Reflecting on the 2019 Wise National Conference

The WISE National Conference took place at the end of January. We were excited to see so many past & present CU-WISE members there! Check out some photos from the conference and what some of our #smartgirls took away from the experience.

Thank You Faculty of Science and Faculty of Engineering & Design for helping send 8 CU-WISE representatives to the conference this year!

"This was my first time going to the WISE National Conference and I am very glad I got to. The conference was full of inspirational talks by very interesting and high achieving women. I was personally impacted by the diversity of the speakers. As a woman of colour, listening to a panel of women in medicine who were all women of colour and were all able to get where they were in their various careers in their own right was very motivating for me. In addition to the various panels, we also had some amazing keynotes from individuals who had interesting careers and hobbies.

My biggest takeaways from the conference were to learn to dream big, to do as much as I can and also to be confident in who I am because I am enough."
- Tolu

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