On Friday, November 20, a panel of SPO graduate alumni spoke to current graduate students to share insight and advice about pursuing career paths with a Ph.D. in Spanish and Portuguese.

The alumni on the panel were: Felipe Cala, associate director for advocacy at the Latin America Program at Open Society Foundations, Azahara Palomeque, writer, journalist, lecturer of cultural studies, and the associate director of MS in the Social Policy Program at the University of Pennsylvania, Javier Patiño Loira, assistant professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, Ana Sabau, assistant professor of Spanish at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and Nathaniel Wolfson, assistant professor of Brazilian and Portuguese literature and culture in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at UC Berkeley.