So it was the calm after the storm and before the storm….. Hurricane Florence was passing by Raleigh and we were on the tail end of its fury. In a random moment of calm – I stepped outside to get some air after two days in the house. As I [...]
A few months ago, I was taking a “mental health” day, yes we all need one of those every once in a while. For those of you who are not familiar with the concept, it is even more important in this day and age. We are constantly ON... on our [...]
Wow.. another amazing STEM leader just lost her mother. She said that she was not sure what the actual underlying cause was for her illness. Her mother had been sick for a few years. She was fortunate that she was living close to her and other siblings were also in [...]
Being resilient in STEM is a combination of being resilient in our personal and our professional lives. I recently did a workshop with a group of women STEM faculty and graduate students. When I asked them to define their dream, legacy and their challenges, some of them asked me to [...]
Microaggressions are actions that people take that can cause you to question the essence of who you are and what you are doing. The actions are often subtle, quietly eroding the forward movement in your career confidence. The official definition of micro-aggression is “a comment or action that subtly and often [...]
Are you Busy? Feeling like you don’t have control of ANYTHING? So many tasks… So many expectations? Expectations, that others have of us and that we have of ourselves. During this unprecedented time of change, uncertainty, and even anxiety.. we have a need to be “in control of something… [...]
What does it mean to stay in the game? What does it mean to be at the table? Are they the same thing or do they conjure up different perspectives or thoughts in the Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) realm? One could argue that if you are playing a “table-based” [...]
WOW… Words can not express how much I enjoyed having having Dr. Christine Darden (featured in the Hidden Figures book) and over 50 of my new STEM Resilience partners at our event at McCormick and Schmidt’s on August 16, 2017! After the Darden event I heard the following: “I [...]
This article is part of a series authored by Dr. Christine Grant and published in Diversity in Action magazine. When I think of energy, I think of two extremes: my personal, intrinsic energy that motivates me every day, and the energy it takes to move myself from place to place. [...]
This article is part of a series authored by Dr. Christine Grant and published in Diversity in Action magazine. Making a decision for success is essential in long-term STEM career management, whether in cybersecurity our new media arts. Determining the strategies we need to define and then accomplish success is [...]
