It is no secret that academia is not overflowing with LGBTQ+ chemists and chemical engineers poised to shepherd graduate students and postdocs through the often daunting academic job search process. Further, coming out professionally in your twenties makes integrating into the LGBTQ+ professional community and seeking out mentors a bit of a rush job to address the trials and tribulations of putting yourself out there to begin your future career. In this presentation, Kyle Trenshaw will discuss some of his lessons learned from his time as a recently out, pregnant, trans-masculine postdoc on the job search with no LGBTQ+ mentors in STEM to help guide his process.

Lessons learned from a mentorless job search

256th National Meeting (2018)

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