Dr. Kristen (Krissy) Hudgins (Ph.D. 2010, Anthropology, U. South Carolina) is currently a Senior Social Science Analyst for the Administration for Community Living in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and is one of the federal leaders of the National Partnership for Action to End Health Disparities ’Interdepartmental Heath Equity Collaborative. Her dissertation, “Candles, Co-ops and Credit Funds: Exploring the Matrix of Grassroots Development Strategies in a Dominican Batey,” looked at how primarily Haitian residents of a batey in the Dominican

Republic dealt with the vagaries of short-term voluntourism (often from U.S. universities) as they forged year-round livelihoods. She graduated with a desire to work as a consultant and found herself buffeted by the realities of a non-academic job market that she did not really understand and for which she felt unprepared. Over the last ten years, she has “learned to use anthropology and its old standbys ethnography and participant observation as invaluable skills for finding jobs,” and she will be discussing those strategies in this event