Welcome to External Programs, Internships & Career Services
External Programs, Internships, & Career Services (EPICS) provides personalized guidance, comprehensive resources, and opportunities for School of Communication graduate and undergraduate students to explore their career interests and develop meaningful connections with alumni and industry professionals as they prepare for life beyond Northwestern.
How do we do this?
- We demystify industries and career paths
- We foster an environment that promotes serious play, resiliency, and confidence
- We program events and create content that foster a collaborative environment for students to explore potential lifelong interests ranging from creative fields to health professions
Upcoming Events
- Feb242025
Dialogue with the Dean: Luchina Fisher
6:30 PM
1949 Campus Drive; 10-30 Arts Circle Drive, Evanston, IL 60208School of Communication Dean E. Patrick Johnson will engage in dialogue with Luchina Fisher.
LUCHINA FISHER (she/her) is an Emmy Award-winning director, producer, and writer whose work is at the intersection of race, gender, and identity. Her latest film, the short documentary The Dads, about five fathers of trans kids bonding on a weekend fishing trip, won the 2024 Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Short Form Program and received GLAAD’s Special Recognition Award. The film was executive produced by Dwyane Wade and acquired by Netflix. Her feature directorial debut Mama Gloria, about a Black transgender elder activist, was a 2022 GLAAD Media Award nominee and broadcast on PBS. She is also the director of the award-winning short documentary Team Dream, executive produced by Queen Latifah, and co-director of the award-winning feature documentary Locked Out, which is about the barriers to Black homeownership. Her new project about the unsung history of Black queer presence in music was the winner of the 2023 PitchBLACK Film Forum.
Fisher is also the director of two scripted short films and has written and produced several nationally broadcast documentaries. Her work has appeared on Netflix, Hulu, History, Discovery, ABC, ESPN, BET, and A&E, as well as in theaters, festivals, and classrooms worldwide. Her work has been supported by Chicken & Egg, the Gotham, Firelight Media, the National Endowment for the Humanities, Dok Leipzig, Black Public Media, the Field Foundation, Sisters in Cinema, Brown Girls Doc Mafia, the Queen Collective, and Women Make Movies. Fisher began her career as a journalist and has written for People, the Miami Herald, The New York Times, O, The Oprah Magazine, and ABC News. She also teaches documentary filmmaking at Yale University.
- Mar062025
Q&A with Emmy and Gotham-Nominated Janine Nabers
4:00 PM
1920 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL 60208Join us for an exciting conversation with Emmy and Gotham-nominated power writer and showrunner Janine Nabers moderated by Professor Zayd Dohrn, Dir. of the MFA in Writing for Screen + Stage program.
Reception with light food and drink to follow in AMS-110.
Janine Nabers is an Emmy and Gotham-nominated playwright and tv writer. Most recently, she co-created SWARM on Prime Video with Donald Glover, which earned her an Emmy nomination for “Outstanding Writing For A Limited Or Anthology Series or Movie”, a NAACP nomination for Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series, and a Gotham nomination for “Breakthrough Series, Under 40 minutes”. In 2023, she was included in The Hollywood Reporter’s Power Showrunners and Variety’s Power of Women in Hollywood lists. Currently, she is developing series for studios such as Amazon, HBO and Hulu. Additionally, Janine was a Co-Executive Producer and writer on seasons 3 and 4 of ATLANTA on FX. Prior to that, she was a Co-EP on Apple TV’s ROAR and a Co-Ep on Netflix's drama series AWAY. Other credits include HBO's WATCHMEN for which she won a WGA Award for Best New Series, Max Borenstein’s WINNING TIME mini-room and GAME OF THRONES spinoff room both for HBO, and across several series created by Marti Noxon including DIETLAND for AMC, UNREAL for Lifetime, and all five seasons of GIRLFRIEND’S GUIDE TO DIVORCE on Bravo. She was awarded the Yale Drama Series prize for her play SERIAL BLACK FACE, and is a graduate of the Juilliard Playwriting program.
Handshake
EPICS is integrated with Handshake, Northwestern’s central career services hub. Through this platform, students can access job and internship opportunities, schedule career appointments with EPICS staff, and stay updated on career events and workshops—all to support your career planning and job search.