# @rhodeislandcollege on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CNS73xJromm
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/74940757-rhodeislandcollege-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2021-04-05T19:23:05.000+00:00

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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.
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"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."
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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 Atlanta.
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Macomber credits his time with Lewis for helping to obtain his position with the CDC. "If I hadn't put in a few years of grunt work on a congressional staff, I wouldn't be working at the CDC," he says.
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Macomber advises aspiring students to "be nimble if you want to get to where you want to go. It's OK to go broader in your academic training, such as what I did with healthcare administration. I could be doing almost anything with that degree. Expect that you may have to make career changes and don't ever let anything be finite."
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