Why this exists
The comments were about how I looked. Never about what I knew.
I started as a public school teacher in Vermont, helping 5th–8th graders with math intervention. I was a first-generation college student, earned my master's at Boston University, and now I'm a Career Coach and Special Projects Leader there while pursuing my Ph.D. at Boston College. My research looks at school-to-work transitions for underrepresented students and how belonging shapes early career outcomes.
Along the way I noticed the feedback I kept getting, about my tattoos and about looking too young, had nothing to do with my expertise. That became Professionally Unprofessional: the belief that authenticity and excellence aren't opposites, and that when people can't show up as their full selves, everyone loses something.
Every coaching session I run starts with your values and ends with real next steps.
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