Meet the Team

Komal Shah

Associate Director, Career Services and Professional Development

Komal works with our diverse community of early-career and professional masters students to support their career readiness and professional development goals, manages our new professional development platform (the SPS website), engages with our extensive alumni base to create pathways for current students, including alumni mentorship opportunities; and collaborates with a community of professional development colleagues at Brown, including in the Center for Career Exploration, Graduate School, and individual departments, to create a seamless experience for employer relations and programming in support of the Masters community.
Komal has a Master of Education in Counseling from Boston University and has more than five years of experience at in Career Services. She joins us from Boston University’s College of Engineering where she worked in career services and professional development. Her experiences include advising masters and PhD students and mid-level career professionals, teaching a masters-level career readiness course, planning large scale events like career fairs, and building strategic programs for masters students. She enjoys counseling and supporting students in their career development journey.

In her free time, Komal enjoys traveling, hiking, playing tabletop games, and playing with her pup (Pepper).

Build Career Skills

Build RelationshipsCareer ExplorationInterview PrepJob / InternshipOffers and NegotiationProfessional Development Fund

Career Pathways

Business and FinanceConsulting and EntrepreneurshipData Science and AnalyticsEducationEngineering and TechnologyGovernment, Politics and LawHealthcare and Health SciencesHumanities, Language and Social SciencesNatural Resources, Sustainability, and Environmental ScienceNon-profit, National Service, and Human ServicePharma, BioTech, and Life Sciences

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AlumniMaster's Students