Alumni Career Influencers
GW Alumni Career Influencers is a joint effort of the Center for Career Services and Office of Alumni Relations to help foster alumni-student mentorship. The program aims to increase access to GW alumni by featuring them in our GW Career Connect platform and at Center for Career Services programs, workshops, and career fairs. The alumni guide students by sharing their experience and advice to help students research and explore career options in various fields.
Joshua Kaye
ESIA MA ‘18
Management Analyst, WWC Global
Joshua Kaye is a Management Analyst at WWC Global. He has extensive experience in both the public and private sectors with specialization in international affairs, the Middle East, and education market research.
Joseph Crandall
SEAS BS ‘17, MS ‘19
Software Engineer II, Microsoft
Joseph Crandall B.S.’17, M.S.’19 is a part time Ph.D. student in Electrical Engineering and a Software Engineer II at Microsoft. His Ph.D. research area is photonic and electro-optic accelerators, and at Microsoft he works within the Azure Data team on the SQL IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) product.
Evol Ewan
GWSB MSPM '08
VP Operations, EJALE Group LLC
Evol Ewan is Vice President and Director of Operations for EJALE Group. He is responsible for managing business development, estimating, project management and construction operations.
Richa Batra
GWSB MBA ‘08
VP & General Manager, Blackboard (now Anthology)
Richa Batra is the Vice President and General Manager of the Student Success organization at Anthology. Richa oversees a team of over 1000 employees and runs a delivery team that scales up to more than double to support back to school with 8 million annual interactions supporting students.
Sydney Walley
ESIA BA '17
Associate Director, Communications & Events, FGS Global - Communications Firm
Sydney Walley is an Associate Director in FGS Global’s Strategic Communications Division, based in Washington, DC, where she plans and executes high-profile events on behalf of the firm’s corporate, nonprofit, government and entertainment clients around the globe.
Hillary Phillips
GWSB MBA ‘19
Senior Digital Strategist, Taoti Creative
Hillary Phillips is a Senior Digital Strategist at Taoti Creative in Washington, DC. She works with clients ranging from federal agencies to trade associations to ensure their website aligns with their organizational goals.
Negin Hooshmandnia
GWSB BBA ‘16
Senior Business Analyst, American Council on Education
Negin Hooshmandnia is currently a Senior Business Analyst at American Council on Education (ACE) - a membership organization that mobilizes the higher education community. She is also an Adjunct Instructor for Business Leader Foundations for Transfer Students (BADM 1003) course at The George Washington University, School of Business.
Barbara Hunley
GWSB BBA ‘10
Senior Manager, Engagement Delivery, Salesforce
Barbara Hunley is the Senior Manager of Engagement Delivery at Salesforce. She is committed and passionate about building strong and dedicated teams and being a trustworthy and steadfast confidant for clients.
Paula Hayes
SPH MPH '17
Associate Medical Director, Neighborhood Health
Paula Hayes, MD, MPH, is an Associate Medical Director and provides full scope Family Medicine at Neighborhood Health, a network of Federally Qualified Health Centers in Northern Virginia.