Navigating Change and Reinvention Fireside chat & Shopping Event
About this Event
Navigating Change & Reinvention: A Conversation and Styling Event
Join M.M.LaFleur and Dr. Analía Gómez Vidal of AGV Services LLC, for an evening of conversation, connection, and career exploration.
Dr. Gómez Vidal will moderate a fireside chat with Alisa Tang on navigating professional change and reinvention, including Alisa’s experience following the Washington Post layoffs and insights from her community. The conversation will draw on Dr. Gómez Vidal’s “career as a playground” framework, offering a more open-ended way to think about career transitions and what comes next.
Guests will also have opportunities for facilitated networking before and after the discussion. Following the conversation, the M.M.LaFleur team will share a brief styling presentation, then invite guests to shop with guidance from expert stylists.
About Dr. Analía Gómez Vidal
Dr. Analía Gómez Vidal is a bilingual thought leader and institutional partner in the career development space, a specialized coach in life and career transitions, and a mentor for international postgraduate professionals. She is a researcher-turned-entrepreneur that blends high-level strategy and applied creativity in every conversation she is a part of. She hosts Lucky to Be Here, a podcast showcasing the stories of people building lives and careers across countries, and its accompanying newsletter focused on self-exploration for personal and professional development.
About Alisa Tang
Alisa Tang is the author of Alisa's Daily Dose, a newsletter focused on comfort, joy and community in the DMV. She considers her Daily Dose a community gratitude journal and aims in her writing to reflect of our shared experience. She also interviews scientists, former federal workers and your neighbors across the DMV about their research, challenges after job loss and amazing citizen-science hobbies. She launched her Daily Dose in Feb. 2026, the day after getting laid off from the Washington Post, where she edited the Post Local newsletter, assigned stories and reported now and then. In another life, in distant lands, Alisa spent 15 years a foreign correspondent and editor based primarily in Bangkok and also two years in Kabul. Having reported from countries spanning from Afghanistan to Papua New Guinea, she covered everything from the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004 to a coup that toppled the Thai government, as well as suicide bombings, violence against women, migrant labor and so much more.