Spotlights
These are the career stories of diverse individuals working in a variety of careers. Watch or read about what inspired them to pursue their career, what they were like growing up, what they love most about their career and more!
Welcome to HireEd! This is a series brought to you by Propel LA, specifically for high school students to learn about and hear from professionals working in some of LA’s hottest emerging industries - all providing good wages, featuring local schools, and with career paths of community college or a four-year university.
This video features career in education: Orientation and Mobility Instructor
Yoona Kim envisions a world where innovative technology meets medicine. Working towards universally available digital healthcare, Kim heads the Clinical Modeling and Analytics Department at an influential startup called Proteus Digital Health, a leader in the innovative digital healthcare field. A graduate of Stanford University, Kim started her professional career as a consultant at a healthcare and medicine company. Since then she has worked at pharmaceutical companies and earned a Pharm.D. from the University of California, San Francisco and a Ph.D. in Health Economics Research…
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Chrissi Hernandez is a creative director and travel blogger living and working in Los Angeles, CA. Her younger, illustrator self started out designing bohemian prints for Scanty, a small loungewear company. For the last six years she has been sharpening her digital skills, art directing for thredUP and Sephora in foggy San Francisco and freelancing for smaller companies in sunny southern California. When she's not designing, she's traveling across the globe. Chrissi is passionate about exploring, whether that means visiting a new city or country (Croatia is a recent…
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Kristina Li has practiced as a clinical pharmacist for nearly a decade, working in a number of hospitals in the Los Angeles area. She was inspired to go down the medical field path by her mom, who to this day still works as a nurse. As a child, Kristina often visited her mom at the hospital and was inspired by her mom’s dedication and devotion toward caring for her patients.
Outside of the pharmacy, Kristina’s entrepreneurial spirit keeps her busy. She runs a nutrition counseling business, moonlights as a professional hand model, and is working hard on launching an upcoming…
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Gladeo reporter Katelyn interviews Ritika about her career as Registered Nurse.
Welcome to HireEd! This is a series brought to you by Propel LA, specifically for high school students to learn about and hear from professionals working in some of LA’s hottest emerging industries - all providing good wages, featuring local schools, and with career paths of community college or a four-year university.
This video features careers in the transportation industry: Transportation Planner