Four years after graduation, RIC alum Jon Macomber '17 landed his dream job – and the center of the nation's health infrastructure! He was hired in March to become a public health and public policy analyst for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the nation's health protection agency. • "This is the kind of place where I can see myself working for the next 20 years, going up the chain as far as I can," Macomber says of the Atlanta-based agency. "In terms of career goals, this is exactly where I want to be." • A veteran who served as an Army medic in Afghanistan, Macomber enrolled at RIC in 2014 to study healthcare administration. After RIC, Macomber moved on to earn a master's degree in public affairs at Brown University in 2018, specializing in public policy analysis. Later that year he landed a position as a staffer in the office of late U.S. Congressman John Lewis, leading outreach efforts on behalf of the congressman to military constituents in his district in Atl...