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Undergraduate Career Pathways in Criminal-Justice Reform
October 24, 2023 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm
Location: Remsen 233
Pizza will be served!
Have you considered a career in criminal-justice reform, law, or government and social policy? Are you wondering how you can use your STEM training in non-STEM career pursuits?
Please join this workshop to hear from two recent JHU graduates who are working on reform of criminal-punishment systems, focused on research, policy analysis, and education. Sumita Rajpurohit (’19) and Jess Zhang (’21) will speak about their career pathways, explaining how they transitioned from JHU to their current jobs and speaking about challenges they have faced and the rewards of the work they do. They will be able to answer questions about choices they made, including the value of the training they received at JHU.
Sumita Rajpurohit graduated from JHU in 2019 and majored in French and Mechanical Engineering with a Biomechanics concentration. For the last four years, she’s been working at a legal and racial justice advocacy non-profit in Montgomery, Alabama. She’s been active in a wide range of project areas, including investigating prison conditions, historical research and writing, public education, and memorializing victims of racial terror violence.
Jess Zhang graduated from JHU in 2021 with majors in International Studies and Economics and a minor in Social Policy. While at JHU, she supported direct services and advocacy work at Out for Justice, a grassroots criminal legal nonprofit in Baltimore led by system-impacted people. She also conducted research on housing mobility and educational access at the Johns Hopkins Poverty and Inequality Research Lab and worked with NARAL Pro-Choice Maryland to increase access to reproductive health care within Maryland’s prisons. Currently, Jess is a research analyst at the Vera Institute of Justice’s Beyond Jails Initiative, where she supports research and advocacy work on the criminalization of poverty, electronic monitoring, jail construction, and local incarceration.
This event is co-sponsored by the Program in Racism, Immigration, and Citizenship, the Life Design Lab, & the Center for Africana Studies.
This event is open to JHU undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, and staff.
