FTMBA '22
Rice Business Black Alumni Gateway
The Rice Business Black alumni network is abound with talented and accomplished professionals across industries and sectors. As the network grows each year, there is an increased desire to intentionally connect students with the black alumni network. To address this need, Black Business Student Association (BBSA) and Black alumni leadership worked together to launch the Rice Business Black Alumni Gateway, a website featuring an easy-to-search directory of Black alumni profiles by industry and career, along with highlights of Black excellence, leadership and accomplishment.
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Join the Black Alumni Gateway
Join other Black alumni to showcase excellence and achievement across the Rice MBA program!
For general questions, please email Patra Brannon-Isaac, MBA '11, alumni liaison for Black Alumni Gateway. To request updates to your profile, please email marcom@rice.edu.
Owl Have You Know
A podcast by Rice Business Alumni
Owl Have You Know is a production of Rice Business Alumni to share stories of alumni, faculty, students and the business community. Owl Have You Know strives to exhibit the global, diverse and inclusive Rice Business community, provide a platform for faculty or the school to publicize research or news, share examples of the Rice Business experience for prospective students and support the greater Houston start-up community.
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Ashley shares her journey from a science-focused career path to the beauty industry. She talks about pursuing an MBA to pivot careers, encourages others to pursue unconventional paths with their MBAs, and imparts an important lesson: closed mouths don’t get fed.
Sean covers his career path from electrical engineering to pursuing a doctorate in global education and his current work as the Associate Dean of the Asia School of Business in Kuala Lumpur.
Natalie, senior director of mergers and acquisitions strategy and operations at EY-Parthenon, sits down with host Scott Gale ‘19 to discuss her early years working offshore with bp, her dreams of reaching the C-suite in the oil industry, working and living in China, and starting her own clothing business, Sisterly Village.
With a background in chemical engineering, she pivoted to cloud strategy and delivery, working with major companies. She joined Google in 2020 and was head of strategy and operations for YouTube marketing, before becoming the customer experience and innovation leader at Google Cloud Consulting.
It’s not every day that you talk to a reporter with an MBA. In our new episode of the Owl Have You Know podcast, host Maya Pomroy ’22 turns the tables on Kalyn Norwood ’22 and asks her about her unconventional path. Kalyn describes a day in the life of a White House correspondent and how Rice strengthened her understanding of her craft.
Takeya joined Citi as an investment banking associate in Houston, Texas for the clean energy sector. In today's episode with our host Scott Gale ‘19, she shares her incredible journey from the chemical engineering lecture halls of a top-ranked program to the control rooms of world-scale chemical manufacturing facilities, and her experience overcoming the challenges placed in front of her to being honored this year by the Texas Business Hall of Fame as a leader of distinction.
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