The New York casting and talent specialist at Backstage worked across a variety of mediums including commercials, TV, film, and theatre at the high-profile offices of Stewart/Whitley Casting, Harriet Bass Casting, Telsey+Co, and Paladino Casting, before joining the weekly magazine and online platform.

A New York technology firm co-founded by Queen's BSc Economics and Business (1996) graduate Gavan Corr from County Armagh, has announced 50 new jobs in Belfast.

Bronagh Kelly, LLB 2010, who has been practicing law in the United States since 2012, has received the State Bar of Nevada 2020 Young Lawyer of the Year Award.

Tessa Breslin, Head of YSC North America at YSC Consulting, was one of a number of graduate volunteers who participated in a highly successful online Queen’s Career Networking Evening in June.

Dr Marie Bradley obtained a Master’s in Pharmacy from Queen’s University Belfast in 2005 and worked as a pharmacist in Northern Ireland and England. She obtained her PhD in pharmacoepidemiology from Queen’s University Belfast in 2009, where her thesis focused on common medication use and pancreatic cancer risk. She then completed a 3-year post-doctoral fellowship, focusing on inappropriate prescribing in older people.

Dr Bradley received a Master’s in Public Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in 2013. She then undertook a 3-year Cancer Prevention Fellowship at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), Maryland, US, where her research focused on medication use and cancer risk and outcomes. She has over 10 years of experience working as a pharmacoepidemiologist in academic, government and regulatory sectors in Europe and the US, 7 of which have been in the US. Dr Bradley currently works as a senior pharmacoepidemiologist at the US FDA.

James holds a Master of Sciences in Pharmacy from Queen’s University of Belfast, a Master of Sciences of Health Economics from the University of York, and a Doctor of Philosophy in Health Economics from Brunel University London. He is now an investigator at Tufts Medical Centre in Boston Massachusetts, and an Associate Professor of Medicine at Tufts University.

Mareese has more than 20 years’ experience helping enterprises evaluate and create new opportunities for growth and development. She co-founded Opengate Partners, in 2020, to service the intersection of AgTech start-ups and corporations, helping to design and deliver unique corporate innovation services for agriculture and food corporations and drive growth for new businesses through effective corporate engagement.

Previously she developed and ran the award-winning THRIVE acceleration program for AgTech startups. Mareese graduated from UCC with a BSc in Geology followed by a MSc in Applied Environmental Sciences from Queen's University of Belfast. Her early career was focused on environmental issues, specifically waste management and water and wastewater utilities.

Sinead O’Sullivan holds a Bachelor of Aerospace Engineering from Queen’s University of Belfast, a Certificate of Space Studies from the International Space University, a Master’s of Aerospace Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

She has previously worked with NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Human Spaceflight missions and has focused on space technology commercialization at Harvard Business School where she was an Entrepreneurship Fellow. She is now working at MIT as a Senior Research Fellow at the Schwarzman College of Computing and a Fellow at the US Centre for Climate and Security.

Stephen A. Lamony is an Independent Consultant in International Criminal Law and Human Rights. Most recently, he served as a Senior Foreign Policy Adviser in the Office of the Senior Director for International and as a Senior United Nations Advocate, Africa, at Amnesty International in the International Law and Policy Directorate.

Prior to joining Amnesty International, Stephen worked as Head of Advocacy and Policy on United Nations, African Union and Africa-ICC situations at the Coalition for the International Criminal Court (CICC), during which he developed the organizations advocacy strategies with Inter Governmental Organization’s and the International Criminal Court.

Prior to that, he was the Executive Director for the Ugandan Coalition for the international Criminal Court (UCICC).  He has also served as Co-Founder and Executive Director of Uganda Victims Foundation and a Human Rights Officer at Human Rights Focus (HURIFO), where he investigated, monitored and documented human rights violations in 53 internally displaced person’s camps in northern Uganda and advocated for the prosecution of perpetrators of human rights violations.

He has a Master of Law in Human Rights Law and Criminal Justice from Queens University Belfast.

Semele Turro Yared is a Development Consultant with experience in the environmental, media, and social justice sectors. Semele has become an expert non-profit strategist and fundraiser. She has nine years' non-profit experience in large NGOs like the Environmental Defense Fund and in community organisations like the Hell's Kitchen Rooftop Farm, and has worked with the Northern Ireland Environment Agency. She has built fundraising programs from the ground up, led organisation-wide data migration and consolidations and redesigned development and organisational strategies. She graduated from Queen's University Belfast with an MSc in Leadership for Sustainable Development.

Born in California and raised in New Jersey, Semele spent nearly eight years living between Belfast, London, and Dublin before she repatriated back to the US in 2014.