Hx 2024-2025 Faculty Fellow in Professional Development Innovation Erin Barker Executive Director and Co-Founder, Story Collider Margarita Belova, GS, ECE Professional Development Associate 24-25 Tania Boster Director, Program for Community-Engaged Scholarship Brendan Byrne StudioLab Manager, Council on Science and Technology Shane Campbell-Staton Associate Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University Science Communication keynote speaker, 2025 GradFUTURES Forum Leonard Cassuto American Higher Education Learning Cohort Convener Inaugural GRADitude Award for Advancing Graduate Professional Development Recipient Yunseo Choi, GS, CEE Professional Development Associate: 24-25 John Paul Christy Executive Director, Princeton Humanities Initiative Maya Chung, GS, AOS Professional Development Associate 24-25 Sarah Churchwell Professor of American Literature and Public Humanities, School of Advanced Study, University of London Bumper DeJesus Visual Communications Specialist, Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment Ipsita Dey, *24, ANT GradFUTURES Professional Development Associate 2023-24 Faculty Affiliate, South Asia Center and Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology Assistant Professor in the Comparative History of Ideas Department, University of Washington Seattle Serene Dhawan, GS, PNI Professional Development Associate 24-25 Emilio Feijoo, GS, COM Kelly Finke, GS, EEB University Administrative Fellow Organizer, Science Policy and Sustainability Learning Cohorts Erin Flowers *23, AST UAF Mentor Assistant Director, STEM Education, Council on Science and Technology Sophie Gee Vice Chancellor's Fellow, University of Sydney 2024-2025 Faculty Fellow in Professional Development Innovation Associate Professor, Department of English, Princeton University Skyler Gordon, *24, HIS Project Manager, The History of Structural Racism in New Jersey Rose Guingrich, GS, PSY Professional Development Associate 2022-23 Social Impact Fellow GradFUTURES Learning Cohort Participant Rebekah Haigh, *25, REL Community College Teaching Fellow University Administrative Fellow Social Impact Fellow Louis Hoffenberg, GS, CBE Ilana Horwitz Fields-Rayant Chair of Contemporary Jewish Life, Tulane University Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies and Sociology, Tulane University Heather N. Jahrling, GS, HIS Jesse D. Jenkins Assistant Professor, MAE and Andlinger Center for Energy and Environment 2024-2025 Faculty Fellow in Professional Development Innovation Courtney Kohut Training, Grants Management and Communications Manager, ORPA Future Faculty Workshop Speaker Evangeline "Eva" Kubu Senior Associate Dean of Professional Development Peter Kurie, *15, ANT Social Scientist, Author, and Musician Shelby Lohr, GS, HIS Professional Development Associate 2020-21 Social Impact Fellow University Administrative Fellow Erica Machulak Founder and Lead Facilitator of Hikma Sonali Majumdar Assistant Dean for Professional Development Craig Marshall Assistant Director & Lecturer, Council on Science and Technology University Administrative Fellowship Mentor Michelle May Curry Faculty, Engaged and Public Humanities, Georgetown University Curator, DC’s Commission on the Arts and Humanities Laura Murray Educational Developer & Entrepreneur Former University Administrative Fellowship Mentor Clio Hall Award Recipient Arvind Narayanan Professor, COS; Director, CITP and co-author of AI Snake Oil Speaker, Responsible AI learning cohort Rodney D. Priestley Dean of the Graduate School Pomeroy and Betty Perry Smith Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering Clio Hall Award Recipient Rose Rai Communications Specialist, Office of the Dean for Research, Princeton University Clifford Robinson Public Humanities Specialist, Princeton Public Library Matt Rohal Associate Editor of Skills for Scholars, Princeton University Press Jeremy Schifeling Author, Career Coach, and Key Note Speaker Molly Sharlach Content Strategist, Princeton Engineering Matt Sigelman '95 President, Burning Glass Institute D. Vance Smith Professor, Department of English, Princeton University Edward Tenner Maureen Thompson-Siegel Research Development Specialist, Princeton Research Development Office Kate Thorpe, *21, ENG Educational Developer & Entrepreneur Former GradFutures Administrative Fellow Co-Founder, GradTLC Pasquale Toscano, *24, ENG Assistant Professor of English, Vassar College Baris Eser Ugur, GS, CBE James M. Van Wyck Assistant Dean for Professional Development Jessica Varela Manager of Educational Operations, Outreach and Events, Omenn Darling Bioengineering Institute John C. Warner, *88, CHM Chemistry Inventor, Cofounder of green chemistry field Sustainability cohort speaker Elena Watts, *24, GEO Data analyst, Munich Re Past GradFUTURES Forums Resources, Recordings, and Information from the 2024 GradFUTURES ForumResources, Recordings, and Information from the 2023 GradFUTURES ForumResources, Recordings, and Information from the 2022 GradFUTURES ForumResources, Recordings, and Information from the 2021 GradFUTURES ForumResources, Recordings, and Information from the 2020 GradFUTURES Forum “I want to thank GradFUTURES for pulling together this event because there are so many issues right now in public policy that have a nexus with science and technology. We really need more students, postdocs, and faculty members to bring their advice to policymakers on these issues. Not only that, but this event is helpful for students to pursue a career path from academia to public policy. GradFUTURES has done a terrific job of building that ecosystem and community here at Princeton in order to help support those efforts.” ––Ali Nouri, *06 (MOL), Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy Director of the Office of Legislative Affairs, The White House
