Episode 159: Science Evangelist
The Broad Experience
The Broad Experience
5.0 • 592 Ratings
🗓️ 30 July 2020
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Ainissa Ramirez has loved science since the age of four. But her dreams of becoming a scientist were almost squelched when she got to college. When she graduated she vowed to make other people's journeys through science better than her own. Today, she's helping thousands of people understand and appreciate how the world works - and maybe even go into science themselves. In this episode we talk about the ups and downs of her career, leaving academia to go out on her own, and some of the amazing stories in her new book, The Alchemy of Us.
And she has some solid advice for other women scientists who may be finding their workplaces...challenging.
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| 0:44.5 | Welcome to the broad experience, the show about women, the workplace, and success. |
| 0:45.9 | I'm Ashley Melchite. |
| 0:51.1 | This time, women don't always feel welcome in the scientific community. |
| 0:53.6 | Some, perhaps less than others. |
| 0:56.9 | We all love science, and this construction of race is really just false. If we can just focus on the fact that we all love science, |
| 1:02.1 | we're all geeking out about the amazing things that Adams do, it would be fantastic. |
| 1:07.3 | But this scientist found her niche and she says other women can too. |
| 1:12.1 | Go and find environments where you feel it valued. |
| 1:16.0 | There's no honor in fighting fights where you feel like you're always going to be losing. |
| 1:21.6 | There are plenty of other more conducive places to getting work done. |
| 1:25.1 | Coming up on the Broad Experience. |
| 1:36.1 | Music places to getting work done. Coming up on the broad experience. Before I introduce you to my guest, I want you to hear a story. |
| 1:40.2 | Before the pandemic, she'd travel a lot for work. |
| 1:43.7 | And one day, she was in an airport bathroom on the East Coast. Those bathrooms where the faucets come on automatically. She went to wash her hands. And the faucet didn't work. I said, okay, no problem. So I went to the one nearby. That didn't work. I went to the one on the other side. That didn't work. And then this |
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