🦈Shark, marine & conservation biologist 🧬 Geneticist, wildlife forensics 🦋Leadership, Empowerment mentor for women in Science & STEM✨Soulful scientist #cackrap 🦠 Long covid, chronic illness & disability advocate 👩🏽‍🎓 PhD candidate (⏸ due to Long Covid, POTS- postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome caused by Covid-19, & homeschooling kids) ♣️🏠 Founder of Diversity in STEM club on clubhouse👩🏾‍🔬 Join us! ________________________________ 👩🏾‍🔬 Advocate and ally for diversity, inclusion and equity in science & STEM, especially BIPOC & African womxn 🗣 Science communicator, Scicomm 🏳️‍🌈 Ally Pronouns - she/her 🖤 Anti-racist 🎤 Keynote speaker 🥼 Raising awareness around burnout, imposter syndrome, mental health in science and academia 👩‍👧‍👧 Mother, mum, mom to 2 multicultural girls 🇿🇦🇦🇺🇬🇷 💫 Science nerd and Spiritual... you can be both! ________________________________ MY BACKGROUND & EXPERIENCE 🐠15+ years experience working in scientific research, local diverse communities internationally, government, NGOs, NPOs, university, college, academia 💫15+ years mentoring, empowering, and supporting aspiring scientists achieve their goals & dreams 🌊 Environmental, marine consultant & advisor for philanthropic, angel, business investors 🌍 Lived and worked all the over world - Australia 🇦🇺 Mexico 🇲🇽 the Bahamas 🇧🇸 USA 🇺🇸 the Philippines 🇵🇭 📍South Africa🇿🇦 🏝 Remote Field Station Manager 🐋 Marine Protected Areas (MPA / MPAs) manager 🐟 Fisheries scientist 🧪Lab Manager 🇦🇺Aid worker🇵🇭 Australian Youth Ambassador for Development AusAID Australian Aid Agency _________________________________ 💙 Personal & passions Human connection, Helping others, Healing the world, nature, the ocean, SCUBA diving, Dance, yoga, conscious parenting, mindset, meditation _________________________________ ✳️ LOVE to chat, collab and/or moderate on any below (or above): Women, diversity in science, STEM & STEAM Shark science, research, fun facts Marine science Conservation Mentoring , mentor relationships Leadership Parenting / parent in science & academia Mental health in science, STEM, academia Living with #longcovid & chronic illness Science behind spirituality _________________________________ LETS CONNECT & CHAT DM me on Instagram (not Clubhouse) @katgledhill