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NEXT STEPS
Summer 2022
Created by two women who bravely leaped into the male-dominated world of management consulting -- after interviewing dozens of consultants about their first-year experiences, we created Next Steps to bring visibility to the experiences of women and BIPOC working in corporate America.

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Meet The Team

Erica Barry
WRITER / PRODUCER
Erica Barry worked as a performer at Disneyland before stumbling down the rabbit hole and landing a job at a Big 4 consulting firm. Her improv skills and nerves of steel served her well during interviews. She is now an ex-consultant working in media.

RACHEL ALAYNICK
WRITER / PRODUCER
Rachel Alaynick fit neatly into the box of people with a lot of different interests but no clearly defined path. Her longtime love for Seinfeld, 30 Rock, and television, in general, occupied a prominent place in her extracurricular pastimes, but it wasn’t until she interned in management consulting during the summer of 2019 that she seriously considered a career in media.
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