Careers for Humanities and Arts Majors

Gabriella Safran is the Eva Chernov Lokey Professor in Jewish Studies in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures. She teaches and researches about Russian and Yiddish literatures and cultures, folklore, intellectual history, and sound studies. Her most recent book, Recording Russia: Trying to Listen in the Nineteenth Century, is about how writers listen to people less privileged than themselves. As the Senior Associate Dean for Humanities and Arts, she enjoys learning about all the extraordinary work that students and faculty do at Stanford.

Michael Joiner-Hill is an Associate Director for Career Coaching and Education at Stanford Career Education. He leads a team that focuses on providing high quality career coaching support for undergraduate and master’s-level students pursuing degrees in the humanities & sciences. Prior to joining Stanford Career Education, Michael was the Director of the Humanities & Arts Student Success Center at San Jose State University and Assistant Director of Student Engagement for 18,000+ liberal arts undergraduate students at the University of Michigan. He has a BA in Psychology and MSW in Interpersonal Practice with a focus area of mental health, both from the University of Michigan.

Julian Kusnadi graduated from Stanford in 2012 with an MA in Religious Studies, BA in Philosophy and Religious Studies, and minor in Human Biology. After initial forays into social welfare and law, he presently spends his days at mission-driven startups, previously in education technology and now with Forward, working to build the first healthcare system at scale. Additionally, he remains active in the Bay Area professional music world and cofounded a continuously growing music non-profit in 2015. Julian lives with his wife—a music educator— and their two daughters in Richmond, CA.

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