June 2021 Edition - WHAT EMPLOYERS WANT PODCAST PANEL SERIES: Dr. Chinonso Edward Akano

The Podcast Series is intended to guide new and recent graduates to become quality professionals in these troubling times as they seek their careers and adjust to the new realities outside the walls of college campuses. Employers and professionals from various industries will share experiences, guidance, information, instruction and recommendations for graduates. The hope is for graduates to strategically navigate new useful ideas to deal with realities never taught in college. For this episode, our emphasis was providing advice to new and recent graduates with STEM-related backgrounds. We had as guest Dr. Chinonso Akano, a longtime friend of mine who makes it a point to make a difference within his community. He is a pharmacist by training and a practicing medical scientist has worked for numerous pharmaceutical companies in the US. Currently at Gilead Sciences, he has helped to launch several therapies for patients suffering from life threatening diseases.  He is an educator and the founder of a charitable foundation - The Akano Foundation, whose mission is to serve and provide cultural awareness and support healthy sustainable communities through education and technology. He is alumnus of East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania and Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.