Laura Stark is Associate Director of Academic Careers in the Mignone Center for Career Success at Harvard University. She holds a PhD in neuroscience from Yale University and completed post-doctoral research at the University of Pennsylvania before making a transition to career services. She has more than twenty years of experience advising graduate students and PhDs through the challenges of graduate study and into careers, both within and beyond academia. Laura specializes in working with those seeking academic faculty positions and those considering career transition beyond academia.