Mentors, Connectors, and Sponsors

By Lee Skallerup Bessette. I’ve written previously about three of the earliest and most important non-academic mentors in my early career. They provided important guidance to me in terms of encouraging me and showing me there can be other paths for PhDs. This was before (or perhaps during, but I wasn’t aware of it yet) the Alt-Ac movement; if I were to re-write this post today, it would be my alt-ac mentors. Read more...