As a Senior Cybersecurity Consultant at Ernst & Young, I help Fortune 500 organizations protect their most critical assets by embedding security into their system designs and operations. I lead secure-by-design initiatives and application security strategies for companies across a wide range of industries.
As an appellate criminal defense attorney, I help my clients challenge their convictions in state and federal court. In practice, that is a lot of reading case law, writing motions and briefs, and presenting oral arguments before appellate courts.
Grace Fletcher graduated from Georgia Tech in 2021 degrees in Public Policy and Applied Languages and Intercultural Studies. Since then, she has begun a career in the public sector, working in solar energy in Massachusetts.
Andy McNeil started off as a mechanical engineering major at Georgia Tech due to his fascination with cars. However, he struggled to make the grades he wanted and couldn’t find a fulfilling internship, so he decided to switch majors. He was taking a prelaw overview course at the time — offered by the School of Public Policy — and greatly enjoying it.
I am finishing up my last semester of law school at New York University! I was always pretty sure that I wanted to go to law school, and my time at Georgia Tech helped me solidify this.
I get to learn about all types of law, some of which I did not know existed before I came to school. I have gotten to take a variety of classes on topics including domestic violence, trusts and estates, digital currency, and fashion law.
I am currently based in the San Francisco Bay Area working at CyberCube, which provides cyber risk analytics for the insurance industry. I get to spend my time thinking about potential cyber catastrophe scenarios, who the threat actors would be, what kind of infrastructure may be targeted and why, and how the impacts could cascade across industries.
Public policy alumna works to provide safe transportation for women in Pakistan
Hira Batool Rizvi, MS Public Policy 2015, was recently named to the Meaningful Business 100 (MB100) list, which honors leaders working to achieve the United Nations’ Global Goals. Rizvi was named to this list of entrepreneurs, CEOs, and business leaders because of her work as co-founder and CEO of SheKab, a carpool and rideshare service for women in Pakistan without reliable access to transportation.
Since graduating with a B.S. in Public Policy in 2014, Meaghan Carver has launched a career in public service. She has served several roles in Georgia’s state government, focusing on how public policies impact the state’s budget.
