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Heather Blanco (nee Harrington) '03: "After I graduated from Dartmouth in 2003, I moved to New York City as a Teach for America corps member. I taught some truly adorable sixth graders at I.S. 218 in Washington Heights for two years and earned a Master's Degree in Education from Fordham University during my nights and summers.
I left for New York for the University of Chicago Law School in 2005, and graduated from there this past June (yeah!). I am now back in NYC, and I am going to begin work for Latham & Watkins, a large international law firm, this September. Although I will be doing work for corporate clients, Latham also allows its associates to do unlimited amounts of pro bono work, so I look forward to providing big firm legal resources to people who otherwise may have been shortchanged by the courts.
Hopefully (I hope! I hope!), I will pass the bar exam that I am taking this July, and become an attorney, instead of just a J.D." (7/08)
Shirin Sioshansi '00: "I graduated from Dartmouth in 2000 and then spent two years working as a college advisor in Boston Public Schools helping high school seniors navigate the college application process. Then I went to medical school (Dartmouth-Brown joint program) and graduated in 2006. I am currently doing my residency in Radiation Oncology at Tufts/Brown." (7/08)
Juan Bell '99: "After graduating I spent a few months trying to break into the world of sports and entertainment. I worked for the NBA's Houston Rockets from October '99 through June '06 in the corporate development department (group responsible for sponsorship sales and client services for corporate relationships). After taking the summer off, I started business school at the University of Chicago, Graduate School of Business and just graduated in June of '08. I'm currently doing marketing and am now in my third week as an Associate Brand Manager with Kraft Foods." (8/08)
Arika Easley '98: "I received a master's degree in African American studies from Columbia University in 2001, and I'm currently pursuing my PhD in history at Rutgers-New Brunswick, focusing on African American history, as well as Native American and US (colonial and nineteenth-century)." (7/08)
Taheerah El-Amin '98: "The beauty of Dartmouth and a liberal arts education is that you can truly pursue whatever you desire, regardless of your major. After college, I worked for a year, then attended the University of Illinois College of Law, graduating in 2002. I initially worked for a law firm in Columbus, OH and Washington, DC, but now I am an attorney with the Department of Justice in its Civil Division." (7/08)
