This week's guest is Dominique, the creator of academic + fitness community, Scientists Who Lift. Dominique is a 4th year Ph.D. student, with a master's in Biophysical Chemistry. His current research focuses on the Time and Space organization of MMP9 and

It's 2020 and time to set those goals again! Allanté reflects on her goals for 2019 and 2020. It's been a wild ride so far, and she shares how she thinks through goals.

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Asia Fuller Hamilton, Ph.D. is the wife + mother of a beautiful family of six. She juggled a full-time job, an active family and community life while completing her doctoral degree in 2017 from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She earned her P

Dr. Kelechi Ibe-Lamberts (@blacktransnational_) is a tenure track assistant professor in community health at State University of New York (SUNY) Cortland. He received all his degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, completing his Ph.D

Destenie Nock finished her PhD in Industrial Engineering in 2019 from UMass Amherst and is the first Black woman to join the faculty for the College of Engineering at Carnegie Mellon. Her research focuses primarily on energy planning, decision analysis, a

Unless you were living under a rock, you probably heard about Dr. Mareena Robinson Snowden who went viral as the FIRST Black Women to get her PhD in Nuclear Engineering from MIT.

On this week's episode she talks about her life and career after that level

Time flies when you're having fun! Blk + In Grad School Turns TWO so Allanté reflects on what she's learned about the podcasting business, life and of course, grad school! Hear favorite clips from the last year that have kept it real or brought insight a

Dr. Williams was a model graduate student but in the last two years of her doctoral program felt that academia would not be the space allow her to use her gifts and talents in a way that felt good to her soul. She shares how she boldly set aside the inte

This week Allanté gets transparent about some of her fears as the time is coming to move into the next phase. 

How do you deal with fear about the future? Fear about the quality of the relationships in your network? Fear about work and research? Fear ab

Every grad student is inundated work. Readings, homework, classes, meetings can begin to feel like a constant state of doing the most. Then conversations with fellow grad students IRL and online follow suit with seeing as everyone is crazy busy, but after