Northwestern Intersections
Listen in as alumni share stories about how their careers have evolved and how key intersections of experience, opportunity, and alumni connections have propelled them to where they are today. Find out what these alumni have done right and wrong and what they’ve learned at each intersection along the way.
- Update frequency
- every 10 days
- Average duration
- 36 minutes
- Episodes
- 185
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
APIDA Heritage Month Special Episode with Phil Yu '00
Award-winning author, blogger, podcaster, and proud Northwestern alumnus, Phil Yu '00 first came to prominence as the author of the popular entertainment website Angry Asian Man. In this special epis…
What Does It Mean to Be a Woman in Medicine? With Shelly Vaziri Flais ’95, ’99 MD, ’02 GMER; Kavitha Gandhi ’94, ’98 MD, ’99 GMER; and Nupur Ghoshal ’01 PhD, ’03 MD
It started with the first Women in Medicine Tea hosted at The Drake Hotel in Chicago in 2017. It was a chance for Feinberg School of Medicine alumnae across generations to come together in one place …
What Does It Mean to Be a Woman in Medicine? With Shelly Vaziri Flais ’95, ’99 MD, ’02 GMER; Kavitha Gandhi ’94, ’98 MD, ’99 GMER; and Nupur Ghoshal ’01 PhD, ’03 MD
It started with the first Women in Medicine Tea hosted at The Drake Hotel in Chicago in 2017. It was a chance for Feinberg School of Medicine alumnae across generations to come together in one place …
What’s Next Live from San Francisco! An Alumnae Panel with Emily Moy ’18, Erin Turner ’14, and Tori Wu ’20
Northwestern Intersections records for the first time from Northwestern San Francisco! Learn from a panel of recent alumnae in a range of tech specialties as they share how they navigated early caree…
The Intersection of the Humanities and Technology with Iga Kozlowska ’14 MA, ’17 PhD
Iga Kozlowska ’14 MA, ’17 PhD graduated from Northwestern with a doctorate in sociology and now is the program manager of Responsible AI at Meta. How did she make the transition? And how is sociology…
Bending the Arc of History toward Justice, with Terry Franklin ’84
Terry Franklin—an attorney, writer, and storyteller—shares how finding the will of his fourth great-grandfather, John Sutton, revealed the emancipation story of his fourth great-grandmother, Lucy Sut…
How Mental Health Companies and Social Media Are Shaping Private Practice, with Kevin Yu ’19 MS
Kevin Yu ’19 MS joins Northwestern Intersections to share the personal story of how he pivoted from a career in finance to a licensed marriage and family counselor and founder of Soulstice Therapy, a…
Community Is a Foundation for Healing, with Inger Burnett-Zeigler ’09 PhD
Dr. Inger Burnett-Zeigler shares how she is working to provide mental health resources—including accurate information, access to identity-based providers and treatments, and psychotherapy in communit…
How to Make a Positive Impact, with 2022 Northwestern Alumni Medalist Cindy Chupack ’87
The Northwestern Alumni Medal celebrates alumni who have had a transformative impact on their field, who have performed exemplary volunteer service to society, or who have demonstrated an outstanding…
How to Make a Positive Impact, with 2022 Northwestern Alumni Medalist David Louie ’72
The Northwestern Alumni Medal celebrates alumni who have had a transformative impact on their field, who have performed exemplary volunteer service to society, or who have demonstrated an outstanding…
How to Make a Positive Impact, with 2022 Northwestern Alumni Medalist Jeff Ubben
The Northwestern Alumni Medal celebrates alumni who have had a transformative impact on their field, who have performed exemplary volunteer service to society, or who have demonstrated an outstanding…
The First Lady of Personal Branding, Melissa Dawn Simkins ’01 MS
Melissa Dawn Simkins ’01 MS shares how her experiences in the Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications’ IMC master’s program gave her an edge when the field of marketin…
What’s Next Live from Chicago! An Alumni Panel with Jennifer Siedjak ’14, Jim Alrutz ’16, and Ameen Kishta ’22 MS
What's Next Live from Chicago is back! In this episode of Northwestern Intersections recorded live from Medill Chicago, learn from a panel of recent alumni about their postgraduate journeys. Alumni f…
Finding Your North Star with Suchi Sethi Tuli ’10 MBA
In this episode of Northwestern Intersections, Suchi Sethi Tuli—head of recruiting for Google Cloud in the Japan and Asia-Pacific region and a member of NU-Kellogg Club of Singapore and the Alumni A…
Helping Others Rewrite Their Stories with Mirielle Ranade ’09
What do public affairs specialists and mental health practitioners have in common? The ability to listen and the desire to help someone tell their story. In this episode of Northwestern Intersections…
‘GRACE: President Obama and Ten Days in the Battle for America’ with Cody Keenan '02
In this special bonus episode of Northwestern Intersections, join us for an account from Barack Obama’s chief speechwriter, Cody Keenan ’02, of the 10 most dramatic days of the presidency, when a hat…
Leadership is a Journey with Ameet Mallik ’94, ’95 MS
Ameet Mallik, the new CEO of ADC Therapeutics—a commercial-stage biotechnology company improving the lives of those affected by cancer—joins the podcast to reflect on what leadership means to him. He…
Online Privacy Rights and the Datafication of Our Lives with University Trustee Jane S. Hoffman ’86 (’21 P)
Since she was a student at Northwestern, University Trustee Jane S. Hoffman ’86 (’21 P) has been interested in how messages and media are constructed and consumed. And found she could help others und…
Welcome (Back) to the Northwestern Alumni Association, Yari Gallegos ’19, ’20 MS
In 2018 Yari Gallegos joined the Northwestern Alumni Association (NAA) as a young alumni/Homecoming intern. Now she’s returned to the NAA as assistant director of alumni engagement for student to alu…
A Conversation with Supreme Court and Appellate Lawyer Carter Phillips ’75 MA, ’77 JD
The Northwestern Intersections podcast joins the Northwestern Law Alumni Fireside Chat Event Series for a live interview with Phillips, one of the most experienced Supreme Court and appellate lawyers…