American University junior Liliana Funari spent the summer working in client engagement at the investment management firm Federated Hermes in Pittsburgh. But the finance major was also interested in artificial intelligence, so she reached out to the firm’s enterprise AI team and got involved in an initiative to help employees understand the new technology. “Federated Hermes is an old company with a lot of old souls,” she says, including employees hesitant to embrace AI. Funari helped review employee training materials, translating technical concepts into language all colleagues could understand—a practical application of what she’d learned at American’s Kogod School of Business. READ MORE