Valuable lessons I learned by surrounding myself with strong women — In the past, I have been intimidated by the majority groups and jealous of minorities under the spotlight. This is not an uncommon feeling for most minorities. It is natural to feel threatened by the lack of representation in a discipline that is not welcoming to many minorities. To this…

According to Briggs, He was a thinker and she a feeler.  A tale of two,  One the listener the other the healer.

The inner child cries within, To others, the blame she pin, She says this was the hand, Dealt, for her to withstand.

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7 Things I learned from Trevor Noah’s “Born a Crime” — Admittedly, before I had read this book I had little information on what apartheid was. It was a time of institutional racial segregation that lasted until 1994, prior to philanthropist Nelson Mandela’s elect and that’s all I really knew. It always boggled me that the Canadian curriculum called for ancient…

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Only the highly competitive make it to the finish line — It is true that introverts can have power in a world filled with loud people. However, undeniable is the access that extroverts have to success. As extrovert networking becomes easier, it's easier to appear charismatic, and more natural to outwardly showcase your talents. Nonetheless, this way of thinking is outdated…

Dear Pretty People, You are a product of categorical thinking and spectrum, in other words, human nature. They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but what if the beholder was the entirety of society? Fine lines coated with capitalism, a smile rooted in colonialism, you bear the…

Education proceeds advocacy and allyship — On March 16th, 2021 the news was rampant with headlines that read “A white gunman was taken into custody after killing eight people at three Atlanta-area massage parlors, most of them women of Asian descent.” …