The career Zoom sessions will take place every other week. You do not have to be an enrolled 4-H member or volunteer to attend.
Check the 4-H Events webpage for information on upcoming speakers, or read the weekly 4-H Newsblast that is sent to all registered members and volunteers.
To obtain the Zoom link, contact Angelica Paredes at angelica@umext.umass.edu with: session date, youth name, club/school, County.
Please add the state you live in if outside of Massachusetts!
Dr. Welton is a medical examiner at the Western Regional Office of the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. He received his BS and MS in biological sciences from the University of Massachusetts at Lowell, PhD in biology from Boston College, MPH in epidemiology and biostatistics from Boston University School of Public Health, and his MD from the University of Illinois at Chicago. He completed his intern year in anesthesiology at the University of Illinois Medical Center, followed by a residency in anatomic and clinical pathology at Baystate Medical Center and a fellowship in forensic pathology at the Massachusetts Office of the Chief Examiner. He is currently board certified in Public Health and has been at the Chief Medical Examiner’s Office for almost seven years.
Ashely Lantz is a Medicolegal Investigator at the Western Regional Office of the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Massachusetts. She has a BA in anthropology with a minor in biology from Hartwick College and then received her MA with a focus in forensic anthropology from The George Washington University. She has worked at the Medical Examiner’s Office for nearly ten years as a Medical Examiner Assistant, Office Support Specialist and now a Medicolegal Investigator. She participated in her first autopsy as a Clinical Pathology Assistant during college and completed an internship and coursework at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. while in graduate school.
