Spencer Scholar Tram Nguyen, RIMS-CRMP

Welcome to RIMScast. Your host is Justin Smulison, Business Content Manager at RIMS, the Risk and Insurance Management Society.

In this episode, Justin interviews Tram Nguyen, honored as a Spencer Scholar at the Spencer Funding Their Future Gala in September in New York City, about her acceptance speech during the Gala, her experience as a young Vietnamese professional, and building her career in the United States. Tram tells about learning to navigate a new language, a new academic environment, a highly specialized field like risk management, and what that experience taught her about herself.

Tram tells how she learned abt risk management at UConn Business School, and how that connected her to Spencer Educational Foundation, and from there to an internship at BNBuilders, which will shift to a full-time risk analyst position when she graduates in December.

Tram speaks highly of her Spencer experiences and why she is passionate about the risk management industry.

Listen for Tram's advice for students learning about Insurance and risk management.

Key Takeaways:

[:01] About RIMS and RIMScast.

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