“Both my parents are doctors, so I thought about going into medicine, and being around all the team doctors at Stanford and with the Lakers, I realized I wanted to go into the medical field and hopefully become a team physician myself one day.”
Category: We Are SC Story
“Don’t stop. Make a plan and just keep going because it’s never too late to make a change or learn or grow. You’re never too old. You could be 41; you could be 60. Just don’t give up on the dream to keep going.”
“Most women like me didn’t know what our rights were. When anything would happen to us that wasn’t fair, we just thought, ‘That’s the way it is.’”
“I’m so thrilled to be empowering so many students, especially in a department that is primarily non-cis-male identifying at the moment, in the student body. Equipping them with high level technical skills that are immediately translatable into the greater theatre production world.”
“We started to realize that these brands were spending millions of dollars a month on influencer marketing, but they were not using any software. Everything was done manually. All their data was handled on Excel spreadsheets.”
“It’s really having to trust, even though the federal government has not always been great to Native communities, but to trust that our voices are being heard and the voices of those being impacted by ICWA are heard.”
“USC helped me build a foundation for my pedagogy, and I would love to help future educators in the same way.”
“Just coming into the room with confidence and letting people know that, while people may underestimate me because I’m a woman, a person of color, or someone from a different religion than they are, I am just as knowledgeable, just as skilled, and I deserve a seat at the table.”
“I’m used to being held accountable in every job. I’m taking that approach. If I don’t perform, I have no business being here.”
“One of the big things that drew me to this trip was the teaching component. It is so much more valuable for us to spend our time educating other practitioners to leave a lasting impression and to hopefully make every subsequent group of students better than the one before them.”