Ensuring women thrive at ASU

Women’s History Month provides a fantastic opportunity to look at historic women and discuss what we can learn from them and how we can view them as role models. Our role models continue to be the women who “lean in,” who are ambitious and bold. They are the women who push back against systemic biases in the workplace – showing us that it isn’t about fixing women, but fixing the systems that continually hold women back.

We are interdependent

"No individual or nation can stand out boasting of being independent. We are interdependent." Martin Luther King, Jr.

One day, back in graduate school, my advisor asked me to come into her office and share some of my research with a visitor, who was a well-known scholar in my field. I was nervous, but I managed to give him a demo of my work. He asked me questions and we had a nice exchange.