{"645773":{"#nid":"645773","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Breaking the Glass Ceiling: Audrey Duarte and Valerie Montgomery Rice","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThis story was first shared in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/news.gatech.edu\/features\/breaking-glass-ceiling\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech News Center\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn celebration of Women\u0026#39;s History Month, Georgia Tech highlights the onward and upward trajectory of nine women across campus who are shattering the traditional \u0026quot;glass ceiling\u0026quot; \u0026mdash; carving a path for others and for equitable recognition, respect, and inclusion. Included in the feature are professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/psychology.gatech.edu\/audrey-duarte\u0022\u003EAudrey Duarte\u003C\/a\u003E and alumna \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cos.gatech.edu\/news\/valerie-montgomery-rice-first-female-president-morehouse-school-medicine-receives-2020-gold-and\u0022\u003EValerie Montgomery Rice\u003C\/a\u003E:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Ch3\u003EAudrey Duarte\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EProfessor, School of Psychology; Director, Memory and Aging Lab\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDid you ever imagine yourself in this position?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDefinitely not. My parents weren\u0026rsquo;t academics or engineers, they didn\u0026rsquo;t have the kind of careers that many of my friends in graduate school had. But I always did well in school and got into a scholarship program for first-generation students and students from underrepresented backgrounds. It helped us learn about research opportunities to prepare us for graduate school, which is something I never would have done if I hadn\u0026rsquo;t done that program.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHow are you breaking the glass ceiling? \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EI\u0026rsquo;m bringing about change just by being visible. A person who\u0026rsquo;s Hispanic, who\u0026rsquo;s a woman, who\u0026rsquo;s a professor, who\u0026rsquo;s doing outreach and mentoring students \u0026mdash; just doing my daily job is how I do it, even without the conscious intention of \u0026ldquo;ceiling breaking.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHow does doing your part to break the glass ceiling tie into Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s \u003Ca class=\u0022editor-gold-link\u0022 href=\u0022https:\/\/strategicplan.gatech.edu\/values\u0022\u003Estrategic values\u003C\/a\u003E? \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EI think the strategic value of diversity resonates with me the most. Even a lot of the research in psychology has been on largely white populations, so diversifying the samples of people we study is hugely important in my work. And it\u0026rsquo;s also important to me to mentor students who are from underrepresented backgrounds. That was me 20 years ago.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EIn what ways do you try to lift other women up? \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EI mentor quite a few women in my lab, both undergraduate and graduate. I also give talks whenever I can. Earlier on, when I was in graduate school, \u0026ldquo;imposter syndrome\u0026rdquo; started for me. I didn\u0026rsquo;t share my background because I didn\u0026rsquo;t want people to see me as someone who didn\u0026rsquo;t belong there. Now I feel the opposite. I\u0026rsquo;m really transparent about that now. I made it through and here\u0026rsquo;s how I did it.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhat advice do you have for other women on the way up?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIt\u0026rsquo;s better than it\u0026rsquo;s ever been for women in science, and that\u0026rsquo;s wonderful. So, I would say, if this is what you love, just keep doing the hard work. And seek out mentors for yourself \u0026mdash; they don\u0026rsquo;t have to be people in your field. That\u0026rsquo;s something I\u0026rsquo;ve done more as I\u0026rsquo;ve become more senior.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Ch4\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHistory Makers\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWomen trailblazers making history at Tech\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWhen \u003Cstrong\u003EValerie Montgomery Rice\u003C\/strong\u003E, CHEM 1983, was named the sixth president of the Morehouse School of Medicine in 2014, she became the first woman to hold that title there. Montgomery Rice, who earned a medical degree from Harvard and completed her residency in obstetrics and gynecology at Emory, also serves as dean of the Morehouse Medical School. A renowned infertility researcher, she was the founding director of the Center for Women\u0026rsquo;s Health Research at Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cos.gatech.edu\/news\/valerie-montgomery-rice-first-female-president-morehouse-school-medicine-receives-2020-gold-and\u0022\u003EAs she told Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s \u003Cem\u003EAlumni Magazine\u003C\/em\u003E in 2020\u003C\/a\u003E, she considers her greatest accomplishment \u0026ldquo;changing the paradigm of who can be trained in medicine.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003ETo learn more about all of the Georgia Tech women featured in this story, head over to the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/news.gatech.edu\/features\/breaking-glass-ceiling\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech News Center\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn celebration of Women\u0026#39;s History Month, Georgia Tech highlights the onward and upward trajectory of nine women across campus who are shattering the traditional \u0026quot;glass ceiling\u0026quot; \u0026mdash; carving a path for others and for equitable recognition, respect, and inclusion.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"In celebration of Women\u0027s History Month, Georgia Tech highlights the onward and upward trajectory of nine women across campus who are shattering the traditional \u0022glass ceiling\u0022 \u2014 carving a path for others and for equitable recognition, respect, inclusion."}],"uid":"34528","created_gmt":"2021-03-26 14:11:13","changed_gmt":"2021-03-26 14:18:08","author":"jhunt7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2021-03-26T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2021-03-26T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"645774":{"id":"645774","type":"image","title":"Breaking the Glass Ceiling: Audrey Duarte","body":null,"created":"1616768146","gmt_created":"2021-03-26 14:15:46","changed":"1616768264","gmt_changed":"2021-03-26 14:17:44","alt":"","file":{"fid":"245168","name":"Audrey-Duarte.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Audrey-Duarte.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Audrey-Duarte.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1182935,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Audrey-Duarte.jpg?itok=i2W6IPf0"}},"637800":{"id":"637800","type":"image","title":"Audrey Duarte, Professor, School of Psychology ","body":null,"created":"1597255127","gmt_created":"2020-08-12 17:58:47","changed":"1597255127","gmt_changed":"2020-08-12 17:58:47","alt":"","file":{"fid":"242575","name":"Audrey Duarte.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Audrey%20Duarte.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Audrey%20Duarte.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":95662,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Audrey%20Duarte.jpg?itok=91sZoHMR"}},"633002":{"id":"633002","type":"image","title":"Valerie Montgomery Rice, Georgia Tech alumna, President and Dean of Morehouse School of Medicine, and recipient of the Georgia Tech Alumni Association\u2019s Dean Griffin Community Service Award. 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