In this episode, Guest Mindy shares her journey as a first generation multi-racial scholar and how her inspiration for her research interests and career fall into place very naturally. Mindy opens up and shares a very vulnerable part of her journey of becoming a parent through the adoption of her nephew at 24 during the pursuit of her PhD. Mindy’s openness reminds us that we all are on unique journeys and should be supportive of each other. Mindy ends by sharing how integral the support of her lab sisters and cohort friends was to surviving the PhD. Tune in to learn from Mindy’s story and her words of wisdom. 

En amor y poder, Lorena 

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