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This is from 10 years ago. I would be curious to know where they are now and how they feel now about this career decision and blog post.


Seems like they got into tech, like many people leaving science: https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa19/speaker-or-organize...


Looking at the webpage, she is now active in the diversity & inclusion space, which is still booming. She gets an endorsement from Sumana Harihareshwara, who turned the DEI up to 11 in Wikiland.

The talks of the Women in Chemistry section at the recent American Chemical Society meeting included gems like "Metalloids and mentoring: Life at a PUI as the 'Other" and "Transgender chemistry graduate students navigating between trans and STEM identities".

All of that sounds nice until you start teaching in Alabama or get students from a reservation in New Mexico, then you see that what the DEI folks offer is completely useless when it comes to deprivation.




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