By erbeeler
Hi all - update here from the beautiful city of London, England.
I've finally gotten settled in and I'm absolutely loving the city so far. Last week, I turned in my first paper for my classes here (it was a really interesting piece critiquing Aristotle's writings on the naturalness of slavery). Although it got me crammed up for a few days in the library... I've luckily still had the ability to see so much around London for the last few weeks.
On the community service side, I've had an amazing time getting involved with my local community. I've actually been in talks recently with the King's College Career Center as well as some local LGBTQ+ organizations - for example, an amazing organization called MyGWork - about assisting with local events that promote professional networking opportunities for university-aged students who identify on the LGBTQ+ spectrum.
Two weeks ago, I was able to attend and make connections at an incredible networking event in downtown London. Students were in attendance from all over: Kings College, LSE, the University of London, Queen Mary, and even some taking the train all the way from Oxford/Cambridge. Moreover, senior representatives from companies like GSK, PwC, BP, Warner Bros, BNP Paribas, and many other incredible industry leaders were there to talk about their experiences being a LGBTQ+ professional in our modern workforce.
We talked about really important topics like: coming out on your resume, finding safe spaces within the workplace, and gender-identity/sexual-identity/career-trek related topics. My hope is that in the next few weeks, I'll be able to partner more with MyGWork and the King's College Career Center to make opportunities like this more accessible to students who may have questions about these topics.