UNH Today

Q&A with Alison Pyott ’92Ìý

Tell us a little bit about your career path. Where has life taken you?Ìý

In 1992, I graduated from UNH with a degree in Hotel Administration. After a brief time in the hospitality industry I transitioned my client service skills to the John Hancock mutual fund call center in Portsmouth. The mid-90’s was a boom for mutual funds. It was a great time to enter the financial industry and a tremendous opportunity to advance my career from customer service associate to management.ÌýÌýÌý

A Clearer Vision of History

Columbus Day became a national holiday in 1937. It would be more than 50 years later — and 500 since Columbus arrived in America — before people came to officially recognize the impact the foreignÌýexplorer had on the lives of millions of Native Americans and Indigenous people.