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Leaving Academia With Dr. Julie Ann Ward, Dr. Stephanie Weaver, and Dr. Krista Kurlinkus

Grant Writing Made Easy

I started my PhD in Hispanic Languages and Literatures at UC Berkeley, in one of the more prestigious programs in my field, in 2008. The great fortune of getting a great job offer when there were very, very few available made it difficult to consider whether it was what I wanted. This was also the beginning of the Great Recession.