 I can tell you why I love being a professor here. I feel as though this is in some serendipitous way just the perfect job for me. I've been thinking a lot about what's so incredible about being a professor here. I love the atmosphere. I love the resources. And I'm absolutely madly in love with the location. One of the things I'm most excited about is this opportunity to really get more women into STEM and computer science. The technology that we're all using and relying on today. I really enjoy the opportunity to be a role model for these students. If they haven't met a smart woman physicist, it's eye-opening for them. I feel as though I'm doing way more for the sciences teaching at Mount Holyoke than teaching at any other institution. I think what's amazing when you teach at Mount Holyoke is seeing very diverse networks of women from all over the world in every different field of academic study, recognize each other as peers. One of the amazing things about teaching international relations with a student body that we have, that ability to inform my students with someone who has a deep and rich understanding of contemporary events is really quite extraordinary. We get to see students from all over the world claiming their voices and projecting their voices in places they never thought possible. I'm grateful that I get to contribute to that. That's something that makes me want to bring my best every day when I come into campus. When I was here interviewing for this position, I asked other faculty what they love about Mount Holyoke and everybody said the students. We just have wonderful students because they're engaged, they're earnest, they want to make change. Mount Holyoke students go out there and do all sorts of wonderful altruistic things. It's a job that for me makes me feel as though I'm doing something to make the world a better place.