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https://magazine.lafayette.edu/fall2010/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2010/11/FpowerfulFall2010FEATURED.jpg960400Individualized career counseling from day 1 by Geoff Gehman ’80 | photography by Chuck Zovko For Melissa Drennan ’12, an internship last summer came with a bonus: a personal career caretaker who had graduated from Lafayette. Nalishha Mehta ’98, a program officer for the Solidarity Center in Washington, D.C., mentored Drennan as the student planned events and tracked donations in the Atlanta office of Amnesty International. Mehta advised Drennan on how to make a good impression on the job (stay enthusiastic, no matter how boring the task) and after the job (stay on the organization’s radar by sending an email or a holiday card every six months or so). Available whenever for whatever reason, Mehta also helped Drennan cope with living in a strange city and with the death of a family member.