Women In:: Recent Episodes
Hillary Dunkley
Women In: is a podcast about women making strides in their fields and in the world.
The goal of this podcast is to show that successful women can be found in every field, even in male-dominated industries.
On this podcast you’ll find interviews from women with jobs ranging from trauma surgeon to artist to product designer. Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hillary-dunkley/support
Natasja Laurie is a software engineer based in Australia. She creates applications at A Cloud Guru, an online training platform for people interested in information technology. Natasja is also a teacher at General Assembly, and tutors at Code Like a Girl, an organization that encourages girls to pursue technology and computer science. It was a pleasure to talk to Natasja about how she got into programming, her experience with sexism, and her advice for her thirteen year old self.
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I am so excited to introduce my guest Shana, the owner of shop narcissus, a jewelry brand that sells high quality pieces inspired by greek mythology. It was a pleasure to talk to Shana about how she started her jewelry brand, what it’s like being a small business owner, and the advice she’d give to other young women interested in going into business.
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Amelia is a singer and musician based in Los Angeles. With a lifelong love of music, Amelia has been writing songs since her early teen years. She has posting covers and original songs on Tik Tok, amassing over a hundred seventy thousand followers.
It was a pleasure to speak with Amelia about how she got started in music, sexism in the industry, and how she’d like her career to progress in the future.
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Saboria is an academic and future doctor based in California. With a background in psychology and public health, Saboria focuses on family health, public health and health policy and advocacy. It was a pleasure to speak with Saboria about her experiences in academia, sexism in medicine, and the advice she’d give to her thirteen year old self.
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Maude Latour is a musician and singer-songwriter based in New York City. Maude writes songs for the college generation, being a junior at Columbia University herself.
Her most popular songs include One More Weekend, Block Your Number and Furniture. She recently released Walk Backwards, a song dedicated to her love for her best friend. She’s been featured in Spotify playlists like Indie Pop, Lorem and young & free. If you want to be able to brag that you found Maude Latour before she blew up, now’s the time to start listening to her music.
It was a pleasure to talk to Maude about her songs, tik tok, and the advice she’d give to her thirteen year old self.
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As a specialist in collision repair, Dani fixes cars that have been damaged by crashes or fender benders, and makes them look like new. It was a pleasure to speak with Dani about being a woman in the trades, the misconceptions people have about her job, and the advice she’d give to young women and girls interested in going into auto work.
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This week we have Cliona, the neuroscience phd. Cliona is a phd student who is combining neuroscience and virtual reality to study autism and joint attention.
Joint attention is the ability to focus on the same thing with a peer. This can be an object, a person, or an event, and it begins to develop during the first months of life. It is especially important for communication and language learning, and for people who have autism, they have difficulty developing this. In Cliona’s research, patients with autism are required to interact with a virtual human in order to complete a puzzle only using their eye gaze, exercising their joint attention.
Cliona is also the co-founder of Black in Neuroscience, an organization that highlights and empowers black academics in neuroscience, and provides resources.
It was a pleasure to speak with Cliona about her research, the best and most frustrating things about her job, and the advice she’d give to young women and girls who are interested in neuroscience.
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This week we have Abigail, the attorney. Abigail is a litigation associate based in Chicago. She specializes in commercial law, and posts about her work, and life on her instagram. It was a pleasure to speak with Abigail about the best and worst parts of her job, her advice and so much more.
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On this episode of Women In: we have Jennie, the biologist. Jennie is a research associate working at a bio-pharmaceutical company in the San Francisco Bay Area. On her instagram, Jennie posts about her passion for science, advice for other girls interested in STEM, and her weight loss journey. It was a pleasure to speak with Jennie about her daily life as a scientist, her role models, and how she’d like her career to progress in the future.
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This week on women in, we have Paulina, the EHS engineer. Paulina Castrellon is an environmental health and safety engineer in aerospace based on Los Angeles. In her work at Lockheed Martin, Paulina works to keep the environment, our communities and her employees safe.
Paulina is a first generation Latina/Chicana college graduate, and is extremely passionate about helping other women of color achieve their goals in STEM industries such as hers. On her social media, you can find her speaking about the daily life of an engineer, the challenges that women of color face in stem, or just a cute picture of her and her dog, who popped in a few times during the interview.
It was a pleasure to speak with Paulina about the best and most challenging parts of her job, the mentors who helped her along the way, and where she sees her career progressing in the future.
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This week on the Women In podcast we have Annie, the musician. Annie DiRusso is an indie rock artist based in Nashville and New York. Combining the unique sounds of both cities, Annie creates an auditory experience that you’re sure to remember.
But if you know about Annie DiRusso, you probably know her through Tik Tok. After music venues closed this past March, Annie started posting at home live performances of her most popular songs on the app, garnering new fans and listeners. In these videos her relatable and gut wrenching lyricism and her punchy vocals hit you the most. For fans wondering, Annie is working on her debut album, which is set to be released in 2021.
I’m so glad that Annie agreed to speak with me about all things music, Taylor Swift, and the ridiculous double standards for women in rock.
Just a warning: throughout the episode, you’ll hear a cat meowing. That’s Cozy, and she really wanted to join in on the conversation.
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This week on Women In: we have Vanessa, the engineer. Vanessa is a transportation engineer based in California who creates solutions for people in the San Diego area. When she’s not working on an engineering project, Vanessa works on her small business, Rooted Kombucha and posts about her job on Instagram and Tik Tok.
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Eliza McLamb, based in Los Angeles, has been writing songs all her life. This past spring, after being sent home from university at the beginning of the pandemic, McLamb started using TikTok as a way to channel her complicated feelings. In her videos, with her both relatable and gut wrenching lyrics, you can see why she has over two hundred thousand followers. On her account you can find her emotionally charged songs alongside videos of her doing a fun trend, or giving a hot take on a controversial subject, giving her an air of authenticity that can be difficult to find on the massive social media app.
Her upcoming EP will be released this December, with new songs as well as extended versions of her most popular songs.
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On the first episode of Women In: we have Kiara, the academic.
Kiara Vega Bellido is a graduate student at Baylor College of Medicine working towards a PhD in neuroscience. As a graduate student, Kiara is working on her thesis on how neuroplasticity, the ability of the brain to reorganize synaptic connections, is tied to contextual fear memory acquisition as well as mnemonic processes such as retrieval of memories and the consolidation of memories through sleep.
When she’s not working on her thesis, Kiara posts about science, science policy advocacy and mental health awareness on her instagram, curiouslywriteous.
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