For college students, it’s never too early to start thinking about careers, says Ann Johnson-Stromberg, coordinator for internships and job development with HSU’s Career Center.
To help answer these questions, Johnson-Stromberg and the staff at the HSU Career Center are putting together panels of local experts to dissect the current state of their careers and make predictions for the future.
On Friday, April 10, at 10 a.m. in the Goodwin Forum, Careers In Art features Buzz Parker, lead illustrator and painter for Emily the Strange, an Arcata-based merchandising company with a global customer base; Peggy Loudon, a ceramics artist and educator whose work has been displayed in the Smithsonian; Duane Flatmo, one of the most recognizable artists on the North Coast, whose murals grace buildings throughout California; and Scott Cocking, owner of local design company Side Show Designs, and former art director for Jack In The Box’s corporate offices.
On Tuesday, April 14, at noon, also in the Goodwin Forum, the focus turns to careers in natural resources with Joshua Strange, a fisheries biologist for the Yurok Tribe, whose current work focuses on the removal of the Klamath River dams; Geoff Hales, who works as a consultant with McBain & Trush Inc., specializing in stream flow and sediment management. Hales was also one of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s appointees to the California State Water Resources Control Board and currently serves as vice-chair.
Also scheduled are Tracy Watkins, who works for the Humboldt Redwood Company managing sediment levels in Elk River and Freshwater Creek; and Tyrone Kelly, forest supervisor for the Six Rivers National Forest, whose work has him managing more than a million acres of forest land between the Oregon border and Mendocino County.
The two-part panel is the second in the Career Center’s Future of Your Profession Series. The first, which took place last October, explored careers in the medical and business professions.
For more information about the seminar series, visit the Career Center, http://www.humboldt.edu/~career/, or call 707-826-3341.