Staff Contacts and Responsibilities

Shawn Warner, Director, Graduate Student Professional Development
shawnwarner@ucsb.edu

• Oversees graduate student career and professional development activities

• Campuswide New Graduate Student Orientation & Grad Success Series

• Grad Slam

• Beyond Academia career exploration conference

• Reorientation Program for recent ABD students

• Individualized Professional Skills (IPS) Grant Program

• Dissertation Write-In

• Graduate Division Mentoring Awards

• Fulbright U.S. Student Program Advisor

• Support for graduate students with children

VACANT, Assistant Director, Graduate Student Professional Development

• GradPost Editor

• GSRC Facebook page and email digests

• Supervises Graduate Student Peer Advisors

• Special event planning and coordination

Michael Roysner, Graduate Programming Assistant

chava@uscb.edu

• Lunch & Learn

• Support on GradPost and email digests

• Ongoing event management

• Special projects

VACANT, Director of Academic, Professional, and Technical Graduate Writing Development

• One-on-one writing consultations with graduate students (on writing of any type, genre, or discipline)

• Other writing support services

• Writing workshops and events (including annual series on supporting fellowship applications and going on the academic job market)

• Writing courses

• Faculty support for writing

• Departmental info sessions, guest lectures, and consultations

Maya Hargens, Graduate Career Counselor

mnsalm@ucsb.edu

• Overview of services

• Creator of UCSB Graduate Student Career Guide

• Creator of UCSB Individual Development Plans for graduate students

• Support for academic and non-academic job search

• Career counseling appointments and career assessments

• Job search strategies and resources

• Job document critiques and mock interviews

• Available for department-specific presentations and consultations