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Career Exploration Reimagined: Tools to Guide Young People
Thursday, September 25, 2025 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm EDT
Presented by Dustin Liu, Senior Associate Director, Initiative on Purpose and Flourishing, NYU Stern School of Business; Josie Masset, Social Video Specialist, Southwest Ohio Jobs Explained, ThinkTV; and Latoya Semple, Project Specialist for American Graduate: Jobs Explained, The WNET Group
Sponsored by Jobs Explained from WNET Education
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From agritechnology to cybersecurity, healthcare to manufacturing, career opportunities are out there for students to discover! This edWebinar introduces middle and high school teachers, librarians, counselors, and administrators to Jobs Explained, the free career discovery resource from The WNET Group, an award-winning public media leader. Jobs Explained was created to connect young people with in-demand jobs and career pathways in their communities using the social channels that teens and tweens use the most.
During this edWebinar, viewers have the opportunity to learn about Jobs Explained and the many career paths the program explores. In addition, one of the initiative’s social media content creators describes how the program’s social content is developed and show several examples. Special guest Dustin Liu, from the NYU Stern Initiative on Purpose and Flourishing, provides a unique frame for educators in their work to support students’ curiosity about careers and the steps it takes to build pathways to success.
This recorded edWebinar is of interest to middle and high school teachers, librarians, counselors, administrators, and career and technical education teachers and leaders.
About the Presenters
Dustin Liu is a Taiwanese American and proud New Yorker, where he is the Senior Associate Director of the NYU Stern Initiative on Purpose and Flourishing (IPF). He leads the strategic direction of the organization, encouraging connections between research and practice, managing strategic partnerships, and overseeing the design and implementation of the Initiative’s programming. Most recently, Dustin was a lecturer at Stanford University and was the Associate Director of the Stanford Life Design Lab, where he taught the principles of design thinking and guided students as they developed their own answers to the tough questions in life, education, and vocation.
He has previously held teaching and administrative positions at Cornell University, Harvard University, The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and The University of Chicago. Dustin is most proud of the work where he can identify and share frameworks that make sense of disparate experiences, ideas, and domains.
Josie Masset is the Social Video Specialist for Southwest Ohio Jobs Explained based at ThinkTV in Dayton, Ohio. She was born and raised in Cincinnati and holds a BFA in painting and interactive media from Miami University and an MA in animation from DePaul University. She has managed social media accounts for Aglamesis Bro’s in Cincinnati, DePaul University’s School of Continuing and Professional Studies, and Goldfish Swim School in Evanston, IL, and she runs her own accounts featuring Cincinnati landmarks at @Cincinnati_Watercolors.
Latoya Semple is the Project Specialist for American Graduate: Jobs Explained at the WNET Group, New York’s flagship PBS station. She manages the key administrative milestones for the project and coordinates internal and external logistics. Previously, she served as WNET’s Community Engagement Associate, contributing to various National Station Engagement Initiatives that bridged the gap between WNET’s content and local communities nationwide. Prior to joining The WNET Group, Latoya worked as a Program Coordinator for Futures and Options, a nonprofit career development program, providing professional development and paid internships for New York City high school and college students. She also served as Program Manager of the Advantage Higher Education Program on Long Island University’s Brooklyn campus where she managed an after-school enrichment program for 6-12 graders with course offerings in dance, graphic and fashion design, and NYS Regents Exam prep. She spent eight years working in the youth development sector, building relationships with schools and community-based organizations across New York City, including the Women Worldwide Initiative, IMANI House, Inc, and the Ronald Edmonds Learning Center.
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Building on over a decade of impactful public media work which helped young people stay inspired and committed to attaining a high school diploma and begin exploring potential careers, Jobs Explained focuses on career-centered digital content developed for, with, and by youth. With support from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, The WNET Group, New York City’s public media station, has scaled Jobs Explained to engage young audiences nationwide.
Placing youth at the heart of the initiative, Jobs Explained departs from the traditional broadcast-based engagement model. Instead, it unites ten public media stations across the country to produce a critical mass of short-form vertical videos on popular social media platforms, spotlighting in-demand and civic-minded careers. This public media-powered virtual career fair connects local youth directly to education, training, and job opportunities in their communities and beyond, positioning Jobs Explained as both an inspiring and practical resource for exploring and achieving fulfilling careers.
