Students and faculty gathered April 11 for a Humanities question and answer session with six Baker alumni who shared where they are today and how BU helped them get there.

The six alumni were: 2003 graduates Lydia Krebs and Nikki Pauls, Corie Dugas from the class of 2004, 2006 graduate Molly Ireland, Patrick Lattin from the class of 2007 and Ashley Owen, who graduated in 2008.

“I was so well-prepared to go to graduate school,” Pauls said. “I knew that we had a great education here, but I didn’t really know how incredibly far ahead I was set compared to the other students because of what we had to offer here.”

While at Baker, Pauls interned at Children’s Hope International and never left. She now works as an international adoption social worker.

“I do feel so much compassion about what I do,” Pauls said. “It’s unbelievable I’m actually doing the career that I’ve always wanted to do since I was young.”

Throughout the question and answer session, all six graduates explained their jobs they have today, and each one also focused on how much they rely on the importance of communication in their professions. Also, they focused on the importance of studying a foreign language.

“What’s really great about studying languages at Baker is you start with two years where you’re learning the language, and within that, there’s a curriculum that’s developed to give you short introductions to the culture, the society, to the politics of the nation that corresponds with that language,” Lattin, communications officer for the French-American Foundation, said.

The alumni were all graduates of the Humanities program while at Baker and now have jobs ranging from being an attorney, like Krebs, to working in a university library, like Dugas.

“Liberal Arts, Humanities, Foreign Language, all of these provide you the ability to adapt to new areas, new ideas and new practices and I think that’s incredibly important,” Lattin said.