Beyond Academia, University of California Berkley
Graduate Career Consortium (GCC) Annual Meetings
GradFUTURES Forum, Princeton University
National Postdoctoral Association (NPA) Annual Meetings
International PhDs in the U.S. lead multifaceted lives despite challenges, which deserves a spotlight. In this 2022 GradFUTURES Forum talk (at Princeton University), Dr. Sonali Majumdar focuses leveraging storytelling to communicate distinct strengths, that international graduate students and professionals develop through lived experiences, which are valuable for success in diverse careers and can inspire international scientists to exercise the power of choice amid constraints of circumstances.
Navigating PhD training as an international student often means confronting unique challenges that can limit your vision of what's possible. This seminar empowers you to transform restrictive thinking into expansive opportunity. In this 2025 GradFUTURES Forum talk (at Princeton University), Dr. Sonali Majumdar shares insights from her forthcoming book, Thriving as an International Scientist (University of California Press), to discover a powerful creative framework for imagining parallel futures that transcend common barriers facing international scholars.
The Wheel Bazaar series provides a space to showcase and share successful department- or program-level activities and strategies related to cross-cutting areas for improvement identified by the AAU PhD Education Initiative pilot cohort. The aim is for participants to learn from one another in order to inform or launch similar activities and strategies. The purpose of this session is to share experiences with proposing and implementing curricular changes that better support the full range of PhD career pathways.
The Wheel Bazaar series provides a space to showcase and share successful department- or program-level activities and strategies related to cross-cutting areas for improvement identified by the AAU PhD Education Initiative pilot cohort. The aim is for participants to learn from one another in order to inform or launch similar activities and strategies. The purpose of this session is to discuss ways to design and implement skill building and professional development courses for doctoral students at both the university and department levels.
AAU PhD Education Initiative, Virtual Wheel Bazaar Series | 2021
I-Net NYC| 2023
NAFSA | Association of International Educators
National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine
New York Academy of Sciences
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies, Havard University
Society of Scientific Advancement, University of West Indies, Jamaica
Stanford University