Where do you work now? I'm a professor of psychology at Montgomery College and an associate faculty at John Hopkins University.
Can you describe what you do? I teach several classes: cultural psychology, personality psychology, women's psychology, intro psychology, etc. I'm also advisor to the Psychology Club.
How did you find your job? My long term goal was always to be an academic professor. In a nutshell, I constantly networked and was being persistent with available jobs.
When you were in college, was this what you planned on doing with your life? Absolutely, yes. I knew I wanted to major in psychology from eighth grade. When I went into grad school at Arizona State, I was in the Preparing Future Faculties Fellowship, where I was prepared for what life would be like as a professor.
How did your experience at Otterbein prepare you for your career? I networked with a lot of people on campus, and they really looked out for me. I was conducting student research at the undergrad level and got experience in all these things that I do at the Ph.D. level. My experience at Otterbein really was invaluable, and I can't speak more highly of it.
Do you have any advice for those majoring in psychology? Get to know the professors. Definitely consider graduate study and take advantage of all the internship and research opportunities available. Make your presence known, meet the faculty and seek counsel when you need it.
If you could go back to college, would you do anything differently? I would still go to Otterbein and Arizona State. I would have made a stronger effort to have contact with my undergraduate professors as I was moving forward. But I don't have any regrets. t&c;
