The New York City chapter would like to thank DinnerGuest Carrie Mandel for joining us last night.  And while Alison Weaver was unable to attend due to a last-minute obligation, we thank her generous offer and have included her “talking points” below.

Carrie was a source of a tremendous amount of advice and inspiration. Just by sharing her story of her own career development — from just after college to pursuing a graduate degree to planning the balance of career and family — she offered an encouraging example to her younger sisters.

Carrie A. Mandel, BA Princeton 1993, JD Harvard University 1997
Managing Director, Major Hagen & Africa

Carrie earned her B.A. summa cum laude in comparative literature, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Carrie practiced as a litigation associate, focusing on intellectual property, at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett and Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler.

During her vacations, Carrie has guided and developed biking, walking and yachting trips for Butterfield & Robinson. Some of the trips she has led include hiking to Machu Picchu, racing America’s Cup yachts to Newport, and biking through Burgundy wine country.

In addition, she studied French business and law at the Ecole Polytechnique and is fluent in French.

[Copy stolen gratuitously from the Major Hagen & Africa web site.]

Alison Weaver, BA Princeton 1993, MBA Yale School of Management 1999
McKinsey & Company

Alison has worked at Everybody Wins (a nonprofit literacy program), Orion, the Museum of Modern Art, and currently McKinsey & Company. She’s worked in both the non-profit and for-profit sectors and has interests in both worlds. Currently, she works on a pro bono basis for a charter school in the Bronx in addition to her for-profit client work at McKinsey.

You can learn more about Alison’s charter school by clicking here.

Thank you, Carrie and Alison!