Monday, March 14, 2022. 5-6:30pm

Registration link: go.umd.edu/AASTFederalCareers

Federal, state, county and local governments provide essential services and work products that you and your community rely upon every day, including safe food and drinking water, paved roads, and the statistical data that help us to understand our economy. Many talented, dedicated and community service-oriented people work in these government entities, and maybe you can be one of them!

This panel discussion will explore how you can get, keep, and get promoted at a federal government job. Participants will be from both the civilian and military sectors, with experience in scientific, statistical, business, social science and other disciplines. A special focus will be the history of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in federal service, and how they have used the stability of federal jobs to do good for their communities and for the nation as a whole.

PANELISTS:

• Mayumi Hairston Escalante is a Terp and Partnership Specialist at the US Census Bureau

• Terri Ann Lowenthal is a former Staff Director of the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Census, Statistics, and Postal Personnel

• Priya Joy Rathnam is a Terp and Division Director at the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

• Major General Antonio (Tony) Taguba (US Army, Retired) served in the US military and was honored by AAST with the endowment of the “M.G. Antonio Taguba Profiles in Courage and Leadership Scholarship” to assist two Terps per year

• Phil Tajitsu Nash (Moderator) teaches at AAST and also served as a Curator at the Smithsonian Institution

Hosted by the University of Maryland's Asian American Studies Program

Sponsored by the Juanita Tamayo Lott Endowment at UMD AAST

Learn more about the Juanita Tamayo Lott Endowment in Asian American Studies: www.aast.umd.edu/juanita-tamayo-lott-endowment