Dr. Katie Fuchs is an Orthopaedic Surgery Resident at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center
Role Call is a Petal + Sass blog section featuring interviews with professional young women occupying diverse careers – and their advice to teens.
Name: Katie Fuchs
Age: 31
College & major: Middlebury College, Neuroscience and Music
Erin Austin is the Seattle based lead singer for Ok Sweetheart
Role Call is a Petal + Sass blog section featuring interviews with professional young women occupying diverse careers – and their advice to teens.
Name: Erin Austin
Age: 32
College & major: Oral Roberts University, Music Performance
Real Women Who Inspire.
In honor of our tenth ‘Role Call‘ interview, a blog section featuring professional young women occupying diverse careers (and their advice to teens!), here is your chance to take a look back at the growing list of career role models who made the cut – and importantly, a recap of the life advice they wish they had received in high school.
Looking back, what general life advice would you give to your former high-school self?
Academia: “Chill out. I went to a super high stress high school, where I often joke everyone had to be the “Best ____” and that blank could be filled a million ways, English student, squash player, troublemaker, whatever (I was none of those). I think the times that I have struggled in my life are when some things were going awry, but I didn’t want anyone to know, so I refused to reach out for help. I’m still not great at that, and I think learning how to ask for help is a behavior/habit that we should develop earlier in our lives. Asking for help doesn’t mean that you are weak or dumb or less than, it just means you are strong and you want to improve.”
-Bernadette Doykos, Research Associate
Priscilla is an illustrator in Los Angeles, California.
Role Call is a Petal + Sass blog section featuring interviews with professional young women occupying diverse careers – and their advice to teens.
Name: Priscilla Carpenter Witte
Age: 30 years old
College & major: UC of Syracuse University, Child Psychology
Christine is an Author Relations Manager in Toronto, Canada.
Role Call is a Petal + Sass blog section featuring interviews with professional young women occupying diverse careers- and their advice to teens.
Name: Christine Munroe
Age: 30
College & major: McGill University (Montreal), English Literature (Minor in Sociology)
Graduate school & concentration: McGill University again, MA in English Literature
NYU School of Professional Studies, courses in Publishing and Creative Writing
Sara is an English teacher in Connecticut.
Role Call is a Petal + Sass blog section featuring interviews with professional young women occupying diverse careers- and their advice to teens.
Name: Sara Erdmann
Age: 32
College & major: Hamilton College ’05, Creative Writing major, French minor
Graduate school & concentration: University of New Hampshire, MFA in Writing
Binghamton University, PhD in Literature and Creative Writing
Melissa is a Physician Assistant in Boston.
Role Call is a Petal + Sass blog section featuring interviews with professional young women occupying diverse careers- and their advice to teens.
Name: Melissa Ayala
Age: A solid 33.
College & major: MVCC, Florida Atlantic University, & Le Moyne College (A lot of transfers based on financial status), Biology/Pre-Med.
Graduate school & concentration: Le Moyne College, Physician Assistant Studies Masters.
Bernadette is a Research Associate at the University of Southern Maine.
Role Call is a Petal + Sass blog section featuring interviews with professional young women occupying diverse careers- and their advice to teens.
Name: Bernadette Doykos
Age: 32.99 (might be 33 by the time this posts, who knows)
College & Major: Wesleyan University (CT), Sociology
Graduate School & Concentration: Harvard Graduate School of Education, Ed.M. in Risk & Prevention (now Prevention Science and Practice because no one understood what that meant and it was hard to get jobz)
Vanderbilt University, working on that PhD in Community Research and Action (working hard to only secure degrees with meaningless titles to anyone outside of our immediate field. CRUSHING IT)
Lauren is an Architect in Albany, NY.
Role Call is a Petal + Sass blog section featuring interviews with professional young women occupying diverse careers- and their advice to teens.
Name: Lauren Thomsen
Age: 31
College & major: Hamilton College ’05, BA in Comparative Literature and Art History
Graduate school & concentration: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Master of Architecture
Yom is a World History Teacher and Global Initiatives Director in NYC
Role Call is a Petal + Sass blog section featuring interviews with professional young women occupying diverse careers- and their advice to teens.
Name: Yom Odamtten Fox
Age: 32
College & major: Scripps College, B.A in Multicultural Studies with a concentration on Education (self -designed major)
Graduate school & Concentration: Teachers College, Columbia University, M.A in Teaching Social Studies, M.ed in Private School Leadership
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