Project Pengyou and The Hopkins-Nanjing Center are co-hosting a panel event that will focus on how to integrate China into your career across varying sectors.

On Thursday, December 3, Project Pengyou and The Hopkins—Nanjing Center (HNC) are co-hosting a panel event on how to build China into your career across a variety of sectors. The discussion will offer insights into getting started, the role of language skills, and strategies to shape a meaningful career, featuring prominent HNC alumni from the business, policy and nonprofit sectors. Special keynote speaker Anthony Kuhn, Beijing Correspondent for National Public Radio, will join the discussion and share his personal journey, from his first trip to China in the ’80s as a student to his career as a journalist, covering Asia for the past two decades.

Mr. Kuhn and the panelists will share their on-the-ground experiences in China and also give the audience a chance to take part in the dialogue. Robbie Shields, Student Career Counselor at HNC, will moderate the event. There will be a wine and networking reception following the discussion.

Panelists:

• Anthony Kuhn – Beijing Correspondent, National Public Radio (Keynote Speaker)
• Ashleigh Au – Special Assistant to CEO, SOHO China, and Secretary, SOHO China Scholarships (Panelist)
• Jim Heller – Deputy Political Consul, U.S. Embassy in Beijing (Panelist)
• Abe Sorock – Founder & CEO, ATLAS China (Panelist)

CO-ORGANIZERS:

The Hopkins-Nanjing Center for Chinese and American Studies, founded in 1986 in Nanjing, offers a unique bilingual and multinational learning environment at the graduate level, focused on international economics, politics, law and environmental issues. Its alumni community now numbers more than 2,600 graduates, employed across the full spectrum of China’s global relations. The Hopkins-Nanjing Center is an educational collaboration between the Nanjing University and the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.

Project Pengyou: The Project Pengyou initiative is a global network of young Americans and Chinese with firsthand experience in both countries. As a program of the Golden Bridges Foundation, Project Pengyou provides transformative leadership training to mobilize next-generation leaders to launch campus chapters of U.S.-China bridges-builders across the country. The initiative also maintains a dynamic online network with over 5,000 members and a resource hub curating China-related jobs, events and exchange programs. Project Pengyou is seeded by funds from the Ford Foundation and serves as a public private partnership with the U.S. Department of State. Learn more: ProjectPengyou.org

RSVP: Seating limited. To RSVP please send your name and affiliation to rsvp@projectpengyou.org by 12/1.