Who attends the Idealist Graduate Degree Fair?
People like John Hester. After five years in nonprofits, John Hester decided to go back to graduate school to prepare and position himself to be a better management professional. John spent his first year out of college as a community organizer in a public housing development; working with a wide variety of service providers and managers, he learned the level of impact organizations can have at the ground level. Over the course of five years, John began to understand “how profoundly management influences the way a mission-driven organization carries out its work and affects the lives of the individuals it serves.” It was this understanding that eventually inspired him to pursue a graduate degree that would give him knowledge and training in nonprofit management. With many graduate schools in the Boston area, determining which graduate education options were the best fit for his goals took some research. For John, learn¬ing more about how the Boston University Public & Nonprofit MBA pro
