Alumni Speaker Series Virtual Q&A Featuring Ciara Bennese '18
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Alumni Speaker Series Virtual Q&A featuring Ciara Bennese '18
Topic: Starting a career in refugee resettlement or social service nonprofits.
Registration Link: https://fsu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAsf--qqzgpHtFuO-jKux-k6-VsFPKLXiEX
Student Moderator: Ainsley Coty
Submit a question for Ciara here: Question Submission Link
Ciara Bennese is a 2018 alumna of FSU's College of Social Sciences and Public Policy with a B.S. in International Affairs, Political Science, and Spanish language. She currently lives in Washington, DC and works for the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), one of the United States' nine refugee resettlement agencies, in the Migration & Refugee Services department. As a Program Associate, she helps implement the Reception & Placement (R&P) and Match Grant (MG) programs in over forty offices nationwide through grants administered by the Department of State and the Department of Human and Health Services, respectively.
Additionally, Ciara is entering her second year as the Legislative Coordinator for DC with Amnesty International USA where she specializes in legislative advocacy on migrant/refugee rights and gun violence. Presently, Ciara is working on revising her undergraduate thesis from FSU's Global Citizen Certificate Program on refugee cultural integration and expects to publish these findings in 2021.