Before senior Drew Bent began his undergraduate studies at MIT, he considered his interests in education to be "side projects". He had worked at the educational platform Khan Academy and at Sony Ericsson while he was a high school student, employing what he had considered his main skill set since he was a child: programming.
Besides UC Berkeley, Semar has worked at other educational institutions including the Academy of Art and the California College for the Arts.
A few years ago, Mehmood Hanif, who trained to be a brand manager and had an M.Phil in marketing management, worked at an educational company in Karachi, Pakistan.
As a young lawyer, he had worked at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund as an assistant to Thurgood Marshall, who later became the first black U.S. Supreme Court justice.
After graduation he composed music, worked at a Baha'i educational center (where he met Ludwin's sister, Ashley, also a counselor there), then launched a consumer review site like Yelp called Gohuman (which he now describes as "a practice project") before returning to music full-time.
Each of them worked at a medical educational department and they were all involved in curriculum development, teaching, and research of education.
Mrs. Anderson, 32, works at Independent Educational Services, a nonprofit school placement organization in Alexandria, Va., as the director of college recruiting and a counselor.
One of the great joys of working at an educational institution is the chance to meet and interact with students, teachers, and researchers from all over the world.
"As soon as someone saw how close it got to the buildings, people literally ran out," said Carlina Rivera, 25, who works at an educational services company on the 22nd floor of 1 Liberty Plaza, adjacent to the site of the Sept. 11, 2001, attack.
One woman who works at an educational center for troubled youths in Middlesex County said that the East Jersey prison, which looms behind fencing, razor wire and high walls, was "just a building in our midst" and that school employees never hear or see what goes on inside.
