The Women Scholars and Professionals Podcast

Listen in on a reading with professor Anne Pharr featuring a poetic meditation on living life with fierceness. “Do I welcome my own fierce?" — Anne Pharr In March 2021, Anne Pharr was invited to participate in a "Fierce Women Committee" as her college celebrated Women's History Month. Through this experience, Anne compiled a prose-poem to reflect the fierceness expressed through the lives of her c...

Listen in as Women in the Academy and Professions associate Caroline Triscik interviews author and ministry leader Christine Wagoner. “I think there’s a lot of different yeses that you can have in different seasons...and I want to be open to other reasons to say no other than fear." — Christine Wagoner Making decisions can feel daunting — especially those significant ones that seem to change the t...

Listen in as Women in the Academy and Professions director Karen Guzmán interviews business leader and professor Sandy Jap in this special edition podcast from our Dear Mentor LIVE series. Sandy Jap is the Sarah Beth Brown Professor of Marketing at the Goizueta Business School at Emory University. For show notes or more information please visit our article at The Well. For more information on the...

Listen in as Women in the Academy and Professions director Karen Guzmán interviews business leader Cheryl Bachelder in this special edition podcast from our Dear Mentor LIVE series. Cheryl Bachelder is the former CEO of Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen, Inc., a multibillion-dollar chain of more than 2,600 restaurants around the world. She has been profiled in the Wall Street Journal, been featured on Mad...

“We want women to know that they’re not alone and that it doesn’t have to be a pretty bow at the end of our stories….in the midst of the hard thing, that God is still there and that we can see Him in those places.” -Grace P. Cho Listen in as Women in the Academy and Professions associate Caroline Triscik interviews writer and poet Grace P. Cho. In our conversation, Grace invites us into her experi...

“Just like we have to learn how to give grace to ourselves, we really have to give grace to our students. I'm giving more grace than ever before....Some students would really just appreciate being seen by you and recognizing that their struggle is difficult."  — Dr. Christina Bieber Lake Listen in on an exclusive peek into our book club as Women in the Academy and Professions associate Jasmine Obe...

"At the end of the day it’s just what our hearts are set on- is the love of God real? Is it enough to actually bear the weight of our souls?” -Tish Harrison Warren Listen in as Women in the Academy and Professions associate Caroline Triscik interviews priest and author Tish Harrison Warren where they discuss human vulnerability, the nighttime prayer of Compline, and Tish’s upcoming book, Prayer in...

Even while we’re not through all of the challenges that 2020 brought to us, it still felt right to look back on the year that we had together with the All Shall Be Well podcast. As I listened to some of the conversations with our fantastic guests this year, I was struck by the way many of our guests invited us to remember the goodness of God, especially as we endure difficulty or heal from past ex...

“If someone is asking me to be more like the dominant culture and saying, ‘your identity is in Christ’ and what they really want is for me to be less loud or wear smaller earrings or to be more quiet and feminine, they’re not actually asking me to look more like Jesus, they’re asking me to look more like them." -Chandra Crane Listen in as Women in the Academy and Professions associate Caroline Tri...

“I don't think God is gonna say, ‘Well, I'm not doing Christmas this year because of COVID. I'm going to take some time off.'” -Carrie Bare Listen in as Ann Boyd, managing editor at The Well, interviews spiritual director Carrie Bare. This episode is the third in a three-part interview series with Carrie Bare where we discuss spiritual truths that can nourish us during these tumultuous times. In t...

“What do I know is true? I know that God is on his throne and I know that he is the author of peace.” — Carrie Bare Listen in as Ann Boyd, managing editor at The Well, interviews spiritual director Carrie Bare. This episode is the second in a three-part interview series with Carrie Bare where we discuss spiritual truths that can nourish us during these tumultuous times. In this episode Carrie and...

“I like that model of people becoming stronger and making a lasting impact through caring for one another, not necessarily through using political or economic ways to become more powerful. Their power was in love and respect." — Kimberly Hill Listen in as Women in the Academy and Professions director Karen Hice Guzmán interviews historian Dr. Kimberly Hill in which they discuss her studies around...

“Love is going to win and evil is not. We just have to hang on to that.” — Carrie Bare Listen in as Ann Boyd, managing editor at The Well, interviews spiritual director Carrie Bare. This episode is the first in a three-part interview series with Carrie Bare where we discuss spiritual truths that can nourish us during these tumultuous times. In this first episode Carrie and Ann discuss spiritual di...

Listen in as Women in the Academy and Professions director Karen Guzmán interviews Janeen Uzzell, as part of our Dear Mentor series. Janeen is the COO of the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit organization that supports and hosts Wikipedia. She is a transformational leader, storyteller, engineer, and self-proclaimed global citizen. We are really grateful to Janeen for taking the time to offer he...

“I think hope is acting towards the belief that all things will be made new, towards the belief that God’s kingdom will come here on earth even when we can’t see evidence of it.” — Amy Peterson Listen in as Women in the Academy and Professions associate Caroline Triscik interviews writer, teacher, and postulant Amy Peterson as we discuss Christian virtue, our current American political climate, an...

“Because if the kingdom of God is like yeast that gets worked through the whole dough, then it is activated by kneading, but it rises by resting.” — Sarah Akutagawa Listen in on a portion of a recent webinar hosted by InterVarsity’s Graduate and Faculty Ministries on Anxiety and Aspiration: Starting Grad School During a Pandemic. In this brief episode you’ll hear from Sarah Akutagawa- InterVarsity...

“Change and loss travel together, and there is so much loss that’s happened. Even just in imagining what it’s like returning to campus social distancing and wearing masks, and returning to campus that has that familiarity, but then also is so different than when you left.” — Aubrey Kleinfeld Listen in as Women and the Academy and Professions associate Caroline Triscik interviews Aubrey Kleinfeld,...

Listen in as Women in the Academy and Professions associate Caroline Triscik interviews Dr. Brenda Salter McNeil, pastor and professor of reconciliation studies, as they discuss the complex work of pursuing racial justice and reconciliation in our world. In addition to sharing about the recent release of her book Roadmap to Reconciliation 2.0 and her upcoming book Becoming Brave, Dr. Brenda offers...

Listen in as Women in the Academy and Professions director Karen Guzmán interviews Dr. Quyen Ngo-Metzger, a professor in the Health Systems Science Department at the Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine. Dr. Quyen Ngo-Metzger teaches and mentors students and junior faculty in prevention, population health, health disparities, and evidence-based medicine. We hope you'll enjoy this...

Listen in as Women in the Academy and Professions associate Caroline Triscik interviews Rev. Twanda Prioleau, pastor and teacher in Baltimore, Maryland, as we discuss habits of caring for one's own soul through the hard work of fighting injustice. Twanda is a teacher, preacher, mother, wife, and graduate student who brings a wealth of wisdom and pastoral care to our conversation. Twanda invites us...

Listen in as Women in the Academy and Professions associates Caroline Triscik and Jasmine Obeyeskere Fernando interview Jamie Ong, Environmental Protection Project Manager at the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation as they discuss nature, faith, family, and enduring Covid-19. Living in the center of one of the most hard hit areas of the Covid-19 pandemic, Jamie Ong gives us a glimpse...

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...