Briana Mohan Email & Phone Number

Houston, TX, US

Houston, Texas, United States

• Plan and implement strategies for targeted and general recruitment of students and trainees
• Collaborate across the institution to organize recruitment events and to represent MD Anderson externally
• Develop material for external facing communications channels
• Facilitate the engagement of stakeholders in assessing needs and designing and implementing programs
• Manage calls for and reviews of applications for awards, scholarships, grants, and internal funding

Houston, TX

• Provided expert career guidance to UTHeath Houston postdoctoral scholars in individual consultations
• Delivered 90-minute lunchtime lecture entitled "Letting your 'why' guide your 'what' and 'how' questions in career decision-making" to approximately 60 UTHealth postdocs to conclude National Postdoc Appreciation Week.
• Developed and presented resume workshop for biomedical postdocs from the Gulf Coast Consortia for Quantitative Biomedical Science

New Orleans, Louisiana, United States

• Built new, university-wide position to provide vision, structure, and implementation of career and professional development support for 1,300 PhDs, masters students, and postdoctoral fellows in the natural and social.
• Transitioned all programming to a remote context as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic
• Collaborated with administrators, faculty, staff, alumni, graduate students, and postdocs to develop and coordinate university-wide… Show more
• Collaborated with administrators, faculty, staff, alumni, graduate students, and postdocs to develop and coordinate university-wide policies, practices, and programs
• Created and led workshops on a range of topics including career exploration, CV and resume development, career exploration, interview preparation, and negotiation skills
• Counseled students in confidential, individual appointments

New Orleans, Louisiana

• Advised Liberal Arts undergraduate students regarding career and academic options, including internships, summer opportunities, study abroad, careers, and post-graduate education
• Chaired committee to hire four new academic and career advisors in July, 2014
• Developed a training program to incorporate Motivational Interviewing into career and academic advising approaches; over 75% of advisors reported using this training in their daily practices
• Co-presenter of conference session… Show more
• Co-presenter of conference session entitled "'Just tell me what to do!': Using the spirit of Motivational Interviewing to support student and advisor autonomy" at the NACADA Region 7 annual conference in 2015 Show less

• Elected twice by GCC members to serve on the Executive Committee and to provide leadership for this rapidly growing, international professional organization, with membership from nearly 200 universities, research.
• Collaborated closely with experts in graduate and postdoctoral education on new initiatives
• Screened and approved new member applications, corresponded with prospective new members, created… Show more
• Screened and approved new member applications, corresponded with prospective new members, created agendas and took minutes for weekly Executive Committee meetings and annual business meetings
• Presented session at the 2021 annual conference, "How to work with graduate students and postdocs when the world is falling apart? -- Leaning on and adapting Motivational Interviewing approaches in individual.

• Developed and managed relationships with fellow executive committee members, sponsors, event planning company, host hotel, off-site event locations, keynote speakers, and vendors
• Led volunteer committee of twenty career professionals from across the US and Canada to raise funds and develop focus and content for GCC’s annual conference held in New Orleans in June 2019
• Successfully managed event budget of $140,000 while coordinating the organization’s first experience with conference… Show more
• Successfully managed event budget of $140,000 while coordinating the organization’s first experience with conference hosting at a hotel and collaborating with a newly contracted event planning company
• Conference had the highest attendance and amount of sponsorship funds since the organization’s founding Show less

Austin, Texas

• Co-coordinated academic advising for 530 full-time MBA students in a top 20-ranked program in which 97% of students participated in summer internships and 93% had job offers within three months of graduation
• Developed and implemented an Elective Fair in October, 2010 with department chairs and faculty to educate students about course offerings and program opportunities
• Coordinated international programs for inbound and outbound students; evaluated programs, conducted pre-departure… Show more
• Coordinated international programs for inbound and outbound students; evaluated programs, conducted pre-departure sessions, developed orientations, assessed course equivalencies, and handled emergency situations
• Created cross-training sessions for career and academic advisors
• Sourced funding, developed job descriptions, and hired and supervised part- and full-time international program staff

• Organized, trained, and supervised 50 voluntary core team leaders from member institutions representing 50,000 area residents to work with elected officials and business leaders at the local, state, and national levels
• Researched and planned initiatives to address broad-based issues, including expanded programs and support for the successful education and job training program, Capital IDEA, in the amount of $4 million of public and.
• Planned and conducted presentations… Show more
• Planned and conducted presentations and training sessions in Spanish and English for local and regional audiences of 10 – 600 participants
• Wrote successful grant applications and grant reports; maintained dues payments from member organizations Show less

• Advised 900 Radio-TV-Film majors and prospective students, including conducting biweekly information sessions for visitors
• Received the university-wide James W. Vick Award for Academic Advising from the Texas Exes in 2006
• Developed a successful Production Area Advising Session attended by over 100 students each semester
• Co-presented university-wide workshop entitled "Identifying and Building on Strengths to Better Support Underrepresented Students"

• Developed and taught courses in American Literature, Rhetoric, Business Writing, and Public Speaking
• Successfully assisted Malaysian and other international, first-generation students with transferring to U.S. universities

Ma, English Literature

Activities and Societies: Thesis on Malaysian and Singaporean literature in English focusing on the theme of returning home.

Ba, English Literature Major With The Concentration In Black Studies