Dave Werner (class of 2002) started his career as an educator and is now a senior designer at Adobe working on their groundbreaking Character Animator software. Character Animator has been used by everyone from The Simpsons to ordinary people s

Filling In the Grid (feat. Sam Ezersky of NYT Crosswords)

Aug 5th, 2019 56m 49s

Sam Ezersky is the associate crossword editor for the New York Times, and works on their Spelling Bee and Letterboxed word games daily. Max Patten interview Sam and gets the story of how he went from studying mechanical engineering and economic

Improvising the Peformance (feat. Allison Mui)

Jul 8th, 2019

For our fourth episode, Allison Mui joins Max to talk about how she went from being a drama kid to improv in college, and a current career as the PR director of New Victory, New York’s nonprofit and family focused community theater.Follow @Whos

Data, Journalism, and Adaption (feat. Kennedy Elliott)

Jun 4th, 2019 57m 2s

Kennedy Elliott of the National Geographic speaks to Max about how she went from a UVA Media Studies degree to following a career in digital journalism and data visualization.Follow @WhoseShoulders on TwitterMentioned Links:Kennedy’s WebsiteHum

Entrepeneurship vs. the Establishment (feat. Tarek Pertew)

May 10th, 2019 56m 57s

For the second episode of Whose Shoulders, UVA McIntire alum Tarek Pertew talks about how he went from climbing the corporate ladder to entrepreneur, to CCO at tech hiring platform Uncubed and the founder of New York City’s fastest growing socc

Making Video Games (feat. Susannah Jones)

Apr 8th, 2019 59m 25s

For the debut episode, Max Patten interviews Susannah Jones, class of 2017. Susannah grew up loving games as a method of both artistic expression and social connection. Unfortunately, the video games industry can be difficult, unstable, and at

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