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The field of International Relations is a broad one, encompassing opportunities in 'classic' IR professions such as at the State Department and in the intelligence services as well as careers in areas such as environmental policy, media, and the corporate sector. Our alumni have gone on to exciting careers in many different fields. For statistical information on our graduates' careers, click here. Below we present profiles of a few of our graduates.
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John Winslow, IREL, 1993 After graduating from the IR Department in Spring 1993, I continued my work for the Defense Intelligence Agency in the area of human intelligence (HUMINT) based in Boston . This was a great job that allowed me to meet a wide variety of people from all over the world and allowed me the opportunity to travel as well. The job also allowed me the opportunity to work semi-independently and allowed me to continue to use my various foreign language skills. |
| By June of 2002, I was newly married with two lovely daughters, and I decided to move back to my home state of Minnesota in order to raise my family closer to my relatives (I love being near my extended family, but my wife and I do miss Boston, and have been back once already!). I am currently working with the Citizenship and Immigration Service (CIS), Department of Homeland Security, as an Adjudications Officer. This job entails adjudication applications for immigration benefits, most notably permanent resident status and citizenship. I have the opportunity to meet a wide variety of people from all over the world and am exposed to many different cultures, something which the degree from Boston University really helps with! In my spare time I love to hunt, read history books, do woodworking, and help out with the local community, particularly in the schools. |
Kathryn Lurie, IRRN, 2006 Upon finishing classes in the Spring 2005 semester, I worked as an intern in the Department of State Office of International Religious Freedom compiling the International Religious Freedom Reports for Europe and Latin America. After my internship, I stayed on in the Department working to promote religious freedom in the Middle East. When I graduated in January 2006, I became a Foreign Affairs officer, and I am now responsible for advocating and reporting on religious freedom in the Arabian Peninsula. |
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| I serve as policy advisor to the Ambassador at Large for Religious Freedom, John V. Hanford III, on Saudi Arabia, and I have accompanied him to that region for negotiations. I also participated in the U.S. delegation for the U.S.-Saudi Arabia Strategic Dialogue in 2006. In a few years, I plan to convert to the Foreign Service. |
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Charles Hernick, IREP, 2006 After graduating in the spring of 2006, I spent a year working on invasive species, and have recently started a new job working on water sustainability issues. Invasive species are plants and animals from other parts of the globe that damage ecosystems and the economy when they are introduced to a new environment. Although there are many benefits to globalization, invasive species arrive explicitly because of people and goods moving around the globe. |
I worked in the Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management which was especially concerned about invasive species that make lakes, rives, and beaches inhospitable for humans and native species alike. Working for the state, our goal was to limit the potential for negatives impacts in Massachusetts, not by limiting connections with the world, but by focusing on high risk species and pathways.
This past spring, I started at The Cadmus Group, Inc., an environmental consulting firm in Boston. The projects I work on are focused on making drinking water systems more sustainable. Freshwater deposits and sources are unequally distributed both within the United States and across the world. People, however, are everywhere. The challenge is to find a balance between consumption and conservation that will succeed in the long term. Although our clients are mostly domestic, we increasingly work with developing countries to help ensure that drinking water is safe, water sources are protected, and ground and surface waters are of the highest quality. Looking back, the time I spent in the IR Department helped prepare me for both of these jobs by broadening my background on national and international actors, institutions, policies, and interests relevant to my work in the environmental field.
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Annie Lou, IRIC, 2003 Since graduating, I have worked as a journalist in both print and television. I am now a producer for Bloomberg Television, a division of New York-based Bloomberg News, responsible for booking, writing and producing segments for the Emmy-nominated morning program Bloomberg on the Markets. Before joining Bloomberg, I freelanced for a number of publications, including the news magazine World Press Review and the Chinese Vogue. She now lives in New York City. |
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Megan Kludt , IRJD, 2006
Megan Kludt graduated from the Boston University International Relations postgraduate program in May of 2006. She simultaneously completed her Juris Doctor with a Concentration in International Law. She spent the summer of 2006 working as an intern at the immigration law firm of Antone, Casagrande & Adwers, P.C. in the Detroit area of Michigan, where much of her family resides. After passing the bar exam and being admitted as an attorney in both Michigan and Massachusetts, she returned to Boston, where she took a position as an associate attorney at Joyce & Associates, P.C., another immigration law firm.
Megan handles a wide variety of cases, including political asylum claims, family immigration and business immigration, as well visa applications for artists, athletes and students. Her clients come from around the world, necessitating a working knowledge of current international events affecting their applications. She is fluent in Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese and uses both languages on a daily basis to communicate with her clients from Latin America. She is also studying French and Mandarin to facilitate communication with many of her other clients.
Megan has not ruled out the possibility of living outside of the United States in the future, but for now she is set on developing herself as an attorney in the immigration communities here in Boston. Her job gives her the opportunity to make oral arguments in court, prepare legal briefs and do research, while still keeping an international focus and maintaining her language skills. |
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