Center for Career Exploration

Jim directs the Professional Pathways Programs and the Careers in the Common Good Program, which helps students connect with alumni and employers at nonprofits and in public service sectors and alumni making a positive social impact in for-profit organizations.

The Careers in the Common Good program works with the Rhode Island School of Design to organize a Common Good Internship and Job Fair, collaborates with the Student Employment team to run the CCG Winternships Program in which more than 40 students do two-week projects in January with nonprofits and social enterprises in New York, Boston, Providence, Washington, DC, and San Francisco, organizes 30 summer internship opportunities in New York through the CCG in NYC program.

In addition to his responsibilities at the Brown Center for Career Exploration, Jim serves as an academic advisor, is a member of Brown's Truman Scholarship Committee, and has participated in several programs and projects to help students make sense of their time at Brown and navigate their time after Brown, including Reflections on Success and Paving Pathways, and helped design, organize and teach the half-credit Exploring Career Options class for 57 sophomores in the Fall 2022. Along with other Brown Center for Career Exploration staff, Jim attended the Designing Your Life Studio at Stanford University in June 2018 and runs programs and workshops at Brown using the curriculum and materials from the popular Stanford course.

From 1991 to 1996, Jim organized students at college campuses in Colorado, Massachusetts and Connecticut and ran door-to-door canvass operations in seven states for CALPIRG, CoPIRG, MASSPIRG, Sierra Club, Green Corps and Clean Up Congress. From 1996 to 2002 Jim worked as a writer and graphic designer and from 2008 to 2009 as the Senior Editor for Public Interest GRFX, the in-house communications team for the Public Interest Network. From 2002 to 2008, he oversaw the direct mail projects for 50 state PIRGS and Environment America’s federation of state environment groups. He has previously served on the boards of Environment Rhode Island and the Environment Council of Rhode Island.