We know navigating the college years and next steps is hard! Please join us for a panel discussion featuring three wise friends: a life coach, a career counselor and a therapist. Learn more about what they do, why they do it and how they got there followed by a time for candid conversation.
Drinks & Snacks provided. All are welcome. Always.
Meet our PANELISTS!
Judy Schenk has a passion for people and their “big ideas.” She holds a Masters Degree in Organization and Management, is a certified Professional Coach, and co- founder of Tinamou Consulting LLC. In 2016, she co-founded, Firepond Press, a publisher of written works that support the landscape of human “Wholeness, Boldness, and Wonder.”
She applies her formidable drive to launch people and organizations in the direction of positive and lasting change. Her work is strategic…and fun!
Judy has worked in all phases of the business process as well as in multiple service areas including Insurance, Banking/Finance, Faith Based, Tax, Audit, Oil and Gas, Business and Strategic Analysis, Learning Product Development (including Web Based Learning), Performance Solutions, Consulting Services, International Human Resources, Learning System Design, Health Care and Women’s Leadership.
Judy brings a rare combination of Coaching, Facilitation, Design, and Process Consultation skills that serve key decision makers and executive/emerging leaders in both the profit and not-for-profit sectors well. Judy uses these unique design and learning methodologies to influence, accelerate, and amplify performance that makes a real difference.
Judy enjoys writing, rowing crew, and stewarding a small farm in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia.
She is a poet and published author of In.tu.it The Poems of an American Woman.
Most importantly, she celebrates life with her husband and business partner, Chris. Together they have three accomplished children who are applying their unique talents to make this world a better place for everyone.
Mary originally joined New City Counseling as a staff counselor in 2008 and returned in 2015 after living for six years in Colorado. She has a master's degree in mental health counseling from the University of Virginia. She has clinical experience serving a broad clientele and enjoys working with couples, women, and multicultural clients. Mary worked with families as an intern for the Charlottesville League of Therapists and with students at the University of Virginia Women's Career Center. She also has experience working in Ethiopia, where she served with Women at Risk (WAR), providing counsel to women who are heads of households and struggling to overcome lives involving poverty, prostitution, and addiction, and with an HIV/AIDS team supported by SIM and MTW missions, where she worked as a group leader and women's counselor. She had a private practice in Colorado Springs until her return to New City. Mary was born and raised in Ethiopia to an Ethiopian mother and an Indian father. When she is not counseling, she loves spending time with her large extended family, traveling, reading, and napping. She is married to her better half and is the grateful mother of four children.
Hunter helps students of all years and majors with major and/or career development. He works with students in various capacities including one-on-one appointments, drop-in hours, and/or classroom presentations. As a member of the Exploration community, Hunter can help students who are trying to discover their major and how that connects to a career. Hunter also serves as the co-lead of the Career Peer Educator (CPE) program, overseeing 20 undergraduate student employees who help in the career development of their fellow students. Hunter also serves as the co-lead for the internal diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) team within the Career Center.
Prior to joining the UVA Career Center in August 2017, Hunter was a graduate Career Coach at the University of Kansas helping students navigate the career exploration process. He also worked with the Women’s Center as the Men and Masculinities Intern, creating and delivering presentations to various student groups on the definitions of healthy masculinity and how it benefits all people. Hunter is passionate about helping students discover what it is they want to do. With a background in gender and racial inequality, Hunter utilizes an intersectional lens to better serve students who have been marginalized.
Hunter studied Sociology as an undergraduate before receiving his Master’s in Higher Education Administration. Both of his degrees come from the University of Kansas. In his free time Hunter enjoys catching up on the latest movies/shows, Twitter, or trying the latest restaurant Charlottesville has to offer.