{"id":12391,"date":"2019-03-04T16:06:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-04T21:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/?p=12391"},"modified":"2020-10-16T15:41:20","modified_gmt":"2020-10-16T19:41:20","slug":"building-a-perfect-major-for-a-perfect-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/2019\/03\/building-a-perfect-major-for-a-perfect-career\/","title":{"rendered":"Building a Perfect Major for a Perfect Career"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Janelle Johnson Roberts \u201910<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"810\" height=\"405\" src=\"\/1780\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2020\/06\/janellejohnson_feature-810x405.jpg\" alt=\"30 April 2018, Janelle Johnson stands for a portrait.\" class=\"wp-image-12370\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2020\/06\/janellejohnson_feature-810x405.jpg 810w, https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2020\/06\/janellejohnson_feature-350x175.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2020\/06\/janellejohnson_feature-730x365.jpg 730w, https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2020\/06\/janellejohnson_feature-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2020\/06\/janellejohnson_feature-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2020\/06\/janellejohnson_feature.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 810px) 100vw, 810px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Any Transy student major in international affairs today, but when Janelle (Johnson) Roberts \u201910 pieced it together as a self-designed major in 2007, she had in mind a more specialized version of the traditional political science major.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>International affairs had been on her mind since middle school, when she found herself frustrated by the divisive rhetoric about the Middle East after the September 11 attacks. Her best friend\u2019s family was Iranian, and she was already developing an affinity for the culture and its people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As she explored the political science curriculum, she kept being drawn by other areas, including anthropology, sociology and religion. So she developed a curriculum with her professors and took Arabic language courses at the University of Kentucky, all to prepare herself for a career in Middle East policy. She studied abroad for a semester in Amman, Jordan, and did a seminar on the Arab-Israeli peace process in Washington D.C.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI was 100 percent certain I would have a career in foreign relations or foreign affairs,\u201d she says. \u201cI knew I needed experience abroad, I knew I needed language training.&nbsp;I was incredibly grateful that Transy encourages their students to broaden their horizons. Everyone was so helpful, from Jeff Fryman and Kathleen Jagger to the study abroad office to the financial aid office.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Roberts went on to the University of Chicago\u2019s Harris School for Public Policy Studies, earning a master\u2019s in public policy, and she received a fellowship with the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, working with Congresswoman Karen Bass (D-CA) and then the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, where she advised Chairman Bob Menendez on sub-Saharan Africa during a time when there was conflict in the Central African Republic and a war in South Sudan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once her fellowship ended, she was hired full time before taking her current position at the Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. 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International affairs had been on her mind since middle school, when she found herself frustrated by the divisive rhetoric about the Middle East after the September 11 attacks. Her best friend\u2019s family was Iranian, and she was already developing an affinity for the culture and its people. As she explored the political science curriculum, she kept being drawn by other areas, including anthropology, sociology and religion. So she developed a curriculum with her professors and took Arabic language courses at the University of Kentucky, all to prepare herself for a career in Middle East policy. 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Everyone was so helpful, from Jeff Fryman and Kathleen Jagger to the study abroad office to the financial aid office.\u201d Roberts went on to the University of Chicago\u2019s Harris School for Public Policy Studies, earning a master\u2019s in public policy, and<\/p>\n<p class=\"continueLink\"><a class=\"btn btn-info\" href=\"https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/2019\/03\/building-a-perfect-major-for-a-perfect-career\/\">Read &ldquo;Building a Perfect Major for a Perfect Career&rdquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"1485,1604,6324,1819,10727,198","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[190],"tags":[],"feeds":[577],"class_list":["post-12391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni-outcomes","feeds-outcomes"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.5) - 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