一个真正的领袖和学者

Asia Carter-Lamb knew she was interested in money management from a young age. 在RWU主修金融之后, she got a job as an Associate Financial Analyst at Akamai Technologies in Cambridge, MA. 在未来, Carter-Lamb plans to leverage her skills to help her community in her home city of Baltimore. 

2020年春天，卡特-兰姆 因为她的成就和对校园的参与而受到认可 with the Lt. Charles A. 亨德森精神奖, which recognizes seniors who demonstrate the embodiment of a  true scholar as they strive for excellence and overcome adversity, and the Dr. Karen R. Haskell高级领导奖, which recognizes senior student leaders for their contributions to the campus community.

We recently talked with Carter-Lamb to learn more about her experiences at RWU and in the field of finance. 

你在Akamai技术公司做什么工作? 

I’m part of a three-year program within the financial department at Akamai. 每年我都会有一个新的角色. 

我目前的工作是在财务卓越中心, a data governance team that makes sure the other teams of analysts have accurate information. 我将在这个职位上工作到2021年8月. 第一次轮岗后，我将换一个角色, 我将对这个角色有更多的发言权. 

体验不同的角色有什么好处? 

It will give me a lot more exposure to different facets of finance within corporate finance, 特别是在Akamai的财务部门. I think that will make me more flexible and give me more breadth of knowledge than staying in one role for three years. Getting that exposure is really valuable because I will learn about different parts of the company. 

你一直都知道你想从事金融行业吗? 

I knew I had an interest in money management from a young age. I wasn’t really exposed to what that would correlate to for a career. The only thing I was exposed to was accounting, so I came into Roger as an accounting major. I changed my major within the first two or three days because one I learned about finance, I understood that my interests lay more with it than with accounting. 有一次我在头三天内换了专业, 我坚持了下来, 我真的很喜欢. 

What experiences did you have at RWU that helped you get this position? 

During my freshman year, a student who was a grade older than me was involved with a program called INROADS, which helps specifically people of color but also low-income students find internships in corporate environments. 他带了一个代表来 跨文化中心 告诉我们INROADS的机遇. I was very interested and was accepted into the program during my sophomore year. I was able to apply for different roles, and completed my first internship at Lockheed Martin. Without INROADS, I don’t think I would have had that opportunity. 在这么大的, well-known company gave me a leg up to get my internship afterwards at Akamai. 后来阿卡迈给了我一份全职工作，我接受了. 

Were you involved with any groups, clubs, or organizations at RWU?

我在校园里参与了很多活动. During all my time there I served as a math tutor and in my last year and a half I was a 健康和健康教育家.) I was also on the women’s track team for 2 years and I was a member of the Summer 高级金融教育中心(CAFE)项目. 我也是 Alpha Chi (全国荣誉学会)和 Sigma 国际商业荣誉协会.我也是……的活跃会员 跨文化领导力大使 & 奖学金计划, 我担任导师的地方吗. 我确实充分利用了我的时间. 

Being involved on campus gave me the opportunity to meet different types of people and use different types of skills. 在辅导时与人互动, 到HAWE的公开演讲, 在CAFE中学习分析技巧, 我所有的经验都很有用. 

你认为你未来的职业发展如何?

I plan to stay involved in business, but more in the public sector. 我来自巴尔的摩市, and a big part of what I want to do is to return to the city and use my skills to help make the city a better place. 

Down the road I would like to get a joint degree with my MBA and a Master’s in Public Policy, 尤其是辅修了经济学之后. Those skillsets linked together could really help me make a difference in my community. 

What is your advice for students interested in a career in finance?

利用好你的关系网. Talk to professors, other students, people within your family, close friends, any network you have. There are many programs like the one I was involved with for all types of students, and those really help people get a leg up to get that first opportunity they need to go forward. 利用你的关系网和资源.