The Carleton Careers Alumni Board promotes alumni engagement with Career Center initiatives that prepare Carls from diverse backgrounds and identities across generations for an extraordinary life beyond college. 

Members of the Board:

  • Support the Career Center and its mission to enable Carls to turn their ideas into action to create an extraordinary life beyond college.
  • Act as leadership volunteers to build the Carleton career network and engage alumni volunteers to:
    • work with students one-on-one,
    • connect students to alumni through career communities, and
    • help the Career Center build events with alumni across the country.
  • Collaborate and communicate with leaders of other key Carleton volunteer networks (e.g., Alumni Council, Alumni Annual Fund, Alumni Admission Representatives, Multicultural Alumni Network, Out After Carleton).
  • Membership and Expectations

Board Members 2024-2025

  • Susan Hammel ’86, Chair
    CEO and Founder, Cogent Consulting PBC
  • Gordon Walker ’97 P’26, Chair-elect
    Executive Chairman, Riverbend Energetics
  • Peter Fritz ’08, Past-Chair
    Partner, Alston & Bird
  • Peggy Steif Abram ’80 P’17
    Partner (retired), Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP
  • Amira Aladetan ’24
    Medical Assistant, Tareen Dermatology
  • Jeffrey M. Bissoy-Mattis’16
    CEO / Co-Founder, Plugged
  • Matt Borland’ 95
    Tech/ Retired
  • Christine Gichimu ’26
    Student Career Assistant, Carleton Career Center
  • Seth Grauer ’26
    Student Career Assistant, Carleton Career Center
  • Cornell Hills ’74
    President (retired), TAA Services, LTD
  • Ritvik Kar ’19
    Product Manager, LinkedIn
  • Aaron Kaufman ’09
    Podcast Producer, iHeart Media/How Stuff Works
  • Todd Larson ’83
    International Civil Service 
  • Elizabeth Marquez ’01
    Analyst, United States Government
  • Ruth Matondo ’26
    Student Career Assistant, Carleton Career Center
  • Linda McAllister ’87
    Enterprise Deputy Director, Pediatric Cancer Programs, Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center and Professor, Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
  • Lizzie Merrill ’08
    Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Consultant
  • Bru Mutebi ’02
    Director of Marketing, Indeed
  • Hilary Renner ’87
    Senior Advisor for Strategic Communications on Cuba, US Department of State