Guidance for Black and Brown graduate students to position them for academic and professional success. Sharing COLLECTIVE knowledge & building communities of care.
Planning For Life Beyond Your Degree w/ Dr. Gertrude Nonterah
Dr. Gertrude Nonterah shares her journey from completing her PhD to becoming underemployed as an adjunct professor to becoming a successful medical communications professional. She is the founder of the BoldPhD, a sought-after speaker, and a branding and career development expert. Show highlights include:
• The role of family in shaping aspirations
• Importance of branding and what that has looked like for her
• How she incorporates the concept of being “multi-passionate”
• Preparing for non-academic careers and success outside of academia
11 Jun 2023
Constructing Your Village
In this episode, Elissa J. challenges graduate students to push beyond the comfort of "finding your people," to actively constructing your village for your professional, academic, and personal success. She outlines essential people and the roles they play in the construction of that village.
Highlights include:
1.Your “A” team [which is also known as “your critical friends].
2.Your loves are your family, or your friends that may be our surrogate family.
3.Your organizational culture keepers and surveyors.
4. Your peer-based brain trust, aka, your cohort and academic comrades.
6. Program advisors
7. Near peers; individuals who are a couple of years ahead of you along your journey.
8. CEOs: individuals who cultivate the leader in you
9.Coaches: your problem-solvers and implementation guides
10. Academic knowledge and skill builders, aka professors.
11.Career advancement knowledge and skills, skill builders.
12.Personal board of directors: your diverse group whose goal is to help you move forward an important initiative.
13.YODA: The person who helps you to center personal growth and self-care
14.Mentors & Sponsors
22 May 2023
Black Women In Academia & The Importance of Your Village
In this episode Dr. Nicole Joseph talks about her journey from teaching to academia as well as the people that were pivotal for her success. Her family support, her mentors, and her professors all played a tremendous role. She urges grad students, and especially Black female scholars, to be confident is drawing from their professional experiences, to develop their scholarly voice, build relationships, know their context, and to connect with affinity spaces to fill their soul.
Show highlights include:
*Finding your scholarly voice
*Valuing your "lived experience" and connecting it to your theorizing
*The role of affinity spaces
*Partnerships in researching
*The role of family as partners
*Seeking out resources and not operating in fear
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