FEBRUARY 17, 2022
6:00 - 7:30 PM CT
Careers Panel Recording
PANELISTS
Angela Ramer
Angela Rameris an anthropologist in the Advisory group at HKS. Her work is at the intersection of research and strategy to deliver actionable, empirical insights to inform business and design decisions. Angela brings an ethnographic and usercentered design perspective to highimpact projects that enhance the human experience. Recent work spans healthcare, hospitality, sports, and commercial interiors/workplace. Fromexecutive strategic visioning to end user engagement, she values participation at all levels of an organization to ensure representative perspective. Her work helps organizations prioritize investments, integrateuser expectations, and culturally align towarda desired future state.
Danielle Quintanilla
Danielle Quintanillagraduated from UNT in 2020 with B.A.'s in both Anthropology and History, and a minor in Spanish. She currently works on the Digital Marketing team at Fujitsu Network Communications in Richardson, TX, where she is the primary contact for all things data analytics. Her analyses of marketing performance help influence decisions on the executive level and focus on understanding the customer journey and how to better communicate with FNC's various customers in the telecom industry. She champions using data science Angela Rameris an anthropologist in the Advisory group at HKS. Her work is at the intersection of research and strategy to deliver actionable, empirical insights to inform business and design decisions. Angela brings an ethnographic and usercentered design perspective to highimpact projects that enhance the human experience. Recent work spans healthcare, hospitality, sports, and commercial interiors/workplace. Fromexecutive strategic visioning to end user engagement, she values participation at all levels of an organization to ensure representative perspective. Her work helps organizations prioritize investments, integrateuser expectations, and culturally align towarda desired future state. to inform without misleading, andgrounds analyses in nuance and cultural context of both the subjects and final audience. As an avid learner with way too many interests, she loves the versatility of applied anthropology and enjoys finding new ways to approach business processes using anthropological principles. She also serves on the leadership team for the Fujitsu employee group, Classroom to Corporate (C2C), which helps recent graduates network at the company, gain new skills, and grow their career. Outside of work, Danielle can be found practicing epee fencing and hand-sewing historical costumes.
Lisa Quirk
Lisa Quirk graduated from the University of Washington with a BA in Medical Anthropology. Seeking a top notch applied anthropology graduate school, Lisa then applied to the UNT dual degree (MS/MPH) program, ultimately completing that program in 2014. Since graduation, Lisa has kept busy working first as a research coordinator and then as research manager at UT Southwestern. She also has been teaching anthropology at local community colleges since 2015. New Jersey, teaching a four-field high schoolanthropology course as well as AP World History. Mike's anthropology classes carry out hands-on research in his school community. In addition to teaching, Mike serves on theAmerican Anthropological Association Education and Outreach Advisory Group, is a member of the ongoing AAA Teachers Workshop, and he also is active with the National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Career Readiness Commission. Mike's greatest joy, however, is spending time with his family, including his wife Rachel, his two young boys, and his dog, Willow. In her free time, Lisa enjoys spending time with herloved ones and menagerie of animals.
Elsa Irby
is an applied cultural anthropologist with experience in both quantitative and qualitative methodologies and expertise in Black, Hispanic, and LGBTQ+ communities. They are influenced by their affinity for diverse cultures and their intersectional identity. Elsa has extensive experience leading data analysis, developing questionnaires/surveys, identifying cultural insights, conducting secondary research, designing research projects, leading IDIs, facilitating focus groups, and producing creative data storytelling.
As a DE&I Consultant at Kantar's MONITOR, Elsa translates their passion for consumer advocacy among underserved communities into actionable and creative insights. Through an intersectional lens of culture, context, and empathy, Elsa identifies impactful insights among a variety of communities. Elsa holds a Bachelor's degree in Anthropology from Syracuse University and a Master of Science in Applied Anthropology from the University of North Texas.
Madeline Fink
kis a data specialist and researcher working in the non-profit sector. She graduated with a BA in Anthropology with a Minor in International Studies from the University of North Texas in 2016 and received her MS in Applied Anthropology from UNT in 2018. In her current role at Children's Advocacy Center for North Texas (CACNT), she focuses on helping the organization better serve victims of child abuse in the North Texas community through management and Flo Forno is a recent graduate of UNT's MS in Applied Anthropology. Flo became interested in anthropology in high school because of her background as a third culture kid. She got her undergraduate in cultural anthropology at Binghamton University in New York, then moved to Texas and recently graduated with her MS in Applied Anthropology from UNT. She conducted her thesis research exploring the motivations behind participants' decisions to partake in User Experience Research. She currently works at Red Hat, a software company, as a user experience researcher. She uses her anthropological training to conduct studies on digital experiences and inform her research decisions. At Red Hat, Flofocuses on humanizing the user by advocating fortheir needs and expectations. She enjoys collaborating with teams of various disciplines to gain multiple perspectives, and showcases the value of anthropology in her daily work. Flo currently lives in Dallas and enjoys visiting White Rock lake with her partner, her dog Sgt. Pepper, and will soon have their first child joining them on their lake walks! analysis of client data. Prior to working with CACNT, Madeline worked with data related to individuals experiencing homelessness in Denton County at United Way of Denton County. She specializes in turning large collections of clientinformation into insightful narratives that help show non-profit organizations how they can improve their data management, as well as accessto resources in their community. Outside of her work, she enjoys travelling, reading, and studying the Korean language.
Chris Ferrel
Chris Ferrell was awarded his BA in Anthropology in 2013 and his MS in 2016 with a focus on business anthropology and organizational behavior. He secured an internship with Transplace in 2014 where he provided logistics industry updates directly to the CEO. The access to data and senior industry leaders proved invaluable to his thesis work on high driver turnover in long-haul trucking. In 2017 he began serving asthe Senior Research Analyst for UNT's College of Engineering managing budgets forall externally funded research projects. By employing a design thinking model, he created a reconciliation process thatincreased the frequency and ease of budgetreporting for 47 Principal Investigators managing 100 research projects. He has been working as a User Experience Researcher at RealPage since 2020 focusingprimarily on problem definition, discovery, and research design. He uses his ethnographic skills to serve multiple product teams and strives for transparency, connection, and confidence on every project.