Just before Beatriz Mendoza graduated from Arizona State University a year ago, she joined her engineering classmates in figuring out where to apply for jobs.

Doctoral student Chia-Mei Hsia had a vision of connecting her native Taiwan to the United States around the theme of community development.

Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for spring 2018 comme

Andrea Whitsett has been named director of Morrison Institute for Public Policy at Arizona State University. She has served as interim director since August.