Alumni Spotlight: Martinelle Allen
Class of 2013
Degree:
Current Role:
Head of Marketing for Deltek’s GovWin Product
Martinelle Allen came to Marymount with the goal of becoming an exceptional teacher of English at the secondary level. In addition to being a full time graduate student, she worked as a graduate assistant and taught high school reading and math part time.
After graduation, she moved to Shenzhen, China where she taught High School English for several years before moving to Egypt, where she currently works as a high school English teacher at the Modern English School Cairo.
What advice do you have for future graduates?
With the exception of attending Marymount, not all graduate students attend graduate school for a singular reason. But the one piece of advice that I can think to give that can apply to everyone is this: make your classes and your degree work for you.
It made sense for me, as an English teacher, to earn a degree in literature and language. I not only was able to apply what I learned to benefit me personally but also professionally so that I could impact my students and my lesson plans. So everyone needs to keep that in mind when they are scheduling which classes they enroll in, choosing a topic for their papers, and organizing and giving their thesis defense. It worked for me, so hopefully, it can work for someone else, too!
