My career path has not been linear.  Very few are these days.  As an undergraduate, I dreamt of becoming university professor.  I wanted to be just like the professors that I idolized.  They were smart, helpful, and wise.  Being altruistic at my core, and seeking the intellectual challenges that chemistry provided, becoming a chemistry professor seemed the best of all possibilities, and so I set off on my journey.  I completed my B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in record time, and I set off for a postdoc at UCLA.  After the postdoc, I reached my goal becoming an Assistant Professor at the University of Hawaii.  I loved teaching and I enjoyed my research, but at a research intensive institution, it really should have been the other way around.  My altruistic nature exceeded my ambition, and I spent as much time helping k-12 teachers and students as I did completing research in my lab.  My true passion was in helping others attain their goals.  Luckily, my friends and colleagues were equally as giving, and more in touch with reality.  They encouraged me to make the jump from ACS member to ACS staffer, and I have been in a position to assist, guide, and train other chemists through Society programs ever since.

Working for ACS: Chemistry and chemists from a different point of view

248th National Meeting (2014)

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