A-J Aronstein (he/him) serves as Assistant Vice President of Lifelong Success and is a Senior Advisor to the Provost at Barnard College. He oversees Beyond Barnard, Summer @ Barnard, and Barnard Next — a new program for lifelong learning at the College. Before joining Barnard in 2018, A-J was the inaugural leader of graduate and professional career support at the University of Chicago, where he received a master’s degree in the humanities and taught as a writing instructor. His written work has appeared in the New York Times, Paris Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere. A-J was also a Jefferson Scholar at the University of Virginia. A native New Yorker, he now lives in Brooklyn with his wife Gina and son Cameron.