In our new mini-series, we’re diving into the topic of pivoting in your STEM career. In today’s society, pivoting in a career often feels like failure because you end up somewhere you didn’t necessarily set out to be in the first place. However, this happens more often than not, but is rarely ever talked about. So, we’re trying to flip the script by shedding light on the many reasons that influence someone to pivot in their career.

In this episode, join us as we sit down with Dr. Cassandra Donatelli (@CMDonatelli), a postdoctoral researcher, who made a pivot from an engineering degree to an academic career in fish biomechanics where she studies the many different ways fish swim and move. She shares about how her passions and a really important mentor helped her navigate her place in STEM.

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Produced and edited by Parul Singh-Kanwar and Helen Yip.