The Women Scholars and Professionals Podcast

Listen in as Women in the Academy and Professions associate Caroline Triscik interviews Alexis Grant, PhD student in the field of public health at University of Illinois at Chicago. In this episode Grant shares her passion about equity as a foundation for her research to work toward change in policies to bring health care and resources to communities. Additionally, she offers thoughts about the CO...

“I just have this belief that God really cares about how we live our lives and how we love our neighbor — and that continues to direct my life.” — D.L. Mayfield Listen in as Women in the Academy and Professions associate Caroline Triscik interviews writer and activist D.L. Mayfield. In this conversation, we discuss the four main categories of Mayfield's recent book and unpack the ways Jesus might...

For our final episode in our Words of Hope series, we wanted to offer a brief podcast on a few ways to cope with overwhelming feelings of anxiety during this time. In this episode Women in the Academy and Professions associate and graduate level counselor Caroline Triscik offers several grounding exercises to cope with overwhelming feelings of anxiety. While these exercises offer a clinically base...

In these disorienting times, the Women in the Academy and Professions team wanted to offer some words of hope and peace to our community through brief episodes from each member of our team. In this episode Lindsay Bruk, Women in the Academy and Professions associate who focuses on our social media ministry shares her thoughts on finding hope these days, not just in the end of our suffering, but in...